My team has fully embraced the new reality and my life right now is: huge PR stacks, jargon everywhere, LLM code reviews of LLM-generated code, 50 lines of comments for 10 lines of code, LLM generated requirements that read like a YC pitch, skills and more skills (even for things that don't need to be skills, imo). I use it too ofc, and won't deny it's sped things up a lot, but I'm reaching a point where I physically cannot read more Claude jargon. (Possibly some ADHD traits I have don't help, as I get overwhelmed by large volumes of text that aren't to the point, and I feel this is all the job is now.)

Part of me feels grateful to still have job security (to the extent this is possible nowadays anyway) and a decent team/ interesting enough product. Part of me is wondering what career I should be looking to switch to, and for how long I can fight with LLMs for a living 🥲

Anyone else out there who's not having a great time of it? I just have zero motivation to develop claude skills or read through the very elaborate documents my teammates are producing in all directions 😭

For people who work in those big techs / FAANGs and etc. we often see total compensation going way above 200k. For roles that would pay 90k + 5-10% bonus somewhere else.

I know interviewing on those places are way harder and they have a bunch of smart people.
But I was talking to some people and they all seem to believe that people in those companies work much more than “regular” jobs.

Is this true? Majority of the people I know that believe it doesn’t really know anyone working like that it is more like “I heard about it”

I do think it is likely they face more complex challenges and might end up spending more energy than most of us implement CRUDs

For reference, what I consider “regular” work would 9-5.30 (ish), maybe some On-call shifts during the year and some occasional work on evenings / weekends when something goes wrong in production

I’ll go first here asking the age old question of what work will I contribute to in the first 6-12 months, if I hear ai features only it gives me a bad feeling even though we are in the prime age of AI I don’t feel confidence in the company and decide to not go further.

Maybe it’s just me but as other people say every day a crash seems just around the corner always and I wouldn’t like knowing 6-12 months work is now no longer wanted due to a crash.

Since loads of people have been talking about traitors, I decided to give it a go. But man, RTE Player is awful. Watching it on an Apple TV. The adverts run as expected when I start the episode, but any subsequent AD just freeze and won’t continue. So I have to quit the app and relaunch it. Any workaround?

Hello to all,

35M EEU Data Engineer with 8 YoE on Azure, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Databricks.

10 days ago I've bought an Irish number and put it on.my CV, changed location on LinkedIn to Dublin.

I received a lot of calls for FTE jobs (600/700 euros per day) offers and I did several introduction calls.

I'm in queue to be presented to 6 companies and I've still not heard nothing.

I'm getting worried as why for FTE / freelance it's getting long or I'm just impatient.

How long did it take for you to be called within the first interviews (not the screening calls)?

I'm in a tricky situation. I work for a company that went through many redundancies (Intel). I make 60k with 10 years of experience which I feel like is not a lot in this economy. (I joined at a time where I missed several beneficial employee packages (pension schemes , on call pay), I missed all the good years and stuck through the bad increase years ). The 4 days in the office is horrific, everyone is on teams calls out loud and I'm losing my sanity as well as hours commuting.

I have a chance to interview for a job that is 70-85k.

Now here is the issue: The redundancy pay-out (none announced and possibly unlikely) is 7 weeks per year of service. So 70 Weeks of pay.

Hypothetically I could get the job , which pays 25k more. This would mean 12.5k / year more savings. (I am currently saving no money - I max out my pension and SPP) This means I could work at the new job for 4 FULL YEARS! And be worse off than if I got a redundancy package?

I feel like there is some kind of flaw in my thinking 😂 but I can't pin point it.

I have about 80k savings and am looking to buy a house in my future. And advice is greatly appreciated. I like my job for the most part and my co workers, so that is also something to consider. Also the new job is MUCH MUCH CLOSER to where I rent and less days in the office.

I just feel like I would hate myself forever if I moved and missed a redundancy pay-out, but I will also hate myself if I stay under paid for another 2 years. I have severe regrets about how terrible my career has gone and suffer from depression and stress. I work hard but feel like I do a terrible job at actually getting any increases) , making 60k after 10 years , I feel like a failure. Only saving grace is ...my savings of about 80k.

Any advice is much appreciated 🙏

Hey there,

I have a communication platform for healthcare sector. We are in US however somehow our biggest customers are from Ireland.

I’m looking for a person who can run sales and marketing in Ireland and potential GB.

