New internship during 3rd sem

New internship during 3rd sem

Got a new internship at a startup.

Got a ppo from working at another internship during my 2nd sem but declined that because I didn't feel like working, let's see how this turns out now.

Ask me anything!

u/KitchenCommercial396 — 3 days ago

If you could only experience 5 games in your next life, what would they be?

I'd pick Pragmata, The Last of Us, Minecraft, Chess and Outer Wilds

Detroit: become human too if I get a bonus game!

u/KitchenCommercial396 — 7 days ago

Got my first 50 users on an app I worked on during the summers

Hey, I just wanted to share how exciting it is to get my first couple of users on my personal project, I've probably spent hundreds of hours building this, and for it to break and me to fix it again. Even then, it was 100% worth it.

I did an internship during my 2nd semester and it was scheduled to end on the day of my final end sem exam so I was coming into the summer break completely free and with all the time in my hands. So I began working on this personal project that I needed for an eternity.

I posted about it on a gaming subreddit, and didn't get any responses on the first day, but on the second day, the post just went viral and had tens of thousands of views and got my app to finally hit 50+ users and around 2000+ games logged.

I named the app gamelog, it's a solution to a problem I had for a long time as a pc gamer. I buy and play games from many different places and I just can't keep track of them, and I used to store them in my notes app. So I created this to solve that.

u/KitchenCommercial396 — 10 days ago

Got my first 50 users on an app I worked on during the summers

Hey, I just wanted to share how exciting it is to get my first couple of users on my personal project, I've probably spent hundreds of hours building this, and for it to break and me to fix it again. Even then, it was 100% worth it.

I did an internship during my 2nd semester and it was scheduled to end on the day of my final end sem exam so I was coming into the summer break completely free and with all the time in my hands. So I began working on this personal project that I needed for an eternity.

I posted about it on a gaming subreddit, and didn't get any responses on the first day, but on the second day, the post just went viral and had tens of thousands of views and got my app to finally hit 50+ users and around 2000+ games logged.

I named the app gamelog, it's a solution to a problem I had for a long time as a pc gamer. I buy and play games from many different places and I just can't keep track of them, and I used to store them in my notes app. So I created this to solve that.

Edit: GitHub link, you can download the app from here (only on Android): https://github.com/Garvit-Agrawal7/GameLog/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta.3/gamelog.apk

u/KitchenCommercial396 — 10 days ago

To all the senior devs and software architects out there, how has your career shaped over the years?

To all the experienced people working in tech, how has your job roles and duties changed over the years from when you were a junior dev to now? How has your job evolved from building by hand to now. What is expected from you now, is it more architectural and design centric or does it still involve coding by hand a lot of the time?

Would love to know your guys' experience and what made you excel in your fields, and how has your role changed throughout the progression of AI.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago

To all the senior devs and software architects out there, how has your career shaped over the years?

To all the experienced people working in tech, how has your job roles and duties changed over the years from when you were a junior dev to now? How has your job evolved from building by hand to now. What is expected from you now, is it more architectural and design centric or does it still involve coding by hand a lot of the time?

Would love to know your guys' experience and what made you excel in your fields, and how has your role changed throughout the progression of AI.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago

To all the senior devs and software architects out there, how has your career shaped over the years?

To all the experienced people working in tech, how has your job roles and duties changed over the years from when you were a junior dev to now? How has your job evolved from building by hand to now. What is expected from you now, is it more architectural and design centric or does it still involve coding by hand a lot of the time?

Would love to know your guys' experience and what made you excel in your fields, and how has your role changed throughout the progression of AI.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago

Rate my game library

Here's my library. I've played too many games focused towards graphics, now I've been making the switch to more story based indie games. Would love to see some recommendations for what I should play next.

PS, I'm the original creator/developer of this app. You can download it from here: https://github.com/Garvit-Agrawal7/GameLog/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta.3/gamelog.apk

Edit: I'm a very chill, couch gamer who casually sits to play like an hour or two during the weekends who turns the difficulty to the lowest when he sees a strong boss, hence I don't like playing souls games. I appreciate the recommendations but I just want to chill out when gaming.

u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago

Project ideas that show in-depth learning instead of the average AI slop.

