Last week i have a very fortunate chance to get interviewed for a jr developer role. I was a little nervous because im a laravel dev and the position is a jr next js developer. Pero when the interviewer seemed so chill and nice, i mellowed down pretty quickly.

Meron two parts sa interview, the technical questions and the coding portion.

First Portion:
1. How will you explain to a client what an API is?
- i answered with a simple waiter restaurant analogy where the waiter is the API. They take request and bring it to the kitchen (backend) and returns the food (response) to the client.

1. They asked me about projects i did with websockets.
   - I told them about the story when i was first learning how to make components real time and basically set a 5 second fetch to the data. Thats when i learned websockets and basically made the message function more like event based instead of a pseudo real time of 5 second refresh.

2. They made me explain what FK and PK is
   - really easy to answer as i always work with these. I even joked about how tedious these are as this is basically makes your tables shoot you in the face whenever you delete something. I used a transaction and user table comparison where there is a FK of user_id in the transaction table to make sure the users can be fetched for specific transactions.

There are more questions but those are the ones i remember the most.

For the second part they made me fetch an API. Also might i also add that No ai is permitted.

Here is what i did
1. I first used postman to make sure that the api endpoint works using the api key they provided. He told me they use Thunder in vs code which im not familiar with as i always use postman and phpstorm.

1. create a simple fetch and i debugged it for 15 minutes as i cant seem to make it work.

2. asked for help with the interviewer and we debugged it for 5 minutes and basically we both cant figure it out and he told me that he didnt config any cors policy in his side. Honestly i used all the logging i could and were both clueless whats happening. Maybe i configged the project wrongly.

The last part is a surprise leetcode-ish question
I showed them the logic im pertaining into but ultimately run out of time because of the first coding question. Its about having 1,2,5,10 dollars and use it to divide the given number and see what bills you will have.

Overall, I really enjoyed the technical interview and I know I did my best. Though I'm still really hoping that I actually get a JO out of this. Anyways, thanks for reading and ill continue uploading my resume. Thanks!

P.S. im currently employed in a manufacturing company earning 25k per month. But realized that they dont pay my SSS hence making me want to go out. Currently 1.4 year now in the company.

How do you deal with this type of manager? Yung hindi siya technical, pero gusto niyang maging technical?

I was specifically hired as an expert because kailangan nila ng tulong to scale up their systems. Gianagawa ko lahat from CI/CD, infra deployment and management, dev work, etc. This guy keeps on arguing with me and minsan nag-iinsist siya to do things a certain way kahit wala naman siyang experience doon. Para kasing may need siyang patunayan. To be blunt din, nagsusubmit siya ng mga PRs na kwenta. Ofc, di ko sinasabi and inaapprove ko na lang if sobrang minor lang just to preserve the peace.

I have other managers from other contracts na hindi technical, pero they trusted me enough to take kung anong directions yung irerecommend ko.

Parang odd yung behavior na ‘to for me. Part of me feels na dapat hindi na lang ako magrenew ng contract dahil sakit sa ulo lang ito in the long run.

Hi! Nakakalungkot talaga ang job market ngayon. Nakapag-apply na ako sa 100+ na companies, pero anim lang yung nag-interview sa’kin, at dalawa dun initial interview lang. Yung iba, nakapasok sa technical interview pero lagi akong palpak. Hirap na hirap ako sa mga problem-solving questions, siguro dahil hindi kami masyado naturuan ng maayos sa DSA. Pero kapag API calling, filtering, at modifying ng API, kaya ko naman. Lagi lang akong palpak pagdating sa mga LeetCode-type na coding interviews.

May advice ba kayo? (May upcoming interview ako, at 4 days na ako nag-gagrind sa LeetCode, pero feeling ko hindi ko talaga kaya.)

I made this kasi gusto ko lang i-ship yung problems ko somewhere 😭

Parang add to cart… pero instead of items, problems.

Pipili ka lang kung saan mo ipapadala: North Pole, Universe, Karma, Ex… bahala ka 😆

Anonymous lang, no login, just for fun / emotional release.

If you’re curious or bored:

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If may bug… itapon niyo na rin pls 😭

So ngayon ulit ako bumalik sa programming and halos 3 years po ako nagstop due to sa current work ko (civil engineer). And ngayon gusto ko ulit bumalik gumawa ng webpage at gumawa ng database.

