2022 grad, missed the narrow gap for getting a job, and in this recession, it’s been really hard to get one. I’m sick of the tutorial hell. It will also be hard to explain this gap for master’s degree, and I also don’t want to take a loan for master’s, so right now, I want to be able to get a job to fill my resume/CV.
I want a few good project ideas, that are ideally between the difficulty of easy to medium for internship or entry-level full-time roles for SWE. I’m interested in embedded or system programming, but I don’t know anything about it. I have most experience with fullstack development, however, within which, I am interested in backend dev, but also open to frontend stack.
Few of the ideas that I’ve come across on the internet are being told as very generic or instant-reject, that is why I’m requesting for an updated list that would interest my future employer.
Ps. I used to contribute to open-source, but I’ve stopped this activity temporarily since December 2023. Not that this is relevant, but hey, just want to let people know.
For backend, you won’t go wrong with something like c# .NET stack.
Personally id recommend building simple projects with both front and backend. You can still focus on backend but it will give you a feel of how a whole project hangs together. How to build APIs for the front end to call.
Whatever project you decide on building, definitely look at adding authentication and roles/scopes for APIs. It’s something I regularly see people struggle with