u/Miserable_Analysis01

I graduated in 2025 and have been working as a SWE for a year at a fortune 5 company however I’m not happy with the city that I’m in and would want to switch jobs and move to nyc in a year once i’ve hit the 2 year work experience mark and hopefully job hunting wouldn’t be as brutal. Now in the next year, should I still be focusing on building projects/doing certifications/anything else or does it only matter what i’m doing at my current job? or should I just be focusing on leetcode/building my network? what’s the strategy for recruitment after graduation?

(I understand that recruitment will be rough because of the job market but I do want to experience the work culture in a different company so I am willing to put in the work)

I graduated in 2025 and have been working as a SWE for a year at a fortune 5 company however I’m not happy with the city that I’m in and would want to switch jobs and move to nyc in a year once i’ve hit the 2 year work experience mark and hopefully job hunting wouldn’t be as brutal. Now in the next year, should I still be focusing on building projects/doing certifications/anything else or does it only matter what i’m doing at my current job? or should I just be focusing on leetcode/building my network? what’s the strategy for recruitment after graduation?

(I understand that recruitment will be rough because of the job market but I do want to experience the work culture in a different company so I am willing to put in the work)

I was at work all the way in california, and yet I couldn’t resist the urge to open the Disney World App to just to see how long the guardians wait time was and which characters there were right now. Oh to be at Disney…