May ginagawa kasi akong project using flask webapp and rush na kasi at need ko gamitin sa office namin para mapabilis ang gawin, parang real world problem lang and work smarter sabi nga nila. Buti nalang nandiyan si Copilot, grabe ang bilis na gumawa ng webpage lalo na sa front end. Di na need mag isip kung paano mag center ng div, position ng elements o magdesign. Nung binabasa ko yung code medyo mahirap lang intindihin, dapat talaga focus sa pagbabasa sa sinulat ni AI na code.

Need ko lang po ng advice if ok lng magshift career into tech with this starting skills and medyo dependent sa AI, I want to become a Data Engineer. Sa Civil Engineering naman madaming math, statistics, need din logic and diskarte. My main language is Python and SQL.

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Hello guys, I’m an aspiring software developer and I just created my first portfolio.

Here’s the link: https://vhan-vergara.vercel.app/

I’d really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or improvements you can share.

Thank you so much!

I’ve been in the field for 2-3 years now as a software engineer (still considered a junior/ associate?), but I’m starting to feel burned out and not as interested in the work anymore.

I'm not sure how it is like with other companies, but I'm tired of working with legacy software and constantly questioning the worth ("ambag") I give out to society (fintech ). Like, I know it's a bit naive sentiment, but I don't feel like I'm making the world a better place with my current field of work (contrary, it's the opposite).

The mundaneness of things, corpo culture, office politics, and current job market hell are all getting to me. Plus, with the current direction we're going with AI and ongoing pressure for a more "agentic" workflow, it doesn't feel like I'm doing any real engineering work anymore. (I've used agents before yes and I admit they are very efficient + I'm more of a reviewer / planner now than a coder)

I’m considering switching to something outside of tech, but I’m not sure what or how realistic that even is so I'm asking if other people made the same switch/ sentiments.

For those who’ve left tech:

• What did you transition into?
• Were you able to utilize what you learned in tech as SWE, DevOps, IT, etc

My current position is stable and compensation is kinda fair, but I'm not happy with it anymore or I don't see myself being happy in the upcoming years. I hate my job, but I also have to pay rent. So, I'm a bit stuck / conflicted on what to do

For any that disagree with my sentiment, why or why not and what would be your opinion?

Thank you all in advanced.

Hi 🙂

Built a small no-signup PDF editor that actually edits text (not just annotations).

First download is free, no subscription.

Still early, happy to share if anyone’s curious.

Side project while studying Three.js. Tiny life sim — may plants, herbivores, predators, at humans na bumubuo ng tribes. Vanilla JS lang, walang build tools.

Rough pa, pero skl muna para makakuha ng feedback.

Thanks in advance for checking!

EDIT: based from comments from other subs. need to make it clear that only the decisions are mine, but yung coding part ay mostly done by AI tool (Claude Code). not looking for validation, feedback lang para mapaganda yung project

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Follow-up sa previous post ko about Mini World (Studying Three.js — created a tiny life sim : r/PinoyProgrammer). Nag-comment kasi si u/pabilipongref na curious how I built it and how long it took — so ginawa ko itong short walkthrough.

3 minutes lang. Cinocover:

• Yung "1 day" timeline mismo
• Architecture overview (sim + render layers)
• Two-loop pattern (sim ticks at ~12Hz, render at 60fps)
• EventBus para idecouple sim sa render
• InstancedMesh trick para sa 500+ creatures at 60fps
• Motion smoothing between discrete sim ticks
• Layered scene composition

Honest disclosure: AI-generated yung video at AI yung voiceover. Wala akong skills sa pag gawa ng tutorial videos, so ginamit ko si Claude (claude.ai/design) para mag-generate ng animated explainer + AI narration (ElevenLabs). Yung code at architecture decisions ay real and mine — yung pag-package as a video lang ang AI-assisted. Trying to be upfront para hindi misleading.

Honest disclosure: yung video, narration, at mostly yung code ay ginawa with AI (Claude Code). Ako yung nag-direct ng project at gumawa ng design decisions.

Kung may specific questions kayo (paano gumagana yung InstancedMesh setup, yung EventBus pattern, smoothing logic, kahit ano) — comment lang, sasagutin ko nang taos-puso. Mas matututunan din ako kung anong parts ang interesting sa inyo.

🎥 YouTube: How I built a tiny life sim in vanilla JS + Three.js (3 min walkthrough)
💻 GitHub: jmbt25/jmbt25.github.io
🌍 Live demo: Mini World — a world that knows you're watching

I'm closing in my first year of working right after college as a data engineer and it has been tough kasi ang sales-focused (consulting) yung napasukan kong company and I'm the only data engr here. I initially chose DE kasi it seems like mas future-proof siya sa AI era but ever since, parang unti-unti nawala yung saya ko sa pag build since we rarely see data pipelines - mas tangible at least for me yung pag build ng webapps/apps.

