I work as a solo engineer with using Claude and I’ve noticed how much I’m getting done and programming is being automated away. I’m genuinely concerned about this field of Swe. I know swe is not all about coding but as someone who makes product decisions, judgement and acting more product manager now than a swe and I just see fewer openings of hiring multiple engineers. ive also been noticing all around more companies are hiring for one person who does Everything

I've spent the first four years of my career at Amazon, earning $245k after an L5 promo. While I didn't have a completely awful experience, Amazon's reputation is definitely based on reality. RTO was a huge lifestyle downgrade for me - I have to live far from my hobbies and I spend 10 hours a week on the bus.

I have spent the last 6 months looking around for a remote role so that I can move to the middle of bumfuck nowhere Montana. I interviewed with Temu and received an offer. While I have some reservations about working for a Chinese company, every engineer I DM'd on LinkedIn had positive things to say. They offered me $300k (100% cash) and full remote. Feels wild to leave Amazon for Temu, but I can't turn that offer down. Wish me luck!

I’ve been unemployed for about 3 months.

I just got a verbal offer for a job that the band was $95k-115k, but they were seeking 3 years of experience.

I have 6 years so I asked if $120k would be possible. The recruiter said she would try.

Do you think my offer could be rescinded?

I'm a 16-year-old student from Switzerland and want to start an apprenticeship as a software engineer next year. But some people, like my dad or a random guy on Reddit who gave me an off-topic answer to a question about the application process for an apprenticeship, tell me that it isn't a smart move to start an apprenticeship as a software developer because in a few years, almost all of that work will get replaced by AI.

So, don't understand me wrong, I personally don't really think that. Sure, the job of a software developer will change because of AI, but I don't think it will replace it completely on such a huge scale.

But what they said made me still a bit unsure about it.

So, does the job of a software developer still have a future, or will it someday be replaced by AI, and would I have done that apprenticeship for nothing?

Hi,

I am anticipating a coding assessment from BNSF for their Sr Data Scientist position.

The discord is not giving me anything, so I'm asking here.

I really appreciate any help you could have, thanks

Hi, as you all know the IT sector is being taken over by AI agents like Claude especially job positions for juniors; plus i keep seeing every day memes about people who studied cs being unemployed and I'm seriously thinking about applying for another majority instead when high school will finish.

So I'm asking if these are only memes or sadly that's true, and what's the situations about IT companies right now; apparently big tech companies like Microsoft made staff reductions in favor of AI, the code quality is trash but they seem to don't care because they only care about earnings.

I got piped at my job and I think I am too dumb for corporate life.

Context : I am a tier 1 IIT graduate, have worked across 2 FAANG and 2 tier 1 companies. Except one I have faced performance issues at all others. Consequence : i switched 4 companies in 5 years now. Recruiters and hiring managers look at me in disdain despite having all top brand names on my resume. I am super introvert and have a habit of doing my work in silence. Hence I get skipped over for any important project and no one really knows what I am doing. I try hard but I end up getting disliked by my leadership everytime.

At this point of time I don't even feel like interviewing anymore because I know I'll mess up again and this time I'll get completely unemployable being labelled job hopper.

Should I leave corporate for good ? Am I too stupid to understand how workplace dynamics works ?

my job has been on the verge for three years now, and it doesn’t seem like I have a lot of runaway. I am in my 40s with a wife and daughter, sole bread winner in a European country. we have significant savings, above 7 numbers, but no house and we live in the most expensive German city (with a cheap rent and rent control)

I have one year of unemployment if things go wrong. I have been considering to retrain as a pilot, but at my age seems hard to start a career, and I will never reach my current salary. I also thought of retraining as a teacher and move to a south east Asian country.

I am a bit at a loss. Our savings might get us close to retirement age, but any problem will break the assumption, and I don’t want to consider poverty for my daughter. I guess I am open to manual work if needed, but after 20 years working in tech I really don’t want to surrender.

anybody in a similar situation? What did you do?

I am thankful to have a job and be employed but I have been applying and searching for jobs since I want higher pay and work for a tech company. I have been getting recruiter outreaches and getting past recruiter screening but I’m failing with the hiring manager screening rounds. Typically they just ask about result and what I do and I give pretty good star stories imo but it just happens they chose to select another candidate. I don’t know if lack Of company prestigious might impact my ability to move forward? I work at non tech startup as a solo engineer but the work I have done has been impactful and it has been helping me with landing interviews but for some reason im failing the hiring manager screening round. Any advice here ?

From what I've heard about revolut work environment is very demanding, stressful and toxic. While on glassdoor it has 4.2 stars, which is pretty good for a big company. The suspicious thing is that most reviews from last month are 5 stars and includes just one comment saying that working there is great.

i had a lot of anxiety my freshman year. can I still be competitive when I start learning the fundamentals my fall semester of sophomore year?

