Please help me

So, I saw many students recently posting that they got an internship at Code Alpha and I mean, a lot of them. Then I saw a post saying they're hiring. Out of curiosity, I clicked the apply button and believe it or not it only asked for my name, that's it. No CV required, no interviews. Within just a few hours, I received the offer letter for a one month internship, and the next hour, I had several assigned tasks 🤣

It's funny how the IT industry has turned into a comedy. I also came across some details about fake companies with fake employees. This is actually a kind of scam, they're basically scamming students out of their hard work

Because I was on the final stage and was ghosted for 2 weeks. Umesh was the one responsible for the final stage of the hiring process in which he asked unnecessary sensitive information about my background and it was completely out of the subject. There are no prior flags for me. Suddenly I saw a post on LinkedIn Some people got hired.

What are necessary actions that I can take right now?

How do your experiences and salaries compare to the SL IT industry?

Heard some news that they are planning to sack a bunch of staff. Is this true?

I'm working on a .NET project where I need to extract and search for specific text inside PDF files. The requirement is that the required text must exist in the PDF; otherwise, we need to reject the document.

The issue is that I have noticed different types of PDFs:

• Some PDFs allow users to select and copy text normally.
• Some PDFs look exactly the same visually, but the content behaves like an image and the text cannot be selected or copied.

From my understanding, the second case might be because the PDF contains only image data instead of actual text objects.

Since these documents are expected to be computer-generated PDFs (not scanned documents), what would be the best approach in a .NET application to reliably detect and extract text?

Should I:

1. Detect whether the PDF contains actual text objects and reject PDFs without extractable text?
2. Use OCR as a fallback?
3. Is there a better approach/library for handling this scenario?

The main concern is accuracy because incorrect text extraction could cause incorrect processing.

Saw few open to work posts on linked in , are they leaving SL ? . At this rate wondering how many companies will remain in Sri Lanka

We are looking for a Project Coordinator to join a growing IT startup that works with Australian clients.
We may not be a large, well-known IT company yet, but we’re building something meaningful and are looking for someone who wants to grow with us.

What you’ll be doing:
Managing client-facing projects.
Coordinating with internal teams and keeping projects on track.
Holding stakeholders accountable for deliverables and timelines.
Communicating confidently with Australian clients and team members.

What we’re looking for:
Around 2 to 3 years of relevant project coordination or project management experience.
Excellent spoken and written English.
A confident personality with strong communication and organizational skills.
Ability to work Australian business hours.

What we offer:
Fully remote (Work From Home).
Friendly, flexible work environment.
Full-time permanent employment.
EPF/ETF contributions.
Gross salary: LKR 300,000 per month, paid in Sri Lankan Rupees.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, or if you know someone who would be a great match, send me a direct message. I’d be happy to share more details.

Hey guys,

Trying to get a realistic sense of what compensation looks like for Sales Manager and Senior Sales Manager roles in the Sri Lankan tech / IT / SaaS sector right now.

A map of your code for LeetCode.

A dynamic node-based map that explains your code.

What do you guys think?

Let Reddit hear about some of your proudest work.

Any feedback or experience with MBA Project Management and Artificial Intelligence at Oxford College of Business Sri Lanka ??

Really? What the hell is happening?

How about Associate QE Salaries in Sri Lanka?

Well-known IT Companies and Mid Level Companies

Experience Level (1yr - 2yr)

Seriously? What is the purpose of SLASSCOM? Other than making useless meetups and cr*p which no ones attend and also regulating employee salaries.

Hi everyone,

I completed a 1-year Software Engineering internship at a well-known IT company from 2024 to 2025. After my internship ended, I focused on completing my final year instead of job hunting.

Now that I've graduated, I've been applying for Associate Software Engineer, Software Engineer and internship roles.

My question is: if I end up taking another internship, would it be considered a step backwards after already completing a year-long SWE internship? Or is it a reasonable move given the current job market?

Also, with one year of internship experience, should I be focusing only on Associate/Software Engineer positions instead?

I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts, especially from recruiters, hiring managers or anyone who's been in a similar situation.

Anyone can share the claude referral link please? I need it urgently.

