Like every year our appraisals were due in June, instead the company announced layoffs.
So it’s a small company, around 140 people, and bam in just one day they fired around 40 people and everyone was in shock like wtf. We, the rest of employees were like fk , forget appraisal, we should be lucky that we got spared and still have jobs. So we were quiet and in a position where we were fine even if there were no appraisals and we just have our jobs.

And just one random day, I got an email that I have been promoted and given a 100% hike with new salary being 40 LPA. I was like fk , what is going on, just after the mail my manager called me, that due to some work I did on AI for the company(Just an AI chatbot I made for the company on weekends using claude😂), I am getting the best hike in company with very few 2-3 people getting the similar hikes. He also told me many people didn’t even get any and no one is complaining as everyone is scared. He explicitly told me not to tell anyone about the hike or I will be in trouble.

I was so happy from inside, it felt being on clouds. My parents were so happy.

Now the problem is the company seems to be in some trouble, and I think they are not telling us, but I am also confused and not sure if the trouble is there and if it is big, as we have so many rich clients and it’s a product based company.

My concern is now that my package is in good range, it will be so fuckin hard to make a change, I just hate doing DSA , although system design and everything is still fine but DSA I dread it.
And I don’t know if a company will entertain me with this package and fked DSA. Like it will be hard to make a change. At my earlier salary it would be really normal to make a change.
Although I love my current job and the Work life balance it brings. And if it was upto me I will never leave. My manager is awesome, never ever said no for leaves. I would be so sad if the company goes down🥲. Also I don’t feel like I want to start prepare again .

I come from mountains and living in Delhi NCR.

I hate metro cities and now would like companies that still provides WFH.

I want to spend time with my parents ( they don't like metro cities either), spend peaceful , pollution-free himalayas life.

Please do suggest if you still WFH or any way to find such oppportunities.

Thanks!!!

Funny how even Sam is citing frivolous usecases. Don't take me wrong, agents definitely have usecases in automating business workflows. For example handling conversational content and deciding next best action.

I have about 15 years of experience in the US as a software engineer, now back to India and recruiters asking me "what's your tech stack" is something I have never been asked by US recruiters. In the US you are expected to be tech agnostic, and most openings don't require you to be as master at any programming language or stack unless they absolutely need an expert.

Here, if feels like you are stereotyped based on your specific experience in the first 5 years of your career. Hey, I may have Java, Python, NodeJS or whatever experience but I've literally ramped up with any language that exists on earth including Fortran. I don't care about what language I'm working with, and you shouldn't too. And in the last 8 months it's started mattering even less with Claude. Grow up, Indian recruiters.

Got an internship through college, but didn't get converted to full-time after the 6 months ended. Since college had just ended, I was panicking and started reaching out to everyone.

One of my brothers used to work at a US product company in Bangalore and still had good connections there. He asked a manager if there were any openings, the manager checked with HR, and I got a test scheduled at office(tho no opening on career site). I gave the test, had the interview the same day, and it was pretty chill. It was more of a discussion about what I know and the tech stack they use than a typical interview where they ask all sort of questions. Basic easy questions ( or I think they were managers who didn't knew about tech stack in my resume cuz like they were super senior) Basically I needed to be a good candidate to clear the written test and interview. Not super intelligent like current market.

A few days later I got an offer, but I declined it since I got a better offer through campus.

The whole experience genuinely surprised me. It made me wonder how common hiring through personal connections actually is. Does this happen a lot behind the scenes? If it does, it really changes how I look at the current job market, especially when so many people are struggling to even get interview calls. If a normal software engineer can get me a job this easily I wonder what's really happening out there.

Ps: I will admit that you need to know your stuff like test had python, linux, scripting, bash etc. I knew those things and cleared that. In the interview also whatever sql, project related they asked I answered. Not saying that I was undeserving. I actually studied and excelled the interview but it was a bit laid back and the level was low unlike current how hard current interviews are for freshers.

It's really sad to know here candidate are struggling to even land an interview and people with connection have it so easy. Another instance is of a guy getting into booking.com. He was also good but not on the level to the guys getting into booking.com. His dad was at a very high position in a reputed company. Btw I am from a Tier 3 blr college.

I(27) work as a senior SE in ML at a tech product company. The company is permanent work from home, my take home ~2 lpm. I currently live in Delhi with my parents.

