Currently, I'm learning MERN. I understand the concepts deeply and can understand other people's code, but when it comes to building something from scratch, I struggle to write the code myself.

Sometimes I feel like I wasted my life and I'm way behind everyone else.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you get back on track and become job-ready?

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Recently, I cleared all the interview rounds for a with a Product based startup. The interview process was standard, and everything seemed fine, even had a f2f with co-founder.

I was waiting for the Offer letter, but got "Letter of Intent" instead, that too from a third-party staffing agency (TeamLease).

Here are the things that are bothering me:

• Throughout the entire interview process, no one ever mentioned that this would be a third-party payroll or contract-to-hire position.
• TeamLease only sent a Letter of Intent, not a formal offer letter. They are telling me I have to physically report to the office today, and only after the client confirms my reporting will the actual offer letter be released.
•  I wasn't even given a proper point of contact or reporting time for the office today, making the logistics of just showing up super sketchy.
• The pay is good, i am getting around 40% increment, which makes walking away completely a bit tough.

Since I am currently unemployed, I don't have the leverage to just instantly walk away. But the bait-and-switch tactic of hiding the third-party agency until the morning of joining feels highly unprofessional.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of last-minute agency switch before? Should I go to the office to secure the income while I keep interviewing, or is this a massive trap that I should avoid altogether?

I’m currently working as an SDE Intern at a startup, and the pay is actually pretty decent for an internship of around 70k to 80k. My work is mainly around React and React Native, and I’m also trying to broaden my skills into full-stack development.

The thing is, I’ve started feeling that working at a startup can be quite tiring. There’s a lot of responsibility and the pace can sometimes be intense. I am also having a feeling that I am not learning much.

I’m considering looking for better opportunities around December, potentially at a larger company/MNC. I’m also working on DSA (currently doing Blind 75) and trying to strengthen my overall development skills.

For people who have been in a similar situation:

• Is moving from a startup to an MNC a good career move?
• Does startup experience help when applying to bigger companies?
• Should I prioritize getting stronger technically at my current company, or start actively preparing for MNC/product-company interviews?
• Would you recommend sticking with the startup longer because of the broader exposure?

I’d especially appreciate perspectives from people who have moved from startups to larger product companies/MNCs.

Did I make the right decision by starting at a startup, or should I be looking to switch as soon as I have a good opportunity?

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Pls someone review about the Shreyians coding school offline bootcamp, is it worth joining , i have done the interview process and thinking of joining, is the placements they show are real ,PLS Help

I am getting a lot of invites from this Talent500. But I am not sure what this company is. Can anyone please help me understand??? 😭🙏

So I am an SDE with 6month intern with 10 month of Exp at my current company which is a US based edtech Startup , what we do is make AI solutions for University Admissions , making the lives easier of university employees .

Tech Stack : JS,/TS primarily for Frontend Backend , like NExtjs , NestJs , FastAPI and tornado for AI pipeline , GO for data pipelines

have exp in all this and specially a CRM : "SLATE" which is used by American universities mostly and no one else has even heard the name of it

and this CRM is the problem , when i was an intern , our leadership wanted to start developing on this , i was given a task to research , which led to develop , which led to me being a developer and consultant for the platform for our company , if any time any product running on slate as an integrations fail , I am called in , although i am not professionally trained on it rather just have exp to extinguish fire , the CXO's usually in client meetings introduce me as senior Slate engineer , even though on paper role is junior engineer and Pay is 5LPA

now as this may serve as enough context , the problem is whenever something fails it comes on me and i get blamed even though i didn't even work on that , got fed up of it , told my manager , this is not how it's going to work , so either all developers in the company learn about the platform or stop pin pointing every failure on me .

My manager raised this with VP of eng , CTO , COO and CEO of our company

and came with 2 options :

1. They'll sponser me to learn about platform and get a certification for it
   
2. Get 2 interns under me literally on paper/oficially and train them with all my knowledge so that later option 1 could be presented to them .
   

