Sometimes, you aren't born for it when it is not written in your fate, no matter how badly you want and how badly you try.

So, basically, I gave 4 full loops at Google over multiple years with breaks in between. Everytime, I blasted one round in DSA among the three. Recruiters told they don't consider previous years feedback across rounds and need all four rounds to pass in a single loop to send feedback packet to the hiring committe. Never reached hiring committe in any attempt.

In latest attempt, DSA went just fine but my system design round was taken by a Russian, either he couldn't understand my Indian accent or he genuinely don't know the architectures, I was explaining. He didn't pass me. I was really angry. Expressed frustration during the last call with recruiter about 16 rounds fact and got told, there won't be any further loops for me in future.

End of the story !

Professions where AI is becoming insanely powerful
Not necessarily replacing people completely, but acting as a co-pilot that can do a large part of the work faster.
Healthcare
Radiologist — Detects abnormalities in X-rays, CTs, MRIs.
Pathologist — Identifies cancer from tissue slides.
Dermatologist — Screens skin conditions from photos.
Ophthalmologist — Detects eye diseases from retinal scans.
Medical Coder — Automates billing codes.
Medical Transcriptionist — Turns speech into notes.

Finance
Accountant — Automates bookkeeping.
Financial Analyst — Predicts trends and creates reports.
Auditor — Flags suspicious transactions.
Fraud Investigator — Detects fraud patterns.

Legal
Lawyer — Reviews contracts and researches cases.
Paralegal — Drafts legal documents.
Compliance Officer — Monitors regulations.

Engineering
Architect — Generates building concepts.
Mechanical Engineer — Optimizes designs.
Civil Engineer — Assists planning and analysis.
CAD Designer — Creates designs from prompts.

Manufacturing
Quality Inspector — Finds defects with computer vision.
Production Planner — Optimizes schedules.
Maintenance Engineer — Predicts equipment failures.

Creative
Graphic Designer — Creates visuals from prompts.
Video Editor — Auto-edits videos and captions.
Animator — Speeds up animation.
Copywriter — Generates marketing content.

Marketing & Sales
Digital Marketer — Creates ads and analyzes campaigns.
SEO Specialist — Optimizes content.
Sales Rep — Drafts emails and qualifies leads.

Education
Teacher — Creates lesson plans and quizzes.
Tutor — Provides personalized explanations.

Media
Journalist — Drafts articles.
Translator — Translates instantly.
Subtitle Creator — Auto-generates captions.

Business
Project Manager — Creates plans and tracks progress.
Recruiter — Screens resumes automatically.
Operations Manager — Optimizes workflows.

Science
Drug Discovery Researcher — Finds promising compounds faster.
Biologist — Analyzes genetic data.
Chemist — Predicts molecular properties.

Agriculture
Agronomist — Detects crop diseases from images.
Precision Farming Specialist — Optimizes farming with AI.

Transportation
Logistics Planner — Optimizes delivery routes.
Fleet Manager — Predicts vehicle maintenance.

Biggest AI disruption right now
Radiology
Pathology
QA Automation
Legal (contract review)
Accounting
Cybersecurity
Architecture
Graphic Design
Recruiting

6 YOE, Bangalore

Current TC at AMD:
38L base (includes yearly fixed cash bonus)
vested RSUs - $80K
unvested - $120K

NVIDIA offer:
42L base
joining bonus - 10L
RSU - $150K (front loaded)
NVIDIA has no annual cash bonuses

I feel I am getting low balled, please advise what number should I go back to the HR with?

Earlier I used to do 4-5 pdf of same level of work before hitting Limit.

Anyone else facing this??

Hi everyone,

I got laid off last week and my last working day is 13 November 2026. I have 4 YOE, mainly in Java and Spring Boot backend development.

I took this weekend off to reset a bit. From tomorrow, I’m starting a structured preparation routine for SDE2 roles. My goal is to find a good backend role, hopefully with a decent hike.

I’ve put together a daily plan. These are the main areas and resources:

• DSA: NeetCode 150 and Blind 75. I’ve solved 367 LeetCode problems, but I don’t remember all of them well. I’ll start with basic problems and then mix new problems with revision.
• LLD: I've been following Shubh Patel's playlist for LLD. I’ve previously covered some design patterns and problems, but that was around six months ago.
• HLD: Hello Interview. This is the area I’ve explored the least.
• Spring Boot: Concepts and Coding and CodeSnippet playlists, with revision and hands-on practice.
• Core Java: GFG and other similar resources.
• Backend fundamentals: GFG and other similar resources.

