u/swufss

I graduated this semester and have applied to hundreds of jobs this year but only received 1 interview from Roblox and 3 invitations for online assessments. I have been rejected from everything else or have no heard back and I'm starting to doubt myself and think that I'm doing something wrong. I haven't gotten any significant internship experience as well and I feel like I'm screwed. What am I doing wrong and what should I do?

This is my experience during the Roblox interview

https://preview.redd.it/mg083wj1gi1h1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed66b22bb53a3596737ca0a6dc22ba8f19b143c0

I graduated this semester and have applied to hundreds of jobs this year but only received 1 interview from Roblox and 3 invitations for online assessments. I have been rejected from everything else or have no heard back and I'm starting to doubt myself and think that I'm doing something wrong. I haven't gotten any significant internship experience as well and I feel like I'm screwed. What am I doing wrong and what should I do?

This is my experience during the Roblox interview

https://preview.redd.it/gifpyf8dfi1h1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a99929483b6e6928eb9dc506b92929a2937abe4

I recently went through the Roblox SWE Game Developer interview process and wanted to understand if others have seen something similar.

For some context, i’ve done a lot of Roblox development work (freelance games, a few reaching millions of plays, developed my own games which got 200k+ total plays, and up to 1.5k peak CCU).

I applied in April and went through OA, recruiter call and interviews. The role included a portfolio review and a technical interview.

In the portfolio review, things went well and the interviewer seemed positive. In the technical, I solved the first problem and made progress on the follow up but half way through, the interviewer accused me of cheating because I was looking “left and right” and asked me to share my screen which I did, and had nothing. I clarified that I was only looking at the question and my previously written answer since it was a follow up but he didn’t seem to care. In the end I ran out of time and didn’t finish but the interviewer said I was moving in the right direction. The next day I received an email from my recruiter stating they didn’t want to move forward.

About a month later, my recruiter reached out again saying the hiring manager was impressed by my portfolio review and experiences and wanted to move me forward to a behavioral round. I completed that recently which I thought went pretty well and the hiring manager seemed satisfied but was again told they won’t move forward.

I’m trying to understand how common this sequence is:
Rejected after technical
Re opened by hiring manager
Rejected again after behavioral

Does anyone have an idea why I would be rejected again even though it seemed like everything went well? Could it be caused by the technical interview?

Has anyone seen a situation like this turn into an offer later, or is this typically just a final decision even after re-review?

Lastly, is there any point in following up with the recruiter or is this situation just closed?