Interested in yalls opinion on this topic. For example I noticed that siriusXM is making a bet on their in car features again and they still have a large audience supporting them lol. Now throw in AI into the mix given their presence in the broadcasting space seems like they could start pivoting into various areas.

I didn't know sirirusXM was still popular especially with their tech.

What are some companies you guys noticed have been making a big pivot, culture shift, etc related to engineering?

So, I am a software engineering student (done with sophomore year) who doesn't want to go into frontend, backend, full-stack, QA, data analysis, AI/ML and automation (I secretly despise AI 🤫) because of obvious reasons; saturation, AI eating up jobs, and lack of interest.

The purpose of this post is to discuss stable and entry-level friendly career paths in the cs field (maybe interdisciplinary) that one can go into if they don't want to go into the above ones.

One of my suggestions is infrastructure, cloud, and devops, but they are not very entry-level friendly. What's the workaround to this? We also have technologies like everything-to-grid and renewable energy systems that need cs people. Then, there's quantum computing as well. I am quite interested in it. But it's mostly in the R&D phase right now.

I believe that the we can battle the cs job market crisis by creating opportunities for individuals in these kind of fields.

A lot of money has gone into my degree and I have studied hard my whole life to get into a good university and build a stable career. But right now, I am at the verge of breaking down due to the current job market situation.

This industry makes me feel sick. It kinda feels like it's like dealing with someone with serious addiction issues. No surprise there I guess, Elon Musk is an addict and sitting at the top.

Okay. DAE hate the amount of doublespeak that is present in the industry? It literally feels like, what the industry says that it is, versus what it actually is, is so different as to be stomach turning. They also don't understand engineering AT ALL. They equate knowing things with engineering skill, and as if the true know-how of engineering was owned by the businesses. And to be fair... Google DOES probably own a lot of engineering skill, in both employees and infrastructure.

But engineering is something that is so totally different and more creative than hiring pipelines account for. I am venting. I find it really hard to write a resume that I feel is maximum optimized without losing what is valuable about me as a member of an engineering / product making organization.

I also do find it funny, that so much of what modern organizational culture IS, is basically MBAs trying to engineer business, which of COURSE means that they will try to engineer engineering itself. lol

Thanks

My employer doesn't give me enough tokens to get through a month's worth of work. I'm slower, less efficient, and I think my perf reviews will be worse since I can't deliver more.

I am one right now.

I’m not supposed to be in this company. It has been two months since going back.

Got hired in December to a large Telecom company and had a string of bad performances from January to early march then Infound my shit together. Like I had 6-7 weeks of no bad output and I adjusted. Then April 13, I was let go due to the bad performances That happened 6-7 weeks ago!

What I did not like was this. Yes maybe Indeserved it but I was never given a chance to prove myself. Even my friend who found out said “They should have given you KPIs if they were gonna fail you”. Like no paper or email trail that warned me I was at risk of failing probation. My friend had a poor coworker also but that coworker was told to meet these KPIs by this date or he is out. He chose to resign. I was never given that option to improve and make a judgment. I disclosed my disability that moment because I was panicking but my boss and the HR manager dismissed it as an excuse.

What I decided to do was really shitty but I did not think I would ever go back to the company again. I used my mom’s contact of the executive to make him know of what happened. His reply was “I am sorry he had to go through that. Usually people should be given KPIs if they are poor performers and a chance to improve. I will have the HR change your son’s status to resigned in our database.” There that was the end. I moved on from the company.

Two months later I was struggling to find a job. Then the HR head of the telecom company messaged and sent an email to me. He told me I can apply back and get an interview to these positions as long as they are not in the same department as me. I decided to take that chance.

Now I’m a Data Analyst at the Fiancne department. I encountered my old boss and it was awkward. The thing is I have a bad moment walking to the HR office every time I need something from them. The HR manager who oversaw my termination somehow looks at me with a glare that makes me uncomfortable and Inthonk other HR people share a similar sentiment.

I just wanted to get a job. Maybe Inshould just resign and make everyone happy. I’m doing okay with my new boss but still, I’m a shady exception who does not deserve to be here.

I've been working at this place for several months now (my first real cs job) and i started very motivated and with great expectations.

Just for context, I work in a small company with roughly 15 developers where the team lead pretty much runs the entire dev team. The man is in his 50s with decades of experience. He is also the only person who can merge code to the main branch and he is the only one who does code reviews for the entire team.

The situation is so bad that doesn't even read the code anymore. I send him a PR for review, he lets his ai agent review the code, it comes up with whatever it comes up, sometimes actual bugs and findings, but the vast majority of the time it's just nitpicks so minor that are basically a huge waste of time and money. If I just fix the comments the ai comes up with, he will automatically approve it, no questions asked.