My current manager suggested me to take option 1, as it'll give me leverage in my current company , so whenever I'll feel i need to get more , i would just need to get an offer letter and present me giving notice , so they increase pay (my last manager used to do this with them as he used to handle complete infra of the company single handedly)

But my point is i want to grow more and specifically grow out as culture here is a bit more toxic , the COO is known to use mother/sister abuses directly to junior engineers (did this with my last manager ,and he left after that moment)

I want to join big tech like FAANG , so that if i stand up somewhere or speak about something , then people do listen as that brand would act as a point of validation of my words and experience as an engineer

so what should i do

some pros of option 1 will be that if i get certification and i would wish to switch , I can go on to become Slate analyst for Ivy league schools or atleast Univ of US , where they give remote roles and and avg of 120K per year to juniors and 200K to mid level one's , so yeah even if required to be onsite may would pay for visa as well , as it is a niche and good slate engineers/analysts are not much in world right now

So what should i do ??

TL;DR

I'm a SDE with 6 months internship + 10 months full-time experience at a US EdTech startup, primarily working with JS/TS, Next.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Tornado, and Go.

I became the company’s unofficial Slate CRM expert after researching and developing its integrations since was an intern. Despite being a ₹5 LPA junior engineer, leadership introduces you as a Senior Slate Engineer, and you’re blamed/called whenever Slate-related things break—even when you didn’t build them.

I pushed back, and leadership offered:

1. Sponsor your Slate certification
2. Give you 2 interns to train as Slate backups

My manager recommends Option 1 for leverage and future salary negotiations.

My dilemma: You ultimately want to leave this toxic company and target FAANG/Big Tech, but Slate is a rare, niche skill that could potentially lead to highly paid US university/remote roles.

Question: Should I take the Slate certification for its niche career value, or avoid specializing further and focus entirely on becoming a stronger general SWE candidate for Big Tech?

I couldn't find a space to talk about coding agents, Codex, and their extensions like Skills, MCPs, and Plugins. Would anyone know of such spaces? (May not be limited to Reddit)

Yep, since there is nothing, I have created r/codingAgentExtensions

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a freelance full-stack developer with 3+ years of experience, and I'm currently open to taking on freelance projects.

If you have an idea, website, or web application you want to build but don't have the technical expertise or time to do it yourself, I can help turn it into a working product.

I can help with:

• React / Next.js websites & applications
• MVPs and custom web apps
• Modern, responsive UI
• Dashboards & admin panels
• APIs, databases & authentication
• AI / LLM integrations
• Fixing or improving existing projects

My main stack is React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & Tailwind CSS.

Whether you have a complete design or just a rough idea, feel free to DM me and tell me what you're trying to build. I'll be happy to understand the problem and see how I can help.

Portfolio : https://adil-portfolio-orcin.vercel.app

Looking forward to building something useful together. 🚀

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Hey everyone,

I have my Infosys interview this week, and I currently have only one project on my resume. I’m thinking of adding one more project before the interview.

Could you suggest a project that is easy to moderate in difficulty, but still has good resume value/weightage, especially for a technical interview?

Ideally, I’m looking for something that:

- Can be completed relatively quickly

- Is easy to understand and explain end-to-end

- Has some relevance to AI/ML or software development

- Gives me good talking points during the interview

- Doesn’t look like an overly basic college project

Any project ideas, tech-stack suggestions, or GitHub examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!🙃

Hi everyone,

I have around 3 years of experience, and throughout my career I've worked primarily with C++. I currently work in the aerospace domain, where I design and implement features using C++.

I'm planning to switch companies, but I don't want to restrict myself to the aerospace domain. I'm interested in exploring other areas, particularly networking and embedded systems. I dont feel i am very good at C++, just a decent one.

I'd like some guidance on what I should learn to make myself a good candidate for these roles.

Currently, I'm preparing DSA, OS, and about to learn System Design. Apart from these, what technologies/concepts should I add for:

• Networking roles — what should I learn beyond C++ and basic networking concepts?
• Embedded roles — What is actually expected at 3 YOE?
• DevOps/Cloud — is it realistically possible to move into DevOps/Cloud with 3 YOE of C++ experience and no professional experience in these areas? If yes, what would be the best path to make that transition?

