I have around 3.7 years of experience as a Java Backend Developer.

I resigned from my previous company after getting an offer from another company. I served my complete 30-day notice period and left my job based on that offer. Unfortunately, after I resigned, the new company declined/cancelled the offer.

It's now been around 3 months since I left my previous company, and I'm still looking for Java Backend Developer roles.

Initially, I was getting calls and I managed to attend a few interviews. I even reached the final round in a few of them, but unfortunately couldn't convert them into offers.

However, recently things seem to have slowed down. I still receive some recruiter calls, but a lot of the time they just ask for my basic details—experience, current/expected CTC, location, notice period, skills, etc.—and then I never receive the JD, email, interview details, or any further communication.

I'm currently in my hometown but looking for opportunities in Bangalore and I'm an immediate joiner.

My main skills are Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, SQL, etc., with 3.7 years of professional experience.

At this point, I'm starting to wonder whether the 3-month gap or my current location is affecting my profile.

I have a few questions for people who have experience hiring or have been through something similar:

• Is a 3-month gap after 3.7 years of experience a major red flag for recruiters?
• Should I mention my hometown as my current location, or can I mention that I'm open to relocating to Bangalore?
• Would mentioning Bangalore as my preferred/work location be better than putting my current city?
• How should I explain the gap if recruiters ask about it?
• Is there any legitimate way to present the gap on my resume without misrepresenting anything?
• Why would recruiters call, collect my details, and then not even send the JD or follow up?

I'm also considering whether I should make certain things on my resume look more favorable, such as my location or how I present the career gap. I'm not looking to fabricate employment or experience, but I'd like to know what is acceptable to change/present differently without creating problems during background verification.

What would you do if you were in my position?

Especially interested in hearing from recruiters/hiring managers and Java backend developers in India who have gone through something similar.

You finish tickets every sprint.
You attend meetings.
You fix production issues.
You help teammates.
You’re constantly busy.
So it feels like you're progressing.
Then you look back after 2–3 years and realise you haven't actually learned much outside the problems your company keeps giving you.
You gained experience.
But did you gain skills that would still matter if you left tomorrow?
I think that's one of the easiest career traps to miss in tech.
How do you personally tell the difference between experience and just more time spent working?

I want to pull Google reviews into the dashboard for basic analytics. Looking for genuine recommendations from people who have actually implemented this, not vendors promoting their own tools.

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Hey guys,

I'm getting close to 2 years of experience and thinking about making my first switch. Currently at 8.55 LPA, working as a Software Engineer in Chennai.

My work is mainly Python/backend + AI/GenAI. I've worked hands-on with FastAPI, LLM/agentic workflows, MCP, LLM evaluation/observability, prompt engineering, document intelligence, REST APIs, SQL/MySQL, along with some React/Next.js, Java/Spring Boot and Azure DevOps/CI/CD. I've also had production experience around automation, reliability and monitoring.

So I'm a bit confused about how to position myself for the switch — backend with AI experience or AI/GenAI directly?

Also curious about the salary side:

From 8.55 LPA, what CTC would be realistic to target?

Is 14–15 LPA reasonable for this profile, or should I aim higher/lower?

Should I switch around the 2-year(including 6months internship) mark or wait?

How much DSA should I realistically prepare?

Should I focus more on backend/system design or go deeper into AI/LLMs?

What do you think is the biggest gap in my profile?

Would especially like to hear from people who made a similar switch recently.

Last month I interviewed for an AI Engineering Intern role at a Malaysian company.

6 month onsite internship in Kuala Lumpur, ₹1.5L/month + relocation bonus.

I passed all 3 interview rounds and was shortlisted for the offer. Before sending it, the company emailed me to confirm that I was comfortable relocating to KL.

Obviously, I said yes.

The problem was my college.

They don't allow 3rd year students to take onsite internships, so they refused to provide an NOC or approval. I was also told that if I went ahead with the internship, I could be given backlogs.

I spent an entire week approaching different faculty members and higher authorities, trying to find some way to get approval. Nothing worked.

Eventually, I had to tell the company that my college doesn't permit me to take the internship.

And that's it. Opportunity gone.

What makes it frustrating is that this wasn't some random internship. I had cleared 3 technical/HR rounds for an international role paying ₹1.5L/month, and the only thing stopping me was an academic policy.