Sometimes the ai is wrong and it simply does not accept my arguments. Then i have to ask him to step in, and when he does, he actually reads the code for the first time and starts questioning decisions that were made 2-3 weeks beforehand that he, supposedly, approved himself. Then he asks me to explain to him why his ai gave me the comments it gave me and it all really just spirals from there.

Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to just accept the ai proposal, even though it's wrong and just let code break, just so it gets merged and then fix it silently in another unrelated pr.

Bottom line is, my team lead's brain is completely rotten to the core. Every question i bring up to him, he asks his ai and forwards it to me. He has no idea what goes on in his code and trying to involve him in the decision making process becomes nearly impossible because he has no context. It all feels really shitty and a lot of the team members feel the same.

edit: Forgot to mention that the team lead is also my manager and i report directly to him. Above him is only the CTO.

Ok guys, Im needing some serious advice here, I’m navigating a completely different corporate landscape that I’m unfamiliar with and I need help. I’ve recently started at a new company made it through training and I just didn’t breeze through I had higher ups constantly talking with me and giving me tips, well here’s the thing at the end of our probationary period they switched the team I was on at the last minute. Ok no worries, well I had missed about an hour and a half because of an emergency with my pets, I was first told it was ok then that I needed to provide documentation. I did didn’t hear anything back. Fast forward until now well I get this txt from my immediate manger. last week I had tech issues which was a system issue on their end so I had “downtime” for about 14 hours total. Get this they tried to say they were not going to pay me for those hours even though I was productive during those times. they then said they didn’t have any proof that I was working, well I came back with the time stamps of everything and the email trail tracking my movements during the down time, so when the higher up managers said that “ I wouldn’t be paid for those hours “ I asked for legal documentation regarding why they would not be paying me for those hours, and that I wouldn’t be signing or adjusting any hours without that well all hell literally broke loose. my immediate manager told me she would handle it. Then she txted me later after saying that she had basically had to fight for me to get those hours and when I pressed it she vaigley responded that it would affect team metrics that she was responsible for. And that she was just glad that we both still had a job, like what ! Now I know I definitely have rustled some feathers which I’m unsure how since I was well liked out of training. But I’ve definitely noticed a shift I need advice that’s actionable. If this helps I did recently Ask HR for an accommodation. Any advice helps.

Junior here and looking to get internships lined up for summer next year. Obviously it's kind of late but I wanted to ask: where does one even start with learning DSA? I've honestly just been spamming the heck out of NeetCode 150, but it's more so just been trying the question, and then checking the solution, and keeping going. I fear that I'm not really going to remember any of this later... Are there structured playlists or something that take you through everything one would need to know?

I've worked at Senior level roles for four years of my career, with eight years of total experience. I had to turn down multiple offers for other Senior level roles at the time.

For the past year I built a startup as an independent founder. The company really never saw any real metrics and I had to abandon it due to financial reasons and major life changes.

During the past month I've been applying to Senior level roles. I have about a 92% rejection rate over 160 applications. I still have not landed any offers, and multiple times have been told I could be considered for mid level roles.

What's going on in the industry? Has the bar for Senior level really jumped that high?

Disclaimer: I used AI to help me translate the text, as English is not my native language

I’d like to hear some opinions about my current situation, especially from people who have been through something similar. I’m trying to understand if there’s a reasonable way to deal with this kind of work environment or if I should simply move on.

For context, I’m a developer with around 10 years of experience and I work in Italy.

I’m currently part of a startup that is actually controlled by a large corporation

About three years ago, the PM (who has very little IT knowledge) hired a Tech Lead to manage a team of external consultants. Eventually the relationship with the consultants deteriorated pretty badly and the company decided to get rid of them.

After they got rid of the consultants they started hiring internal developers, which is when I joined.

It became pretty obvious to me early on that the Tech Lead doesn’t have much technical experience. From what I can tell, most of his background is in C# and databases, and even there he sometimes comes up with things that leave me genuinely confused, like suggesting that we should put basically all of our business logic into stored procedures (because he did that before).

Anyway, since joining I’ve ended up taking responsibility for pretty much all of the actual development. The stack is mainly Spring Boot and Vue.

The technical side itself isn’t really the problem, though.

The problem is his attitude.

He’s very arrogant and condescending and constantly wants to have a say in every technical decision. Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with a Tech Lead challenging my decisions but he has barely looked at the codebase and, in my opinion, simply doesn’t have the experience needed to suggest better solutions. Lately he started using codex to suggest things I should and to add slop to jira tickets (he wants to show to the PM that he's working hard, when he actually just sits the entire day watching youtube and scrolling instagram)

At this stage I’m just getting tired of having to listen to someone above me confidently say things that make very little sense and then insist that he’s right.

