u/Practical_Stuff3384

Hello, I recently graduated around 6 months ago as a computer science grad and no internships, I know the combo is horrible especially in 2026 but so far, ~300 applications with 5 interviews, which I’ve fumbled due to first time tech interview experience (although 5th interview I don’t even wanna count cuz of how horrible the technical issues on their part were).

My options here are either go for another degree in computer engineering, find an internship in-between and accumulate about 30k more in loan debt, or just keep applying and hoping. I would say personally my resume is good enough considering no internships, I’ve built several impressive embedded hardware projects which is what’s probably getting me interviews.

Any thoughts?

Hi, I Have an upcoming interview for this position at a relatively small company, and this subreddit has had previous questions like this figured I’d ask here. Their job description was like so:

- Detect test failures, perform triage, create defect reports

- Contribute bug fixing and validation of SSD firmware

- Contribute to development and validation of SSD product lines

Under skills:

- 1-3 years of programming with C, C++, Python

- Understanding of ASIC architecture and code optimization is a plus

- (other skills such as git, comp sci fundamentals)

The engineer managers email was asking for my sense of OS knowledge, and how skilled I am with all 3 languages for the interview.

For my background, I’m a recent CS grad with a focus on embedded projects that I’ve built over the years mainly using C and Python for scripting. Any advice would be much appreciated.