This career , this field . Is now reduced to "networks" and again I am specifying it's not computer networks but human networks.

whose protocol is : ambiguity , and 'figure out somehow' .

Plus AI has crushed it.

Right now, Those senior devs, who have networks will only survive, for rest it's done and dusted .

hey guys, I am just going to start with 4 LPA job soon, and it’s witch company. Now I have seen my family members moving from 3.5 LPA to 30 and 50+ LPA salaries in Amazon , jpmc / Morgan etc ,but the thing is, it was around 2021-22 era. post AI, I am thinking that it’s very hard as a fresher. Is my life doomed???

What I am doing :

- 1700+ in lc
- coding backend stuff from scratch
- learning go and py
- doing codeforces
- know agentic ai

I'm scared and everyday feels suffocating.

I left a well known startup to join JPMC as a software engineer. It's been 3.5 months and I am sick of how toxic and slow the work has become. I was put in a new team which does not even sit in my office and everyone was put under an urgent project and told by the manager to "figure it out". 12-14 hours of work everyday, so much beaurocracy, chasing people over text and email, getting yelled at by the manager who does not care about you, and seeing my peers getting removed from the team who joined with me because they weren't able to "figure it out".

It's been hell. No one in the interview panel or team matching told me about this. I was told that I will be joining a different manager with an existing team. My reporting was changed 3 times in the first month. Manager finds it normal to text you at 10pm asking for updates.

My old startup sometimes had long hours but only on important releases, and I used to find that toxic but now that seems like heaven to me. I only left because of money. I am making enough money now but I hate waking up everyday to go to work. I feel mentally exhausted and physically my body shakes at the thought of going to work.

Should I resign? Should I go back to the old company? My EM told me when I left that the doors are always open. My TL from the old company still says to come back. Life is hell in this bank. I was making an impact in the startup, releasing big features, everyone respected me. Here I am being treated like an insect. I feel like resigning without even talking to my old company at this point.

I started out of a tier 3 college and knew nothing about coding or development. I only got into the industry because of the IT boom and I still feel grateful about it.

Since then, I’ve been laid off twice and gone through a lot of mental turmoil. There were a lot of moments of self doubt and times when I felt completely down. But I kept upskilling and, more importantly, I didn’t give up.

Eventually, I got into a US retail giant and worked there for 2 years. I learned a lot during those 2 years and it helped me grow a lot as an engineer.

I’ve recently joined Walmart as an SDE-3.

I’m writing this to tell you that it will happen for you as well.

Always be optimistic and consistently work towards your goals. It will not be easy. There will be times when you doubt yourself, feel alone, feel stuck or feel like nothing is working out.

All I want to say is just don’t give up.

If someone who knew almost nothing about coding when they started can be where I am right now, anybody can do it.

Also, I’m open to helping anyone who is currently struggling to either get into the market, switch into a better company, or is just looking for some good career advice.

Hit me up and I’ll be glad to help.

To understand your situation better and give you advice that’s actually relevant to you, please mention whether you’re a student or working professional, what you’re currently doing, and what exactly you’re looking for help with.

Im a 26 yr unemployed guy looking for job since last year when i graduated from master's in data science since then I've spent 3,4 months looking for a data analyst role, didn't got any chance to sit in interviews because of no experience, for the next 5,6 months learnt development tried my luck again got an unpaid internship without any full time conversion and when i further applied to jobs they told me they are looking for someone with knowledge in some ai engineering skills then i learnt about langchain, langraph, agentic systems and all and after all these things now they told me i need to have a product with real paying users as my project after some more months i will be 27 without any job idk what will happen of me Idk what else does these people really wants in a fresher.

I work for a large European Insurance Company with a GCC in India.

The problem is that there are two roles one is FTE and one is contract through third party. Because of my salary which was beyond their pay scale they made me join through a third party company. Just because of that they ask us to work on a VDI. The only good thing about that VDI is they hosted the server in Mumbai and from Hyderabad where I sit the ping is hardly 25 ms. So the latency is barely noticeable.

But because of their shitty policies they want everything to go through their zScaler proxy and deep packet inspection. They even have multiple web applications including our application hosted on AWS with a root CA. So even testing something on the web application is extremely difficult half the time shit times out.

Then what do I even say about git and other terminal commands you can't even use them without a simple terminal open taking more than 3 seconds. I investigated a bit and I think it has something to do with the VDI having extremely shitty storage which times out easily.

Other Dev's since the whole team is mostly contractors is not facing that much of an issue. I know the reason why without trying to brag much they simply don't use terminal commands and type slowly. I am not that vim motions expert guy but few Dev's who have seen me work were pretty much shocked by my speed of execution because I use only the keyboard and I do type at 100 WPM +. I am a long timer in the company and it's kind of expected from me. But these days it's getting on my nerves. I actually used to work on a mac before this, and I kid you not even without claude I use to be able to deliver faster. Half my time goes in switching branches or testing a functionality or deploying code.

