Every day is a Sunday for me these days!

I am done with my Masters. Now, I am actively looking for a job which fits my profile. For me a dream job would be of a Developer which means-:
1) Gathering Requirements.
2) Designing application according to specifications.
3) Using good Design techniques.
4) Coding.
5) Testing the application.

This is how I did during my internship and everything seemed perfect.

Now, for the past 4-5 months I am giving interviews(Microsoft, NetApp, Mathworks, Sun, Qualcomm..list goes on and on) and visited many places in United States. The result has been same which is rejects from everywhere.

To be really honest I never felt I lacked technical skills which interviewers were asking and after giving so many interviews, more or less they ask the same questions.

If the interviewer is an Indian/Chinese, he/she will ask directly from a technical interview book and questions range from Linked List, Binary trees to Operating System Concepts...sometimes puzzles but rarely. One thing everyone asks is polymorphism :P.

If the interviewer is American, he/she will ask more about your work experience.
-> What kind of challenges one faced during projects?
-> Have you ever worked in team?
-> What was your role?
-> Why this company and this role?
-> Which environments you prefer most?
-> Why we should hire you?
-> Which course you liked most and why?
-> What are your career aspirations and where do you see yourself after 4-5 years?
In some interviews 2nd type of interviewers hardly ever delved into technical questions.

After thorough introspection, I believe I suck big time answering to questions the second type of interviewers asked. Just mainly because for these kind of questions one can't do much preparation and with varying job profiles it becomes little bit more difficult to answer such questions, reversing and sorting a linked list is so easy compared to this.

Now, with nothing in my hand and sitting idle on my ass with perl and design patterns books beside me, I wish I had some more work experience of about 3-4 years in core development environment, things would have been very different, work experience here matters a lot and I hardly see any Entry Level job for Master's/ International Student these days( people call it recession).

Wish me luck, now thats what I need most at this point in my life.