[esoterica]

Every big software company hires thousands of new grads every year. The caveat is that they recruit almost entirely from the pool of current college seniors, not people who have already graduated. Most competent grads have a job lined up well before they graduate so hunting for your first job AFTER you graduate is a giant red flag and most companies are going to be very skeptical about you. You aren’t seeing those postings on public job boards because they do most of their recruiting on campus.

The company I work for classifies all candidates as “campus” or “experienced hire”. There’s no category for non-experienced hires who are out of college, the company won’t even acknowledge that these people even exist because there’s no interest in recruiting from that pool.

[baked_ziti]

I actually don't believe this. The idea that the army of webdevs that find employment for the first time were recruited out of school strikes me as silly. In addition, your response directly contradicts the other responses, so someone is definitely exactly wrong. This answer sounds less plausible than the others.