u/Able-Calligrapher-74

I used to be someone with a strong vision on how to live my life. I was an intelligent kid, and developed a strong interest in programming. And before I know, I already had goals and a vision of life. A high-earning, lavish living professional is what I wanted to be. Or maybe even an entrepreneur. I was already innovative, and building some games and software.

And I could imagine myself living among other successful people, partying with them, living and extravagant life full of status symbols.

And all of a sudden, about 4 months ago everything stopped making sense. I started hating this life. All the lavish places around me started feeling like a trap. Especially now when I am getting to know how much the mafia holds your city's economy, how many lavish places have been built by corrupt people to launder their money. Nothing is authentic.

All of a sudden, I have lost my vision on how to live life. And I feel too damn lost and I don't know what to do in life, where to go.

Has it happened to anyone else over here, or someone you know? What can help us in getting to a better place in life?

Hey all, I am a software developer with 2 years and 9 months of experience, but currently unemployed. In my previous job, I was kept in a bug-fixing role for about 2 years and only got real backend and frontend exposure after that.

The project I was working on, however, had no traffic handling, load testing needs and I never got the exposure to design decisions, or scalability handling like adding resilience, or using Kafka anywhere. Basically, I did not get the exposure that helps you become an SDE-2.

It was a difficult environment and for some reasons I had to quit that workplace, and since then I have been looking for a new job in SDE-2 role because I have already had nearly 3 years of experience.

However, it has been a brutal series of rejections for me, and I feel like I am failing to position myself for SDE-2, especially because I never did the work an SDE-2 does to be prepared for this role. And it's getting more and more difficult to figure out what to do.

So, my question is, what can I do from here? Is my career over just because I have been unlucky with my workplace?

Hey all, this is my first post on this subreddit and asking this since I'm genuinely stuck, and looking for help.

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I have been applying for the role of SDE 2 for more than 4 months now, and am stuck in the painful situation of not even getting the callbacks. My full experience is 2 years and 9 months. I have been applying all day, on some days, have been reaching out to acquaintances and strangers alike for a referral, and have been using multiple portals.

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What bothers me is that sometimes it seems that my resume isn't up to the mark. Not because of a spelling mistake or a small mistake, but I am afraid I don't know what kind of experience to show on my resume. I am afraid I am missing out on some fundamentals of writing my resume.

For example, I have been told that you needed to have worked on some architectural decisions or you need to have designed something entirely from scratch, or you should have taken some big design-level decisions and shown high levels of ownership.

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When it comes to my experience, so much of it was focused on building the features of a new product that was getting developed in my company and I am not sure if showing that I developed the features is going to cut it.

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So, please help understand what all is required in a resume for an SDE II, and what might I be missing? I am also planning to upload my resume sometime soon on this subreddit, but thought of coming up with this question before that.

Hey all, this is my first post on this subreddit and asking this since I'm genuinely stuck, and looking for help.

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I have been applying for the role of SDE 2 for more than 4 months now, and am stuck in the painful situation of not even getting the callbacks. My full experience is 2 years and 9 months. I have been applying all day, on some days, have been reaching out to acquaintances and strangers alike for a referral, and have been using multiple portals.

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What bothers me is that sometimes it seems that my resume isn't up to the mark. Not because of a spelling mistake or a small mistake, but I am afraid I don't know what kind of experience to show on my resume. I am afraid I am missing out on some fundamentals of writing my resume.

​

For example, I have been told that you needed to have worked on some architectural decisions or you need to have designed something entirely from scratch, or you should have taken some big design-level decisions and shown high levels of ownership.

​

When it comes to my experience, so much of it was focused on building the features of a new product that was getting developed in my company and I am not sure if showing that I developed the features is going to cut it.

​

So, please help understand what all is required in a resume for an SDE II, and what might I be missing? I am also planning to upload my resume sometime soon on this subreddit, but thought of coming up with this question before that.

Hey all, this is my first post on this subreddit and asking this since I'm genuinely stuck, and looking for help.

​

I have been applying for the role of SDE 2 for more than 4 months now, and am stuck in the painful situation of not even getting the callbacks. My full experience is 2 years and 9 months. I have been applying all day, on some days, have been reaching out to acquaintances and strangers alike for a referral, and have been using multiple portals.

​

What bothers me is that sometimes it seems that my resume isn't up to the mark. Not because of a spelling mistake or a small mistake, but I am afraid I don't know what kind of experience to show on my resume. I am afraid I am missing out on some fundamentals of writing my resume.

​

For example, I have been told that you needed to have worked on some architectural decisions or you need to have designed something entirely from scratch, or you should have taken some big design-level decisions and shown high levels of ownership.

​

When it comes to my experience, so much of it was focused on building the features of a new product that was getting developed in my company and I am not sure if showing that I developed the features is going to cut it.

​

So, please help understand what all is required in a resume for an SDE II, and what might I be missing? I am also planning to upload my resume sometime soon on this subreddit, but thought of coming up with this question before that.

Hey all, thanks for clicking on this post and taking the time to read it. Please forgive if this is not the right subreddit to post about these concerns and if possible, please guide me to the right ones.

I am looking for a mid level developer job after spending about 3 years in my first job as a junior developer. I am currently told that I should be applying for 20-30 jobs each day, or maybe more. This is advised to me by a lot of people.

At the same time, blindly applying your resume doesn't work. We have to read the JDs properly and have to tailor our resume according to each JD. I have tried blindly applying the same resume for 50+ jobs, and got rejections from all of them.

Tailoring your resume takes time. Sometimes a lot of time. A JD might be saying, "The candidate should know React, they should have experience with Redux and they should know how to use hooks, functions and UI libraries" and this means now you have to mention all these words in your experience section now. Many times it's not that easy. Many times we have to rewrite a full bullet point in our resume, with the challenge of using a performance metrics, your core work and all the keywords needed to be stuffed because of the JD.

Or, a JD might mention that a candidate should know what is EC2, S3 etc and you have to now find a way to stuff that somewhere in your resume. You might now understand what I am trying to say.

My point is, each time I need to tailor a resume, it needs a lot of energy and precision and the result should make sense. It's not possible to apply for 20-30 JDs in such a case everyday.

How do we all achieve this goal of applying for so many jobs in a single day? Or is it just a myth? Is it a better idea to apply for fewer jobs but with a better fit?

Hey all, I am 26 and have always wanted to have my own startup, and have always wanted to build something. It's been a goal in my mind since a very young age, but for various reasons I have never been able to go for it when I was younger.

Three years ago, after finishing college, I chose to have a job because I needed more clarity and some stability in life. I ended up spending the last 2-3 years exploring a few things and building some essential skills of a founder like sales, marketing, talent acquisition, leadership etc, apart from my day job.

My dilemma is that while I have big goals and dreams, I also want to support my family financially. Want to back up my family when it comes to medical emergencies or any financial emergencies at all.

This could mean committing my current and upcoming savings to my family, while in order to be an entrepreneur you have to commit your money to the startup and you have to burn a lot of money.

I have such strong will to build something of my own, and yet I am feeling afraid to pursue it because it feels like it would take away my opportunity to serve my family financially. But I am pretty sure many other aspiring entrepreneurs might have been in the same situation as me, and wondering how did they navigate it.

So, all people who read my post and might have a clue about this - how do people become entrepreneurs when there might be big financial and family responsibilities with them? Your perspectives would be very helpful to me