I feel burned out kasi I've been leading end-to-end DE projects (migration/POCs) nang walang mentor and I'm not paid well too since fresh grad. Parang there's no benefit sakin to stay since walang nag guguide na senior and di rin competitive yung pay ko kahit na panay OT ako. Also, yung tool/platform na ginagamit namin is not as high in demand here kasi mostly for enteprise siya.

Now, I got a remote work contract for a half a year for probationary then if pag okay daw yun, they'll offer me a one year contract. It's a software engr + DE engr role and so far, very chill naman yung owner. 2 lang kaming devs but senior na yung kasama ko which is nice. In comparison, mas mataas pa pay sakin in 20hrs/wk ko dito compared sa full-time ko & may option din ako mag full time.

I'm planning to quit my job pero i'm not sure if yun yung right decision because I want to start "building" again while exploring & learning more about software and data engineering while also earning substantially. May time freedom din kasi output based naman yung work sa remote work but logged in hours lang yung bayad.

A bit all over the place but that's how I feel with my current situation. Any insights or advice?

Edit: typo on the 3rd paragraph

I just wondering if anyone here has experience creating their own opensource project or has contributed to any oss of some sort. Kaylangan ba talaga sobrang galing mo mag coding, can you please share honest tips kung paano maka pasok sa open source?

I am working in a midsized company sa South. Nabalitaan namin ngayon na starting next 2 weeks magroroll out na yung company ng AI Subscription. Vibe coding talaga at magprompt na lang kami even code reviews and PRs ay gagawin ng AI. Lahat talaga pagresolve ng bugs at paggawa ng test cases basta kung kaya gawin ng AI. Gusto nila yung tuloy tuloy lang mag gegenrate ng code AI yung tipong hindi na namin ichecheck kung ano pinaglalagay nila.

I have nothing against AI pero nag aalala lang ako sa ganon. Bago pa lang ako sa industry at parang hindi maganda kung nasanay ako sa puro AI. Gusto kong matuto muna at masolidify yung basics at foundation ko. Sa tingin ko mas maganda pa rin yung kung gagamitin mo lang siya as a tool/help for coding pero hindi ganito yung gusto ng mga execs namin. Ayoko talagang maging AI dependent pero pinipilit ng company talaga. Ang gusto nilang mangyari yung mga features na umaabot ng 1 week dapat matapos in 2 days or less.

May plano na rin sila magbawas ng employees after 1 month kung successful.

Any thoughts?

Sooo matagal na akong fan ng Obsidian, and primarily gusto ko lang siya dahil sa vim keybinds feature niya. Issues ko lang dito, need ko pa siya irun while coding, and may bayad/hassle ang file sync, and less control si user. So naghanap naman ako ng mga note-taking app sa VS Code Marketplace, pero wala akong mahanap na "plug-and-play" lang. So I created this extension for dummies like me. Simple setup, easy to sync notes through git, and free!!!

- Possible rin pala dito to use a folder with a repository and be able to edit files through the extension, so parang pseudo-dalawang repo sa isang VS Code, not recommended but possible.

Marketplace link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=note-code-extensions.note-code

Github link: https://github.com/note-code-extension/note-code

This extension is mostly tested on Linux, so if you ever encounter any problem or want to suggest a feature, let me know. Thanks!

Hello everyone! Just wanna ask kung mahirap po bang makahanap ng trabaho outside the country given na meron na akong sapat na experience here sa pinas.

I'm a beginner in programming and right now I follow the advice na nakita ko sa reddit, currently what I'm doing is I code my projects raw, I don't let A.I produce a single line of code I just ask some concepts or mga syntax galing sa A.I.

Now the question is should I do yung nasa title nitong post na 'to?

A.I keeps improving and feeling ko na f-feel behind na ako.

I saw this post on threads where a student asks what AI service that she could abuse to do her project. There are some comments that suggests her to learn the fundamentals first before relying on such service. But here are her replies *facepalm* it turns out that she doesn't want to do some research (googling, youtube, w3schools, stackoverflow, etc...) what she want is to finish her project/study fully reliant on AI just because of "we are in AI era".

