I got laid off 6 months into my first job out of college. I'm just struggling to land Jr. SWE interviews in this climate. Other Taro Engineers I've talked to say I have a solid resume with multiple internships, projects, and relevant experience for my level and the people in my limited network are happy to refer me and often say I am a strong fit. But my guess is that despite having a strong resume for my level I'm a junior so I'll need handholding regardless BUT, I'm just barely landing any interviews. Even with referrals. Things I've tried: Applying Applying Applying. I spend 1-2 hours a day just applying because well, I'm not getting much interviews and dont have much else to do. ~1 every 150 apps land me an interview Networking, attending coffee chats, asking for referrals. But I am only a Junior and my network is fairly small and concentrated at previous jobs who are not hiring anymore Often people want to refer me. But their company isnt even hiring anyone with < 3-4 YoE Fellow Taro members, does anyone have any advice or thoughts on landing interviews in this climate? Any advice or words of wisdom is also appreciated in tackling this market.

Where in the funnel are you having the most trouble proceeding through (resume screen, recruiter screen, phone screen, onsite)?

How to get interviews as Junior?

Junior SWE at Taro Community7 months ago

Junior Engineer

I got laid off 6 months into my first job out of college. I'm just struggling to land Jr. SWE interviews in this climate.

Other Taro Engineers I've talked to say I have a solid resume with multiple internships, projects, and relevant experience for my level and the people in my limited network are happy to refer me and often say I am a strong fit.

But my guess is that despite having a strong resume for my level I'm a junior so I'll need handholding regardless

BUT, I'm just barely landing any interviews. Even with referrals.

Things I've tried:

Applying Applying Applying. I spend 1-2 hours a day just applying because well, I'm not getting much interviews and dont have much else to do. ~1 every 150 apps land me an interview
Networking, attending coffee chats, asking for referrals. But I am only a Junior and my network is fairly small and concentrated at previous jobs who are not hiring anymore
Often people want to refer me. But their company isnt even hiring anyone with < 3-4 YoE

Fellow Taro members, does anyone have any advice or thoughts on landing interviews in this climate?

Any advice or words of wisdom is also appreciated in tackling this market.

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Jonathan C
•Engineer @ Robinhood
7 months ago
Where in the funnel are you having the most trouble proceeding through (resume screen, recruiter screen, phone screen, onsite)?
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  Junior SWE [OP]
  •Taro Community
  7 months ago
  Thanks Jonathan for taking the time to respond to this!
  
  Quite honestly I'm struggling the most with landing/getting into the interview loop i.e. resume screen
  
  The second lowest conversion is with phone screen -> HM and also OAs (hackerrank)
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  Jonathan C
  •Engineer @ Robinhood
  7 months ago
  Got it: that means that usually your resume is not impressing the hiring manager/recruiter. I'd recommend checking out the resume part of the interviewing course and also checking out the course overall. If you can share your resume (feel free to DM me on Slack if you wish to remain anonymous in this thread), that'd help us debug faster. I did review resumes for intern + new grad applications for Robinhood & I was the one tossing 99% of resumes, so I do have experience with the filtering process.