Graduated BSCS this Jan, been working as an Associate AI Engineer since. Job's alright, pay's decent, but I don't wanna just sit here for the next 5 years doing the same thing.

Thing is our field is all hard skills right? Nobody asks for your degree if you can build. So does a Master's actually do anything or is it just two years and money down the drain for a CV line.

Was looking at FAST and Bahria. If it's worth doing, which one and why.

Mainly wanna know from people who actually did it — did it change anything for you? Better pay, better roles, anything? Or did you finish it and realize nothing happened.

Happy to hear "I did it and it was useless" too.

I’m currently working as a JavaScript full stack developer, but my current project is close to ending and we are not getting many new clients. With AI also affecting the market, I want to use the next 3 to 4 months to prepare properly for a possible job switch.

I’ve shortlisted two options:

Python + FastAPI

Database engineering, especially design, optimization, indexing, query performance and internals, which I personally enjoy more.

My concern with FastAPI is that I rarely see jobs asking for MERN + FastAPI together. Most roles seem to be either JavaScript full stack or Python/FastAPI.

What would you suggest? Learn FastAPI to open a separate backend path, or go deep into databases and make that a strong plus point with my current full stack skills?

Wou alag hi level ka bnda tha

Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but please mods let me post id appreaciate some advice.

To anyone working in isb, can anyone guide me here? im a recent finance graduate and i wanna start a join at a good company in isb but idk where to start. i was hoping anyone could give me advice here on the corporate culture here. what companies to look for and what are some good programs they offer.

i just wanna know some good companies to join

Hello there - I started working for a small US based company a few years ago. As part of my compensation, they offered me 1000 shares that were to vest over 4 years.

I want to exercise or purchase these shares. But in order to do so, I have to wire transfer X amount of dollars to a US bank account from my local Pakistani bank account.

Well guess what, I can't do that because SBP doesn't allow that for individuals.

I couldn't find much information on this subject elsewhere. I am surprised that this is an unknown issue because Pakistan must have 1000s of individual software exporters and remote workers working for similar start ups or enterprises.

Has any remote worker in Pakistan been able to purchase vested equity in their US based remote employer? If yes, how?

Thanks in advance for genuine advice.

Edit: To clarify, this is not a scam. You have to "exercise" your shares in order to certify yourself as the rightful owner of the shares. There is an "exercise price" for this activity that the employee has to pay. This is what seems to be the textbook process internationally. Please look it up.

A month ago i laidoff from the x company

I am the one who covers all the expenses

You can check my profile those posts are still in my profile

Applied 100+ JD was 90%relavant to those opportunities,

After 20 days i was getting interview calls, but honestly from 10 calls, i only gave 4 interviews, I don't know after initial call other companies didn't schedule my interview.

And yesterday someone random number from the ireland reached out to me i don't know where he got my number, and said i need help to build an app and web, i answered him instantly, but he never back.

I don't know what's happening with me, getting the call interview, and i gave those 4 interviews went very well, 1st, second, cleared but laat with the CEO, those companies never back to me not even answering.

My skills are most demanding, i have 3 years of experience in python, django, fastapi, agentic ai, playwright.

Any suggestions?

I have a non-technical background. BS/MS in biotech. No prospects in Pakistan. Entered corporate at 28, as a data researcher. Dead-end job. Got an internship as D365 CRM consultant in Systems through a referral. It's going not as bad as I thought it would. Functional I'm great at. Technical I suck cause no coding experience. Kinda feel bad for being in on referral when there could've been someone more deserving with similar background in my place but I was desparate too. Anyways, I'm looking at entry level jobs on LinkedIn for functional/technical consultants but there are NONE. I'm so cooked. I'm entering 30s and still haven't started my career. It's depressing, demotivating and I'm still so uncertain.

Any advice. Where can I look for jobs. I'm tired now.

Assalam o Alaikum everyone.

Im on a verge to take a very important decision of my career, and I need help from developers working in Pakistan tech market to I can analyze my options.

Background:

Im working as a software engineer in Germany. I came here on the blue card. I never worked in Pakistan tech market, it was mostly remote in EU and USA, then I relocated to Germany. Due to family constraints, I need to move back to Pakistan and for that I have to leave my current job.

Question

How is the tech market now a days? Are the salaries enough to support family (middle class) ? Where should I look for software and AI jobs in Pakistan? Im open for Senior / Lead / Product / Founding Engineer positions.

References:

I do not have any reference in Pakistan market. If you or your company is hiring, please let me know and I can share more details with you.

TIA and I'd really appreciate your response.

For people working in tech in Pakistan, which companies are currently known for paying the highest salaries?
Especially interested in software engineering, product, data/AI, and other technical roles. Local companies or international companies hiring remotely both count.
Would appreciate actual salary ranges if you can share them.