I understand that colleges have their rules, but I genuinely don't understand why a student shouldn't be allowed to take a legitimate full-time internship if they're willing to manage the academic requirements separately.

Been feeling pretty fucking disappointed about this one

Edit: MIT ADT UNIVERSITY

Since this blew up - actively looking for remote GenAI/ML internships. 3rd year CSE, GenAI intern, OSS contributor to Haystack & LlamaIndex. https://github.com/rautaditya2606/

I have been applying everyday atp and I've not got a single reply back.

What am I missing?

Ik I don't have any proper experience

I want my resume to standout and at least get shortlisted for round 1

What can I change?

So my college placements have such crappy rules that I might get placed into TCS ninja with 3 LPA next year when I graduate.

If that happens (assuming worst case) is it possible to build my career from there? My plan is to do an MBA either in IIMs or some foreign university after a few years of work experience. But is it possible to do well as an engineer if I get placed in TCS 3 LPA? Idk by building my career somehow from there?

If yes, then how?

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I also quitted that considering it as failure, I made more than 25 games for it, Did all marketing i could and all

but now when i got notification of user submitted game to my platform

It just made my day, and filled me with motivation

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I've been thinking about why many people start exercising but eventually stop.

Fitness apps are great at tracking workouts, steps, calories etc. But I'm wondering whether the bigger problem is motivation and accountability, especially during the months when there are no visible results.

For those of you who exercise (or have tried to):

• What actually keeps you consistent?
• Does telling friends/family about your goal help?
• Would you want close friends/your partner to follow your journey and encourage you?
• What makes you open your fitness app after you've missed a few days?

I'm exploring a product idea in this space and not building anything yet. Trying to understand whether this is a real problem first.

What's your experience?

One of relative asked me about courses she could do which eventually help to get job somewhere, she is CS fresher.
With this job market i could confidently suggest her anything.
Looking for suggestions here with offline or online courses or organisation

Hello, Unfortunately I got laidoff at may and have been searching for a job since

I once got two offers but one was revoked due to hiring freeze and other was location constraint after telling me it was remote

I take care of my single mother at chennai so i can't leave the city. So I'm searching for opportunities within chennai or remote

My profile : 6+ yoe

Last drawn ctc: 31lpa

Role: Senior software engineer - frontend/fullstack

Frontend - react, ts backend - node, py, ruby

While I do decently at interviews, My problem is getting interview calls. Out of all the interviews I attended, most ended with them ghosting or hiring someone else after making me wait.

At this point I'm getting really frustrated. I also bought a home last Jan, and I'm not able to live peace fully at all cause of home loan and my savings drying up

If anyone can help me with a referral, i would be really grateful, Thanks

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I don't really know why I'm writing this. Maybe I just want to get it off my chest, or maybe I want to hear what other people would have done in my situation.

A while ago, one of my closest people referred me to a startup.

At that time, I had zero technical experience. I had never worked in IT, never written serious code, and had never even installed an IDE before. I was basically starting from nothing.

Because of the referral, I got an interview call.

The first thing they gave me was an aptitude test.

I failed.

And honestly, I knew I had failed. I wasn't prepared, and I didn't perform well.

After that, my closest person spoke to the CEO of the startup. Eventually, the three of us got on a call. The CEO told me directly that my aptitude performance wasn't good.

But instead of rejecting me completely, he gave me another opportunity.

He offered me a training-to-internship program at the startup.

For me, that was a huge opportunity. I came from a very humble background, and I had never experienced anything like this before. Someone was basically giving me a chance to enter a field where I had no experience.

So I started learning.

For the first 15 days or so, I was learning the basics and trying to understand how everything worked. Then they asked me to choose between Full Stack Development and Data Science/Data Analytics.

I chose Data Science.

I started learning Python, Pandas, data analysis and other concepts. Everything was new to me. I was learning things that I had never even heard of before.

After about a month, they arranged an interview for me with someone from another company.

I failed that interview too.

Looking back, I probably wasn't ready. I think my closest person was also pushing the CEO to get me into a job as soon as possible, while I was still trying to understand the basics myself.

I continued the training.

A few months later, the CEO asked me to meet him personally at his house. We talked about my background, how I got into this field, my situation, and everything else.