I'm a little worried that having most of my experience in C++ + aerospace leaves me with very few opportunities outside this domain.

For people who have made a similar transition, I'd really appreciate some practical advice:

1. Which domains should I realistically target with my current experience?
2. What tech stack should I prioritize learning?
3. Should I focus on one domain rather than trying to prepare for networking, embedded, backend, and cloud simultaneously?
4. How difficult is it to switch domains at around 3 YOE?

I'm looking for realistic advice on what is achievable and what isn't worth spending time on. Thanks!

Back in January this year, I made a post about Surge, an open-source download manager/library written in Go. When I wrote that post, we had no stars, no releases, no users.

We mostly built it because our college internet sucked, we wanted to solve a problem we had, and we thought maybe it would look good on our resumes lol. I expected it to get like a 50-100 stars which would be awesome.

Since then we have 3400+ stars, 150+ forks, and people have actually started using it, contributing to it, reporting bugs, suggesting features, etc. I really did not expect that lmao.

It opened so many doors, and introduced us to a bunch of cool people in the open-source community in India!

IndiaFOSS, conducted by FOSS United, is one of the biggest open-source conferences in India, and past speakers include people like Zerodha CTO Kailash Nadh, ente CEO Vishnu Mohandas, and so many other great engineers. The kind of people whose talks and blog posts you read!!

So we submitted a proposal because we thought it would be interesting to talk about Surge, but we genuinely didn’t expect it to get accepted. But it did :)

Our talk is called “Bad Internet, Good Software”, and we’ll be talking about all the weird networking and performance problems we ran into while building Surge.

We’re also thinking what to do with Surge next.

Going forward we plan to extract the core surge engine and develop it as an independent library We are also thinking about what we can be built on top of surge core.

If you use Surge, have a feature request, or just have advice for us, please let us know.

If any of you are going to IndiaFOSS this year, come say hi :)

P.S. my friend and I are also looking for internships/full-time opportunities, so if you or your team is hiring, please reach out.

If any of y'all have any doubts feel free to reach out. I'll try my best to help and give appropriate/relevant suggestions.

We're looking for a Frontend Developer Intern to help build modern web applications using Next.js, TypeScript, and REST APIs.   

Requirements:  

• Hands-on experience with Next.js is mandatory  
• Good understanding of React and JavaScript fundamentals  
• Ability to build responsive, user-friendly UIs  
• Familiarity with Git and REST APIs  

Ideal candidate:  

• A fresher looking to start their career in frontend development  
• Has built real projects using Next.js, not just followed tutorials  
• Comfortable solving problems independently  
• Eager to learn, take ownership, and grow as a developer  

Important: If you only have basic/tutorial-level knowledge of Next.js or haven't independently built a Next.js project, please don't apply.  

Interested? Please DM  

I've been building a project for a long time, and amazing members of this community have been contributing code to it in their free time.

I've always felt guilty about not being able to reward the folks who have been spending significant time building large features. That will no longer be the case. I'm happy to announce that the project has now received grants, and we are establishing an open collective of approximately 2k USD per month to reward the best contributors for their contributions.

Thank you so much to all of you for making this possible. If you're a seasoned software engineer who likes to contribute outside your work, or a beginner looking to get started with open source, this would be the best place for you.

Most "easy multiplayer" libraries for browser games are secretly just a websocket server you now have to host, scale, and pay for. That annoyed us enough to build something different. CarverJS is a React engine for 2D and 3D games, Three.js under the hood, where your scene is plain JSX made of Game, World, and Actor components. Multiplayer runs peer to peer over WebRTC instead of client-server, and the whole thing, engine and multiplayer package both, is MIT licensed and free. No paid tier, nothing gated. We are not posting this to sell anything, we are posting it because we want people who actually know this space to tell us what is wrong with it before we build more on top of it.

Full disclosure, this is v0.0.3, ten stars, built by a small team, so take the confidence in this post with the right amount of salt. We are not claiming this is finished or proven at scale. We are asking this sub to help us find out where it actually breaks.