It's extremely irritating to work on this stupid vdi setup. I have tried asking for a better config local laptop but all they did was upgraded my ram to 32 GB which absolutely did nothing.

I am thinking of putting my papers now because it's so irritating that while I could be doing so much at least 30-40% time is going on loading screens. On top of that there is so much pressure to work on weekends

It would be funny that someone is resigning only because of such a stupid issue.

I know someone might comment that if you are typing code like a monkey you are doing it wrong and I would 100% agree with them , but this stupid management is pushing 100s of changes andvwe don't get time other than to become a coding monkey.

I recently came across the /shake skill in the omp agent (omp.sh), which strips out bloated tool calls and command outputs while preserving all the warnings and errors.

With the Google AI Pro subscription being fairly popular here in India, I know a lot of folks are using the Antigravity IDE, so I decided to implement this feature for it.

The motivation: Standard context compaction/summarization is inherently lossy. I’ve noticed severe performance degradation when coding sessions get too long, and /shake feels like the perfect middle ground because:

1. Zero context loss: You can continue long sessions without the model forgetting key decisions or nuance.
2. Clean exports: It gives you a lightweight, "clean" copy of the entire chat history.

EDIT: Made a lot of changes since the original post. Updating the details so people get the current state.

The skill is now much more solid:

• In-place rewrite of the active transcript.jsonl (same inode, proper file locking + fsync). You stay in the exact same chat tab — no new conversation, no re-explaining context.

• Two modes:

- /shake → zero-loss. Keeps 100% of your prompts, all assistant reasoning/thoughts, and error traces. Only the noisy tool output gets pruned.

- /full-shake → deeper compaction. Same as above but drops older thinking blocks (keeps last 20 turns of thoughts). On long threads this easily saves another 400–500 KB.

• Background PreInvocation hook that auto-triggers when the session crosses \~200k tokens. You don’t even have to remember to run it.

• Pure Rust binary (Linux x86_64, macOS Universal, Windows).

• Proper security hardening (path allowlists, exclusive locks, ReDoS-immune scanning, fail-open so it never bricks a session).

Real numbers from a long session:

Before → After /shake

Disk size: 1.4 MB → 470 KB

Est. tokens: \~420k → \~145k

Rewrite time: <10 ms

Active working window (last 6 tool steps) is left completely untouched so current momentum isn’t broken.

Repo (updated): https://github.com/shitan198u/antigravity-shake-skill

One-liner install:

Linux / macOS:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shitan198u/antigravity-shake-skill/main/install.sh | bash

Windows:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shitan198u/antigravity-shake-skill/main/install.ps1 | iex

Then just type /shake or /full-shake in any long session (make sure to reopen in order to load this skill)

Would love feedback from anyone else fighting context rot in Antigravity.

Do star the repo if you found this useful. Also working on vscode extension for the same which will wrap this tool and make installation simpler.

When you look around yourself - it feels like sometimes, you're the only person who can't land a position. Endless upskilling, endless applying. it's all so difficult

There are rumours going around in our GCC that discussions and assessments are underway to move the development, QA and business analyst teams back to a service-based company, while keeping only some key business-facing and product management roles within the GCC.

Apparently, once the GCC crossed 3–4K employees, it became difficult to manage and started looking more like another service-based company.

Has anyone seen a similar trend in their GCC?

I have been working at a Big Tech company for about a year, but the pressure, expectations and imposter syndrome have been getting to me.

I’m thinking about eventually moving to a smaller company, even if it means taking a pay cut. I don’t have an offer right now, just considering whether a less demanding environment might be better for me.

Has anyone made a similar move after around 1 year in Big Tech? Was taking a pay cut worth it ?

My friend was telling me about their manager showing the median number of pull requests and lines of code changed by engineers at their level in the org within first 2 month of joining, and that they are below the median, indicating that they are not up to the mark

I felt there are 2 issues with this method of evaluation :

1. How much correlation is really there between PR count and engineering impact

2. Expecting everyone to be above median seems unrealistic, statistically 50% people will be below the median. If he was concerned about someone being in the bottom 25%ile it would make sense to some extent, but below median sounds atrocious.

I’m also wondering now if all managers use such metrics behind the scenes to evaluate their engineers and only this manager is open about it.

Would love to hear everyone experiences and thoughts on this.

I resigned from my previous job as the work was very repetitive. Initially for first 6 months i learned a lot but then it plateaued.
Now last 30 days of my notice period remains with no offer letter and very handful of interviews. Anyone knows how to deal with the situation or can help me get referrals?

