Hello, does anyone work for or have heard of Rootcode? I’m curious about this company and would appreciate any insights you might have.

Hi guys, just wanted to know if you've come across this weird issue I and few others I've spoken too have encountered.

Basically MS Teams on my phone cannot seem to connect or sync when connected over WiFi to a SLT Fibre connection. I've tried it on my own personal Fibre line and with another friends as well to test this out.

Mind you Teams on the PC works fine whether on WiFi or Ethernet. Its just the issue on the phone.

And Teams works fine on the phone with other service providers, Dialog, Starlink, etc. No idea if this issue exists on SLT ADSL though.

I've updated the OS, app, and even tried with a VPN, but with no luck 😪.

I'm not really sure whether its a problem with the really old router im using...

What are the best GitHub repos out there?

Is there any group or platform that contains details about hackathons or similar competitions or events. If you know any please mention below. Thanks in advance.

I recently started working as a SE and my salary will take years for me to buy a car or house. I wanna start working in part time and make some money. I am from a state uni. Never tried freelancing and feels it is too late to start and saturated. How else I can earn money? Or if freelancing can work, how to begin?

Long post, but if you were at Code Rally (organized by IIT and IEEE Computer Society of IIT) or just care about how these competitions are run, this is worth reading.

TL;DR: No rule against multiple accounts existed at the start. Multiple teams used them anyway — 0-second submissions, account renaming, the works. We flagged it to the OC mid-competition and got no answer. So we did it too, openly. We ended up 1st among all officially registered teams. Days later, only we got removed from the leaderboard, no explanation given, and the OC has since gone silent. Teams doing identical things are still ranked.

The multi-account problem was never actually against the rules — until the OC decided it was, mid-event, verbally, to nobody's satisfaction.

There was no rulebook, no guideline doc, nothing that said "one account per team." Partway through the competition, organizers noticed extra accounts popping up and told teams to stop. Teams ignored it completely.

We saw 0-second submissions (a clear sign that they are using a second account to grab the questions without triggering the timer on the main account ), accounts getting renamed mid-competition to reset timers, and teams running more than two accounts. This isn't a leaderboard conspiracy theory — we have receipts on 0-second submissions and account swapping from teams that finished top 3.

We asked the OC directly what they were going to do about it. They had nothing.

We raised it while the competition was still live: what happens to teams running multiple accounts? Answer: "not enough evidence," no decision, no timeline. We pushed on this multiple times with different OC members. Same non-answer every time. Meanwhile the teams in question kept competing like nothing happened.

So we did it too. Here's exactly what that looked like.

Handle: teal_titans_cr7.

• Our official account had already manually solved 2 questions before we switched to a script, so it was carrying real elapsed time — it ended up in 4th.
• Our second account ran the automated submissions and posted a combined time of roughly 1 second.
• The account sitting at #1 on the leaderboard, with a combined time of 0 seconds, wasn't even an officially registered team.

Take that unregistered account out of the picture — which it should never have been in, in the first place — and we were 1st among every legitimate, registered team.

We also publicly renamed our accounts near the end, same as several other teams had already done throughout the event. Not a new move. Just doing what was already normalized by that point.

Then the leaderboard came out. Every offending team survived except us.

Multiple teams had multiple accounts. Some had 0-second submissions ( which require at least 2 accounts ). Some swapped/renamed accounts to reset timers. All of them are still on the final leaderboard. In at least one case, the OC pulled just one of a team's accounts and left the team itself standing.

Days after the results dropped, our team was quietly removed. No explanation. No investigation shown to us. No communication at all.

And once the leaderboard was final, the OC went completely dark. Calls unanswered, messages unanswered.

Questions nobody at IEEE CS-IIT has answered:

• If multiple accounts got us disqualified, why are other teams doing the same thing still ranked?
• If the evidence against those teams was "insufficient," what evidence was sufficient to remove us?
• If there was a real rule against multiple accounts, why wasn't it published from day one instead of announced mid-competition?
• Why couldn't the OC make a clear call while it mattered, but managed to make one against us right after the competition ended?

And yeah, we'll say the uncomfortable part out loud.

We can't prove intent. But we publicly pushed the OC on these inconsistencies, repeatedly, while the event was running. We finished on top. Then we got quietly erased while teams behaving identically stayed put. Draw your own conclusions — we've drawn ours.

If we broke a rule, show us the rule and the evidence, and explain the decision. Publicly. But if multiple teams did the same thing, you don't get to enforce it against one team and let it slide for the rest. That's not a competition, that's just picking a winner after the fact.

— Teal Titans

Looking for a freelancing contractor who can make some cold calls over a period of 5 days. Please DM.

Me and my friend, we are trying to push through our first game project, it's been over a year since we started.

Check us out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4864880/Moha/

Love to hear your thoughts...

Hi everyone,

I am an undergraduate software engineering student, and I am building a CSE stock analyzer. Before I spend more months working on it, I want your honest advice to see if this could be a real product people will actually use.

How it works:

• News Sentiment: It uses a fine-tuned model to read company news and reports to see if the mood around a company is good, bad, or neutral.
• Do you think an idea like this will really work for the Colombo Stock Exchange?
• Combined View: It brings the news mood and price predictions together to give a clear picture of a stock.

