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This might sound odd, but support work was one of the most enjoyable parts of my career.

I used to support US consultancy clients. I'd remote into their machine at the start of the day, help them through whatever came up, troubleshoot issues, automate repetitive tasks where I could, and just make sure they could get their work done.

No two days were the same. Every session was a different set of problems, different people, and different industries. Looking back, I think that's what made it so rewarding.

These days, with AI handling so much of the repetitive work, I don't hear about these roles nearly as often.

So I'm curious...

Do these opportunities still exist? If you're still in that space—or know where people find this kind of support work today—I'd genuinely love to hear about it.

Not everything in tech has to be about building the next big product. Sometimes it's just satisfying to make someone else's workday a little easier

Bro's, hackathon nadusthundi. Claude Pro urgent ga kavali. Student ni kabatti afford cheyyalekapothunna. Evarikaina trial/referral/edaina legit way teliste cheppandi. Help chesthe life saver avtharu. 🙏❤️

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Hi andariki,

Na situation ki experienced vallani oka genuine opinion adugutunnanu.

Nenu GATE CSE lo around AIR 1000 techukoni, top institute nundi M.Tech complete chesi, ee year oka Central Government organization lo Level-10 pay scale job join ayyanu.

Placement time lo naaku Bengaluru posting vastundi ani chepparu. Kani training ayyaka final ga Delhi location icharu. Maa organization ki rendu offices matrame unnayi - Delhi mariyu Bengaluru.

Nenu Bengaluru adigina main reason maa parents. Valliddaru ippudu age ayyindi, iddariki serious health problems unnayi. Bengaluru lo unte emergency aina, weekends aina around 6 hours lo intiki reach avvagalanu. Leda vallani Bengaluru ki teesukelladam kuda possible. Kani valliddaru chadhuvu ledu, life antha village lone gadipesaru kabatti Delhi ki ravadaniki interest chupincharu.

Management ni transfer kosam request chesanu. Kani Bengaluru office lo ippatiki requirement ledu ani chepparu. Nenu kuda ippude join ayyanani telusu, kabatti immediate transfer chances takkuva ani ardham avutundi.

Ippudu nenu confusion lo unnanu.

- Government job continue chesi transfer kosam wait cheyyala?

- Leda GATE CSE 2027 ki prepare ayi South lo posting unde vere PSU try cheyyala?

- Leda software side prepare ayi off-campus product-based companies ki switch avvadam better aa?

Naaku software development ante interest undi. Government aina, private aina problem ledu. Kani long term lo South India lo work cheyyadam naaku important, endukante maa parents daggara undali ani korukuntunnanu.

Ee situation lo meeru unte emi chesevaru? Mee experience prakaram best option enti? Mee genuine opinions share chesthe chala help avutundi.

Thanks!

Need some career advice.

I have 5.5 YOE

My background is Development + Platform Engineering (Kafka, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure DevOps, YAML, Docker, CI/CD, any lang etc)

I’m a Tech lead in my current company (offers me 14LPA as CTC)

I have two offers:
Wipro: Kafka Platform Engineer – ₹30 LPA (10% variable included in the 30LPA)
Hybrid - 3 days a week and office is 35-40KM from my home.
I liked the project I will be working on, risky one, but it will def help me with my future switch.

Factspan: Principal Analyst – ₹32 LPA fixed
Pros: Permanent WFH
I’m not completely aware of the project, mostly it’s a long time project, they need people who have experience onto streaming resources.

Looking for advice.

I definitely need money, but not at the cost of stability, at least for a year, because I will get married soon. Kindly help.

What do you suggest? i’m inclined more towards Wipro’s client project.

Heyyy can anyone share ML resources to learn from scratch

I want to learn ML from zero

500 or 1000+ jobs apply cheysa... ok call kani interivew knai raaledu

everyday bane unta kani, ippudu 2am iythnundhu, just ala life overview chusthey bayam ga chirak ga undhi

em cheyalo ardam avatledu

full badhaga undhi

job unnapudu enti ra ee gola ani, job lenappu enti life antha ila ne undi potha na ani

ento, ela bahtakalo old age daka...

inko 1000+ apply chestha, job ostey, malli adi edho oka roju poyidi, malli apply cheyali, ala loop lo na life

emo bro

full dizzy ga sad ga ala padipoyi una

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Building a full pickle-ordering ecommerce site for a relative's small business.

Scope

React frontend — home/catalog, product pages, cart, checkout, login, user profile, order history

Java Spring Boot backend + Spring Security (auth, sessions)

Relational database (users, products, orders, payments)

Live payment gateway, needs to accept orders from anywhere globally, real shipping to real addresses

Full deployment — live domain, hosting, SSL, production-ready

Solo dev (me), ~48 days from spec to launch

What would you quote for this as a freelancer, and honestly —

is 48 days realistic for one person doing this for the first time end-to-end?

Trying to set a fair price, not lowball myself or overcharge family.

I'm a BTech student, and lately I've been feeling like I'm on a completely different path from everyone around me.