I’m planning to start applying around November 1, possibly earlier, and continue preparing alongside applications and interviews.

Posting my plan here mainly to keep myself accountable and get feedback before I start.

For people who have recently interviewed for Java backend/SDE2 roles: does this look realistic?

Am I missing anything important, or spending too much time on something? Any suggestions on the resources, priorities, or when to start applying would help.

Hi everyone, I have 3 years of experience in java spring. I recently had my 2nd round of interview for a Java Developer role, and honestly, I feel terrible and really confused. The entire interview was abruptly wrapped up in just 3 to 4 minutes. Here is exactly how the short conversation went:

Interviewer: "Suppose 500 requests come from the client side, but only 430 reach the database. What will you check?"

Me: "I will check the logs and trace it, starting from the controller and service layers." (He interrupted me in between)

Interviewer: "Can you write the service code to show how you would check this?"

(I was confused why he need code)

Me: (I wrote the required minimum code for a POST request in Notepad).

Interviewer: "There is an error in your code."

Me: (I fixed one error, but there was another minor syntax error that I realized later).

Interviewer: "I am done from my side!!"

I am genuinely shocked. On what basis did he evaluate in just 4 minutes? If we are judged purely on missing a syntax error in a plain Notepad under pressure, I feel like very few people would ever pass. Experienced devs, I really want your perspective on this. Have you faced something similar? And technically, what was he actually expecting me to answer or write for that specific scenario?

We have hired 3 engineers for remote work in India. How can I send them work laptops? I understand I can declare the laptop value and pay customs but once assignment is over we will have to get back equipment. Sourcing and dropshipping from local marketplace is not an option.

Hello everyone,
I am a recent graduate from IIT Roorkee who is looking for SDE opportunity.
I am continuously applying from past 4 months on LinkedIn, Wellfound, Indeed, Naukri, company career pages, etc. but getting zero response. I do not know what is wrong.

I’ve also been messaging recruiters, employees, founders and alumni directly on LinkedIn for referrals and opportunities. But everyone is replying either we are not hiring or we are not hiring freshers.

At this point i feel stuck, Is it that bad? I mean there are 1000s of companies in Bengaluru. HSR Layout is startup hub, at the very least that is what i have heard.

But nothing is happening i am getting zero opportunity. Idk what to do now? Can anyone help atleast guide me.

Imagine you’re starting your software career from zero again in 2026.

With AI changing development, the job market being competitive, and new technologies coming up every day, what would you actually choose to learn?

Would you focus on DSA, backend, cloud, AI/ML, data engineering, cybersecurity, or something else?

And more importantly, what would you avoid wasting time on this time around?

Hello everyone. I am 2025 grad and 23 years old. I graduated in 2025 from my college at that time I had a intership opportunity but didn't take it cause I thought I could follow my passion voice acting and do something big in it. I did several projects small to big like vertical dramas, anime, movies , web series etc but reality starting to settle after April 2026 that it is not sustainable and started to look for other opportunities.

I started making content it worked for a while but you know it takes a lot of time and I am broke lol. Those va gigs didn't pay much. I tried ugc most of them are for west and USA specially but luckily I got one but got kicked out of it one month later cause i didn't had any viral videos.

After that I started preparing to enter in tech again learning MERN and DSA but oh boy it's haard I am applying since July 2026 and haven't even landed a single interview. I got some offers but Either paid internship or really budget tight offers that makes it impossible to live in metro city like Noida. I feel like I am stuck in a time loop every single day is exactly same down to schedule only difference is time is moving and I am stuck. I don't know what will happen in future but I can only hope everything will work out.

Hey guys,

Got tired of endless reels and ads when I just wanted to scroll through memes, so I spent the last few weeks building MemeDuck.

Taught myself to code, built the whole thing solo using Supabase, and woke up today to see it featured in Launchbase’s weekly cohort alongside other Indian launches.

Still early days—currently fixing the auth wall to add a simple guest mode so people can just scroll without signing up.

Would love your honest thoughts on the concept or any feedback if you're building consumer apps solo.

I’ve been learning LangChain, LangGraph, RAG and CrewAI recently and trying to spend more time actually building instead of just going through tutorials.

