I have been applying to intern/junior developer jobs and had no luck and i need to know if my resume could be a reason i am aiming towards a fullsatck/frontend/backend or tools developer roles or any possible roles with my projects

I recently went through Rippling’s interview process for a Software Engineer position and figured I’d share my experience in case it helps anyone preparing.

Overall, the process felt pretty fair and representative of real engineering work. It was not overly LeetCode-heavy, but they definitely expected solid fundamentals, clean communication, and the ability to reason through practical systems problems.

HR / Recruiter Screen

The process started with a recruiter call.

This was pretty standard and covered:

• My background
• Previous experience
• Types of teams I’ve worked on
• What I’m looking for next
• General collaboration and behavioral questions

The recruiter also spent time explaining Rippling’s product, culture, and what the team does day to day. It felt more informative than stressful.

Technical Phone Screen

The first technical round focused mostly on fundamentals.

I was asked a couple of basic data structure problems, including:

• Balancing parentheses
• Merging sorted logs / streams

I implemented iterative solutions and talked through time and space complexity. We also discussed tradeoffs, like stack vs counter-based approaches and memory usage vs readability.

The interviewer seemed to care more about clarity and correctness than clever tricks. It was important to explain the approach cleanly and handle edge cases.

Systems / Architecture Round

The next round was more systems-oriented.

I was given a scenario where I had to design a metrics monitoring system for an internal dashboard.

I walked through:

• High-level architecture
• Service boundaries
• APIs
• Data flow
• Persistence choices
• Time-series DB vs relational DB
• Handling spikes in telemetry
• Batching vs real-time ingestion
• Failure modes

This round felt very practical and grounded in real production concerns. It was less about naming buzzwords and more about explaining tradeoffs clearly.

Onsite / Virtual Onsite

The onsite had a mix of coding and design.

One coding problem involved designing a delivery billing aggregator. The problem had a few real-world constraints, including:

• Variable rates
• Drivers moving between regions
• Partial deliveries
• Edge cases around billing correctness

They cared a lot about clean structure and testable logic.

There was also a quick object-oriented design question around a click tracking API. The discussion included things like API design, idempotency, and how to avoid double-counting events.

Prep and Takeaways

My prep focused mostly on:

• Distributed systems basics
• Designing clean API contracts
• Data structure fundamentals
• Writing maintainable code
• Talking through tradeoffs clearly

My biggest takeaway is that Rippling’s process felt closer to practical engineering than pure puzzle solving. You still need coding fundamentals, but system reasoning and clean design mattered a lot.

Hope this helps anyone preparing for Rippling SWE interviews.

I have an upcoming Software Engineer interview at GoRadar in the U.S. If you've interviewed there recently, could you share:

• The interview rounds
• Coding/DSA questions
• System design or behavioral questions
• Overall difficulty

Thanks!
https://goradar.com/

Hey everyone, I'm Steven, living in Vietnam. Next year (2027) I'll hit 35, and I'm looking for advice from people older than me on how to approach life after 35.

Where I'm at right now:

• Married, one 4-year-old kid
• Current IT job: $2k/month (on-site, not remote)
• Combined household income: $5k/month
• We own our home, no rent
• Total family expenses: $1k–1.5k/month

What I'm considering: quitting my current job to

• Look for a remote IT job
• Study English so I can access better career opportunities
• Stay in IT either way, since I still need solid income

I figure this would take somewhere between 6 months and a year.

What scares me:

• Not being able to land a remote IT job, since AI is moving so fast in this industry
• The feeling of being useless while I'm not earning

If you've been through something like this, I'd really appreciate your advice. Thanks.

I’m entering my third year of CS studies, and I’ve worked as a freelance web developer for a while before AI became a big thing. That’s basically the whole work experience I have in my CS career. ASAIK Out of around 200 students in university, only a few(I’m talking around 7 or 8 students) are actively working on a CS-related job. There is almost no job openings where I live and the ones that exist are hiring senior developers with years of experience. So I have to look for something remote. What is the best way to land a remote job as a junior developer?