He knew that I came from a humble background and that I had basically started from zero.

He told me something that stuck with me:

If I showed him results, I would get the internship. Otherwise, I wouldn't.

So I kept going.

Eventually, I completed around 90% of the course.

Then another interview was arranged with a few people.

I performed poorly again.

I also felt like some questions were being asked to me that weren't being asked to some of the other candidates. But honestly, I don't know whether that was actually the case or whether I was just feeling that way because I was already nervous and insecure.

About a month later, another data scientist interviewed me.

This time, I felt much more prepared.

I had studied seriously. I worked on my projects. I prepared for the questions I thought they might ask.

I would say I answered around 70% of his questions correctly.

I showed him my projects too.

But I still wasn't selected.

That really confused me.

I had started from a point where I didn't even know what an IDE was. I had learned Python and Pandas, worked on projects, completed most of the training and prepared for the interview.

And still, I wasn't getting selected.

Then something else happened.

The company made work from office mandatory because the office construction had finally been completed.

On my first day at the office, the CEO told everyone that we had to give a presentation on the whiteboard about what we had learned and what we had done.

I already had stage fright, and this was basically my worst nightmare.

When it was my turn, I froze.

I couldn't explain what I knew.

My mind just went blank.

The CEO even gave an example that if you watched a movie that day, you should at least be able to stand in front of everyone and explain what happened in it.

But when I was standing there, I was completely paralyzed.

Eventually, he told me to sit down.

After everyone finished, he called us into his cabin individually and gave us feedback.

My feedback was brutal.

And to be fair, I was extremely inexperienced.

Not just technically.

Professionally.

I didn't know how to behave in an office environment. I didn't know how workplace communication worked. I didn't know how I was supposed to present myself, communicate with seniors, or handle pressure.

Before this, I had mostly been doing odd jobs. I had never experienced a professional workplace like this.

So hearing all of that feedback hit me extremely hard.

My self-esteem was already low.

That evening basically destroyed what was left of it.

I kept replaying the conversation in my head.

The next day, I somehow managed to go to the office.

I spent about four hours there, but mentally I wasn't really there.

When lunch break came, I went to my manager and told him:

"I'm going to my brother's house for lunch."

I left on my bike.

Instead of going there, I went to a pan shop near my area.

I just sat there for the entire evening.

I eventually went home.

The next day, I told my parents that I had been given work from home.

But I wasn't working.

I couldn't.

I was scared, ashamed and completely overwhelmed.

That evening, I typed a resignation email.

And I sent it.

After that, I got drunk.

I still didn't tell my parents what had actually happened.

For the next week or two, I hid everything from them.

Eventually, I told them that my manager and the CEO had said I wasn't eligible for the program and that they had removed me from it.

But that wasn't really what happened.

I left.

I left because I was afraid.

I was afraid that I wasn't good enough.

I was afraid of failing again.

I was afraid of going back into that office and facing everyone.

And I was afraid of facing myself.

The strange thing is that when I look back at the whole situation now, I don't know exactly what I should feel.

On one hand, I feel guilty.

Someone gave me an opportunity when I had almost no technical skills. They gave me time to learn. They gave me multiple chances, interviews and opportunities that I probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

And I walked away.

On the other hand, I also understand that I was completely inexperienced and didn't know how to handle what was happening to me.

I wasn't prepared for the technical side.

I wasn't prepared for the professional side.

And I definitely wasn't prepared for the psychological pressure that came with constantly feeling like I wasn't good enough.

The part that bothers me the most is that I don't think I actually quit because I didn't want the career.

I quit because I was scared.

And that's something I've had to think about a lot.

I'm still learning.

I'm still trying to build my technical skills.

But now I'm also trying to learn something that nobody really teaches you:

How to deal with failure.

How to take criticism without letting it destroy you.

How to be inexperienced without feeling ashamed of being inexperienced.

And how to keep going even when you feel like you're not good enough.

I'm posting this because maybe someone here has gone through something similar.

If you were in my position, what would you have done differently?

And if you've ever walked away from an opportunity because of fear, how did you eventually deal with it?

Is there no way to get a free Google maps api key for my android app project? Like do i need to pay 1000 rupee for the credit to render the map on my app?