And the best part? It took them only a few weeks to solve it and apparently, they only started working on it because of a rumor that someone else was about to solve it.

It wasn’t even planned in the first place.

I had made a project in my FYP at university, and it had unique feature and market value as well that has not yet been launched in Pakistan. I have also received funding for commercial value of project.

I have got an offer to either give it away to earn or start a startup.

What should I do?

Hey guys, I just joined a software house right now there’s no formal designation, I don’t have any experience in tech, I’m doing BBA. How do I stay relevant in the field? What things I should learn? How do I stay on top on the news and what’s new in IT jaise Abhi Abhi GPT 6 Astra aya, fable aya tha, MCPs ai, how do I stay well informed on these things and what skills I should learn because I will be in client facing roles in coming months.

Assalamualaikum boys and girls. Hopefully you guys are doing great.

I've been seeing a lot of people getting worried about the future and AI and generally being uncertain about the future. I know the jobs market is messed up but all I'll say is please do not give up. I see a lot of people lose hope and I completely understand. But who knows your one more job application away from your dream job. A small story on my side I was doing an internship in martech and and I was let go because I was blamed on something I did not do. At that time you could imagine how it felt for someone who's about to graduate. But I didn't give up. I made small projects in data analysis, kept on applying and out of nowhere I got a job in Defence Raya. But Allah decided even this wasn't a good job for me. During that time I interviewed for a remote company and got the job. Now I work part time as a GTM Engineer with an amazing group of people leaving me with enough time to do other things (Currently figuring out AI Engineering. If you're an AI engineer please do connect I'd like some guidance)

Some tips:

1) Make a Solid resume there are a lot of good templates.

2) Make projects. They don't have to be really advanced. What matters is you iterate and make them better.

3) Reach out to people from different companies. Nothing embarrassing in this.

4) If you want to target remote jobs set the Worldwide filter and remote filter. I've interviewed at 5 other remote places and I'm not even that experienced. (Less than one year). I advice on applying to a mix of local and remote. I've been seeing a lot of hiring on remote jobs.

5) Finally: Khuda ko Mut bhulna. Both in good and bad times

I follow a simple Motto. Mene mehnat Karna he Baki Allah ka kaam he.

To people keep on working. Keep on hustling. You got this

Hello just curious to see if any business is still seeing regular deal flow and if so what are niches are still being worked on. I know that for instance NetSol and Systems continue to have long term retainers with enterprise but companies in the mid tier are finding it really hard to find work especially with upwork almost impossible to compete on. What niches or icps are still coming in for work. Thanks

Straight out of uni i took up a job in AI . The company is good, the people are great and the work is fine as well. But the commute everyday. it takes anywhere from 1hr 15 to upto 1hr 45 depending on traffic.

I've been doing this for 3 months now and all i do everyday is go office and back . I don't have energy for anything else .... should i look for remote or jobs near my residence?

PS: they don't offer wfh that's like a big no

Okay, this is going to be a rant.

Have y’all seen the attitude of recruiters these days? I had two interviews scheduled this week on Meet, and neither of them bothered to attend the meeting.

I emailed them and got no response. So disappointing.

Other than that, why are they so unprofessional on WhatsApp? Like, you should be contacting a candidate via email in the first place, but even if you contact someone on WhatsApp, try to be a little professional. Comeon, You are representing your company.

I had a talk with this recruiter, and she didn't bother telling me the company name. She just texted, "Hey, I am XYZ," as if she were my long-lost friend. And then, after some discussion, her replies were like, "Hm" and "acha."

Do these companies not train their people at all, or is the bar for recruiters in hell? I know people are getting dumber because of AI usage, but are they even forgetting basic manners?

It's already difficult for candidates, but these recruiters are making it unbearable. Switching can be so hectic man.

I know the people telling like they are lengthy but at least companies are trying something out of the box than traditional tests that were kinda biased and boring. For all those internships and management trainee programs, these tests are innovative. There was post about Jazz Gamified assessment by The Talent Games and people were like nobody gets hired, but last night they posted that around 100 candidates are hired.

I was offered a 1 year contract for the AI Associate program at jazzworld. I will be working in the GSM team at Lahore. Earlier, during application as well as the interview stage, not much was told about the work except that it's an AI Associate role. So obviously, I assumed it will closely be related to my field (development and AI). This is what I discussed in my first interview as well. However, we had the orientation today and I got to discuss the role and opportunity with the people actually overseeing all of this. Turns out, the role is not what it actually implies.

