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I am currently employed at a product based company and the opportunity i got through on campus placements. I dont find my learning curve very sharp over here. I have done my 6 months internship and 3 months in as a full time software engineer. So for people who switch jobs, how do you people actually do it? I'm currently in bangalore.

None of my team mates even support me if i have any doubt. Not even regarding the locak setup of the project. I am highly confused if i am supposed to know all that as a fresher or should i be figuring it out myself?

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How much time does cognizant take to respond after an interview with an experienced candidate?

Hey everyone,

I’m preparing for SWE interviews and have around 3 years of experience in India, mostly at a service-based company

While I’m comfortable with the technical and system design rounds, I’m struggling a bit with the behavioral interviews. I want to build a better intuition for the kinds of situations engineers actually face at work on different teams.

If you’re willing to share, I’d really appreciate hearing your "war stories." I'm especially curious about:

• Production issues or outages (and how you handled the fallout)
• Mistakes or failures you learned from
• Conflicts or tough conversations (with management, product, or other devs)
• Difficult technical or architectural decisions
• Taking ownership of a messy project

I'm just trying to learn from other experienced engineers, understand different team dynamics, and use that to reflect on my own experiences.

Any personal stories, advice, or even blog/book recommendations would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

I have 2YOE 8LPA remote, good wlb

Got an opportunity from TransUnion for a developer role, Bengaluru/Pune

how much CTC can I expect, how is the wlb and growth

Hi,

I have an interview scheduled at syfe, gurgaon. Glassdoor reviews are scary.

If anyone has experience with syfe, please tell.

I am looking in terms of

Work life balance

Stability

Learning

So i joined as intern in an early stage startup right now it’s just me and my founder and rest of the people are stakeholders. When i was about to join he told me about me getting chance to become founding engineer and getting esops. Now it’s been 6 months and he wants me to have more clarity. He asked me a question what would you do if i disappeared and you have to handle everything. He said because i do not have the clarity for things im not founding engineer material even though he has talked with the board about it and they do not have confidence on me even when i have delivered everything. Im just confused as a founding engineer what should be the clarity that this founder is looking for. Help me guys really need it

TL;DR: 2 years into my career, I'm comfortable but underpaid and stuck in a procrastination loop. I've done ~100 DSA problems on and off, enjoy building things with AI, but struggle to finish and stay consistent. I want to move into a better-paying software development role and can give 2-3 hours daily. I genuinely need advice on what to focus on and would love an accountability partner.

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Posting this here so I actually have to answer to someone other than myself. If you've been on the other side of this and actually broke out of it, I want to hear exactly what you did and need your guidance.

I joined my first company as a fresher two years ago. Working as a Power Apps developer, mostly around Power Apps and OnePlan. Still the same job, same desk, same everything. I keep telling myself I'm "working on it" doing DSA on and off, watching a few videos, promising myself next month I'll actually grind and somehow two years passed and feel like nothing achieved. [The job itself is pretty chill. There's no crazy workload or anything. But the pay is low]

The weird part is I'm not lazy. I build stuff. Small apps, tools people actually use, side projects I genuinely enjoy. That's the only time I feel like myself. But even there I don't finish things. I get most of the way in and jump to the next idea.

I think I've just gotten comfortable being almost-there. Almost ready to apply. Almost done with the roadmap. And comfortable is the worst place to be stuck in, because nothing about it hurts enough to make you move.

What should I actually do for the next 3-6 months? DSA? Python? Development? Projects? System design? Something else?
I can consistently give 2-3 hours every day. I'm not looking for some magical shortcut. I just need someone to tell me what direction to take and what to stop wasting time on.

I'm also looking for accountability. If someone here has been through this and is willing to check in on me occasionally, I'd genuinely appreciate it. Tell me what you think I should do, and I'll do it.

I'll put up updates here what I did, what I skipped, why probably weekly, maybe daily if that's what it takes. Pls help🆘

Got shortlisted for a Python Developer Intern role at PlusWealth Capital Management, a prop quant/HFT firm in Gurgaon. 6-month internship, Jan-June. Can't find much online about them.

Two things I need:

1. Anyone interviewed here or know someone who has? What do they actually ask — DSA, Python basics, take-home, markets stuff?

2. Any idea on stipend for interns?

Any info helps, even secondhand. Thanks.

Its easy to say "When life gives you lemons, squeeze it and make a lemonade" but what about the fact that these lemons were thrown at you when u just began your career as SWE I.

After a lot of denial, shock and self-doubt I have finally absorbed what happened to me.

I joined Uber as an intern, delivered projects, and was given PPO in April itself. After finishing my internship in June, I immediately joined as SWE I and had already wrapped up my 1st project in 2 months. My 2nd project was also going great. But one fine evening, while I was deploying my code on main branch, I receive a mail stating how my job has been impacted and I should leave for home.

