How are your people skills? It makes a big difference to have a project manager who's got a decent understanding of the tech. I work with a great PM who didn't

How are your people skills? It makes a big difference to have a project manager who's got a decent understanding of the tech. I work with a great PM who didn't make it through the interview as a developer but was asked to join as a PM. But aside from that avenue, It sounds like you may have been burned by interviewing for coding roles too early. In my experience CS degrees are great for computing fundamentals, but not so great for the real-life project experience that they'll be looking for. Building a few reasonable sized projects from start to finish is where you'll start to get the hang of design patterns, data structures and pretty code. You have to work through building a bunch of crummy projects at first before you start to realize where you can improve for the next ones, and where design patterns will start to make sense. One thing to be aware of is sometimes the interviewer is totally into tech stack X and if you're not into tech stack X you're going to have a bad time, no matter how good you are, so don't take it too personally (but I know that's hard!). Good luck!