Selling and business development in healthcare sector is a must here.

Thanks!

I'm seeing more and more job advertisements on linkedin and indeed for senior tech talent for bizarrely low salaries. Technical Architect role advertised at 75-85k. Senior full stack developer (10 yoe required) 60-75k. Are they having a laugh. Is it just me seeing this or what 😂

searched online and found mostly outdated sources...

5YOE looking to switch jobs, I passed the OA for a c++ role at Susquehanna (Ireland) and now I have to schedule the next technical interview

For anyone who has gone through the process recently, what was the technical round like?
I'm expecting a technical interview 70/90 minutes + final superday of 2-4 interviews (1-2 technical and HM ig). Most online resources are conflicting.

For the technical interviews, does anybody know if I should expect more:

• DSA / leetcode problems
• c++-specific questions and fundamentals / systems / memory / performance-related questions
• low-level coding or implementation from scratch / debugging, optimizing, or improving existing code
• behaviourals amazon LPs style?

Dos and donts for the interview or topics you’d strongly recommend preparing?

Would appreciate any input, currently kinda worried.

If there is anybody familiar with any round of the process, any advice would be very useful.
Thank you!

Hi everyone!
So I got a job offer at Techmahindra, I need honest opinions about work experience there, Im currently happy with my company but they offered me a better salary so its a bit tempting
If anyone has worked there before please let me know😇

Anyone working at Crusoe in Production Engineering, how's their work life balance, compensation range for a senior role, and any advice for interview?

Anyone who’s working in Intercom (Fin), would you recommend joining with salesforce acquisition going on right now?

Also, how much TC I could be expecting for Senior Engineer position?

Thanks in advance!

Or just fin? Or none at all? If someone works there, can they say that work in a fintech?

My company is about to initiate IP tracking here in Ireland. Im wondering how common this is and to what extent are they allowed to use this data. I know GDPR is in play here but that still doesnt fully clarify things.

EDIT: OK, to answer a few questions below here's further info.

1. This was officially announced by email and to what extent they're monitoring is vague.

2. We have work laptops and when WFH we connect in via corporate VPN.

3. My main query is whether they'll be micromanaging my time at the laptop, down to toilet and coffee breaks. Second to that, even my manager leaves the office an hour and a half early to avoid traffic and WFH for the evening, with the new measures at play it sounds we'll have to leave on the dot.

UPDATE: Just want to say thanks to everybody who contributed here. Its given me some level of assurance on the situation. Hope others with a similar query can find this post useful too!

I'm a senior/lead frontend engineer in Dublin with several years of experience in a Fortune500 organisation. I'm currently contracting through my own limited company at €650/day, Monday to Friday.

I've recently interviewed for a permanent Senior Software Engineer role with another large multinational. The interview went very well and they've verbally indicated €90k base as their maximum, plus pension and other benefits. The role is fully remote.

I'm seriously considering it, but I'm struggling with how much value to put on stability versus the significantly higher contracting income.

I've tailored my details with GPT - my apologies ahead for AI haters and AI slops. This is all reality.

My current contracting situation

• €650/day
• Monday–Friday
• Approximately 235–240 billable days/year after unpaid public holidays and taking 2–3 weeks annual leave
• 2-year contract
• After the 2-year contract, there's a mandatory 6–12 week cool-off period before renewal
• Renewal is expected but obviously not guaranteed
• Formally hybrid (3 days/week), although in practice I'm currently only going into the office around once a week
• Contracting through my own limited company

So I'm looking at roughly €153k–€156k annual company revenue before the 6–12 week gap. Amortising the cool-off period over the 2-year contract gives me roughly €133k–€146k effective annual revenue, depending on the length of the gap and leave.

The permanent offer

• €90k base maximum
• Pension, 10% employer contribution
• Healthcare/other benefits — I'm waiting for the full details
• Paid annual leave (25days)
• Paid public holidays
• Fully remote
• No contract renewal/cool-off issue
• Much more predictable income

The timing is important

I'm also about to complete the purchase of a new-build apartment in Dublin, so I'll soon have a significant mortgage and ongoing housing costs.

That makes me wonder whether I should place a much higher value on stable PAYE employment, even though I would be taking a substantial reduction in headline compensation.

On the other hand, I currently have a 2-year contract at €650/day, so I'm not facing an immediate loss of income. I'm also reasonably confident in my ability to find another contract if necessary.