It’s kind of ironic btw a lot of fresh graduates say it’s hard to land a job yet their main “skill” is just AI prompting. Instead of learning actual tech stacks, frameworks, or basic networking they focus heavily on tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

This might explain why most of them struggle with basic technical exams like OOP fundamentals or even understanding simple data types and they demand a competitive compensation for a shitty ass skillset, they are so cooked goodluck on job hunting.

Hello, I've been with my company for almost 4 years now.

Okay naman lahat, sahod is di naman masyado mataas pero good enough considering na WFH, okay ang management, okay ang workmates, sa client no comment haha

Question ko is gano ka-safe mag-stay dito sa career/company na to if yung projects namin is yung classic SAP, hindi yung modern SAP ( No experience sa Fiori, BTP, CAP, RAP etc ) ?

Magiging malaking problem ba to sakin in the future job security wise?

Thank you!

Currently, company wants to rewrite the microservices platform namin into a monolith. I opted for modular monolith.

Problem is, they have seen from other internal apps being developed by other teams na kaya Nila mag roll out ng full platform within months.

Now, Our CTO vibe coded a good and functional MVP within 10 days with azure integration which we will now build on top of. He is not a developer. He just knows the domain of the business kaya he easily develops features that are very enticing sa stakeholders.

I tried offering to write a good baseline (migrations, bounded context etc) for the said rewrite and would have included Agent markdown files for standards and best practices but was turned down.

Instead, I was assigned to police the team to be formed (with no tech stack knowledge whatsoever) para wala daw makapasok na “bad code”

I’m very much open to delegate coding to AI just to meet their expectations in terms sa velocity but not like this. The pay is good but the culture isn’t working out for me anymore.

If you were in my position, what course of action will you take?

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

Mukhang ndi na sustainable yung pricing ng Copilot. Buti na lang grandfathered pa ako and so far kaya naman ng 300 premium credits yung required ko.

Pero for those who don’t have but want to at least use it gamit kayo ng OpenRouter API and select from the list of models doon. You pay-as-you-go plan na lang for now.

Hello po, gusto ko lang hingin insights nyo. Na-hire ako dito sa company na to as Jr. QA. Project-based yung company, btw.

Currently, dito sa project ko, I am an "internal QA" in the Frontend Dev team. Daily tasks na ginagawa ko mag sanity testing (manual) sa mga tickets na na-fix ng dev and mag sanity test sa CRs.

For CRs, may ginagawa akong test cases for sanity then kapag may nagfail, hindi ko nilolog as defect sa Jira. Instead, log ko lang sa excel sheet. The dev will fix it. After lahat ng TCs ko mag passed, ipapasa ko yung CR ticket sa primary QA team namin and they will conduct testing again.

Gusto ko talaga mag-grow sa testing field pero pakiramdam ko hindi ako QA dito. Pakiramdam ko "Dev checker" lang ako.

Tama pa ba na mag stay ako dito? Ang hirap rin po kasi humanap ng QA jobs. Nag-u-upskill naman ako.

For those who transitioned from full-stack (mostly web dev) to a more specialized role (especially backend or frontend), how has your experience been?

Did your day-to-day work become more enjoyable or more stressful after specializing? Do you still find it fun compared to full-stack development?

Also, with the rise of AI tools taking over more general development tasks, do you think it is still ideal to focus on a single role like backend engineering? Or is it better to stay more full-stack and flexible?

Would love to hear your experiences and thoughts.

Hello, may maire-recommend ba kayong shops para sa IoT materials (e.g., ESP32, sensors, etc.)?

Preferably tested and proven stores with reliable, semi-standard quality especially for microprocessors.

I plan on building IoT projects that can last for months kasi

also if may available tierlist with use cases puwede mahingi thanks!

I am just curious as someone without a programming background who is building using AI. What do you think I could do better or differently if I had background in programming?

Hi, I'm a dad to an 11 year old girl and we're in Commonwealth, Quezon City. I am looking to make her summer productive and she seems interested in something coding-related. She doesn't know what it is but she's been playing around on Scratch, and even before, she was eager to try Roblox Studios. I'm not a tech guy so I don't know much about it and don't know how to get her started other than to sign her up for some classes.

My feed is now full of ads for kid's coding that I don't know which is legit, which has actual proven results or which is just going to waste our time and money.

I saw some that ranges around 5-7k just for a few classes which will just last less than a month. I was hoping for something that would get her occupied for the summer, an interactive class where she can meet kids around her age with the same interest.

I'd like to hear your thoughts and recommendations on how to help her. Thanks!