u/aaveshamstar

Specifically people who are earning 40-50lpa at least with 7 years experience…what was your working experience/journey like?

How was your career growth? How long did u stick to Backend development and when did you become a senior developer or lead or team lead, etc?

What did u have to learn to achieve that role?

Did you become a full stack dev or stuck to Backend only?

How much DSA and systems design did you have to learn?

What is your current role? What are all the things that you know that differentiate you from other regular devs?

I’m asking because I have been pretty chill in live and relaxed and content with my salary but lately I’m seeing other and feeling I made a mistake being stuck at wfh for 7 years. Due to lack of exposure I didn’t learn anything.

I am still stuck writing Backend code in Java and spring boot, still working on MySQL and Mongo. But I want to change things up, I want to grow.

So I started doing DSA, system design, learning AWS, since 2 months. But I want to measure my progress, to set goals.

Being in WFH, and lack of friends in the similar circle, I’m confused about what should I aim for.

My goal is to earn 40-50lpa atleast in next 2 years. Current 30lpa.

I also want to know what jobs roles I would be doing with 7 years experience, what would be my USP.

How much dsa have you done, how much do you know about system designs.

Mistakes were made but I’m still hopeful that I can grow from here.

Any advice is helpful.

Coming from Hyderabad, I found Bengaluru to be much cleaner initially. Stations were clean, roads were clean, there were no potholes, etc.

When I started living here full time, that’s when I noticed…

The main roads are neat and pothole free but any other road within the city is damaged.

And people are throwing garbage on the side of the road.

My apartment had dedicated space to throw garbage, that too you have to separate wet and dry waste. Such a great initiative.

But then I was walking home one night at 10PM and I saw some lady simply throwing a bag of garbage on the road. And by next morning that place was filled with more garbage. And there were holes everywhere from which rats come up and tear the bags. The garbage is spilling onto the road, vehicles mushing it onto the road.

This is in front of a school playground and some shops so I’m think all these shopkeepers are throwing their stuff there?

I also noticed two empty plots always filled with garbage. One has green mesh around it and says throwing garbage here is illegal yet people throw bags over the mesh at night. And there is always water leaking from other site making it difficult for us to walk.

I love the part of Bangalore I’m staying in, but even now thinking of that scene where that lady dumped huge garbage in front of me and it spilling everywhere next day morning is giving me nightmares!

I know it gets picked up by afternoon but still…shouldn’t there be some designated bin or something?