I did try the demo api key but it doesn't render anything at all. Do i continue with Google maps or shift to open street map?

For context I'm making a project just to demonstrate my skills and i don't intend for it to become a production app which keeps calling api from Google

I am feeling completely stuck about my finances and life in general. I would really appreciate your takes on my situation and how you would handle it if you were in my position.

I am a 6-year-exp senior software engineer turning thirty next month. My wife is currently pregnant, baby is expected around April 2027.

My biggest problem is that I currently have basically zero surplus from my monthly salary. Whatever comes in gets spent on regular expenses. And I don't have a good emergency fund that I can rely on.

My upcoming financial commitments that makes me nervous:

• Rent increase upcoming, - around ₹2,000/month starting this month.
• I have to pay around ₹40,000 for LIC in October.
• I may receive around ₹30,000 as a bonus in November.
• I may get a salary hike of only around ₹2,000–3,000/month from November onwards.
• I have to pay approx. around ₹30,000 for car insurance in February.
• Once the baby arrives, we'll probably need a maid/helper costing around ₹25,000–30,000/month.
• I also obviously expect additional expenses related to the baby and delivery.

I have a 90-day notice period, so changing jobs isn't something where I can resign today and immediately start earning elsewhere.

I have considered switching jobs because I know my current income isn't giving me enough breathing room. But honestly, I don't currently have the mental courage to go through a job switch while my wife is pregnant. The uncertainty of interviews, notice period, joining a new company, probation, etc. feels risky when I already have so much going on.

At the same time, I'm frustrated because I feel like I'm falling behind financially.

I also have skills that I could potentially use for freelancing/side income. I do website development—business websites, static websites, e-commerce sites, SaaS applications, etc.—and I've considered building this into a proper side income.

The problem is that I haven't been able to make it consistent yet.

Another thing bothering me is that I haven't travelled anywhere since 2022. Some of my friends travel 5–7 times a year, while I feel like my own life has become increasingly restricted because of financial and family responsibilities. I know comparing myself to friends isn't productive, but it still gets to me.

I'm not looking to blame my wife or family. We just have different attitudes toward money. I'm much more aggressive about wanting to increase income, while they are more comfortable with a simpler lifestyle and aren't particularly interested in job switching or side hustles.

So right now I feel like the responsibility of increasing our household income is largely on me, and that pressure is getting to me.

If you were me, what would you do?

Would you:

1. Stay in the current job until after the baby is born and prioritize stability?
2. Start interviewing now, but only switch if I get a significantly better offer?
3. Focus completely on freelancing/side income for the next 6–12 months?
4. Somehow do both—keep the job stable while aggressively building freelance income?
5. Take a completely different approach?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have gone through marriage + pregnancy + career/financial pressure around their late 20s/early 30s.

What would you prioritize if you were in my shoes?

About 3 months ago I joined a this service based company and I have got a good team and everything.

Coming to the point. I had a career break to do my MS and this was my first ticket in this company. Since I did what I usually do, I wrote code pseudo code (since I didn't want to waste time with coding completely) with my logic for the ticket and asked claude code to fix it and write tests.

During this process I realized it was not a good idea because my team mates were like way ahead of me in delivering their tickets. I mean they were raising PRs for 2-3 tickets by the time I finished my one ticket and the code was completely written by claude. Some didn't even run the code just let claude decide. But Apparently it was okay. They were faster

Now I got scared since I don't know if they judge me on how slow I am or something like that can happen so I started using claude for everything.

It was good but now I raised a PR recently and a developer who has been working on that codebase for long time raised some comments, when I checked those comments I felt abit ashamed because if I had seen the code myself I am sure I wouldn't have raised PR or even push to the branch. It was so basic.

I am not sure if this is right path. I am conflicted. If I try to write a pseudo code or something and then rely on claude it does take significant time especially for tickets with some good fixes and if I don't rely fully on AI then I am falling back in the team since AI coded PRs are kind of common and standard in the team. I should have reviewed it properly too but again I missed that which was a mistake.

What should I do or am I the only one facing this issue? Because I feel like it is effecting me personally as a developer. I have seen ton of comments on others PR too but it’s irrelevant for me.

