How To Find A Job As A Computer Science Student

Over the past 10 years, the software industry has completely exploded with software engineering job postings flying up left and right and every top tech company complaining about how the supply of software engineers is too low relative to the demand. However, we have reached an inflection point where the raw supply of software engineers is actually quite high; the problem is that companies can only take on so many junior engineers. This leads to many new grads struggling immensely to find jobs, which is something I have seen personally time and time again. In this article, I will teach you how you can separate yourself from the other computer science majors who are just looking to make an “easy” buck and not make the same mistakes I did in college.

Internships Are The #1 Priority

To me, one of the most beautiful things about software engineering is that it’s an incredibly practical industry. People hire you when you can show that you’re actually able to build things, and the easiest way to do this as a computer science student is to have internships. Unlike a lot of other industries where internships are unpaid and make you a glorified coffee fetcher, a lot of software internships pay decently and give you real hands-on experience. And for the cherry on top, a lot of internships lead into a return offer to work…