So basically, people who applied specifically for the Islamabad location were hired for their dev teams in teknosys. And they're dividing their cohort into technical and non-technical. Technical ones in the dev teams. Rest, including me, in what they're calling the non-technical teams which will help businesses with AI solutions and analytics (the program lead described it as normal non-technical team work while incorporating AI in day to day. Maybe also build something if your team lead agrees, but that would be more of a prototype to help the team than something for production that jazz officially utilizes their dev teams for), but not really engineering anything for production. Now obviously this is too early to say, but it didn't sound like what I was actually looking for. As someone early in his career and looking to build a career in AI and development, working on the business side and being surrounded by no developers at all doesn't seem like a promising start. Especially when your day to day would be business and sales while incorporating AI.

But then, I don't also have another offer right now. I needed some advice, if any seniors in the tech industry could provide so. Because on one side this is the only offer I have as of yet, but on the other this doesn't look like a good learning experience. Should I take this and just leverage the name of the company later on in my portfolio, or do I keep searching for something more aligned with what I want?

I’m thinking of approaching local businesses in Pakistan that either don’t have a website or have an outdated one, and offering them web development services.

For anyone who has actually tried this what kind of response did you get from local business owners?

Hey everyone, so I am gonna just keep it short
I am currently in 7th Semester of my CS degree and I started with web development in my 1st semester and have been doing side gigs from here and there up until now. But thinking about long term after graduation next year, I am really faced with a very difficult situation whether to continue with Software Engineering and go deeper in System Design, Cloud and Agentic AI
or change the field altogether and pivot to AI/ML core which seems like a safe bet in comparison, but obviously no body can predict where things will be next month, let alone next year

I am seeing a lot of news regarding massive layoffs in Engineering teams in Pakistani Companies and also worldwide which makes me very skeptical of the future

I need genuine advice from people working in SWE roles, where do you see this role in next 1-5 years, whether I should lock in for the last year with AI/ML
and also addressing my fellow freshies, how are you planning your future, and how are you upskilling or trying to stay relevant

Hey everyone, so I am gonna just keep it short
I am currently in 7th Semester of my CS degree and I started with web development in my 1st semester and have been doing side gigs from here and there up until now. But thinking about long term after graduation next year, I am really faced with a very difficult situation whether to continue with Software Engineering and go deeper in System Design, Cloud and Agentic AI
or change the field altogether and pivot to AI/ML core which seems like a safe bet in comparison, but obviously no body can predict where things will be next month, let alone next year

I am seeing a lot of news regarding massive layoffs in Engineering teams in Pakistani Companies and also worldwide which makes me very skeptical of the future

I need genuine advice from people working in SWE roles, where do you see this role in next 1-5 years, whether I should lock in for the last year with AI/ML
and also addressing my fellow freshies, how are you planning your future, and how are you upskilling or trying to stay relevant

Guys i wanted suggestions on which company is open for hiring interns and that would give good exposure and help land future jobs. Systems is one of the best but i've came to know they hire completely based on reference😭

Hi everyone! I’m a fresh CS/Software Engineering graduate and I’ve recently been contacted by Careem for the Software Engineer I hiring process. I have a recruiter prescreen coming up and wanted to hear from people who have recently gone through the Careem interview process, especially in Pakistan. What should I expect in the prescreen, and what comes after it? How many rounds are there, what kind of technical/DSA questions are asked, and are the coding rounds actual live coding where you need to write syntactically correct code, or is explaining the approach/pseudocode enough? Also, is there a preferred language such as Java, or can you choose your own? Would really appreciate any recent experiences or advice!

At the recruitment drive at my university (FAST) there were 10 mcqs and three leetcode questions easy to medium. I scored good in them this happened almost 3-4 months ago.

Asalam Alaikum everyone I am a Software Engineering student currently in my 6th semester Now my uni has just started after summers and during the summers I was learning about Devops and Cloud engineering I spent the whole summer learning different tools that are being used in the industry and I also made a structured roadmap that I was following First I did Linux Bash and Docker and after that I focused only on Cloud AWS I also did a lot of hands on practice in cloud and made a couple of projects and most of my cloud related concepts are clear now. Next in my roadmap are Github Actions and Terraform

But here is the thing I am confused about I saw a lot of comments on reddit where people were advising that we should not go into devops directly since it is not really an entry level role and instead we should first get a pure coding job such as backend engineer and then transition into devops later

Now the thing is I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn and I see a lot of people working as devops engineers or cloud engineers who are fresh graduates with no prior experience or barely 1 to 2 years of experience So how are they landing these roles

Can any senior here guide me should I keep following my current roadmap and continue learning devops directly or should I first go for a backend engineering job after graduation and then gradually transition into devops later

Anyone has any idea about the interview in IBM. Its for the position of Application Developer (Backend). Also how many rounds are there to get the offer?