u/Alternative_Key2033

Seeing the current job market, layoffs, overwork, AI uncertainty, hiring freezes, recruiter ghosting, and increasingly difficult interviews — do those of you with 4–5+ YOE ever feel like you should've chosen a different career?

I'm currently at around 2 YOE. I'm reasonably good at DSA and work primarily with Java/backend development. I was planning to switch companies, couldn't land a single interview despite 20+ referrals and 100+ applications.

Looking at the current market and all the uncertainty, I'm genuinely starting to question whether I want to spend the next 20–30 years of my life doing this.

I'm even considering pivoting toward government job preparation, mainly because stability and predictability are becoming more attractive to me.

For those who've been in tech for 4–5+ years: knowing what you know now, would you still choose IT/tech?

Hey guys,

So after applying to 30+ companies with referrals (and not hearing back from even a single company)

I have finally received a congratulations mail from Amazon for an accessment i gave 4 months ago.

At that time, OA consisted of only 2 dsa questions, I solved both but didn't heard back, so I thought I was rejected.

However, yesterday they sent an email, stating that I have cleared the round and they will be moving forward with the interviews soon and will communicate schedule.

REAL QUESTION:

I want to hear from you guys, why did you failed your interview at amazon or other product based Companies so that I don't make the same mistake.

Be it a DSA round, or LLD round, Gen Ai fluency, Behavioural.

It would be of great help

I recently gave amazon OA, before this two of my friends also gave OA. One common problem we all faced is that shitty IDE. How are you guys solving that fullstack problem.

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I was given a problem where I have to fix the search api.

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Now I wanted to run the application in debugger mode so that I could see what is being passed to the api, what the service is returning so that I could finish the task in time.

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I just couldn't understand how to run that shitty IDE in debugger mode, I tried clicking on the debug button and everytime it loaded the application and then closed it.

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They claim it to be a simulation of VISUAL STUDIO CODE, but its just a visual copy of it. With visual studio everything is pretty straightforward.

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I wasted entire time understanding that IDE and still couldn't manage to run that. Meanwhile the Ai they provide for our help, seems like that Al needs more help then us.

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How are you guys approaching that round, i have worked on backend and I am very confident in solving those problems, but that ide is a real issue

I recently gave amazon OA, before this two of my friends also gave OA. One common problem we all faced is that shitty IDE. How are you guys solving that fullstack problem.

​

I was given a problem where I have to fix the search api.

​

Now I wanted to run the application in debugger mode so that I could see what is being passed to the api, what the service is returning so that I could finish the task in time.

​

I just couldn't understand how to run that shitty IDE in debugger mode, I tried clicking on the debug button and everytime it loaded the application and then closed it.

​

They claim it to be a simulation of VISUAL STUDIO CODE, but its just a visual copy of it. With visual studio everything is pretty straightforward.

​

I wasted entire time understanding that IDE and still couldn't manage to run that. Meanwhile the Ai they provide for our help, seems like that Al needs more help then us.

​

How are you guys approaching that round, i have worked on backend and I am very confident in solving those problems, but that ide is a real issue

I recently gave amazon OA, before this two of my friends also gave OA. One common problem we all faced is that shitty IDE. How are you guys solving that fullstack problem.

​

I was given a problem where I have to fix the search api.

​

Now I wanted to run the application in debugger mode so that I could see what is being passed to the api, what the service is returning so that I could finish the task in time.

​

I just couldn't understand how to run that shitty IDE in debugger mode, I tried clicking on the debug button and everytime it loaded the application and then closed it.

​

They claim it to be a simulation of VISUAL STUDIO CODE, but its just a visual copy of it. With visual studio everything is pretty straightforward.

​

I wasted entire time understanding that IDE and still couldn't manage to run that. Meanwhile the Ai they provide for our help, seems like that Al needs more help then us.

​

How are you guys approaching that round, i have worked on backend and I am very confident in solving those problems, but that ide is a real issue