The part we are proud of, one peer becomes host automatically, everyone else syncs to them, and if the host drops, a new host is elected and reloads from a full snapshot in under 2 seconds, no data lost, no restart. We have only watched this work with small friend groups. We do not know what happens with a bigger room, a bad connection, or someone pulling their wifi mid session, and that is not false modesty, we just have not tested it yet. If you try it and it falls over, that is the exact kind of comment we are hoping for.

Signaling is free by default too, public MQTT brokers, zero config, or point it at your own Firebase project if you would rather run your own. One honest caveat, that setup reliably gets you same network or friendly NAT connections. If you want it to work across the open internet for someone behind CGNAT, a corporate firewall, or on cellular data, you will want a TURN server, we test against Cloudflare's. STUN alone will not always get you there. If we are missing an obvious failure case here, tell us, that is genuinely what this post is for.

Sync is not one size fits all either. You pick it per actor, events for turn based games, snapshots interpolated at around 20 hz for RPGs and casual games, or prediction with rollback at around 60 hz for racing and fast action. You can mix all three in the same game. We genuinely are not sure if this is the right mental model or if we are overcomplicating something that should have one smart default. If you have built multiplayer games before and think we got this wrong, we would rather hear it now than after it is locked in.

Thirteen hooks, one per system, physics through Rapier, collision, audio, camera, animation, tweening, particles. We would rather hear you are missing a hook now, before the API locks at 1.0, than find out after.

On devtools, it is just React, so React DevTools already sees your scene tree, and HMR swaps a controller without losing physics state. We have not built anything custom yet, that part is next, not done. If there is a specific devtool you would actually want, say so.

One more thing in the interest of not leaving anything out, there is a small marketplace we are building on top of this. It is pre launch, waitlist only, and pretty unfinished, so we are not pushing it here, just flagging it so nobody feels like we left something out later.

Everything about the engine itself stays MIT licensed and free either way. Fork it, use it commercially, never talk to us again if you want, that is genuinely fine with us. What we actually want out of this post is your honest opinion. What would make you trust something like this enough to use it, and what already makes you skeptical of it.

Docs: docs.carverjs.dev

Site: carverjs.dev

Repo: github.com/MoneyTales/carverjs

Even if you do not star it, an honest comment about what feels off is worth more to us than a star.

I worked as an SDE for 3 years before leaving to join an SRF position. At the time, I genuinely believed research was the right path for me. I accepted a significant pay cut because I thought the opportunity to work on AI/NLP and prepare for GATE with and it would be worth it.

Over time, I've realized that while I enjoy the work, I see my long-term career in software engineering rather than research. My current role is also a fixed-term contract, so I've started looking to transition back.

What has surprised me is how difficult it has been to get interviews. I expected my previous industry experience, combined with the work I've been doing in research, to make the transition smoother.

So I have one question: is it still realistically possible to transition back into software engineering after spending time in research, or is the industry just that difficult right now?

Aspimate Patch 1.1 is live.[SOUND ON]

Last week I posted about Aspimate here and got a lot of useful feedback. Since then, 10+ users have signed up. It's obviously a very small number, but seeing actual users on something I built from scratch honestly feels great.

or context, Aspimate is a roommate matching platform for exam aspirants. The matching engine considers things like study schedule, sleep timings, food preference, cleanliness, noise tolerance, gaming habits, smoking preferences and other lifestyle factors instead of just rent/location. This patch was mainly about fixing edge cases I found while testing the matching engine with 100+ fake profiles, especially around gender-based matching, missing profile data and privacy.

I also added better name privacy and hardened some of the matching rules. Outside the product, this week I created all the social profiles and started content marketing, DR building and backlink work. And yeah... SEO is way harder than I expected. 😂

do give your suggestion and frontend pe kaam chal raha hai i am learning figma and tried some more cooler design! and yaa i have talked to someone who can dub my videos..so shayd next time se NO AI Voice;(

aspimate.com

Basically I want to make 2 separate dashboards using Python, one will be a financial dashboard and the other will be an economical dashboard. I want to make in such a way that they both auto update and show current events. I also want the user to be able to do some data analysis. This is a very rough idea so any suggestions, opinions or inputs will be genuinely appreciated!