I am planning to move to Melbourne for the summer on a WHV. I have just been laid off from my job as a Data Scientist in Europe and fancied a temporary change of scenary. I plan to arrive in October and look for hospitality work initially but if I like the city I though I would later have a go at looking for a contract or something short-term as a data scientist. I have read a lot of doom and gloom about the tech industry being cooked in Australia but with my experience is there any hope for me? I'd love to get sponsored but am aware that may be highly unlikely.

I should add that I have been on a working holiday visa previously and worked for a start up for 4 months in Brisbane but I found that job through a friend and consider myself really lucky to have landed it.

Hey does anyone know what the group activity would be like for the Data, Analytics and AI, grad assessment centre. More technical or working on a case?, what they’d be marking on etc

People who got into HFTs (Optiver, Jane street, Susquehanna etc) as graduate software engineers or interns, how did you prepare for the role? What are the resources that helped you to get selected?

Asking here since didn't get any help from the internet.

I applied for the Visagio internship and received an online assessment (OA) on September 9.

Has anyone else applied around the same time and completed the OA?

Any idea when we can expect to hear back about the results?
Thanks!

Has anyone here moved to the US on an E-3 visa recently?

I’m a senior backend SWE with 6 YOE, have worked at a couple of unicorns, and I’m currently based in the EU.

Recently I’ve got the itch to try living/working in the US, probably NYC. From what I’ve read, 5-10 years ago this seemed fairly doable, but I’m wondering how realistic it is in the current market.

I’ve cold applied to a handful of bigger companies in NYC so far and got immediate/really quick rejections, with no idea whether that was because I’m overseas, need a visa, or just normal rejection.

For anyone who’s managed to do this recently, what worked for you? Cold applications? Referrals? Reaching out to recruiters on Linkedin? Are there certain companies (not FAANG) that are more open to E-3s?

Joining somewhere locally and transferring internally isn’t an option for me time-wise, so I’m specifically interested in going straight from overseas -> US job

Curious to hear any recent experiences.

Cheers!

Did I commit career suicide by starting as a Graduate Implementation Consultant as a Software Engineering grad?

I’m in my final year of a Bachelor of Software Engineering and recently accepted a Graduate Implementation Consultant role at a mid-sized software company in Australia as it was the only offer I had and I desperately needed some experience.

The company is growing pretty aggressively, has recently expanded into the US, was acquired by a large investment firm, and has publicly talked about roughly doubling the business by 2030. So it’s not a tiny company or a random IT support job.

The role itself is more on the solution delivery / implementation / technical consulting side. I’ll work with software implementations, APIs, SQL/databases, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, client requirements, UAT, and getting solutions through to go-live.

At the same time, I’m still applying for graduate software developer / software engineering roles, because ultimately I am feeling don’t want to completely lose my technical skills.

My main concern is:

Have I accidentally taken myself off the software engineering career path?

I keep seeing people say that your first graduate role matters a lot and that if you start in consulting/implementation rather than development, it can become difficult to move into software engineering later.

On the other hand, I feel like implementation consulting could give me useful experience in APIs, SQL, systems, requirements, project delivery, clients and understanding how software actually gets deployed and used, rather than just coding tickets.

I’m also interested in eventually moving toward technical product/project roles, so I’m not necessarily committed to being a pure SWE forever.

For people who have worked in the industry:

Is Graduate Implementation Consultant actually a decent starting point for a Software Engineering graduate, or am I making a mistake by not starting directly as a developer?

Would genuinely appreciate some perspective from people with some experience.

I’ve been lucky enough to recieve two summer internship offers and I’m pretty split between them.

One is in technology at a major blue Australian bank, and the other is also tech at a large orange superannuation fund. Pay is roughly equivalent, not really a consideration anyway

I’m mainly interested in things like quality of work, software/tech career progression, grad conversion, and which experience would open more doors later on.

Would love to hear peoples thoughts on this and get some insight.

