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Sigo escuchando que el mercado laboral está muy malo y todavía no he empezado a postular a trabajos, pero leyendo todas estas publicaciones, creo que realmente está bastante mal. Tengo alrededor de 12 años de experiencia. Los últimos cuatro años trabajé en una startup de EE. UU. que creció muchísimo, al punto de que cada trimestre estábamos resolviendo problemas de escalabilidad.

¿Dónde han estado postulando para conseguir trabajo?

Veo que empresas como Mercado Libre, Falabella, los grandes bancos y las apps financieras publican ofertas de trabajo. Me pregunto si alguien ha postulado a esas empresas y ha conseguido trabajo. Me gustaría mucho conocer sus experiencias.

Yesterday, during a routine 1:1 with my new manager, I was told my contract was being terminated.

I had been with the company for five years so I have seen it grow. I have survived multiple layoffs too.

I asked myself if I fell behind of my coworkers? And yes I did. I wasn’t enjoying the work anymore.

Everything had become about LLMs. Specs generated by LLMs. Code written by LLMs. Reviews done by LLMs. We were pushing huge amounts of code, and every pull request felt bloated, overwhelming and almost incomprehensible. Reviewing them made my head spin. And the irony? Coworkers would use Claude to review the PR.

The good thing is I have about a year of runway. The company paid well and I have time to think.

So while I figure out what’s next, I want to do something meaningful.

I want to share top 10 things with you guys that I’ve learned over 10 years in this field.

1. Get really good at debugging.
Not just fixing obvious errors but the messy, system-level issues.
When database pools get saturated, connections start dropping, and suddenly something unrelated breaks in some services. I’ve worked with people like that and they leave me in awe.

2. Learn the business domain.
LLMs are better than me in coding so your value will now be in how good you know the business logic/domain. I didn’t understand the business deeply enough and I wasnt thinking in terms of product, users, and impact.

3. Learn to read code.
I struggled with following the functions inside another functions and keeping the state of the variables and the contexts in my head. But the lead dev could do it effortlessly, and they understood systems at a level I didn’t.

4. Be a power user of your tools.
Whatever you use Jira, IDE, Grafana, etc master it.

5. Find a mentor early.
I didn’t have one.
No one told me how important fundamentals like data structures and algorithms were for certain opportunities. The right guidance can help your career.

6. Drop the ego. Be kind.
Bugs will happen. Systems will fail.
Don’t turn it into a witch hunt.
Do incident report meeting and focus on understanding what went wrong and how to prevent it next time. That’s how good teams run.

7. Step back and reassess as tech evolves.
Tech is changing fast. Make a decision based on the best information you have.

8. Confidence comes from competence.
If you want to be confident, put in the work. Know your craft well enough that you can explain and defend your decisions.

9. Don’t make your job your identity.
I tied my entire identity to my role and now I feel naked without a job.

10. Take care of yourself.
At the end of the day, the business will keep running with our without you.
So protect your health, your time, and your energy.
Because no one else will do it for you.

Tengo 10 años de experiencia en desarrollo backend y recientemente me desvincularon de un trabajo como contratista para una empresa de Estados Unidos. Actualmente estoy en Chile con residencia temporal, estoy casado con una chilena y hablo inglés fluido, además de un español básico.

He visto muchas ofertas de trabajo en LinkedIn y me gustaría entender cuántas de ellas son oportunidades reales versus “ghost jobs”. ¿Alguien ha tenido experiencia postulando a estos roles en Chile? ¿Cómo fue la tasa de respuesta?

También sé que empresas como Amazon y Google tienen presencia en Chile, junto con otras multinacionales o empresas tecnológicas relacionadas. ¿Alguien ha logrado postular o entrar a estas empresas desde Chile? ¿Cómo fue el proceso, especialmente en cuanto al idioma, entrevistas y relocalización (si aplica)?

Cualquier consejo, experiencia o recomendación sería de mucha ayuda mientras veo cuáles son mis próximos pasos. ¡Gracias de antemano!

También conozco el Slack de DevChile, pero ¿hay otros lugares donde pueda conectar o hacer networking?

There is so much negative sentiment from public that they should let gaganey or shram daddy or anyone from the other party rule over Nepal.

Then these people will stop posting on reddit.

Fake posts, legit posts everything getting dumped here.

There is rain, blame rsp. War in middle east blame rsp.

Wants country to be developed and cant even stay under the law. I hope RSP quits and let the other party rule.

AI for generating spec
AI for creating tickets
AI for writing code
AI for reviewing code
AI for writing release notes
skills for pulling in sentry bugs and fixing them
skills for testings
skills, context, tokens

The main guy is pushing AI for everything. This is the future unfortunately. I have 13 years of experiene and this craziness is mentally draining me. PR's are huge, there are md files with plans that we need to read. Maybe this is a skill issue on my end.

Parece que la mayoría de las personas eligen seguir el camino de la tecnología o la salud. Pero la tecnología hoy en día es muy competitiva y está saturada. Es como si personas de diferentes áreas intentaran entrar en este campo, como negocios, marketing o finanzas; algunos vienen sin experiencia y otros están altamente formados en TI o Ciencias de la Computación.

¿Existen otras carreras o industrias que valga la pena considerar, que ofrezcan buenas oportunidades laborales y crecimiento profesional?

It seems like most people choose to go in the tech field route or healthcare. But tech is so competive and oversaturated nowadays. It’s like people from various backgrounds try to get in this field like business, marketing, finance something then some come from zero experience and others are highly educated in I.T or Computer Science. Are there any other career paths to look into that are good for job prospects and opportunities for growth