u/michaelnovati replied ·
The market hasn't improved at all and sorry it's been rough. It's not improved since you graduated and you've been through the rough of it.
I would start looking at support engineer and tangential roles to get stable and make a push to be a SWE later.
you might get lucky and get a SWE job right now, but you'll be in the minority and here's no systematic way to get there