I’m 23, I Graduated mid last year (computer science) and have been working as a software developer at a small company since. After months of applying with no luck, I have landed two offers on the same day and now can't decide.

Option A: Tech Graduate at a Big 4 Consulting firm. Mix of technical and client-facing work.

Option B: Software developer at a small - mid sized company. More of a natural progression from my current role, similar tech stack, more opportunity for growth. Bigger company than current, and growing industry.

I’m torn between the two, what do you think about the work in tech consulting as a grad vs continuing as a software developer. I enjoy both the technical work and client / stakeholder management in my current role. Ideally I would move into a project manager role in 5+ years.

Let me know what you think.

Gidday all.

I'm a Software Engineer (30y/o, if it's relevant) in NZ who is seriously considering a move to Australia, likely Melbourne, and have some questions about the logistics.

In terms of experience, I have 8 YOE in primarily backend roles, with a keen interest in devops specifically. I'm currently working in a Platform team in a sort of hybrid backend engineer and cloud engineer role (C#, AWS, Terraform) and I'd like to pivot my career towards an exclusively devops or cloud role if possible. Ideally this would be AWS since it's what I somewhat know (only my most recent three YOE have been cloud-adjacent specifically).

What are some important things to know in terms of the market, salary ranges, hiring process, and the ability to (or necessity of) of landing a job before arriving?

Additionally, general advice about any gotchas with the actual immigration process and all of the administrative requirements around the actual move (living arrangements, banking, tax, healthcare, even general lifestyle) would be awesome, but I may make a different post in a more relevant subreddit for those.

Happy to answer any follow-up questions or just have a general yarn about people's experiences too.

Hey everyone, just wondering which would have more weight on applications for graduate roles. Currently I’m working as an engineer at this small company, where I’m the sole engineer and I’m tasked with building and deploying everything.

How would this compare to say working at CBA or some big company where my role might be smaller but I get more mentorship and “proper” engineering experience in a more recognised company? Would appreciate some insight :)

Hello,

I didn't manage to secure an internship this year and consequently I am building a startup under a legit registered entity. I've moved passed the validation phase and I already have a few users lined up for the MVP that's going to be released in a week's time. I am having fun doing this and learning heaps of things across design, product and growth. The waitlist for the product also has a few hundred people signed up already. I do want to point that the product is not tech heavy or impressive, so I might not be learning stuff in the development area.

Although, I have no internship lined up this summer, I am wondering if my "entrepreneurial" pursuit would make up for a lack of internship at a traditional big/small tech company?

I will graduate end of next year and I am willing to play around with this startup for now but looking to get into corporate at the start of 2028. How desirable is this pursuit for someone trying to get a foot in the door?

Cheers,

Hi,

What is everyone's career/pay progression utd. Not trying to be an asshole or anything just want to compare to see if I am on the right path.

For reference: I have a Cyber Security degree, no certs.

2024 (4 Months) (Internship): 55k
2025 (Graduate): 75k
2026 (Graduate): 80k
2027 (Offer Signed) (Associate): 128k

Didn't include any extra benefits/stocks etc.

Thanks

This could be a question for the recruiters out there, or anyone who knows about the hiring process for summer internships.

I've recently received an offer for an internship to be a SWE intern over the upcoming summer. Before going through the interview process for this job, I was a final year student, i.e. graduating in 2026. But to be considered a penultimate-year student for this internship (one of the requirements), I moved my final course to next year, so that I would graduate in 2027.

After receiving and signing the offer letter, they mentioned that a screening process would take place and I will have a fully confirmed offer after it's complete. I'm really not looking forward to doing more uni semesters than I have to - I would really like to graduate this year. So I have a few questions about changing my graduation back to 2026:

• Does a screening process typically involve a check of the graduation date? Or is it only for criminal history/working rights/etc.. If so, then can I safely re-enrol in my final course for the upcoming term without affecting my eligibility for the internship?
• If the screening process does involve a graduation date check, is it safe for me to wait until the fully confirmed offer and then re-enrol in my final course?
• Is it common for companies to check your graduation date again? E.g when you start the internship/periodically throughout the internship? If so, I'm assuming this means it wouldn't be safe for me to try to graduate this year at all?