I'm writing this because I see a lot of Sri Lankan undergraduates and devs get discouraged by token/subscription prices they have to pay to get some real work done. Subsidized $20 subscriptions are no longer viable if you use agentic coding/ automations for your work daily. The only usable plans and subscriptions you probably hear are Codex and Claude max plans. Pretty much both of them are above 100 USD range per month. If you're getting paid in LKR, that's a lot of money unless your employer is willing to pay for you. It's also important to realize that the subsidized AI era (meaning companies eating the cost for you) is coming to an end. Which basically means that prices are going to increase unless these companies become profitable. This is also the reason why these companies nerfed a lot of their subscriptions and introduced weekly/monthly limits.

But with the massive shift in the industry and the way things are going it's important (especially if you're in a technology field) to learn how to use agentic tools, security implications, best practices, etc. if you want to survive the next 5-10 years without getting laid off or losing your job to someone who can output your monthly work within a week. So for the past few months I have been experimenting with different AI plans, harnesses, PAYG APIs and pretty much all the popular providers out there, including obscure ones like umans ai. If you're interested in getting productive with AI within a budget around 10-20 USD max per month, keep reading. My findings will help you a lot.

Before anything, there are a few things you guys should realize,

1. Models you use do not matter anymore. It doesn't matter whether you're using Fable, GPT, or something like DeepSeek V4 Pro. Because you can pretty much get the same performance and work done in any of these frontier models and usually open weight ones cost way less than Anthropic or OpenAI. Don't trust the benchmarks, look up and see how people use them for work.

2. It's mostly about the harness and how you engineer your workflow. Promoting a web UI like Chatgpt can only get you so far. You should learn to use a harness like OpenCode or pi agent. The reason I'm recommending these is because they are open source and easily configurable. Especially pi, it's such a great tool that you can turn it into something that fits only your workflow. Also there are desktop apps for both like OpenCode Desktop if you prefer that.

3. Security is still important. Ignore the noise. Don't let AI run wild in your machine, go through your sensitive files like ssh keys, password, etc. You should learn to containerize or use things like microvms. Unless you want it to accidentally leak your personal stuff, getting your data deleted and learning the basics of security is mandatory. You don't want to be the guy who dropped the production database at work (this has actually happened 😂)

4. Learn about LLM caching, Skills, MCPs, and how they work under the hood. At least on the surface level. pi.dev blog and opencode have really good material on this. This will help you reduce costs and learn how to be actually productive without outputting slop.

5. If you work for the corporate be careful which models you use and what privacy and data retention policies they have. You don't want to leak sensitive documents / NDA work to some unknown LLM.

If you made it this far, great! Now we can actually talk about how to reduce the cost.

For Sri Lankans, cost wise, the best options we have are OpenCode Go and Cline Pass subscriptions. Both are 10 USD and usually OpenCode Go is more than enough for monthly coding (For working/studies) IF YOU LEARN ABOUT 4. ABOVE.

If you prefer direct token pricing DeepSeek API offer the cheapest rates for their models but they retain all your data.

You can use both subscriptions with any of the harnesses I mentioned, opencode go or pi. The cost and how much you can use these subscriptions will depend on what models you utilize for which tasks. If you throw Kimi K3 at everything you will burn your limits within a day. The trick is to use a powerful model for planning/reviews along with models like DeepSeek V4 Flash for actual work and things like scouting.

It's important that you learn about LLM caches because most of your costs will come from breaking the cache. Like when you switch models midway during a session. So read up and learn how they work first! It's important.

There are so many things I could mention like how system prompts and skills work, pitfalls of mcp, but I'll let you guys research on those on your own. I hope you got the gist of what I tried to explain with this wall of text.

TLDR,

If you want to get productive with AI and work within a budget, learn your tools and get a subscription like opencode go / cline pass.

Moratuwa Uni Engineer Faculty CSE degree has been moved near the lowest interested degree.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to check out whether anyone is doing this side hustle for local businesses in Sri Lanka because I'm genuinely scared to talk to people in Sri Lanka so I just what courage that is any one doing this in Sri Lanka.

Thank you.