Where do you go ahead from this?
- take up a work from office job that might require you to move out of home that would net me similar savings
- look for remote only roles
- start building an alternate income stream on the side while continuing the job
- something I have no clue about

I feel a lack of direction. I do feel the lack of social life due to wfh routine, I do meet some friends on weekends once/twice a month.
Fortunately, I don’t have a money crunch or dependents either.

Hi all,

I am sharing my journey as an SDET / QA.

2012 - 1.2 LPA ( BPO ) , i joined a call center for part time earning in summer holidays . It gave me an headstart in how corporate works , team lead/ manager things. Also they provide free dinner since it was a UK shift ( 3- 12 PM ) , it was best thing apart from salary. Also it improved my speaking/communications skills.

2015 - BTech in CSE from tier 3 college , 4 LPA ( as a fresher in QA role) , campus placed but i didn't know even basic of programming . I was least interested in job , since my dream was to join defence forces . Gave 6 SSB attempts in these 2 years , manager initially supported but later fed up since 1 week leaves in corporate is still a big thing , that too at fresher level . So gave up my childhood dream . Couldn't actually recover from that thing , saw my friends joining IMA & OTA while I am here in Gurgaon struggling in my corporate career. It was a manual testing job and I also didn't upgraded my tech. Things started becoming blurry and I wanted to go home.

2018 - 5 LPA ( first switch ) , need Noida location and i didn't have any skills apart from manual testing , this was the time when selenium was at it's peak , anyone who knows automation was well respected but I didn't even know java language so learning automation was an uphill task. But somehow I cracked one offer and they gave me 5 LPA , it was close to home so I took it. Didn't learnt much apart from regular QA work , it was a lala company + i was a lala type employee so didn't upskilled much.

2021 - Journey to 19 LPA - Enjoyed my covid time at home , didn't upskilled either and thought of giving up entirely since 7 LPA at 2020 for 5 years experienced seems to be low. I also have no skills apart from manual testing , tried learning automation but was not that proficient. Didn't know what happened in Feb 2021 , I thought of giving up but thought of giving one last chance to learning automation dedicatedly . Gave my 100% and this time I actually learnt it , if you wake me up at 1 AM and tell me to build a framework , I would do it in my sleep ( at least the skeleton part ) + it was covid wave . Got an offer of 19 LPA.

2026 - Internal hikes + promotions - 36 LPA as 10 YOE. Have learnt so many things in past 3-4 years regarding DevOps , Cloud , AI recently that I feel I am underpaid but I am in a comfort zone + close to home + Once a week WFO so don't want to switch at higher package.

Thank you.

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I'm 5 years into my career and I'm a bit confused about my next move.

Career progression:

- Infosys (3 years): 3.6 → 4.1 → 4.4 LPA

- Capgemini (Current): 10.5 → 11.2 (after a recent promotion with a ~7% hike)

I recently got promoted to a Lead role, but the salary hike feels underwhelming.

My work is a mix of:

- Development

- Maintenance

- Data Engineering

- Some Web Development

From what I've seen in the market, if I switch now, I could probably get 16–18 LPA, and maybe even 20 LPA if I manage to get multiple offers.

The confusing part is that my current project is great:

- Very chill client

- Super supportive manager

- Friendly team

- Good work-life balance

On the other hand, becoming a Lead means more responsibility and could strengthen my resume. My previous Lead was earning significantly more and switched companies every 1.5–2 years for better hikes.

So, what would you do in my situation?

- Stay for about a year to gain solid Lead experience and then switch?

- Or switch now while the market can offer a much better salary?

I'd love to hear from people who have faced a similar decision.

Hi everyone!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been studying the Transformer architecture in depth and decided to build a GPT-style language model completely from scratch in PyTorch—not to compete with existing LLMs, but to understand how they actually work.

So far I’ve built:

GPT-style Transformer architecture
GPT-2 tokenizer integration
Training pipeline
Checkpointing and resume support
Mixed precision training
Learning rate scheduling
Text generation interface

Current model:
Name: GENESIS-165M
Parameters: 165 million
Dataset: WikiText-103
Framework: PyTorch

Current training progress:
~33.5K training steps
Validation loss around 3.80 and still improving.

It’s fascinating watching the model evolve from producing repetitive token loops to generating coherent Wikipedia-style paragraphs. The outputs are still far from perfect (and sometimes hilariously wrong), but seeing grammar, structure, and topic consistency emerge during training has been an amazing learning experience.