Most of my friends are learning MERN, AI/ML, data science, cloud, or preparing for those kinds of roles. I get why, there are a lot of opportunities there. But every time I try learning those things, I just lose interest.

What actually excites me is low-level programming. I love the idea of understanding how computers really work. Things like operating systems, kernels, embedded systems, compilers, networking, reverse engineering, device drivers, and performance optimization seem much more interesting to me than building web apps.

The problem is that I barely see anyone talking about these fields, so I have no idea what the career path looks like. Most roadmaps and YouTube videos are all about becoming a full-stack developer or getting into AI.

For people already working in systems or low-level software:

What kinds of jobs are available?

What should I focus on learning?

Which languages are actually used? C? C++? Rust? Assembly?

What kind of projects helped you get interviews?

Which companies hire fresh graduates for these roles?

Is it much harder to get into compared to web development?

I'm not avoiding difficult work or chasing the latest trend. I just want to build things closer to the hardware because that's what genuinely interests me. I'd rather spend extra time learning something I enjoy than force myself into a career I'll probably burn out on.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've taken this path or anyone who has advice on where to start.

I have two offers, which one to choose? I'm currently interning for lumen technologies, post internship they'll be converting us to FTE.

Long term goals:

Want to leave India and work in multiple countries.

Would want to earn more.

I'll be willing to put my 100% in work, like upskilling, attending various tech sessions and improving myself. Lumen company seems soo relaxed, there's limited work assigned and there's wlb and it's mostly wfh. I'm not very sure with infosys, which one would help me in the long run?

nen eppudo 7-8th class lo html nerchukunna, now i dont remember any thing, ippudu nen adhi revise chesukovala or should i learn some other language like python???

seniors em cheyalo suggest cheyandi?

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Hi andhariki,

2023 passout. Almost 3 years nunchi support role lo work chestunna.

Recent ga SDE roles ki prepare avthunna. DSA practice chestunna and konchem better avthunna. OOP concepts meeda kuda manchi understanding undi.

Kani interview lo blank page ichi "Design a Parking Lot", "Library Management System" lantivi LLD questions adigithe complete ga blank aipothunna. Ela start cheyyalo, classes ela think cheyyalo, relationships ela design cheyyalo ardham avvatledu. Chala frustrate avthunna. Konni rojulu asalu vadileyali anipisthundi.

Inko problem entante AI. Office work lo almost anni AI tho ne aipothunnayi. Vallaki code generate cheyyamani cheptha, debug cheyyamani cheptha. Slow ga nenu code rayadam, debug cheyyadam ane habit almost pothundi. Adi kuda confidence ni thaggisthundi.

Ee situation nunchi evaraina bayataki ochara? Especially support nunchi SDE ki shift ayina vallunte mee journey share chesthara?

LLD ela prepare ayyaru?

Any tips, resources, or experiences would really help. Konchem motivation kuda kavali anipinchi ikkada post chestunna.

Thanks!

Who is experienced in building from end to end

Share your projects in dm

Mee opinion enti mitron?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share an open-source project I’ve been developing over the last two years. It is a minimalist, ad-free meta-search engine designed to give clean, unbiased results without standard tracking or algorithmic clutter. The project was initially started under the working name Aoogle, but I am transitioning the repository and branding over to its permanent home: Arlong Search Engine. The source code is completely public, and I currently have a temporary staging build running on Railway for public testing while the permanent domain migration takes place.

You can check out the source code at github.com/Ahilan-1/aoogle and try the live testing deployment at aoogle-production.up.railway.app.

Instead of just proxying other search indexes directly, the architecture applies custom ranking weight to surface high-utility links based on raw data rather than commercial SEO optimization. The engine is designed to aggressively strip out tracking cookies, ad network scripts, and scraping metrics entirely before rendering the results on your screen. I have also built fully functional Chrome and Firefox extensions so you can set it as a default search option immediately, with a mobile app and native desktop client actively under development. Because the codebase is distributed under the Apache License 2.0, it is 100% self-hostable, meaning anyone can clone the repository, audit the network handling, and run a private instance locally or on a personal VPS without relying on my live server.

I am primarily looking to get some technical feedback from the community regarding the network performance, python architecture, and algorithm parsing weight. Please check out the repository, run a few test queries on the live staging link, and let me know your thoughts or areas for optimization.

https://preview.redd.it/8rj421mjmmah1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e56ab9c25b8cb6f9e367a4faa2d1b44f9c22f497

Quick Technical Overview :

• Current Engine Model: This is a meta-search engine. It utilizes the DDGS API to actively fetch data across 10 different endpoints simultaneously.
• Failover Design: If an API endpoint rate-limits or acts up, the engine has a built-in DDG HTML parsing layout running as a robust fallback mechanism to ensure zero downtime.
• Image Infrastructure: We currently route requests to Bing for image results, but this is temporary. It is actively being refactored and will be fully replaced by the DDGS API directly in the very next deployment.
• Current Performance Baseline: Based on our internal test suites evaluating query intent against raw indexing output, the system is maintaining an 85% accuracy and relevance score (91% in certain cases) across standard search categories.

For more detailed report please use : https://aoogle-production.up.railway.app/blog