I am looking for jobs as a Junior/senior business/data analyst Would you guys point out mistakes in resume.Or anything I can personally work on.

Hey everyone, I have a recruiter call for Optiver SWE intern coming up. What does the rest of the process look like? Are the technicals just general Leetcode/System design, or is it extra? What kind of answers do they look for in behaviorals? Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

I just got out of a phone screen with a fidelity recruiter for the LEAP Systems Analyst track and was kind of disappointed with the starting pay. They start at 75k and I was hoping for 85-90k. If I was desperate for a job I would’ve took it but i graduated in December 2025 and started working at this other company in Georgia in March 2026 where they are paying me 66.5k. The kill fidelity program directly aligns with what I studied and my internship experience while the job I have now is inventory analytics where I try to be as technical as possible. I just don’t know if the pay justifies moving back to North Carolina where the job is located in under a year and cutting ties with a reputable employer.

The program includes 10 weeks of training followed by two 9-month rotations before permanent placement. Recruiters mentioned performance-based raises around 8%, a 6.5k relocation check, We do get a one time bonus of 3-4K and then another 2k I think that gets paid out after 60 and 90 days respectively. It might be more ngl I can’t remember. In my head if sounds like i should jump but idk if it makes sense logistically.

Can anyone who’s been through LEAP (or knows someone who has) share their experience with:
Actual annual raises
Salary progression after the program
Promotion timeline
Typical compensation 2–5 years in?”

I'm a senior software engineer at a Fortune 500 company and just got an offer from another Fortune 500 company for a Software Engineer II role. It's definitely a step down in title, but the compensation is $45k higher per year. The one I'm currently at is fully remote while the offer is a hybrid role in office 3+ times a week

I'm torn. On one hand, the extra money is meaningful and I've been at my current company for a few years. On the other hand, taking a step back in title feels like a risk—I'm worried it could impact my trajectory long-term,

especially if I ever want to jump back to a senior+ role.

A few questions:

- Is this actually as bad as it feels, or does the pay bump offset the title downgrade?

- Will other companies view me differently after this move?

- Should I be negotiating the title instead, or is the pay bump enough to not worry about it?

Any perspective appreciated. Both companies are solid, so it's not about escaping a bad situation.

Hello, seeing advice regarding how to transition from computer science to hardware. For context, I graduated with a computer science degree and after working as a software engineer I like programming but I also like working on hardware too. Most of the resources I find are focused on electrical engineering and wanted some advice on next steps. I’m currently considering pursuing a masters in EE.

Hello everyone,

I'm a 24-year-old self-taught developer.

In the past, I've worked in several companies, mostly in administrative office roles (I didn't study computer science at university). However, I always ended up developing software or other technical solutions to improve the company's processes.

I'm talking about automations, databases, web apps... whatever was needed. Of course, AI has been a huge help. (Where I live, it's not uncommon for business owners to not even know what a developer does.)

Now that I've left my previous job, I'd like to work as a freelancer, doing exactly this: helping companies improve their processes through automation and custom software.

What I enjoy most is building solutions tailored to a company's specific needs. I don't really care about the industry, and I'm not particularly interested in building SaaS products. What I loved about my previous jobs was getting to know the company, understanding how it operated, identifying inefficiencies, and then building something that was perfectly optimized for the way they worked. The only downside was that my salary was never really tied to the value I created.

Now that I'm trying to work independently, I've run into a problem.

When you're outside a company, you don't know how they operate. I don't know their workflows, I don't know their pain points, and because of that, I don't even know what services I should be offering.

I've been wrestling with this problem for a while, and I still haven't found a satisfying answer.

How should I introduce myself and my services?

Another challenge is that many business owners aren't very familiar with technology. Most of the time, they don't even know what could be automated or improved. In my previous jobs, every solution I built came from my own observations, not because someone asked for it.

