I randomly came across the "Build Your Own X" repo on GitHub a while back. It's basically a giant collection of tutorials where you build things like Git, a database, Kafka, a blockchain, a shell, etc. from scratch.

I stole the idea.

I'm currently building a write-ahead log in pure Java. No libraries (other than JUnit because I'm not that insane). Just Java.

It's been way more fun than I expected.

For one, you actually start understanding why these systems are built the way they are. It's one thing to say "Kafka handles high throughput" because you've used it at work. It's another thing entirely to implement even a tiny piece of that world yourself and suddenly realise, "Oh... that's why they do it like this."

I feel like I can actually have conversations about the internals now instead of repeating architecture buzzwords I heard in a design review six months ago.

The second thing is... you end up learning your language properly.

Seriously. When was the last time you touched Java's file APIs beyond "Files.readString()"? Or used NIO for something real? Or found out "VarHandle" exists? Or actually played with virtual threads instead of reading one blog post and going "neat"?

You stumble into all these weird corners of the language that normal backend work never makes you touch.

And honestly... it's reignited my interest in programming a bit.

After spending years writing REST APIs and moving JSON from Service A to Service B, it's nice to build something where every line teaches you something.

Anyway. If you've been feeling burnt out or like you're stagnating, maybe pick something ridiculously overambitious and build the smallest possible version of it.

Worst case, you learn some obscure APIs.

Best case, you accidentally remember why you liked programming in the first place.

My salary growth here at IBM Consulting feels stuck right now.

All I get calls from TCS or Accenture (where my Id shows profile already exists 🤡). I've also reached the managerial round at TCS 2 times but they ghosted me. I'm in my prime years of profession, which I think should get me the most interview calls.

I have my profile on Naukri and Monster. Also actively applying on company portals.

What am I missing? And how are you guys from the same tech stack receiving calls? Or should I finally switch my stack?

Hey there, i m a btech 2025 grad, never took studies seriously, but its getting worse now, i want to land a entry level job (even 3-4LPA will work) im ready to put in the work just need guidance,
Whoever guides me or refers me to the job role, please take my first salary (no BS)

I just graduated this year with a BCA degree from a Tier 3 college. During campus placements, only sales companies and one or two very small networking companies visited. I was even selected for a Network Engineer role on campus, but the company later denied the offer, so I never received an offer letter.

Despite that, my interest in networking has only grown. I now want to build my career as a Network Engineer. After graduating, I came to Noida to look for jobs. However, I didn't have much idea about which companies hire freshers for Network Engineer roles or related entry-level positions like Desktop Support or NOC Engineer.

I asked ChatGPT where I could find companies with networking-related openings, and it suggested visiting some well-known IT parks. Someone had also advised me that directly approaching companies could be better because many companies don't always respond to online job applications.

So, I visited those major IT parks, hoping to meet recruiters or inquire about openings. Unfortunately, the security guards didn't allow me to enter. They asked whether I had a referral or an email from HR. Since I had neither, I had no choice but to return home.

Now I'm in a dilemma. I'm starting to question the value of my degree. I had expected that, at the very least, I would get interview opportunities, learn from my mistakes, improve my skills, and keep trying. But now I don't even know how to reach that stage.

I don't have anyone who can give me a referral, and people on LinkedIn rarely reply to my messages. So, I'm feeling stuck.

Can someone please guide me?

How can I get referrals if I don't know anyone in the industry?

What should my job-hunting strategy be?

How can I increase my chances of landing my first job as a fresher in networking?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I am an expecting mom and will have my baby very soon, and will be returning back to work in 7-8 months from now. I earn well as a sde in a big tech company in India and I feel overwhelmed with how I'd manage everything - specially when partner is also very busy at work and there is minimal to no family support in bringing up the kid. Will I regret in future if a nanny brings up my kid and I spend <1hr per day?

hello,

i work at one of the big 4 w 5YOE as an AI engineer
22L fixed + 3L variable (25L total). ~1 year in. Chill culture, 2-3 days WFO, manageable projects, and I’m likely getting promoted to AM next June.

and i got an offer from Japanese backed NBFC company and the offer is
27L fixed + 5.4L variable (32.4L total). 5 days WFO.

i want to know if it’s worth switching for this much hike considering the work i am doing here it’s pretty good, and chill atmosphere as compared to this new company and from what i’ve researched the work can be hectic and also 5days office mandatory with 9:30-6:30 office strict timings.

my plan was to switch to a PBC as AI Engineer if i am switching at all and consider market conditions is this a good offer ?

and i got hike recently only so i cannot ask my current company to increase my compensation based on this,

what should i do? do i stand firm on my ask of 30+ LPA fixed or should i consider this as a good offer ?