Backend Engineer ~2Yrs of exp
Python/Django/AWS/flutter
(photo just for better reach)

As title suggested, I was one of the top performers last year, got the appraisal delayed for 6 months. Resigned, retained and after 10 months (now) pipped.

Feeling a little sad. I’m out of practice for interviews as in these 10 months I got married and started a stable life.

What should be my next steps? Manager and everyone knows me well but I guess it is time to move on??

FYI. 5.8YOE, 27L TC.

Just had a technical round that I am still cringing about, and I need to know if anyone else has done this.

For background, I have about 3 years of backend experience. For this interview, I spent weeks grinding advanced Python concepts, Django architecture, Redis caching, SQL tuning, and production deployment strategies. I felt completely ready for the heavy-hitting system questions.

Then the technical round started. The interviewer asked me to write a simple list comprehension and a basic context manager.

My brain completely flatlined.

I know these concepts. I use them. But because I hadn't explicitly revised the absolute basics, I just sat there stunned. To make it worse, when I finally tried to write the list comprehension, I got a syntax error because I literally forgot to put the square brackets around it.

I’m blaming my heavy reliance on AI coding agents. When your IDE auto-completes every bracket and __enter__/__exit__ method 100 times a day, your hands just forget the muscle memory when you're forced to write raw code under pressure. I can design a caching layer, but apparently, I can't write a one-liner without an AI agent holding my hand. If anything, this is how I feel AI is taking away jobs.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of AI-induced syntax amnesia? How do you guys prep to make sure you don't blank on the 101-level stuff while studying for the advanced topics?

P.S. Refined with AI but posted it same day after the interview. It was my first interview after almost a year.

Tired of trying every app website available. Applied everywhere and those career pages i dont think companies would even look at them. I am tired of applying already. And these people, y dont they refer ppl these days. Have they become so much heartless or what. That even in this kinda situation, no one gives a referral to ppl. Nobody replies. Every app website sucks. I just need a referral dude not some property of urss. I am just looking for a associate swe role and ppl think i am asking smtg so illegal or smtg that they don't even reply. Y is it like this. How do i keep faith anymore...

0 YOE - 3.6 LPA (Worked on repetitive task in Android)
1 YOE - 4.78 LPA (Working as Android & KMP with GoLang and managing read production app with over 300k users)

Both Remote

Its been 3 Months working here now i am applying to companies, an HR contacted me asking about my expectations i told him 10 LPA Base (Job is onsite) then he laughed said you are asking more than 100%.

In my first company i mentored an intern who landed his first job at YC backed startup as an Android Dev with 20+ LPA, i took his interview earlier and he is doing way better.

What’s wrong with me? I took small offer earlier? Or i was from a very small background?

This is the biggest project I’ve worked on so far, and I’ve learned a lot while building it.

What can it do?

Right now Jarvis has quite a few tools/features:

1. Voice interaction
   
2. I can interrupt Jarvis while it is speaking
   
3. Create files and folders, Read files, Write/update files
   
4. Open websites
   
5. Open applications
   
6. Create new projects from basic template

- React template

- Express/Node.js server template

1. OCR extract information from screenshots
   
2. Play songs through Spotify
   

3. Run terminal commands (I don't allow every command because safety comes first)

4. RAG based personal memory

- Search my personal vector database

- Retrieve relevant information

- Use that information to answer questions

1. Continuous monitoring
   
2. Face detection and identification
   
3. Identify someone from a newly captured picture when continuous monitoring is off
   
4. Identify the current person directly from currentPerson.json when continuous monitoring is running
   
5. Face registration using multiple poses: Center , Left , Right , Up , Down
   
6. Manual face registration is also supported

For registration, I calculate the pose using face landmarks from the eyes and nose rather than just asking the person to move randomly.

It's definitely not perfect One of the problems I'm currently dealing with is the smaller local LLM I'm using. I'm running Qwen3 1.7B because my hardware is pretty limited. Sometimes it makes mistakes when deciding which tool it should call. For example, in video when i ask Who is in front of you? instead of actually calling my face identification tool, it will simply respond that the person in front of it has been identified.

So there are definitely still plenty of things that need fixing.

But honestly, I'm pretty happy with it considering this is my first project of this size.

There are a lot more things I want Jarvis to do.

One of my ideas is to make it respond differently depending on who is standing in front of it. For example, if Jarvis recognizes someone, it could use the personal memory associated with that person when answering.

The problem is that running:

Continuous vision + LLM + Whisper STT + TTS

at the same time is already pushing my PC pretty hard.I have a GTX 1650 4GB, so there's only so much I can throw at it.

So for now i can only improve the UI and polishing what I already have.