I want to be a backend developer, and I'm thinking of building projects that aren't the usual CRUD app backends or REST APIs, I want to build projects that are highly uncommon, exceptionally hard hence making me understand several concepts in-depth.

For reference, I just started my second year of college, and i want to stand out and not have the same resume as everyone else I know.

I've been thinking of building a Vector DB with a Layer 7 load balancer with query routing and stuff in Go (someone told me to use rust but the learning curve might be too steep). I would appreciate any feedback and other project recommendations that I could possibly build.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago
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Project ideas that show in-depth learning instead of the average AI slop.

I want to be a backend developer, and I'm thinking of building projects that aren't the usual CRUD app backends or REST APIs, I want to build projects that are highly uncommon, exceptionally hard hence making me understand several concepts in-depth.

For reference, I just started my second year of college, and i want to stand out and not have the same resume as everyone else I know.

I've been thinking of building a Vector DB with a Layer 7 load balancer with query routing and stuff in Go (someone told me to use rust but the learning curve might be too steep). I would appreciate any feedback and other project recommendations that I could possibly build.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 11 days ago

Tired of hearing "starting from zero" from people in their fourth year

I know I might get a lot of hate for this, but I've lately been tired of hearing people who come here and claim that they are "starting from zero" and need help with getting a job, and it's mostly final year students or graduates.

I don't understand this.. why did reality hit now, why did you not think and work beforehand, not just btech but everywhere in life you'll find people waiting for the right moment to start and then never starting.

Everyone wants the secret sauce to getting a good placement but they start from zero in their final year.. Why did you not consider doing that before when you had the time?

I seriously don't understand people who waste their time doing absolutely nothing, and not let their future affect their present.

Everyone please be consistent, learn something new everyday, enjoy yourself too. Be better, and don't let me find you out here asking for the same in your fourth year.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 14 days ago

Internship interview, and they ask me to build a countdown timer within 2 hours..

I applied to this internship for a company. And I got an email from them to build a countdown timer app within 2 hours using react and typescript...

Like seriously a countdown timer.., also they said they don't need to see a backend or database, and I can use AI tools.

I gave an Amazon SDE1 internship assessment the day before and compared to that, this feels like a walk in the field.

Just wanted to tell you guys that companies like this still exist, they treat interns like interns and don't expect insane results.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 14 days ago

Are backend and devops engineers still relevant in 2026

All everybody is talking about nowadays is AI, everybody wants to be an AI/ML engineer, and every resume has these so called AI projects.

Amongst all these, are jobs involving backend, devops, still relevant? Are people still getting paid well in these fields?

I'm currently in college and I've figured that I don't find ai/ml, data science and frontend interesting at all, and I don't get to hear a lot about the other fields because everything gets overshadowed by AI.

Should I still learn AI/ML to stay ahead and get a better job even though I don't enjoy it as much? Are backend and devops engineers going extinct or something?

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 17 days ago

Just started reading Don Quixote am I in good hands?

I've been dying to read this book for the better part of a year now. I've heard great things about this book from so many people, especially those I admire and am inspired by.

Finally completed reading all the books in my library and went on to start reading this. First of all, it's absolutely massive. The book is like a brick, some 1000 pages thick. In most circumstances, I don't care about a book's size, but this seems like it'll take an eternity to read 😭.

Would love to hear from people who've already read the book. Is it truly worth it? Because I might spend months on this book due to its sheer size.

No spoilers please!!

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 24 days ago

Just started reading Don Quixote am I in good hands?

I've been dying to read this book for the better part of a year now. I've heard great things about this book from soo many people, and especially from the people that I admire and I'm inspired from.

Finally completed reading all the books in my library and went on to start reading this, first of all, it's absolutely massive. The book is like a brick, some 1000 pages thick. In most circumstances I don't care about the size of a book but this seems like it'll take an eternity to read 😭.

Would love to hear from people who've already the book, is it truly worth it.. because I might spend months on this book due to it's sheer size.

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u/KitchenCommercial396 — 24 days ago