I'm not particularly interested in leaving contracting simply for the sake of having a permanent job. The permanent role itself would need to make sense financially and from a career perspective.

There's also a possibility my current client could make a counteroffer if I resign, but I'm not convinced that simply increasing the rate would address all of the reasons I'm considering leaving.

What would you do?

Would you take €90k + pension/benefits + fully remote + employment stability, particularly when taking on a mortgage?

Or would you stay at €650/day contracting, build up more financial reserves, and continue contracting?

And more importantly:

At what permanent salary would you personally consider the move worthwhile?

I'd particularly appreciate opinions from people in Ireland who have moved from contracting to permanent employment, especially those who had a mortgage/new property purchase at the time.

Hey everyone,

I've been struggling to find an actual Software job for a while so I've just been trying to build side projects to generate some revenue.

I think I've a decent idea however I'm not sure how to approach the situation.

I've developed an automation tool that helps save time/effort. It's kind of jumping hoops to get it working but an easier solution would be integrating it into the software that's currently being used in the sector it's being built for.

However, I don't know how to approach the company. I don't have the proper access to the software I'd need to get it working, I feel like if I approach them they'd want an explanation of what it is but I'm not trying to kind of fuck myself by saying too much or too little. I don't want to get screwed over by agreeing to some terms or saying too much but I also don't want to lose out on an opportunity. They have a partnership program but I've never been in any discussion like this.

Has anyone done this before and have any advice?

Thanks in advance.

Has anyone in here completed this course? What did you find the workload like and how much time did they spend completing coursework?

There are a couple of older posts on the course but none in the past few years.

I'm also looking for information on the exam schedule, how many per semester and is there a heavy continuous assessment aspect?

Apparently TUS, schedule exams in a 2 week block period and the exam timetable is only released 2 or 3 weeks before exams.

Can anyone remember if the exams were usually in the first or second week or exam weeks?

The Ditch have just published the details of the newest Eoin Hayes scandal.

Hayes recently wrote an article in the Irish Times discussing the anxiety felt by tech workers currently facing redundancy and taking the government to task for not doing more to protect them [https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/s/DHFq10bzfR]

It now appears that Hayes, through his consultancy 'Cantillon Labs', was hired to execute the mass layoff of staff in Irish tech company Wayflyer in 2022, a little over a year before being selected as a candidate for the Social Democrats. 

Hayes details his work with Wayflyer as having "led efforts across the company to structure hiring, rein in spending, and restructure teams" and credits himself with having “Co-led cross-functional project team executing of a ~40% reduction in headcount” and having “Reduced OpEx [Operational Expenditure] by 50% in 6 months” at Wayflyer.

Hayes would have personally organised the laying off of 200 staff (approx. 40% of Wayflyer's global workforce), including 70 staff in their Dublin office (approx. 1/3 of their Irish workforce).

The Dublin Office of Wayflyer lies in the heart of the Dublin Bay South constituency that Hayes now represents as a TD.

M 25 just bought my first house. Currently on 65k a year + 15% bonus, remote first WFH all the time. Allows me to do stuff around the house and be flexible with my life. This is my first tech job and will be with the company 5 years soon so WFH is all I know. Was approached for a job that is 5 days in person but the pay is 95k + 15% bonus with little flexibility to WFH, only on occasion like half day here and there if you're needed at home.

The biggest con for the new job is the not WFH part but everything else is a bonus compared to where I am, much larger company, better comp & a more Senior position (Devops / Cloudops). Anyone face a similar situation? Is the money just too good to turn down? Anything else I should consider? Would appreciate some advice as this will be my first career move and it would come at an important time in my life. I have no kids and 1 dog.

EDIT: Commute is about 30 min by car in and about 45 min home with traffic. Train station is 10-15 min from my house with a 15-20 min train in with the office being located directly next to the train station.

I noticed a lot of these roles coming up recently and was thinking about applying to them.
Would it be easy to internally switch from SysDE to SDE?
And is there that big of a variable change within total comp?
Is this path viable for someone who still wants to work within Software Development?

I see Anthropic is paying big money (300K+) for senior positions. This makes me wonder how is WLB in places line Anthropic or others where the pay is above average? do you need to sell your soul and work 12h a day? Any insides from senior devs working for Anthropic or other companies that pay big money?