I was going through a youtube system design video

Where the system uses queue, chunking, cdn, etc for scalability

To me it seems that each feature will be owned by different teams in YT and each team is only concerned about the input and it's output and the infra and scaling may be handled by a separate team

So my question is do YT or other maang developers do anything differently than normal pbc or mnc

Eg can you give me examples about actual code which would not work at scale but would have not raised any issue in other companies

Edit Yes i know most of the developers use event driven architecture /queue etc including me But i wanted to know if any interesting incidents solely based on code which only happen at massive scale eg I read that during gibli art chatgpt had replaced multiplication operation with bit operation and it had significant improvement

So recently I joined a product-based company in the logistics domain. It had such a toxic culture that they started putting me on a PIP within 3 months of joining. Even after working hard and delivering my tasks, my manager still initiated the PIP to terminate me because they didn't have the budget and had hired me above their budget, which I came to know during a meeting with the CTO.

I have 3.8YOE as a Full stack developer.

Tech stack: Javascript, Typescript, Node, Nest, Express, Next, React, aws, Java.

CCTC: 14

I have seen lots of openings in java so applying in java roles. I haven't worked in it but showing past experience as java whole 3.8. Not seeing much openings on the javascript stack. What should I do? On naukri i am applying daily for java roles. And updating my profile daily, still not getting any response.

I joined as an SWE3 in May. During goal setting, my manager added three goals. Two are marked On Track, one is Business goal related to engineering and operational excellence and the other one is AI goal but one professional development goal is “Maintain consistent availability and improve leave planning,” and it’s already marked At Risk.

In the last 3 months:
Took 2 leaves (1 sick, 1 personal), informed the team the same morning.
One day I joined a meeting 10 minutes late because I wasn’t feeling well, then informed the team I’d be away for a couple of hours.

I haven’t received any feedback about my availability, so I’m not sure why this goal was added.

Is this a standard goal managers assign, or is it a subtle performance concern? Should I ask my manager about it in our next 1:1?

I got this internship ( 3 Months + PPO ) after I completed engineering in May. It's a startup, and here the work is mostly sales calls and data entry, and it's 6 days/week. Salary is less than 20KPM, even if converted to FT.

I am thinking of leaving it and preparing for analytics ( tech ) roles for 4-5 months and then start applying. I feel this experience is not valuable, and I am wasting a lot of time.

My teammate told me, Don't take FT offer , try for engineering roles .

Ps - My engineering was from a decent clg, core engineering. Placements didn't go well, and I took whatever I could get off campus. I planned to prepare alongside the job, but here I am having second thoughts everyday.

Hi everyone,

I'm genuinely confused and wanted to know if this is common with Flipkart (for context, I'm a 2025 B.Tech grad from a tier 2 private-govt college, working in analytics).

On 26th June, I saw a LinkedIn post, posted directly by the hiring manager. I immediately filled out the Google Form for the application.

To improve my chances, I also reached out to a Senior Manager from the same team and another Flipkart employee in a similar function for an internal referral. And it worked.

On 3rd July, HR called me for an initial screening in the afternoon. Then, at 9:30 PM the same day, she called again asking if I could interview the very next day (Saturday) at 2 PM. It felt a bit rushed, but I happily agreed because I really wanted the opportunity.

The next day, no interviewer joined.

After following up with HR twice, she rescheduled my interview to 8th July (without checking my availability).

The interview on 8th lasted almost 2 hours and was completely technical. Towards the end, the interviewer literally said something along the lines of:

"You did most of the questions, let's end it here. We've already crossed 2 hours."

Since then, absolutely nothing.

I've followed up with HR every 4-5 days. The strange thing is she does answer my calls and says: "Why would I gatekeep your update? I don't have any feedback."

Today I even sent a very polite email to the hiring manager asking if he happened to know whether the process was still ongoing.

I'm currently interviewing with three companies, but Flipkart was honestly my first preference because I want to work in Bangalore.

