The type of companies and work available overseas look a lot more attractive overseas (US, UK, EU, SG etc)
I'm wondering which country is the easiest to migrate to (not settle down in) and find a job relatively in this current market? Considering the whole geo-political/economic status of the world.
I want to try living and working outside and just experience and learn the world beyond AU/NZ.
Just curious, has anyone been successful in pushing back the rent increase? Some points that can be used are like
- maintaining a reliable tenant vs unpredictable vacate period resulting in rental income loss
- additional cost to advertise, cleaning, maintenance etc that goes into brand new lease agreement
- bit of a stretch but average increase/decrease in rent cost & property supply in similar area in the last year/quarter etc
I feel like at some point landlord might be losing money trying to increase rent
I've been exploring some new job opportunities and realising that I'm a lot more stuck than I expected to be.
I've been working at a start up which only use TS + AWS + Angular + MongoDB and I've been looking to jump to any enterprise level companies.
There are two streams of roles I'm seeing a lot these days
- AI Engineer track, which requires LLM, model tuning, RAG, LangChain/Graph etc experience which is a bit more niche
- SWE/FDE track, which requires C# & .NET or Java & SpringBoot along with SQL experience
I'm finding myself unqualified for both of these type of roles as I simply don't have any opportunity or experience in these type of roles, which significantly reduces the job pool for me.
So many of these roles explicitly ask for industry experience in these stack and have been outed many times because of this.
Is there anything else I can do?
I'm a SWE reaching 3 YOE soon looking to break into more big-tech/enterprise companies outside of start up.
Looking for some resume review, thanks!
Hey everyone, I know this has been asked before but been seeing some mixed opinions and experiences so just wanted to clarify.
So far, I've just been bank transferring my rent through BPAY but I think I am able to pay my rent through DEFT with 0.4% charge directly instead.
I wanted to use this opportunity to earn CC points and sign up bonus with AMEX, ANZ, Westpac etc as this is just fixed monhtly cost of ~3k if I include rent + utilities + subscription.
Would this be eligible of meeting CC criteria to earn bonus points and CC points continuously?
Has anyone had any luck finding remote roles working for overseas companies? Most of the tech roles seem to be in Sydney and as someone who is Melbourne based, it's been hard to find any open roles that aren't senior/staff in Melbourne.
Trying to stretch out to see if opting in my remote roles for overseas companies/offices would open up my options a bit more.
Hey everyone,
I'm currently working on a viable SaaS idea; however, the nature of the product is that it can't really be openly adopted by anyone and will often require company admin approval to be used due to privacy and security reasons.
I was wondering if anyone has any tips on targeting business clients as a sole developer?
Hey everyone, I've been using JDH x79 (2025) XLB, and been absolutely loving it because of how lightweight it is compared to my Osaka Pro Tour 100 Protobow from 2022.
Although I'm not a big fan of how bulky shape JDH stick is overall and looking for something that is equally lightweight AND thin body. Are there any recommendations?
Hey everyone, I'm a Melbourne based SWE with 2.5 YOE (1 YOE at F500 & 1.5 YOE at start up) with focus tech stack being TS + AWS + MongoDB (across the entire company).
I'm at a stage where I've done plenty for the company and team and no longer really finding meaningful work within the company and it seems like it will be like this towards the end of the year. A lot of repetitive work and working on minor feature and bug requests after some major releases.
The only thing I really want to focus on for the remainder of my time here would be
- learn the full architecture across all products (that were originally outside my scope)
- solidify my AI based workflow (haven't written a single line of code in a year)
- finish off some projects that I am currently planning
There are a few things that I want to finalise and I will be looking to start jumping ship towards the end of this year and start of next year, and wondering what are my options.
Here are some of my thoughts that I have right now.
- Since my tech stack is only across TS + AWS, I'm finding it hard to pass the resume stage for roles that need experience in Java, C#, Go etc (i.e. Canva), is there any way to jump these hurdles?
- Now that I'm not a new grad anymore, I'm assuming the interview process for mid level roles will be different from what I've experienced, what are some things I should focus on?
- My generic coding skill has rusted a lot due to Claude Code, will this become a problem when looking for jobs?
- If I want to pivot to AI Engineer roles, how complicated would it be?
- There just doesn't seem to be a lot of mid level roles in Melbourne, how has others experience with finding roles in Melbourne?
- Any experience finding roles in other countries (US, Europe, UK etc)
There some other WLB related things I would prefer but I will leave those out for now. Thanks!
Here (https://imgur.com/a/11MQ07F) is my resume if you want to see
Hey everyone, looking for resume advice for someone working in tech
YOE: 2.5
Not urgent but will be looking for other job opportunities towards the EOY.
Looking for some resume feedback
I want to start using my early time of the day of work reading tech news or articles or anything (and make it a habit) that would broaden my overall engineering knowledge.
Looking for some good source whether it's to do with AI engineering, system design, business side of engineering etc, just anything.
Not targeted towards interviewing or finding a job right now but just want to become a better engineer with more knowledge.
Any recommendations?
Hey everyone, I'm creating a copilot app through the M365 Agents Toolkit, which points to a MCP server. It used to work with no issue through the OAuth pipeline and everything but one day everything stopped working and when I try to talk to the agent it just gives "Oops! Something happened. Can you try again?" over and over.
I'm not sure what has changed or I'm missing, would anyone have any idea?
