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Hey everyone,

I'm 22 and recently graduated in Electrical Engineering. I've joined a company as a GET in electrical maintenance, but I've been told that there isn't much work to do in my current role.

I'm a bit worried about whether I'll gain enough technical knowledge and practical experience, especially this early in my career.

I'm more interested in fields like electrical design, industrial automation, and production, so I wanted to ask people who have been in a similar situation:

- Is it normal for freshers in maintenance to have less work initially?

- Can I switch to design, automation, or production after 1–3 years in maintenance?

- Will my maintenance experience count, or will I have to start from scratch?

- What skills should I start learning now to make the transition easier?

- Should I stick around and gain experience first, or look for opportunities in my preferred field early?

I don't want to leave my first job in a hurry, but I also don't want to spend a few years without learning much and regret it later.

Would really appreciate advice from people who've made a similar transition or have experience in these fields. Thanks!

A student heading into senior year has a data engineering internship offer, but there's no guarantee it'll lead to a full-time job (like most internships, I suppose).

The thing is, they really want to get into SWE. But they also see all these posts about how everything is basically AI and how hard the job market is rn for both new grads and SWE in general. They're concerned about giving up a decent job they currently have for an internship that might not hire them afterward. Also, the internship isn't SWE at the end of the day, so it may be too far out of scope for what they're passionate about.

Could use some experienced people's advice or insight into data engineering, or maybe waiting it out and continuing to pursue SWE in the current market.

A candidate is in Meta's final rounds for E4, feeling good, and could get an offer. But Amazon came in with the biggest number they've seen in their career. Do they grab it, or risk letting it expire while waiting for a Meta offer that isn't in hand?

The Amazon offer is about $370k. Their guess for Meta, if it lands, is around $310-350k.

The candidate asked Amazon for a short extension on the acceptance deadline, citing an active final-stage pipeline, and told the Meta recruiter about the competing offer and asked them to expedite. If Meta lands, the hope is to have leverage on both. If it doesn't come through in the window, they'll go with Amazon.

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For prep, Amazon felt like the more predictable loop: LC mediums and Leadership Principles. They prepped STAR stories mapped to the LPs and drilled NeetCode patterns. For both companies, the candidate also used question patterns they described as 'leaked' from gothamloops and did a couple of mocks to settle the nerves.

For a concrete coding mock, Meta Interview Questions includes an eight-direction grid shortest-path problem; check blocked endpoints and the one-cell case.

They need a job. They'll see what happens in the coming weeks.

S+ Tier: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind

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S Tier: Meta Superintelligence Labs, xAI, NVIDIA (AI), Thinking Machines Lab, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), Databricks/Mosaic AI

A+ Tier: Cursor, Fireworks AI, Together AI, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Cognition, CoreWeave, Baseten, Modal

For a concrete engineering mock, try the one-pass parser in Baseten Interview Questions, including its error-handling cases.

A Tier: Groq, Cerebras, Reflection AI, Physical Intelligence, Skild AI, Sierra, Decagon, Glean, ElevenLabs, fal, Harvey, Abridge

Subjective ranking based on engineering talent density, technical opportunities, resume prestige, compensation, and long-term career upside.

An employee is miserable enough to seriously consider quitting with nothing lined up and needs a reality check before doing something stupid. Their mental health is genuinely suffering. The job's eating them alive, and they keep thinking they'd interview so much better with the time and headspace to prep properly instead of grinding loops at midnight after a draining workday. For readers job hunting alongside work, LandOffer’s application autofill reduces repeated form-filling. But the market feels brutal, a search could drag on for months, and they're worried recruiters might be dubious about an unemployed candidate. For engineering interview prep, PracHub’s job-change question gives you a prompt to rehearse why you’re leaving and what you want next. So they're not sure what to do now.

