Jinyoung Oh, 23, recently received an offer to work as a software engineer after about a year of searching. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.
I started looking for jobs last September, before I graduated in May.
When I started college, I thought I would easily find a job, but during my sophomore and junior years, I realized the market was really competitive. By senior year, I worried I had made the wrong choice in studying computer science and thought, “I might be cooked.”
But I had already spent four years doing this, so I wanted to at least try one year of straight recruiting.
Just after graduation, I…
