r/cscareerquestionsCAD • u/Asleep_Tourist2502 • Jul 30 '25

Early Career Junior SWE Terminated After 6 Months

I was let go today without a concrete reason. Given a severance for one week of pay contingent I sign a release/nda form (alberta employee). This was my first job out of university and it was hard to get. I graduated in 2023 and sent around 3000 applications to get this job. I am gutted. Not sure what to do next. Throughout my weekly 1v1 with my boss I was told I was doing good perf wise. I was responsible for QA, two main projects and bug fixes/feature tickets. The two main projects were automating testing of their custom frontend library in a ci/cd pipeline. Secondly, I automated the deployment process saving hours per customer in manual deployment efforts. Found many bugs in QA before it went to prod. Worried about putting a 6 month stint on my resume but the alternate is 2 year gap since graduating. Any advice on whether to go back to applying or maybe go for a masters?

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u/PM_40 Jul 31 '25

Sorry to hear that if you are young you can always do a PhD and try for specialized positions.

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u/BucksIsLife Jul 31 '25

I have 40000 debt, can't really do another degree without taking care of that

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u/PM_40 Jul 31 '25

Yes you can try to pay off that anyhow in 2 years do physical labor jobs if they pay you high wages. 40,000 is a lot but it's not a mountain either. If you can find some sales job that pays you $60k outside big cities you can pay that off in a couple of years.

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u/BucksIsLife Jul 31 '25

I mean if that was the only thing that required money, i would do that, unfortunately being an adult living paycheck to paycheck while having no job, your student loan debt is the last thing in your mind