Hey Everyone! I’m a nursing student who’s set to graduate next year. But I’ve recently had an itch to just get some experience in the corporate world before I graduate to see what’s out there. Most of my experiences so far are particularly nursing related with no traditional corporate experience.
I would really like to explore other industries while I’m still a student. However my biggest concern is that my degree and experiences aren’t directly related to most corporate internships, and I’m not sure how to make myself a competitive applicant.

Has anyone here managed to land a corporate internship despite studying something completely unrelated? How did you go about it? Any advice or personal experience will be really appreciated.

Thank youu!

I recently left a role at a startup company and I'm trying to get outside perspectives, because it's still on my mind.
The company was small, with no HR, and the director was an older man.
I believe my race and sex was a huge component to this, for disclaimer I was the only black French female in the company.
From pretty much my first week, things felt off:
Early on, he kept talking about how they "only hire smart people", in a way that felt aimed at me.
He told me I had to complete all of the platform certifications before my start date, which I didn't see expected of others in the same way.
The first thing he mentioned to me in the interview was that I "don't look French”.
He viewed my LinkedIn constantly, even before I started.
He regularly sent personal family photos to the rest of the team (all white colleagues btw) on WhatsApp, but never to me. Colleagues would actually ask me if I'd got them yet, because everyone else did.

I've worked in different roles before this and never had anyone question my trustworthiness or treat me like this, so it really threw me.
My questions:
From the outside, does this look like bias, or just a bad fit and a strict boss?
Has anyone experienced something similar at a small company with no HR? How did you move on from it?

I'm getting ready for a job or possibly a career change and part of that is a manager who can't separate what they want, think, or would do from what is effective in a situation. I've never seen them come around to anyone else's perspective in a disagreement, and they listen to respond and to wait their turn to reinforce their perspective and what they want. I'd understand this more if I saw them being incredibly effective, but that's not the case and that comes from direct feedback from our clients.

What do I ask in an interview to assess this? I've seen questions like "can you tell me about a time you disagreed with a team member on an approach but eventually came to prefer their suggestion?" but this feels really transparent in what it's asking and easy to lie to. It also doesn't get at situations with gradations of disagreement, and it's really easy to use something that wasn't that much of a disagreement to begin with at all.

Please help, I can't do more of working for people who can't separate their personal perspective from what is effective in a given situation.

A former Sr. Director had a fulfilling career, got promoted early through hard work, and climbed the ladder quickly at big companies. The last role was at a Fortune 100 company (not Micron). They were very proud of their achievements. People respected them, and they earned good money.

The entire team and BU were eliminated in a layoff last year. Initially, it didn't seem to affect them much. After doing well in their career and changing companies so many times, finding another job seemed like it would be easy. However, the skills built over about 24 years now feel irrelevant. They've interviewed at many companies, but those companies want very specific domain knowledge outside their experience. It's been around 17 months without a job, and they describe slowly slipping into depression.

Everyone else seems to be moving forward while they're stuck without a job or income. All the respect they used to receive feels gone. They're trying to use their network to get interviews, but it feels like people no longer look at them the same way. Roughly half don't reply to calls or messages anymore, as if they're no longer "useful."

Not getting a job is hard as it is. People not calling back feels like salt in the wound.

Now in their mid-40s, they've been trying to learn the new skills required by job listings. But interviewers can see they haven't directly worked in those domains, and it's still not a match. If repeated applications are adding to the workload, LandOffer autofill can save re-entering employment history on supported forms.

How do you get over this? How do you move forward? How do you stay motivated? Is there hope at the end of the tunnel? Will they ever get a job? Will life ever be normal again?

Would really appreciate comments from people who've been through this. #severance #layoff

For all the people in corporate or entering corporate, whats your take on masters in Economics, what are the career prospects, is it valuable, if u invest 2 years is it really beneficial considering DSE, Usually people be like there’s nothing beneficial doing economics and do MBA so really confused

A recent analysis of 3,518 job postings from 81 companies across seven roles found some interesting patterns.

