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I'm currently a sophomore CS student at an accredited but not particularly well-known or sought after University, and I actually got through an interview process and got an offer after some rejections! If you're dealing with imposter syndrome during the process, I have some advice. Tune out the homeless CS student reels. Tune out this sub. The CS market is bad, yes, but if you try hard, and more importantly, work on yourself and your resume, anything is possible. Before I got the internship offer (and even now after receiving an offer), I felt that my resume was lacking a lot, even though I had countless projects and a year of related research under my belt. It took time, effort, and refining myself to get past that negativity and simply have confidence in myself. I will say though, the market being bad motivated me to do more, so I recommend scaring yourself ever so often just to make you go "hmm, maybe another project will set me apart". Just don't succumb to imposter syndrome, if you're putting in time and effort, you're doing a really good job! If you are wondering the position I got is a data analysis/systems engineering (and maybe some app development?) position at a very large utility company. So yes, not SWE, and yes, not FAANG, not even close. But I am extremely grateful and trying not to look at the accomplishment in a bad light as it has only been 1 day. It is the first small step in a potentially FAANG or SWE future. Keep pushing, the offers are coming!