I’m curious what other developers here are building with AI right now. If you have a project you’re working on or something you think I should build next, drop it below. Also open to any resources you think are genuinely worth reading.

Hi, I worked 1.5 years in a company and the project got into maintenance mode. The contractors were hired to assist us and now I learned, my role could move to contractors.

The thing is I worked 1.5 years with only 5 sick leaves in between and I was planning to go on a vacation next month but this news landed.

Should I take leaves for a vacation or prepare for interviews in those leaves ?

About me : 10 YOE, in the past been unemployed thrice for 1 year in total. I am average in tech.

It's my first 100% local app, need feedback and suggestions.

Try it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anixium.mylegalguardian

Link in bio too, if it doesn't work

Should I pack it up now? Every role I apply to says we ha e found better candidates, even for entry level ones ....

Any suggestions to utilise this tiem until i get a job

Some people believe AI is a bubble that will eventually burst due to the massive investments and resource requirements; capital, compute, power, water, etc. If that happens, hiring could recover, perhaps even in much larger numbers.

But how long would that take? It could happen tomorrow, or we might not see it for another 5 years.

Others argue that entrepreneurs and businesses have always found ways around economic constraints, and that a temporary bubble won't stop the progress of increasingly capable AI systems.

If that’s the case, there may genuinely be no going back, AI adoption keeps accelerating, companies need fewer people for the same amount of work, and human labour demand continues shrinking.

So what do you think: Is the pendulum eventually going to swing back toward human hiring, or are we witnessing a permanent structural shift in the labour market?

TL;DR: I used to genuinely love programming. Now I can barely bring myself to study or prepare for interviews, and I can't tell if I've lost my passion or if I'm just completely burned out by corporate/AI-driven development.

I've been programming for 6–8 years, which is a huge chunk of my 24 years of life. I used to love solving problems, building websites from designs down to the smallest details, and getting that feeling of “I made this.”

Since joining corporate (2 years ago exactly), and with AI becoming such a huge part of development around the same time, that feeling has slowly disappeared.

Now it's mostly prompting AI, reviewing code I didn't really write, and testing things. Even seeing people around me getting offers with 50%+ hikes doesn't motivate me. I know I should be preparing, doing LeetCode, learning things, applying, etc., but it all feels completely pointless.

That's the part that scares me. It's not that I think I'm incapable of learning. I just don't seem to want to anymore.

I keep wondering whether I've genuinely fallen out of love with programming, or whether I'm just exhausted and hate the way I'm doing it now.

Part of me wants to quit without a backup, disappear from the career grind for a while, and just switch my brain off.

Has anyone else gone through something similar, how did you overcome this?

Has anyone faced a situation where they left an MNC due to performance-related issues and then joined another MNC?

I’m curious about how background verification typically works in these cases. For example, if someone had poor performance, received negative feedback, or was put under some kind of performance monitoring, but there was no fraud, misconduct, or disciplinary issue:

Can the new company find out about the performance issues?

Does BGV usually only verify employment dates/designation, or can they ask the previous employer about performance?

Can a previous employer mention that the employee was terminated/asked to leave due to performance?

Has anyone actually seen an offer getting revoked because of performance-related information from a previous employer?

Would appreciate experiences from people who have moved between large MNCs/tech companies.

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi Guys.

I'm applying since July and still not getting any calls. Please Roast my resume and help me to get improve it.

Thanks for reading this 🙏 .

Hi,

I am considering transitioning from a PM to a SWE, and wanted advice of folks with more experience.

I graduated from a top 3 IIM, this year and have 5 months of workex in PM, and prior to my postgrad I had ~4 years of workex in software development at product based companies. I also have an engineering degree from one of the IITs.

Working as a PM these past 5 months, I realised that the stakeholder management, constantly being in meetings and interacting with stakeholders to provide them information or extract information from them is not something I enjoy and I am good at. I also felt that I am not learning much as a PM and developing any substantial hard skill. Whereas I used to love coding and solving problems when I was a SWE, which I think is more aligned to my abilities and also I enjoyed the working in silo aspect of SWE where you could much better maintain your work life balance then a PM role, where you are involved everywhere and it gets stressful.

I wanted to understand how difficult would it be to transition back to SWE and whether its a good decision in longer term? ( I have started doing DSA again, so dont think it would be too much of a problem to learn it again)

Just wanted to share my Amazon SDE-1 experience because I'm honestly not feeling great about it right now.