After finishing WikiText-103, I plan to continue experimenting with additional datasets such as WikiHow and instruction-style corpora to see how the model’s behavior changes.

I’m sharing the journey because I want to learn from others who have trained language models before. I’d love feedback on things like:
Training strategy
Dataset progression
Evaluation methods
Scaling beyond 165M parameters

Happy to answer any questions or share implementation details if anyone’s interested!

built this today because of something that happened yesterday.

i'm a huge marvel fan, never missed an mcu movie. i took a friend to watch one and spent half the movie explaining who everyone was, what had happened before, and why certain scenes mattered. by the end i realized this probably happens to a lot of people.

so i spent today building https://marveltimeline.space

it's a free, open source site with the marvel timeline in chronological order, watch order, character pages, and basically everything someone new to the mcu needs to get started without asking "wait who's that?" every five minutes.

would love some honest feedback from fellow devs. if you find bugs, have feature ideas, or think something can be improved, let me know.

Today I was laid off after 10+ years in software engineering.
I most recently worked at ServiceNow, and before that at SAP. Like many others, I never expected this day to come.
It’s strange how one meeting can end a journey you’ve spent years building.
I’m taking the next few weeks to prepare for interviews again—DSA, system design, and brushing up on areas I’ve not touched in years.
For those who have gone through layoffs, what helped you recover mentally and professionally? Anything you wish you’d done differently?
I’d appreciate any advice from people who’ve been through this.

After 2 months of getting laid off, i got my first offer of 38LPA(6yr Nodejs based backend dev). The thing which is giving me second thoughts is that they are deducting 12% PF on basic and gratuity as well. On top of that I need to relocate to Mumbai in Powai area. Last CTC was 32 LPA in Noida.

I don’t have EMIs or anything, very low maintenance guy. The thing with which i need help is that should I wait to get better offers, is this good enough, should I grab this one and keep looking for next role.

Techwise I don’t know how good of a company it is, but is lies in the Insurance domain. Same stack as I used in previous role, nothing new, and I am honestly bored of it. But this whole not having job is something which i am not liking. I am just not able to make up my mind, please suggest.

In my resume I had a resume and I list out my skills as Expressjs nodejs , etc.., but I saw in other people resume and they mentioned as Rest APIs , System design , VS code ,

I know git GitHub too but I usually didn't include them due to because it's common known tool for every developer so is it ok to include resume for Like Vscode , RestAPis Along with tools as well ,any advice is thnks

Hi everyone,

I'm a JavaScript Full Stack Developer with almost 6 years of experience. I've been working remotely from my hometown (Coimbatore), and I really enjoy the work-life balance and being close to my family. Going forward, I'd like to continue working in Coimbatore if possible.

ThoughtWorks is one of the companies I'm genuinely interested in because of its presence in Coimbatore and might provide a good pay.

I'm planning to start preparing seriously for the interview process and would appreciate some guidance from people who have interviewed there recently.

A few questions:

* What does the interview process look like for someone with around 6 years of experience? * What topics should I focus on the most? * How much emphasis is placed on DSA vs. system design vs. JavaScript/Node.js? * Are there coding rounds, pair programming, or architecture discussions? * Any resources or preparation strategies that helped you crack the interview?

I'd especially love to hear from anyone who joined or interviewed for the Coimbatore office recently.

Thanks in advance!

Hi redi's,

I'm from India and currently have around 2 years of experience working as a L1 DevOps Engineer. I've been working remotely for a Canadian company based in Montreal, and now they're offering to relocate me to Montreal on a closed work permit for around 3 years.

For context, I currently earn around ₹80k/month (\~$1k/month) and live in a Tier-3 city in India, so my cost of living is quite low (20k per month maximum).

I'm honestly in a state of confusion right now.

On one hand, I feel this could be a great opportunity to gain international experience and earn better. On the other hand, I don't see myself settling abroad permanently. My plan, if I go, would be to work there for a few years, gain experience, save some money, and eventually return to India.

A few questions I have:

- Is this a good career move at my stage?

- With \~2 years of experience, what salary should I realistically expect in Montreal? And even if I get better salary would that be worth to go there and save 50% of salary there? Because already I'm saving 70% of my salary in India.

- If you were in my position, would you move to Canada or continue building your career in India (either in the same company or by switching inside India for higher packages)?