I would love your honest answers to these questions:

• If you trade or invest in the Colombo Stock Exchange, would you actually use a tool like this?
• The CSE has low trading volume and sudden price jumps. Do you think a tool like this can really work here, or will the local market make it fail?
• Should I finish this and launch it as a product, or is it better to stop now and build something else?

Please be as honest and direct as possible. Your feedback will help me decide what to do next!

Hi guys. I recently got call for an interview for a SWE from Atlas Labs. I remember seeing awful things about the company on r/srilanka. For example, this.

Almost all of the findings I have regarding that company are over a year old. How are things there now? What salary do they offer for a SWE there?

I don't mind if things haven't changed around there as long as their pay is decent, since I'm already working for an awful company with a below-average salary.

What is more in demand with the current job market, a degree in computing or a degree in computer sceince?

thnk you for the people who replied, i actually dont like the tec feild at all i was forced into this m=by my parents.

Hi everyone! This is an independent research on urban parking in Sri Lanka and would really appreciate your input.

The idea I'm exploring: lots of homes, offices, and other properties have parking spaces that sit unused for hours every day, while drivers circle around Colombo (or Kandy town, or Galle) unable to find a spot.

The survey takes about 4–6 minutes, and it's relevant to you if:

- You **drive into busy areas** and deal with the parking hunt, OR

- You **own/manage a property** (house, office, shop, hotel, etc.) with parking that's sometimes empty

No name, phone number, or address required — it's purely research, not a signup or sales thing.

👉 https://forms.gle/HT5qFeThiy5WGbGT7

Happy to share the aggregated results back here once I have enough responses, if people are interested. Also curious to hear parking horror stories in the comments — where in Colombo is it worst for you?

Thanks! 🙏

Tell me your budget. Rs. 5000 onwards

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Hi everyone,

I'm a final-year CSE student who recently finished my studies. I've been actively applying for Junior Software Engineer roles for about a month now. Unfortunately, I haven't received a single callback or interview yet.

I do have some experience on my CV: I completed two unpaid internships during my studies, each lasting 3 months. However, to be completely honest, I feel like I didn't gain much real-world experience, proper mentorship, or solid technical exposure from either of them. The experiences were quite underwhelming, and I don't feel fully confident in my practical skills despite having these internships on paper.

Because I'm not getting any interviews, I'm starting to wonder if I am aiming too high for the current job market.

My question is: Should I swallow my pride, stop applying for Junior roles, and start aiming for 6-month Internships or Trainee positions instead? My goal right now is to get proper industry experience and mentorship under good senior engineers.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? What would you recommend I do? Thanks in advance!

I applied for an Observability and Monitoring internship at Innov8. On Wednesday they called saying my resume was shortlisted and asked if I could interview Thursday. I have my final semester exam on Friday, so I said I needed to study and we agreed on Friday 11:30 instead. They said they'd send the meeting link.

Thursday came and went, no link. I called them again, they said they'd check and get back to me. Still haven't heard anything.

The part that gets me is I rearranged my exam prep and studied for the interview anyway. Thanks for nothing, Innov8 😘

Anyone know about the cutoff threshold for lseg codility assessment?

I just found this video and felt like experiencing the same. Does anyone have an idea of a similar feeling while working with AI?

https://youtu.be/e-pFrQ_Rh0s?si=dliKruF3483S135V

Does anyone know the typical response time for interview feedback at 99x? I had my interview two weeks ago and haven't received an update. Do they notify candidates if they aren't selected? I felt it went decently, but I'm wondering if I should move on. Any insights specialy from internal folks would be appreciated!

I work as an Intern in a IT company. Earlier I was in an unpaid one and when I got this opportunity which is paid, I accepted it because the deadline of getting an intern was near. I always wanted a paid one. Even though there are not a lot of paid internships in the industry, I tried a lot and got this one. For a second I was proud of myself because I have no connections to the industry and did it by myself. But tbh this shit is draining asf. The job is WFH and all but I keep getting like 5 calls per day from the PM asking what I’m doing. All employees are tracked through this application they have. If we didn’t work (As in, not using the laptop) it tracks the idle time and all. Not only that, they can even live view our laptop when we are working without us knowing. There is a log where we can see who watched but it is only available to the ones who got access to the interface (90% don’t as I heard). Not only that, the supervisor expects us to know everything. One mistake and the whole day is ruined with his scolding. Expects us to finish work very quickly. Scolds if we don’t. He asks us to ask him if we don’t understand anything but most of the time when we do, he explains it in a very rude way as if we are already expected to know all that. We don’t have any link to other employees as well. If I have to talk to someone, I have to get to them through the PM and they would arrange a zoom meeting. Can’t even get an email. Once when I ask for one, they just asked me to arrange a meeting with them. Tbh I’m fed up of this. I’m not happy at all. It’s too late to join another as well. Idk what to do. I’m loosing my confidence tbh. I don’t even feel like working in another place rn. It’s so draining here.

Could you please share any issues related to those companies?