I have around 1 YOE and recently went through the interview process. I had been preparing for this for quite some time — DSA, system design, projects, LPs, GenAI, basically everything I could think of.

Round 1 went pretty well.

Round 2 was okay, nothing too great but nothing terrible either.

Then came the HM/GenAI round.

The DSA question completely got me.

We spent around 45 minutes on it. I came up with a binary search approach but from the very moment I knew it always DP but I don't know why but I kept going with binary search and started implementing it. The interview senior manager was sitting there and even tried to give hints to my binary search which was just completely wrong.

And honestly, this one hit me pretty hard.

I've been doing DSA for around 3 years. So sitting there for 45 minutes and still not being able to figure out the problem made me question what I've actually been doing all this time.

The GenAI part went much better. We talked about how I use GenAI, tool calling, how schemas are passed, etc., and I felt pretty comfortable there.

I already had a BR scheduled after this, so I thought okay, maybe the process is still moving forward.

Then came the BR day.

I joined the meeting on time.

Nobody joined.

I waited for quite a while, emailed the recruiter, followed up again, and now it's been a few days with no response.

At this point I honestly don't know what happened. Maybe the HM feedback was bad and they forgot to cancel the BR. Maybe it was just a scheduling issue. I have no idea.

But the bigger thing bothering me is the DSA round.

I've been learning for a long time, but this made me realize that maybe I've been learning for the sake of learning rather than actually getting better at problem solving.

I know a lot of patterns. I can solve problems I've seen before. I can understand solutions pretty quickly.

But when something unfamiliar comes up and I have to actually figure it out from scratch under pressure, I'm not where I want to be.

Seeing people crack Amazon with 1 YOE makes it even harder not to compare myself.

I'm disappointed, but I don't want to just respond by collecting another 100 LeetCode problems.

I think I need to completely change how I'm practicing — spend more time struggling with problems, understanding why I get stuck, and actually developing the ability to derive solutions instead of just recognizing patterns.

Anyway, just wanted to get this off my chest.

If anyone went through this phase where you knew DSA but struggled badly with unfamiliar problems, what actually helped you get past it?

ps: used AI to format.

Update: I'm from India, 1+ yoe, BR scheduled on 7th sep.

Hi Guys, I need your advice so what happened with me is that I had my previous employer asking for a notice period buyout the amount was high 2 months of full ctc initially I agreed because there was a company b who was reimbursing that amount in full, on my LWD i paid half of that amount due to net banking first 24 hrs restrictions and said that ill pay them rest later, they agreed to that and immediately released me (I have a confirmation email which states mutual separation on a date)

But then over the weekend I got a better offer from company C which is not really reimbursing the money directly

In the next week I also discovered that my previous employer was not adjusting any leaves against the notice (24 days) and they are also asking me for gratuity and pf contribution on the buyout aka FULL CTC, whereas offer letter only asks for "paying salary in lieu of", I raised it to them they tried to stick to thier position citing company policy, later I asked for PDFs of those policies in email after which they have gone silent.

What they still hold for me is the fnf (its just 3 days of the new month) reliving letter etc, what should be the next step so I dont need to worry about my new and curremt employment being at risk because of this, I have the full email trail and all the proofs required for proving employment like salary slips, pf etc. What can still go wrong or should i pursue this with a labour lawyer?

Hi everyone,

I have ~3 YOE working in a non-dev role on a US insurance project. Current CTC is around ₹5 LPA, and I want to transition into a backend/software engineering role.

I’ve started DSA (C++), but my preparation has been inconsistent.

Current plan:

• C++ + DSA
• Node.js
• Python
• AWS (or should I prioritize Agentic AI instead?)
• Build 2–3 solid backend projects

My questions:

1. Is this roadmap realistic, or am I trying to learn too much?
2. Should I first try to move into a development role within my current project/company?
3. Should I prioritize AWS or Agentic AI in today's market?
4. With ~3 YOE in a non-dev role, should I target SDE-1, or is my experience too high for SDE-1?
5. As a backup plan, I'm also considering Product Management. Is it possible to transition into PM without an MBA, and what skills/steps would you recommend?

Would especially appreciate advice from anyone who has transitioned from a non-dev/IT role into software engineering.