The PM obviously sides with him, and I don’t really want to spend my working days arguing with them. At the same time, someone still has to actually build and maintain the software, so I usually end up just doing the work.

How would you handle this situation?

Is there any point in trying to make this kind of relationship work, or if you genuinely think your Tech Lead is incompetent and management fully supports him, is it simply time to start looking for another job?

And what are your experiences? To me, it seems that the tech job market here is just not that good for a city of its size, compared to SF, NYC, Seattle, etc. There’s a lot more job postings and diversity of jobs in the aforementioned cities. A lot of manufacturing-adjacent software companies too in Boston that are looking for a very specific skill set. It’s not exactly my niche and I’m looking to expand my search to the West Coast.

For transparency, I'm not a programmer, I'm just in the tech career space , business analyst / operations analyst / project coordinator.

Not sure what to do at this point tbh. I was laid off from my first job out of college and I only had 1 year and 10 months of experience.

I wasn't managed well and was even being managed out by a manager who got fired after I gave HR documentation on her behavior. Great, but now I'm left not really having an easy to sell career profile to find my next step. I've been looking for 10 months and even with highlighting transferrable skills, Im not selling myself to people enough apparently. I get some interviews but nothing has gone through yet as far as getting offers.

I loose to people with more or different experience is what I'm told when I can get feedback.. With Fall coming I am looking for and applying to all of the career development / rotational programs I qualify for (So if they don't ask that I graduated this year) cause I feel like my best bet is getting in somewhere where I can learn a skillset and maybe be competitive in someone's eyes because of my experience and not too experienced. Would really appreciate any help / advice.

TLDR; Got fired thrice in the last 3 years working for 2 seed stage startups and one small enterprise company. My latest company fired me saying they can't trust me to own the product while I had difficulties understanding the product since it has like 3 different versions of it being used by different teams with 3 different debugging environments to access when on call and I wasn't known across the floor in the company which was a fireable offense by skip level. I interacted with 3 teams but that didn't seem enough. I'm sorry for the bad english this is from my phone.

Hey guys, I didn't work for any name brand companies and my experience was pretty much at 2 remote startups and an enterprise company but my career trajectory is very bad right now with significant paycuts just to stay in the game and I'm looking for advice since I'm losing my mind and I'm a junior engineer who is a 2023 grad and a AI Engineer working mainly with RAG. My salary was above market as well despite these small companies.

First let me explain the reasons for firing in each company,

1st company : It was a 60 person startup which only has about 20 employees now that took me in as an intern and converted me full time. The company has been periodically laying off due to whatever reason and when my number came up, my boss told me I am being let go despite earning a top performance rating 6 months ago saying he wanted a much more senior employee for the remaining job responsibilities.

I went into depression (I didn't even realise it) after losing this job and landed another job at a small company with about 6 employees which is my second company after a grueling 5 months job search

2nd company : The CTO told me my technical skills need a lot more improvement and they fired me within 2 months saying this feature would have taken him like 1 week to implement but I spent a month on it. I barely understood the codebase and kept winging it tbh he wouldn't even give me a proper KT and wanted me to read his mind. I kept him in the loop of what I'm doing and where I'm stuck as well a lot of times.

3rd company: 3k employees, It happened a few weeks ago. The company was going through losses from April so I kind of expected this. The boss and super boss were behind me all the time in this company where they gave me an AI based codebase Which I couldn't just wrap my head around considering how it had 3 different versions each version different between each other and being used actively with 3 different debugging environments which I had trouble keeping up despite taking notes.

In this role my skip level went ham on me and told me you can't be an introvert in this role despite me going for every single after party in the company along with interacting with my teammates constantly going to the office when not required (it was hybrid but I went regularly) the skip level pretty much told me it would be better if almost all of the floor knew me while I was drowning in work and I kept struggling to build relationships while working on this codebase fully individually since my manager built the codebase and none of my teammates had any idea and my manager was a new manager under constant stress so he was pretty much inapproachable.

Should I quit tech after this I had to solve 800 leetcode problems when I was in uni until about 2023 and grinded it last year as well but being fired from startups or a small enterprise company feels like the end of my career. I am still getting interviews and I'm actively interviewing but I'm worried about my career since I'm 3 years out of school and still stuck as a junior jumping between 3 companies with 2 4 months gap in between. My latest gig just ended 15 days ago but I've been interviewing since June hopefully something sticks since I'm in the final rounds of a few consulting companies like BCG etc

swe in ai/ml at faang for 1.5 years, quit bc of bad wlb/general dissatisfaction. was fortunate enough to land at T2 hedge fund after a brutal 10 month search.

wondering how the gap will affect my career.

thanks