u/Glum_Worldliness4904

I worked at a Big N a while ago and during my time there I had a title as a senior engineer listed in my LinkedIn profile. I received quite a few of direct messages regarding “please refer me for an SWE role”.

Well, it just doesn’t work this way. We need to know one we refer personally or better wroked together in the past. Otherwise ”the reference“ goes straight to /dev/null.

So those kind of DM spam on LinkedIn simply doesn’t work.

Where do you get your references?

I got my NBI clearance first time at NBI main office in Manila last year. Can I renew it online and just come to take it or I have to visit it in person again?

14 YoE, senior sde, started with low level C/ASM, then C++, now Python and Go.

The issues I solve now are mostly administrative rather than hard technical questions. A few weeks ago I was delivered UCITS trading in a new region and the hardest issue was to align compliance requirements with our company’s internal regulations and KYC process.

7 years ago I didn’t have time talking to business because of tech stuff as a senior sde. Now I don’t have time for tech stuff because of business as a senior sde.

I have been working at a current company for 8 months and after multiple unsuccessful gaslighting attempts to force me to resign my boss agreed to proceed involuntarily lay off.

The issue is there is nowhere mentioned in the layoff letter that I will be paid with a severance as I’m entitled to by law. After asking to mention it they said it’s not required.

Is it actually not required or if severance is not mentioned in the layoff letter they may not pay it?

A few years ago I was working at a large bank and during the quarter I received positive feedback on 1:1. Like “you delivered a noticeable project”, “keep doing what you are doing”, etc…

2 weeks before PR cycle started the narrative got changed “Even though your performance is ok, you need to focus on improving impact”. I was PIPed after the PR cycle ended.

Has anyone faced similar situation throughout their career? If so what do you think was the reason?

14 YoE, currently Senior SDE.

2012. internship then junior dev position. Just did a small take home web app with 2 weeks deadline.

2013. mid level engineer position, discussed some theoretical question about C++ std, a bit of hardware and LC easy livecoding

2014. senior sde, 2 interview rounds. LC med/system design

2015. senior sde (current role) $250k fully remote, 8 (eight) interview rounds, 1 initial screening, 2 LC med-hard, 1 tech diccushion, 1 specialization deep dive, 1 system design, 1 bar raiser, 1 behaviorial. The whole process (initial interaction — offer) took ~ 3 months.

The most ridiculous part here is interns/juniors currently have 3-4 interview rounds with LC hards, system design and behavorial while just a few years ago (pre-Covid 2019) I got my senior at a mid size company by having just 2 rounds.

This is just wild.

I‘m a Senior SDE at a us brokerage firm, and what I can tell you is I almost never solve real engineering issues that require technical deep dive and complex engineering analysis.

Most technical issues are handed over to opus simply because I have no time to do that.

Instead I spend most of my time verifying compliance requirements, reviewing business project descriptions, unlimited meetings with stakeholders, meeting 3rd party team to align on KYC related problems etc etc…

And that’s ok, I get paid for that. But this is in no way engineering.

Currently crunching at 2Js. About 14 hours working day, no weekends. That sucks af. Dunno when it’s over but living in this schedule for a month already.

If you OE you should be prepared to such things.

How do you handle such situations?