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I'm a 2026 CSE grad from a 2nd Gen IIT, trying to decide between two offers :

Offer 1: Salesforce (AMTS) [Offcampus Drive]

Location: Hyd / Bangalore

Base: ₹16.5L

Sign-on: ₹5L

Bonus: ₹1.65L

RSUs: $28K USD (split in 4 years)

Offer 2: Cisco (Software Engineer) [PPO]

Location: Bangalore

Base: ₹17.5L

Sign-on: ₹6.5L (split over 2 years)

Bonus: ₹87.5K

RSUs: $15K USD (split in 3 years)

(Both have standard relocation/benefits)

Salesforce obviously wins on total comp because of the RSUs, and I've heard great things about their work-life balance.

Also Salesforce stock has decreased a lot in value, on the other hand cisco seems growing quickly.

On the flip side, Cisco is a PPO from my summer internship. I already know the team, the tech stack, and the culture, so onboarding would be easier.

Can you please help me choose between the two offers?

Thanks.

I’m currently in my 8th semester at a Tier-2 college and already placed in a service-based company.
I’ve completed Striver’s sheet.

My goal is to eventually switch to a good company.
Should I continue grinding LeetCode and start competitive programming on Codeforces, or focus more on development/projects now?

Suggestions are welcome.

Hi,

The people who were able to make a switch successfully recently, what was your daily prep routine like while doing job? How much time did you give daily for prep and for how long?

Hi

I am in a SBC for 2 years 6 months as of now I joined here as a fresher, the experience is in field of GenAI, all the PoCs that we make are sort of useless and we have never built anything scalable

so what I feel is my time is being wasted here and honestly the learning curve for me is stagnant now.

I have tried to apply for months whenever I apply to a good MNC I have never been short listed by them I have tried many approaches setting filters of less than 24 hrs on linkedIn and applying directly on portal not the easy applies
Also I have tried to apply using the referral few times still failed

I really need some advice for what I should I do sometimes i feel like to start studying DSA and start the prep for MAANG. Whenever I am going with the DSA i always quit it in the middle because I think it will be all useless because even If i know it i wont land any interview calls from these companies and stop midway and again try to reapply on non MAANG companies thinking maybe I can try for a switch first

So basically i am in this loop of literally doing nothing for around 6 months now

I want genuine advice what should I do now I am aware with all the posts that the market is really bad but still some people do land jobs in this market as well i wanna understand the gap and fill it also I am confused because sometimes I am thinking let me continue to work here and prepare for the MAANG and once I feel ready I should just move there

Current CTC - 14.5LPA
Current Tech stack - GenAI

Thanks for any genuine guidance and help

Hello everyone , my first year just ended and i have started stiver sheet a month ago, solved 30 questions till now .
i am in tier 3 and i have already wasted my 11th , 12th and 1st year.
i recently stumbled upon the solutions tab in leetcode and then i viewed some profiles and everyone has solved like 600+ , 700+ questions.
i am getting a lot of FOMO .

Keeping these feelings aside.

i wanted to ask now that i have covered easy med and hard of striver array i wanted to ask how should i revise properly . in jee also i just solved and solved and never revised so it backfired a lot.
can u guys give some idead or tips regarding revision?
thanks

i have my placement season coming up
i am not prepared with dsa or aptitude
i was learning java, but it was too tough for me so i switched to python
now i understand the syntax but cant understand logic building
its just too tough for me
i need some help in cracking a descent placement

Hi I received an invite from Salesforce for a HackerRank General Software Engineer Assessment (IND only)
it looks like have 2 sections having 1 question each
Also the duration is of 75 mins
Can anyone share any input what to expect here ?

Selected for amazon SDE. Ask me anything.

0 yoe. New grad. Tier 3. Applied on amazon jobs portal. No referral.

Prepared dsa on leetcode using striver sheet and neetcode only.
Gave contests regularly. Recently reached knight on leetcode.
For system design i studied from coding n concepts by shrayansh jain and practiced on codezym.

I'm confused for people with ~2YOE, how much system design is actually needed to crack interviews, as some people say we have to do HLD as well, some say LLD in depth is enough. I'm confused what are the actual requirements here. Can somebody shed some light on this topic.

I mean just getting a simple good job is such a tough thing, it baffles most of us.

Kotak Offer - 34 fixed (8-14% variable )

Position - SDE 2 (AVP)

JPMC Offer - 38 fixed (12% variable)

Position - SDE 3

Counter offer ( using JPMC)

KOTAK- 40 Fixed (8-14%) variable

Should I ask JPMC more and join or

Should I join Kotak with 40 Fixed ?

Help me guys

got a call from HR that they are moving forward with my application, like after ghosting me for 3-4 months, interview is in 3 days, can anyone help me with juspay part B hackathon, like I know they ask about previous code, improvement in time complexity and then making that code thread safe, I want to know in deep about that part B like how to make it thread safe without using mutex and semaphores, and what they are expecting in this round the after this??

Recently gone through the BR round. How much time will they take to give results?

Does anyone else waiting for the same?

https://preview.redd.it/guf0x8ua9b2h1.png?width=2074&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c314441a15062c9bea7cc00a07084b630da6448

Even after giving 22+ contests I cant' reach 1 star rating over the last 1 year. Tired of this shit man, could solve 4 of them within 45 mins in today's contest, still getting a negative rating huhhh

I got the call from the recruiter for one opening at Google and after the initial discussion, I got the invitation to complete a 30 mins assessment.

Does anyone have any idea about that?

Please let me know if anyone already given that assessment.

TIA

did anyone got shortlisted for OA with above job id ?

I applied on may 3 and , it shows

only application submitted .

It doesnt even show Under consideration .

What should I infer from this ?

I’ve been working primarily with C#/.NET for the last few years and honestly it’s the language I’m most fluent in. I can build systems in it without even thinking much.

But lately I keep seeing a lot of hate online toward C#/.NET, especially from some SDEs, startup people, and even recruiters. I even see people calling it “C Hash” instead of C sharp 😭

It’s making me wonder:

• Is being a C# backend engineer hurting my profile?
• Is it harder to get shortlisted for product companies because of it?
• Do companies like FAANG/high-growth startups prefer Java/Go engineers significantly more?
• Would C# ever become a deal breaker during interviews?

For context:

• I do know some Java and Go as well
• I work mainly on backend/distributed systems
• Recently trying to move toward stronger backend/cloud/product roles

Would appreciate honest opinions from people already working in good product companies or backend engineering roles.

a little background info about me: i am 20f, from a gen 2 iit, non circuital background. i finished my sophomore year and rn summer break is going on. i wanna be an sde and therefore have been grinding leetcode, done 450ish questions with 250+medium, 25ish hard and rest easy. im currently following striver although i started striver pretty late. my seniors also told me to do cs fundamentals, so rn focusing on dbms. have decent mern knowledge, can build basic crud apps, still polishing skills.
NOW MY QUESTION IS ABOUT SYSTEM DESIGN.
how much of system design will i need to crack my first internship/job? i am obviously eyeing on canpus placements, but lets talk about both off campus and on campus scenarios. <3🥹

My 1st year of college (tier 2) just ended and as my summer break is going on i am currently doing DSA from striver A to Z sheet . I have completed around 40% of it including arrays , binary search , LL , Bit manipulation.

I’ve also started learning FastAPI (mostly through YouTube + ChatGPT).

I am confused about few things ,so I wanted some advice from seniors here:

1. Am confused should i start doing Leetcode contest right now or wait till i complete DSA?

2. What more should i be doing ?

3. Am i on the right path or should i change something in my way of learning ?

Would really appreciate specific advice instead of generic answers