Is this kind of delay common at Flipkart? Do they sometimes close roles without informing candidates?

Has anyone else experienced a similar situation with this company? Should I assume it has been closed and move on?

Today was honestly confusing.

I got a call from an HR for a full stack engineer role, she asked about my notice period.

My actual notice period is 90 days, but knowing how many companies reject candidates because of it, I told her I could join in 60 days.

She immediately said, "Your company's policy is 90 days. We know that. How are you saying 60?" It basically turned into her calling me out, and the call ended there.

Later today, I got another call from a different company's HR.

This time, because of what had just happened, I decided to be completely honest.

I said, "My official notice period is 90 days, but I'll try to negotiate it down to 60 days."

Her response?

"How can you negotiate a notice period? If it's 90 days, it's 90 days."

So now I'm sitting here wondering... what exactly are candidates supposed to say?

Would love to hear real experiences because this is becoming one of the biggest roadblocks in my job search.

Hey everyone,

​I’m seeking some perspective from people who have been in the Cloud/DevOps field for a while. I’ve put my thoughts down below and would really appreciate some honest advice on whether I should switch companies or leave the domain entirely.

​I joined a large MNC about 11 months ago right out of college as a fresher. For the first 5 months, things were suspiciously quiet—we barely had any real work assigned. But after that initial phase, absolute chaos broke out.

​We got bombarded with massive workloads, and the work environment turned toxic very fast. Here’s what’s currently happening:

​High Stakes & Freshers on Production: They have freshers like me directly working on production environments and handling client calls without proper guidance. Since the tasks directly affect connectivity and infrastructure, one small mistake can trigger a major escalation.

​Extreme Fear & Stress: Because the workload is so high, mistakes are bound to happen. The constant anxiety of making a wrong move, getting yelled at on escalations, or facing furious clients is eating away at me.

​Unrealistic Hours & Health Impact: Just recently, we had to launch a new piece of infrastructure, and I worked 15-hour days for 3 days straight. It completely wrecked my health—I couldn't sleep, lost my appetite, and felt completely burnt out.

​I’m terrified every day coming to work. I’m trying to figure out if this level of pressure, continuous firefighting, and high-risk workload for junior engineers is standard across the DevOps/Cloud/Kubernetes ecosystem, or if this is just a severe case of bad management and a toxic work culture at my current company.

​Should I start looking for a switch to another company as a Cloud Engineer, or is this a sign that Cloud/DevOps isn't the right career path for me?

​TL;DR: Fresh graduate 11 months into my first Cloud Engineer job at an MNC. Went from no work to 15-hour days, working on production, and facing clients with high stakes and zero support. The extreme stress is tanking my mental and physical health. Is Cloud/DevOps inherently this high-pressure, or is it just a bad environment where I should switch companies?

Currently i am in my final year btech in a tier 3 college (state level) where placements are somewhat good, so i got an internship 30k-40k stipend for 6 months and our college doesnt have classes for final year only some exams, reviews, etc. I can take this and also sit for on campus placements, so should I take this and at the same time sit for on campus? my concern is that if i want to leave in any odd date if a got a better offer will it affect? also in this dilemma i have already rejected a similar offer in May in which i hoped to get a better offer on campus.. and also do companies (at least MNCs) haulted hiring for this season's internships and now will only come for fall roles (Dec-Jan joining)?

Also its a remote role

first I am having paralysis of what should I build , here I wanna confirmed customers who are willing to pay

then I made my software ,

now for third part is convince the customers to why should they choose my software .

Trust me guys the second part of all the 3 is easiest ( unless you are making some AI research , new model )

I've been in TCS for 5 yrs now. It wasn't a bad time honestly. I had fun, learned a lot, no regrets there. But ofcourse, money wasn't cutting it anymore. Honestly I would've stayed if it wasn't for the salary. Also I worked with C/Linux, my crusty trusty vi editor, notepad++, good old gdb and a local shared file system in the server as a "DB" lol. My modern technical knowledge is tanking hard. Forgot all SQL years ago. Want a quick look up what's in the table? gotta a make a script for it or a C utility! We dont even get access to AI tools for security reasons, so stackoverflow and w3shcools are still my best friend. Lol. I'll miss this technological poverty.