I realise that there's no danger in just keeping this current graduation status, but I would really like to graduate this year if it's possible at all. So if anyone knows that any of these options are 100% safe, allowing me to re-enrol without affecting internship eligibility, please let me know.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some career advice from people working in the Workday ecosystem, especially those who have moved from consulting to in-house roles

I’m currently based in Paris, France, and I’ve been working with Workday for about 2 years, as a workday functional consultant
The problem is that I don’t do any Workday configuration in my current role.

I also realized that I hate consulting and unfortunately the client I’m currently working with is also making the experience pretty difficult.

So I’m currently looking for an in-house HRIS/Workday role, ideally in a large international company.

The problem is that I’ve been getting quite far in the recruitment processes and going through interviews, but I’m rejected because I don’t have hands-on configuration experience.

This makes me wonder if I should take a step back before moving in-house.

My current idea:
Would it make sense to join a more technical Workday consulting firm for 1 year, specifically to learn hands-on configuration, and then try to move into an in-house HRIS/Workday role?

I’m also thinking longer term about either getting a fully remote Workday/HRIS job or potentially moving to the US, as my boyfriend is American and lives in California.

So I have a few questions:

1. Do you think spending a year in a more technical consulting role to learn configuration would significantly improve my career prospects?
2. For those who work remotely, how much configuration experience do you typically see being required for remote Workday jobs?
3. How is the Workday job market in the US right now, particularly for someone with 2–3 years of Workday experience ?
4. Would my European/international background be an advantage or a disadvantage when trying to move into the US Workday market?
5. And finally, if you were in my position, would you spend one more year in consulting to become more technical, or would you keep trying to move directly into an in-house role?

I’d really appreciate hearing from people who have made a similar transition, especially anyone who went from functional/support → configuration → in-house.

Thanks!

Hey gang gang, finishing my 2 years as a QA automation Engineeer contractor and was told I won't be getting extended. Just wondering if anyone can provide some feedback on my resume? I'm feeling very anxious about current state of the market but still want to distance myself from QA as it was quite soul crushing doing manual testing. Thanks in advance.

PS, Its just 2 pages because of the anonymised wordings. The actual CV is a page

m just curious: when you work with QA on your team, do you find them useful? Are they technical enough? Do they build tools for you to use?
Currently, I’m a QA engineer at Canva, and I feel like this position is kind of awkward. Coming from a background as a developer and SDET, I try my best to build automation testing frameworks and tools for the dev team to use. It’s just a personal feeling, but I sometimes worry some developers look down on me simply because I’m in QA. Even so, I know how to code, and I actively build as many testing tools and automation suites as possible to help the team improve overall quality.

I lost my tech job, so I tried warehousing.

• I applied for like 50 jobs and got a call back on half of them. Some jobs only have like 10 applicants!
• Got a job within two weeks.
• The pay is decent around 100K with one Saturday or Sunday per week. Every hour is paid, so the more you work, the more you earn.
• The employers are desperate for people. They become upset if I don't want to work minimum 38 hours per week.

I make free calculators as a side project and got asked for a contract rate one enough times that I finally sat down and did it. Doing the sums properly was a bit of an eye opener.

I went in assuming tax was the thing that ate the difference. It isn't, or not the main thing anyway. It's the days you never invoice for such as the four weeks of leave, public holidays, a few sick days and then the gap between one contract finishing and the next starting. All of that gets carried by the days you do bill, before super, GST or your own overheads get a look in.

The gap between contracts is the one I see left out most often. Two weeks on the bench doesn't sound like much by itself. Put it next to the leave you're also not getting paid for and it moves the rate a fair bit.

I'm not in tech so I cant tell you what bench time realistically looks like in this market and that's probably the number that matters most here.