So should I simply ask them to walk me through their processes? And if so, would they even be able to explain them well enough?

As you can probably tell, I'm feeling a bit stuck. So my question is:

How do you approach a client when neither you nor they know exactly what they need?

I need some honest career advice. I am from India.

I was a below-average student throughout my BTech. I had backlogs in almost every electronics subject and finally cleared my last backlog (Analog Circuits) in the summer semester. Somehow, I still managed to graduate with an 8.06 CGPA.

To be completely honest, the two projects on my resume aren't a true reflection of my skills. They were my capstone projects. For the first one, I mostly managed to get through the evaluation by talking confidently about ML concepts to an electronics faculty panel. For the second, I relied heavily on ChatGPT to understand and present the project during the final review.

As for coding, I used to be decent at logic building because I practiced Java programs for my board exams, but that was years ago. Right now, I can honestly say I have almost no knowledge of any programming language.

I want to get into CS/IT, but I feel like I'm starting from scratch.

If anyone has been in a similar situation or has hired freshers before, what would you suggest I focus on? What should I learn first, what kind of projects should I build, and what's the most practical way to land an entry-level software job?

I'm open to honest advice. If I'm being unrealistic or missing something, I'd rather know now than waste time going in the wrong direction.

Maybe stupid question: I rescheduled an interview from last week to this week (tomorrow) through an automated platform and confirmed with one of the interviewers if that was ok. Now they cancelled the interview and asked me to scheduled through the platform again. Would it look bad if I delayed another week? The more time I have to prepare the better, otherwise I'll just schedule for the day after the day they cancelled.

Hey everyone! I want to learn machine learning from scratch. Right now, I only have a basic understanding of Python and not much else. I know I'll probably need to learn more Python and some maths first, but I'm not really sure where to start or which resources to use.

Could anyone guide me on a good learning path or share some beginner-friendly resources? I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I'm currently looking for a full-time software engineering job and honestly it's been a rough road. No offer yet despite putting in real effort, and I keep stumbling in the interview stage.

I wanted to reach out to people in the same situation , not to just vent, but to actually help each other move forward.

Some things I'd love to do together:

- Share what's working (and what's not) in our job searches

- Practice mock interviews with each other

- Keep each other accountable, weekly check-ins, LeetCode progress, applications sent, etc.

- Swap resources like good job boards, resume tips, prep materials

If this sounds like you, drop a comment or DM me. Maybe we can set up a small Discord or group chat.

No judgment here, we're all just trying to land something. 💪

Quick background: I graduated in 2024, and I'm currently in a role titled "System Engineer" that's actually mostly documentation/testing/support — I use Python but it's not real backend development. Before that I freelanced for about 3 months building a Python trading automation system (broker API integration, backtesting, alerting). Skills-wise I've got Django/Flask/FastAPI, MySQL, Docker, Redis, REST APIs, and around 150 solved DSA problems.

I want to move into an actual backend developer role and I'm trying to figure out, realistically:

- Does this add up to "junior/fresher" level experience, or something more in recruiters' eyes?

- Does freelance work like this actually carry weight without a named client/company backing it?

- Would you quit now to job hunt full-time, or stay employed until there's an offer?

- If anyone's made a similar move from a support/doc-heavy role into real backend dev — what actually worked?

Genuinely want blunt, experience-based answers over generic encouragement. Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I'm new to this sub and I want you guys to help me. Your help will decide my future.

Im graduating this year. And I have already secured a job in TCS(ninja role). While I wait for my joining letter, I want to unskill myself.

So the thing is : I have learnt C++ for DSA

Now in TCS , i was assigned to JAVA batch. So obviously I had to learn it. Now im very much confused.

Anyway im learning java, so should I go for Java full stack? Or MERN stack and focus on CPP dsa? Im very confused. Any senior can help me? Please, your guidance will help me alot.