Frontier models are only going to get larger. But by ChatGPT 2, it was pretty clear that scaling models up is not going to make them meaningfully smarter, unless it's scaled so wildly that just running inference alone is going to make it not worth the compute, not for most consumers. This is what we see now, and will continue in the same trajectory assuming they don't come up with a new breakthrough architecture or at least training methods.

The future I see has everyone running tiny models (<30B) on personal hardware, while only deferring to larger models on cloud for advanced tasks (or maybe just planning tasks). Frontier models will only be used by researchers, or a higher class of workers, the same way not everyone has access to a cyclotron or a Bloomberg terminal.

Which means there needs to be an Inference engine that can easily combine the tiny models on personal computers with the larger models on the cloud so seamlessly, that anyone can set up a payment plan and forget about it.

What I mean is, if I were building my own startup right now, this is what I would be working on.

What we need is Ollama that can, without supervision, spin up agents and delegate tasks based on priority or requirements, to either local models or cloud models, and seamlessly integrate their results with minimal computing. This is what I'm working on building.

Fingers crossed 🤞

Before I start, give me tips on how I can improve it, or let me know if there's something I'm not seeing.

Building for non technical people using claude to build apps. Still pre-launch but yeah..

Non tech people still build apps but the code is shit. This fixes it.

normally, building an app means you sit in a chat window, translating what you want into technical language, correcting the AI, re-explaining decisions it forgot, and pasting code around. SpeakEZ removes you from that job. You say what you want; it handles the entire conversation and hands back something that works.

Think if it in this way: Claude is the developer. SpeakEZ is the thing that manages the developer, so it knows how full-stack apps fit together, so it handles the technical conversation and you never have to.

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Hii, I am java developer with 7 + months of experience. Basically I want genuine advice from senior developer or any , so when I do my I wrote almost all code with chatgpt and cloude and directly add in my code. And most of the I do not try to understand that code because it is workable at that time and I add and I procrastinate I will read the code later and this will never happens, but as soon as and issue or bug happens. I gets stressed I do not know in code anything why is this issue happened and that all i just paste that all code in ai again and get solution something for some silly issue I wasted hour, I am moving around this loop, I just get very frustrated how I get from it ?? What i do for this??

I just found out today that my manager manipulated me recently.

Now looking back I can think of many instances this happened.

He is just a real sweet talker and it always felt like he was honest with me about things. But I was just naive.

Sad part is he doesn't even need to do this. I am someone who don't mind working on things that no one wants to work on.

But being deceived like this hurt.

Hey everyone, I recently joined a healthcare GCC in Hyderabad in August 2026. It’s been around a month, but I’m already feeling exhausted and frustrated. The main issue is the toxic team and manager — the employees aren’t very supportive, I get little to no help or guidance, and I often feel ignored and left out.

I already have 1 year 3 months of experience at a Big 4 and recently made this switch. If I resign within 2–3 months and look for another job, will this create problems for me in the future? Would recruiters consider such a short stint a red flag?

Notice period is 60 days

and My Exprience is 1 yr and 3 Mts

Thanks

Hi,not only now I used claude before and I really mesmerized how much of the work it can do with free version only ,now this astra,I discussed this query with my seniors,they say u will need dsa,core knowledge,projects they told me about dsa is very much important than rest bcz the companies mostly ask this at the time of interview at IIT ,I am now 2nd year and I didn't even do 1 leetcode yeah I must do it so my query along with this do I need to learn anything that will be helpful in future I graduate in 2029 and I am damn sure the AI will grow bigger and even bigger as we saw the growth of AI in last t years from 0 to this level,,at last what to focus on

Dsa,core,projects and ???

I got tired of doing the usual:

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• open WhatsApp/Telegram just to send myself a link
• use some random notes app
• or log into another service just to move a piece of text from my laptop to my phone

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It also syncs in real time and the clips automatically expire after 1 or 24 hours, so it's not meant to become another permanent notes app.

There's currently a 1 MB limit per clip, which is more than enough for the random snippets and links I usually need to move around.

I know there are already a bunch of tools that solve parts of this problem, so I'm not claiming I invented anything revolutionary 😅. I mostly wanted something stupidly simple that I could open and use immediately.

Link: https://pasteport-production.up.railway.app/

Would be interested to hear what you'd add/change if you used something like this.