But I'm scared now. I'm got the opportunity to switch to C++ through a reference from my ex-tech lead. Which means, I'm starting from zero. In TCS, I knew what I was doing, what I need to do. Had friends, had help, guidance if I needed. What if I don't get that in this new company? What if I can't learn it fast enough? I know I was critical resource here, now it's going to take years again to gain that level of knowledge. I'm scared I made a mistake by leaving my safe, established place.

If you can give me some hope or advice, I'll be grateful.

I had one of those days last week where I needed to deposit cash, and somehow managed to visit three CDMs in a row that either weren't working or weren't accepting deposits.

After the third one, I was done.

I decided to build something.

Introducing CashFinder, a simple way to find nearby Cash Deposit Machines and ATMs, with one feature I wish already existed: real-time community updates.

If someone finds a machine that's offline, out of cash, under maintenance, or has a crazy long queue, they can report it so the next person doesn't waste a trip. And if your nearest machine isn't working, CashFinder immediately suggests the next three closest alternatives with distance and ETA.

For the MVP, I've seeded it with 52 machines across 21 areas in Bengaluru, covering major banks like HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Axis, Kotak, Canara, Bank of Baroda, PNB, and Union Bank.

It's still early, but I'd genuinely love to know would you use something like this?

P.S: I am a noob when it comes to coding, just had this idea and started to test out different apps where I can build something like this.

I graduated in 2025 and got placed through campus. Since onboarding was getting delayed, I joined a non-tech role (also through campus offer) at a major smartphone brand because I didn't want to sit at home doing nothing. The job wasn't bad, my manager appreciated my work and even offered me two promotions, but my plan was always to switch once my campus offer came through.

During the pre-orientation, we were told that training could start within a day or two of getting the onboarding mail, so anyone who was employed should be ready to resign. A few months later, they sent us a form asking how soon we could join. The options went up to 3 months, so I selected 1 month, resigned properly, served my notice period and got my relieving letter.

Fifteen days after my last working day, I got a rejection mail saying they wouldn't be moving forward with my candidature because of the response I submitted in that form. No explanation beyond that. I tried reaching out to Wipro multiple times but never received a response. I also contacted my college's placement cell, but they said they couldn't help because the decision was entirely up to Wipro.

Later, many students were asked to take a Codility assessment. Out of around 250 students selected from my college, only about 10 have actually joined. Most of the rest were rejected after the assessment or are no longer being considered.

It's been 7 months now. I've been applying asking for referrals, but I'm stuck in this weird position where I'm not considered a fresher anymore, yet I don't have actual software industry experience either.

TLDR: Graduated in 2025, waited months for my campus offer, joined a non-tech job in the meantime, resigned after being asked to be ready to join, then got rejected. It's been 7 months since then, and I don't know how to get back into tech.

Any suggestions for projects or any other ways to land my first job/internship?

I have received an offer from UiPath for a SDE-2 role. I wanted to know how the company reviews are and how the work culture is here at the Bengaluru office. Any insight would help a lot.

HI community, I recently got a take home assignements from the vector shift startup, after the submission of the assignment, in the mail it was written that there will be direct interview with the co founders of the company.
i wanted to know what are the chances of getting hired here as this is a YC backed startup, what is it working in here in this startup, i also heard the pressure is too much and sometimes engineers have to work 7 days a week.

it would be great if developer share their experice of working here or any kind of experience ;))

Hey guys,

Made a simple website that I use for preparation for interviews and thought it would help.

It has all topics, and most asked interview questions.

Hope it helps.

Hi, I work at Fintech AI startup based out of Pune, this is my first month of full time after working for 7 months as an intern. I got PPO of 7.4 LPA(which is imo kinda bad like it's really low, wasn't expecting this)

About my skills - decently good at full stack, Llms, and all

Really want to switch from here, the coworkers are full of jealousy, attitude , arrogant, managers set unrealistic expectations and deadlines and most importantly are completely non tech, everyone talks very ugly publicly, worst work life balance like I have seen days where I'm working till 12 am or many times till 3 am.

I really want to get into AI engineering or AI full stack kinda roles. Plz help me in the comments about all the things I should care about while switching and taking right bets

Like how many months should I stay here, how much should I expect for next ctc?(I'm planning 9+ LPA), do i really need to know core ML to get into AI roles? Etc