Final year IT student. Realized coding isn't for me. Need brutally honest career advice

myquals: Final-year B.Tech (Information Technology) student

I'm in my final year of B.Tech IT and placements have been going terribly. I've already been rejected in the first round by around 10 companies.

The truth is, I don't even have strong fundamentals. Throughout college, I mostly studied the night before exams, memorized things, wrote them in exams, and forgot them afterwards. I somehow have a CGPA above 8, but I honestly don't feel like I learned much.

I also have zero interest in coding. I can understand code when someone explains it, but the moment I have to solve a problem on my own, my mind just goes blank. It's like there's a wall in my head blocking me from thinking. I've tried practicing countless times over the last few years, but nothing has changed.

That's what scares me the most. I don't know if coding is actually the problem. Sometimes it feels like my ability to think has been blocked for years. I keep wondering if I'm burnt out or if I've been mentally exhausted for so long that I just can't think clearly anymore.

I'll be 22 in a couple of months, and I'm already a year older than most people in my batch because I took a gap year after 12th. I already feel like I'm behind.

So I want the hard truth:

• Should I keep trying to build my fundamentals and stay in software?
• Or should I switch careers, even though I'm worried I'll feel the same wherever I go?
• Has anyone else felt like this and eventually figured things out?

Please be honest. I'd rather hear an uncomfortable truth now than spend years going in the wrong direction.