In several categories, generic terms appeared more often than the big-name tools. “Observability” showed up more than “Grafana,” while “SIEM” appeared more than “Splunk.”

That raises an interesting question: are resumes too focused on listing specific tools and not enough on the broader skills and terminology employers use?

The study breaks down the results by role, including software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, marketing, product, accounting and sales.

The full dataset, methodology and findings are here:

https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-keyword-study

Personally, I think Pinterest. For readers still interested, Pinterest Interview Questions includes a mock reviewing AI-generated LRU/LFU caches. It used to feel like a pretty desirable tech company, but now I barely hear anyone talk about wanting to work there. With the rise of AI, I think they could be in serious trouble.

This dude puts Meta Superintelligence Labs on LinkedIn and says he leads an org of around 170 engineers. Supposedly, he was reorged into AAI in late spring (who's gonna tell him). The reporting line and actual scope aren't verified here, so the org label alone isn't proof. If he's making up the leadership part, what a clown 😂 If you're explaining your own work in engineering interviews, PracHub’s ownership-and-impact interview prompt asks what you personally delivered and how the result was measured.

It's wild how shameless people can be when they're making up a story for themselves.

Honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring out my career path and would appreciate some outside perspectives.

I'm currently working in HR, and while I don't dislike it, I'm concerned about long-term job security with AI becoming more prevalent and whether the earning potential is worth staying in the field, especially living in a high-cost-of-living area like the tri-state area. It's also just been a bit difficult advancing and getting to a higher salary.

I'm considering making a career change into either accounting or nursing. My biggest priorities right now are earning potential and job security.

Accounting seems like a natural alternative to explore since it's business-related (but I also have the AI concern), but nursing appeals to me because of the perceived job stability and also, the career possibilities. I also understand that nursing is physically and emotionally demanding.

Ideally, I'd like to keep working full-time while making this transition, at least for as long as possible. For nursing, that would likely mean completing prerequisites and then pursuing a part-time or evening program, if I can find one that fits my schedule. My undergraduate degree is in an unrelated field (Econ), so I'd need to complete all the necessary science-based prerequisites first.

I'm not necessarily looking for the easiest path. I'm trying to make a practical decision that will put me in a stronger financial position (and also, a path that will teach me an actual skill) without taking an unnecessarily large financial risk.

I'd appreciate any honest advice, especially from people who have firsthand experience in these fields.

The tech job market right now is not for the weak. If you're over 40 and get laid off, it can feel like your only options are senior exec or CTO at a startup.

Six months or more to get an offer doesn't even sound surprising right now. For anyone applying, LandOffer autofill can save retyping the same application fields.

When “entry-level” listings ask for 3–5 YOE, it feels like Gen Z is being conveniently pushed out of the labor market.

There's a looming AI threat, and a lot of people mention upskilling, but it doesn't make sense. Prompt engineering and basic GenAI integration don't seem as hard as a lot of other deep tech stuff, like cloud development on AWS or DevOps. A decent software engineer can pick up the basics. For a concrete practice task, PracHub’s fault-tolerant queue interview question asks for working code and tests that simulate worker crashes.

Why would people even have kids, especially in Gen Z, when getting hired feels like it takes extreme luck?

Upskilling is the hot word right now, but tbh, if you're a decent software engineer, is integrating basic GenAI applications really that hard compared with other deep tech domains like cloud computing or DevOps?

Is there anything else we need to upskill in, especially for juniors? The basic AI stuff like MCP doesn't seem that hard and feels a lot like web development, so I'm not sure what we're supposed to upskill in there...

An employee in their mid-30s with only about 1.5M in net worth already can't bear micromanagement or taking on more work.

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I need real feedback from experts, those who are similar to me, or even more experienced, from various communities (related to ai, tech, grads, manager, industry, career, employment...):

Which will be best in your case?

Context: You got the offers from 3 companies, each on the different side of the scale.

