I spent a year looking for a job in tech. This is what got me a role.

Jinyoung Oh spent about a year looking for a job in tech.

Courtesy of Jinyoung Oh Jinyoung Oh recently got an offer at a software company after a year of job searching .

He applied to hundreds of jobs each month, yet focused on building skills through practice problems.

"I was locked in.

I was ready for this," he said of the interview that led to his offer.

Jinyoung Oh, 23, recently received an offer to work as a software engineer after about a year of searching.

He lives in Seattle.

The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.

I started looking for jobs last September, before I graduated in May.

When I started college, I thought I would easily find a job, but during my sophomore and junior years, I realized the market was really competitive .

By senior year, I worried I had made the wrong choice in studying computer science and thought, "I might be cooked." But I had already spent four years doing this, so I wanted to at least try one year of straight recruiting.

Just after graduation, I had a final round interview with a Big Tech company.

For a week straight, I stayed home and did LeetCode, which is a problem-solving platform where you practice for interviews .

During the interview, I thought I got most of the questions right, but I didn't get the offer.