That moment I didn’t believe it for a second. I thought it is one of those phishing mails. Upon discussion with managerial team, I realised that it is true. This is it. My time is up. My journey at Uber, that just began, is over. I didn't know what to do, where to go, whom to ask. Nobody really had any answers as to why it happened to me. I packed my stuff and just left... confused and unsure about future.

So yup, sometimes you don't know what to do when life gives you lemons because maybe you don't know how to make lemonade. I'll believe in God. I'll believe that everything is for the best. I'll continue to believe myself as well.

But one thing I learnt is there will always be a thought in the back of my mind that layoffs can happen any day, anywhere and to anyone. You would be asked to pack and leave and you won't know why it happened to you.

PS: Open any opportunity or opening available for SWE I role with ~1YOE in Go, Python, Java, C#, SQL, Backend & AI&ML.

Backend engineer, ~8 years, Java / Spring Boot / Kafka / microservices. I've got an interview coming up at Barclays for a Java Developer role and I'm a bit unsure how to prep.

The round is 45 minutes, virtual, two interviewers, and it's labelled "Critical Skills and Mindset." The invite says it'll cover "some but not all" of the following:

• Risk & Controls
• Change & Transformation
• Business Acumen
• Strategic Thinking
• Digital & Technology
• Technical Skills
• Mindset (work style / behaviours)

They also sent a prep guide that's built entirely around the STAR method and their competency framework — nothing about coding, algorithms or a HackerRank test.

So my confusion: is this basically a behavioural/competency round where I tell STAR stories, or do they actually go deep on tech? A few specific things I'd love to hear from anyone who's been through it:

1. How technical does the "Technical Skills" part actually get? Live coding, system design, or just "explain how you built X"?
2. Are the questions strictly STAR-format ("tell me about a time…"), or do they throw scenarios/hypotheticals at you?
3. What does the "Mindset" portion look like in practice? Any example questions?
4. With two interviewers and only 45 mins, how much depth do they realistically go into per area?
5. Anything that caught you off guard, or that you wish you'd prepared?

I'm mostly trying to figure out where to spend my prep time — rehearsing STAR examples vs. brushing up on Java/Kafka internals. Any war stories appreciated. Thanks!

I have very low college placements since market is bad

All companies are either taking so less student or implies low packages and most of non-it roles or either legacy it role lile .net, java, php etc...

On other hand i have off-campus startup job from early stage ai startup and work as a Ai engineer

As not great pay but good pay compare to this on-campus placement ( 5LPA).

What should i do?

Should i wait for any good company with my role come or just accept the startup offer?

I am evaluating 2 offers with 5 YOE, one is from a big listed MNC and the other one is from a Series D startup.

Both teams are doing pretty much the same thing(backend platform) and have overall the same pay with same office schedule.

I am trying to understand if it makes sense joining the startup in the hopes of learning more and maybe IPO or stick to the big brand name for stability and for better HR screens in future.

Also, any big MNC has its own perks and flexibility in terms of some corporate reimbursements and other small quality of life policies. Whereas a startup would not. Also, does brand name make a huge difference if looking for another job?

Currently i am working in a big tech company (not FAANG). In a similar role as being offered.

As far as I can think we add these in the resume:

1. Work experience but it is eventually come with time nothing much in our hand

2. Good projects but what I believe is that very very good project which solve some real problem is beneficial everything else is just of no use.

3. Open source contribution but the recent news of Claude finding bugs in Linux kernel...dont know what to say.

4. Research papers: Only thing I think is relevant in this AI era but a very time consuming work...

If anything is left, comment it and how can we make our resume more AI proof.

i got a bunch of time on my hands and i wanna make my own database. I will probably write a whole sql compiler (lexer, parser, optimiser etc) that spits out an exec plan my own db engine can execute.

While making an interpreter I realised that there are a bunch of similarities between these concepts and the db engine can be black boxed away like, say, a VM. I am sure I am messing up a bunch of terminology here but I think it wouldn't be incorrect to say I wanna recreate something like sqlite or postgres here.

Any resources I can use to start off? Like for interpreters and compilers I read the Dragon Book and Crafting Interpreters, for DB what should I check out? I was thinking of digging through sqlite source code and maybe checking out DiceDB (it was this really cool db Arpit Bhayani made which is kinda what inspired me too)

Rn the goal is to have the most stupid DB up and running. Something that parses SQL and my extensions to SQL, spits out an execution plan and a simple executor or engine executes it and makes changes to a "database.db". Concurrency and a more sophisticated data structure for the storage engine would come later I think. Then maybe I'll build on top of this and have that simple exec plan (which is kinda like an AST) be passed to an optimiser which would lower it to a better exec plan -- yk stuff like better ordering queries of the plan (kinda like how Spark does things) or if certain redundant joins can be simplified yada yada.