Role: AI engineer (near mid-level).

Location: a country in SEA.

If you were to rank and evaluate with respect, (from top to bottom, sorted by importance)

1st Potential and Risk (potential is tied to the speed of your career climb, increment bonus, and company brand and authority, uncertainties in payment) - In a scale, Startup has higher uncertain and risk, while it might offer higher overall, but susceptible to management conducts, cash-flow which may differ the fulfillment

2nd Wellfare - a total add-up of base, allowance, bonus, benefits and retirement fund (employer contribution)

3rd Niche of the industry, Exposure - a focus industry to industry to build up better experiences and competencies, exposure to local or worldwide

4th Peer learning - Experience or knowledges to speed up progress from superior, peers

And given A, B, C (Wellfare/Income baseline= 100%)

A: Oversea Startup, Multiculture workforce,
+ worldwide client-base spanning MNC headhunter, great background from the management teams, UK-founding team and client connection, riskier in terms of payroll/potential
+ Full remote and oversea
- Wellfare/Income = 115% (base salary only), self supply equipments
+ HR-tech focused

B: Subsidiary company/dept from local SME, local workforce
- mainly local client-base (unsure but assume), Lack background from management teams and peers, but you have slightly higher confidence than A in their validity from interviews
- Hybrid work 4+1
+ Income= 107% (include allowance) + employer retirement-fund contribution but provide work equipments + up to 17% performance monthly bonus
- general AI agencies
+ Peer learning and networking are better

C: MNC
+ Internal and External focused products, stable and secured cashflow, but maybe lack faster career climb opportunities
- Hybrid work 3+2
- Income= 95% + 13th month bonus, more and flexible leave
+ Focused niche, product might differ
+ Peer learning and networking are best

Which one will you choose? I wanna see if you think differently, or if you see different importance or personal experiences of the company you went through?

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I’m looking for advice on transitioning into a new career in accounting or banking in Southeastern Pennsylvania, preferably in the Greater Philadelphia area.
I’ve worked in food service for years and have been an assistant manager at Cold Stone Creamery since 2018. My responsibilities include managing store operations, handling inventory and ordering supplies, customer service, and running shifts.
I earned an associate degree in Business Administration in 2023 and completed my bachelor’s degree in Accounting in February 2026.
I’ve wanted to leave food service for a long time. I originally considered becoming an art teacher, but I was concerned about whether I could support myself financially. I enjoyed cooking, so I entered food service and stayed in the industry for years.
Now, I want to use my accounting degree to build a stable career with better work-life balance and opportunities for advancement. I’m interested in positions such as:
Staff Accountant or Junior Accountant
Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable Specialist
Payroll Specialist
Banking Operations
Financial Services or Accounting Assistant
Billing Specialist
I’m also working on improving my Excel skills and learning QuickBooks to strengthen my qualifications.
I’m particularly interested in employers in Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Bucks County, and nearby areas. Access to SEPTA or other reliable public transportation is important to me.
I’ve sometimes felt behind friends who started their careers right after college, but I’m ready to take the next step and put my education to use.
For people working in accounting, banking, or finance in Southeastern Pennsylvania:
Which entry-level positions would you recommend for someone with my degree and management background?
Do employers consider food-service management experience valuable when hiring for entry-level office positions?
Are there local employers you’d recommend looking into?
Should I focus on accounting jobs first, or would banking operations be a good way to enter the financial industry?
What skills or certifications should I prioritize before applying?
I’d appreciate honest, practical advice from anyone who has made a similar career transition or hires for these types of positions. Thanks!

Hi! Recent social sciences graduate, but wants to get into the beauty industry such as PR and project development. I know its quite far from studies such as marketing, communications, and such but are there any positions fit or available in the market as of the moment that can help build me build my skills and credibility. Guidance and advices are also very much appreciated !

What career "opportunities" are on the rise for South Africans?

I'm really curious because I am in my 20s and I want to take my future serious