For example, I'm currently working on things like:

- A camera panel that comes down from the top when face registration starts
- Displaying what Jarvis is currently saying as text

Eventually, when I have better hardware, I'd really like to come back to this project and push it much further.

For now, I'm just enjoying building it and learning along the way.

Would you actually use an offline assistant like this? And what feature would you add next?

So i completed my B.e last month jn IT and m applying to multiple jobs but i think i am not that of a cracked coder to get off campus job without referrals.

As i have told my peers also for references but they have been keeping me on hold and this sitting back at home is not being good for me. As i am also trying to to enhance my skills in a better way,

So for experience should i get into this senior technical support executive in infosys as i can switch later and i wont be home sitting + i can do ijp also + some corporate networking

Please help

Hello I have offers from Infy and tcs which one should I join?

Current CTC: 17

Yoe: 5

Tech: Salesforce

Infy has 3days wfo vs TCS which is 5 days (not that I mind)

In hand Infy will be less by around 10k because of high pf deduction compared to tcs.

Please suggest considering everything.

8 years of experience(Android Lead), currently at \~14 LPA. Been in the same company for 4 years and I think I got too comfortable.
I’ve been applying for 1+ year but barely getting interviews. Referrals are also hard to find.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong — resume, skills, salary expectations, or the current market?
For someone with 8 YOE, what would someone do in my situation? Should I focus on AI/LLM/RAG role or go for broader software roles?
Any practical advice would be appreciated.

Hey guys I've graduated with a BTech in 2021. Since graduation, I've been working as a **graphic designer**.

I've tried getting into tech a few times over the years — learned the basics of **MERN, DevOps and automation**, but never stuck with one path long enough or built any strong projects.

Now I genuinely want to make the switch to software development, but I'm unsure where to start and whether I'm already too late.

For people who have made a similar switch or are working in the industry:

- What would you recommend I focus on now?

- Should I go with MERN/full-stack or something else?

- How important are DSA and projects for someone in my situation?

- Should I target internships/junior roles despite having work experience in another field?

Would really appreciate some honest advice on what you'd do if you were in my position.

Thanks!

My CCTC was 25 lpa (20 fixed + 4 variable) then (5 yoe I've). Into Cloud, DevOps, SRE.

Received multiple offers. The one I finalised was from a telecom firm (you can guess the name easily - #1 or #2 in the world) with 60% hike (similar role to my prev org) - 34 fixed + 4 variable + 1.5 lks = Reloc = 40 LPA. It's a ramping-up GCC. And, then last moment of my NP, the fintech startup (with 3rd party payroll) came up with a compensation higher by 7 lakhs than the TC firm (45 + 3 lakhs JB). I also felt the role is challenging, and it's a 20% similar role to my prev org. I went with the fintech firm! They offered a JB with 1 yr clawback.

Been a couple of months, I regret a lot.

1. This is a full-remote role, half of team members don't reply in less than 6-7 hrs. They have dependency. Most of the team is in Middle-east & Europe. (Prev org was full WFO)
2. This is a vendor payroll. I used to manage vendors in my prev org :(
3. Anything you do - good & bad goes across the org!
4. WLB is actually ok (7 hrs of work excluding breaks), but in my previous org, it was 4-5 hrs/day!
5. I'm the youngest in the team, no much KTs were given.
6. Lead is empathetic, but I don't know how much he can tolerate.
7. Learning wise - this is lit.
8. No hikes for first 2 yrs (I thought I can switch in a year safeguarding the JB)

For me 7 lkhs diff (50k/month post tax) is a significant number! But, now, I am in a decision-making loop. I'm the sole breadwinner of my family!

Now, I feel we should not move from massive enterprise orgs to a start-up/scale-up companies !! I don't have Mtech/PG, I did my btech from a tier-3 clg in Mech. Now, I am worried if the brand value of the prev org (non FAANG) should not have been compromised :(

I don't know if I just got lazy in the previous org..

How did you guys handle such, if any !?

I'm a 2026 B.Tech CSE graduate with a TCS Digital offer (₹7.09 LPA), but haven't received my joining yet due to the delays.

My background is Java/Spring Boot/backend development. I've also recently appeared for IBPS SO IT Officer Prelims and am considering applying for IBPS RRB Officer Scale-I in Odisha.

I'm confused about which path to prioritize long-term.

Tech obviously has much higher earning potential, but I'm concerned about job-market uncertainty, layoffs, constant upskilling and the competition needed to reach higher salaries.

Banking seems more stable, and staying in my home state is attractive to me, but I don't know enough about the actual work pressure, targets, transfers, working hours and career growth.

For people currently working in RRBs/PSBs:

Would you recommend RRB Scale-I as a primary career over continuing in IT, especially for someone who values stability, work-life balance and staying closer to home over maximum salary?

Would really appreciate honest first-hand experiences, including the negatives.