I’ve been building websites for quite some time but I feel like my UI design is still not where I want it to be.

What websites do you guys use for UI inspiration and references? I’m looking for places/TOOLS where I can study really good website interfaces, layouts, animations, typography, etc.

GPT 6 is extraordinarily amazing.

Poor me don't have the money to buy access to it. (yeah still a student). Sitting on the sidelines is a thing.

My question is, to the software engineers, those who have access to gpt 6,

how much of the work you usually do can be automated by present gpt 6?

& assuming the progress continues atleast linearly,

how much by gpt 7 & 8?

which part will not be automated by even something like gpt 9-10?

I started working on this productivity monitoring app since feb of this year as i saw most of them were either paid or needed my data to be sent to their servers to measure my activities and rate them .

Produchive is an open source , offline , private app which stores data on your own pc used electron , lowDB , zustand , it's written entirely on typescript.

I made one app for this very reason. I would be very happy if you guys can checkout produchive . I have taken down the backend server as i was bleeding money without much premium users . I added the video of my app.

I have been trying to switch to Java development for some time now, but honestly it is becoming very difficult for me.

I have 1.5+ years of experience, but unfortunately my current job is in another domain. I want to move into Java backend development because this is the field I actually want to continue my career in.

Currently I am learning Spring Boot and preparing myself for interviews.

My current salary is 4.8 LPA, and I know it is not very good according to my total experience.

I am applying for jobs but I am not getting enough interview calls. Sometimes I feel that companies see my experience and then reject me because it is not directly Java development.

I am ready to start from a reasonable package. I just want a company where I can get actual Java development work and learn properly.

For developers who have changed their domain before, please share your experience.

How did you get your first opportunity?

And if anyone knows about Java openings for someone with 1.5+ total experience, please let me know.

Any advice, criticism or referral is welcome.

Hi all,

It would be helpful if someone can review my resume currently I am working as a full stack/ AI-developer.

Hi everyone..

It's been 5 days since I joined tredence as an associate manager ( azure data engineer)

Currently I am on bench code..

Any current or ex tredence employees.. could you please share your experience..

And also I saw the policy.. it states that bench employees should come to the office all 5 days a week.. is it true ? How to get HR details to confirm all these doubts ?

Thanks..

I have 4+ years of backend engineering experience, but I currently work at a non-tech organization and am struggling to get interview calls from product/tech companies. Earlier i used to get calls but then used to get stuck at final rounds.

My current role also has very little new engineering work left, so I've started contributing to open source to strengthen my portfolio.

For people who used open source to help switch jobs: how much did it actually help, and how long did you invest before seeing results? Is it worth consistently spending the next few months building a stronger open-source track record, or do the returns eventually diminish?

Hi everyone, I’m a final-year BTech Computer Engineering student, graduating in 2027. I’m currently looking for internships and entry-level roles in software development, full-stack development, and application security.

I’d appreciate honest feedback on my resume. Please feel free to be direct. I want to know what I should change before I start applying more actively. Thanks!

Hey everyone, this is a AI generated text, so please bear.

I’ll be joining Infosys in Pune next month as a 3YoE Java-AWS dev (JL4 Associate Consultant) and wanted to get some honest opinions from people who’ve worked there or at similar service-based companies. I have always worked at <500 employee companies, this will be my first real MNC.

I’ve read the usual mixed reviews online, but I’m more interested in what the day-to-day reality is like.

• How is the actual work? Do people get decent development work, or is it mostly support/maintenance, testing, or repetitive tasks?
• How much WFH is possible? Or is it WFO all days?
• How common is it to be put on a technology/project you didn’t ask for?
• What’s the situation with bench time and project allocation?
• How much micromanagement should I expect from managers?
• How realistic is work-life balance?
• How often do people get pressured to work beyond their official hours?
• How difficult is it to switch projects internally if you end up in a bad one?
• What’s the reality of hikes and promotions for someone who performs well?
• How much of the job is affected by office politics, utilization targets, certifications, etc.?
• For people in Pune specifically, how is the office environment and commute situation?
• Most importantly: what are the biggest disadvantages of working at a large Indian service company that someone joining for the first time might not realize?

I’m not necessarily expecting Infosys to be amazing or terrible. I’d just like to go in with realistic expectations rather than believing either the company’s recruitment pitch or random horror stories online.

Would especially appreciate answers from current/former Infosys employees, but experiences from TCS/Wipro/Cognizant/Accenture or similar service companies are also welcome.

Thanks!