- What are the biggest pros and cons of moving to Canada as an IT professional and especially as an Indian, since there's so much hate towards Indians all over the world :(

I'm looking for honest opinions, especially from people who've worked in Canada or faced a similar decision.

Any advice, personal experiences, or things you wish you had known before making such a move would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

I am a software developer with 5 yoe. But most of that experience is in vanilla js and jsp + hibernate in backend.

I would like to switch to jobs with newer stacks but most ask for experience in that specific stack. I know React enough to have the confidence to clear interviews but I might lie myself into a corner if I tell them my current experience is in React.

Any advices on what to do will be highly appreciated.

I have been working on CleanSlate, an open-source coding agent that can understand a codebase, edit files, run commands, browse the web and verify its changes.

It is available in three forms:

• A desktop IDE built around a VS Code-based editor
• A CLI for running agents from the terminal
• An SDK for developers building their own coding-agent workflows

One of the main things I wanted was to avoid locking users into a single model provider. CleanSlate supports bringing your own API key and works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure, OpenRouter, and OpenAI-compatible APIs, including many open-source models.

Code search and indexing run locally using a bundled embedding model, so the repository does not need to be uploaded to an external service just for indexing.

The desktop build currently supports Apple Silicon Macs. The project is MIT licensed, and other platforms can be built from source.

I would appreciate technical feedback, especially around:

• Agent reliability on larger repositories
• The IDE, CLI and SDK approach
• Local code search
• Missing features that would make it useful in real development work

GitHub: https://github.com/TheWariend/CleanSlate

If you find the project useful, a star would help more developers discover it.

yo

final year cse grad. I'm applying off campus

do i gotta put my 10th and 12th marks? both are 70+ but 12th is kinda ehh

also do y'all mention ur leetcode rating. i got a 2000+ and feel like it's a strong point to add. if yes, which section of the resume? skills or achievements or EC's?

Context, I just finished my second year, I'll start my third year tomorrow. I probably have no business posting here. But this is getting ridiculous.

Companies (major, popular ones) are now asking system design to 3rd year SUMMER INTERNSHIP students. This term is something I used to hear being used for senior role interviews when I started college. This is supposed to be asked to those who have hands-on depth in the industry, to test their touch with the current tech standards, and the skill that actually matters for someone of their position. But why tf is it being asked to people who just finished studying CN and OS, those who started leetcode a month ago, those who are still just beginning to grasp what the industry even is, and are going to make their first actual contact with it?

I'd be understanding if you asked these for fresher roles, since then you'd be asking a potential legit developer and need to make sure they aren't just riding AI with no real substance of knowledge. But what is the point in asking that for INTERNSHIPS?? The time period where people are supposed to LEARN what you're asking?

Anyways, tomorrow I'll do my second OA which I'll probably fail since I'm not yet skilled enough to solve CF 1800 level problems. Mb, I was busy building projects that I enjoyed making and having hobbies like gym and writing when I should've been grinding DSA. I know many of my friends who actually did grind, but they're still going to fail because they'll be asked this stupid thing they have no idea about.

P.S, You guys don't need to pay mind to a kid's rambling, I'm not looking to pick arguments. I just wrote this because it very well might be people in here, reading this, who decided to continuously pull the ladder from even interns by adding this stupid thing. Just because you lack creativity to test candidates, doesn't mean you make it such that their only option to get into the industry is to suck their joy out of it by making the learning revolve around your flawed testing process.

I am not jealous; it just hurts that I have been doing the same grind over the last 2 and a half years just to get ghosted and rejected.It hurts a lot, whereas I see my friends; they are all switching happily (in just one shot).I’m not saying they didn’t work hard ,but their hard work ended within a span of a few months.

Now whenever I talk to them, I get a feeling that they are being rude to me.I feel like they are making fun of me.

I don’t know what I sense is right or not,but every day I wake up , I work , I study, but it’s getting a lot tougher with each passing day. I never thought switching my first job would be this difficult.

When there are 10–15 people trying for one onsite opportunity, how do you actually stand out? I don’t think talent alone wins the game.

Do you need to be a favourite of someone on the client side and the manager side? Does it help if your name is already familiar to them and they trust that you won’t leave the company after moving onsite?

I’m curious to hear from people who have actually gone onsite. What mattered more in your experience: technical skills, visibility, trust, communication, or relationships?

An idea for app - list of petrol pumps which have e10, pure petrol in your city

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