r/cscareeradvice

This scam firm has revoked full time offers for the 3rd time in last 8 years!

Please stay away from their so called lucrative packages , Trilogy Univ Bootcamp held in Dubai!

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They campus hire from almost all NITs/IIITs/IIT in India

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If someone is hiring do let me know I have been affected by this (Ping me for resume and other details - Profile Tier 1 college ; summer Internship with Trilogy Innovations)

Im 21F recently completed cse(2026 grad). I've a cgpa of 7.6, not good at dsa, decent projects. Applied to tons of job but barely any reply. got 2 calls but bombed the exams. I clear f2f interviews but struggle in exams. Im feeling ashamed to type this as it is but I want to do something with my life. im studying as well but 0 call backs, its extremely hard to compete with ppl with 9+ cgpa and amazing dsa skills.

if anyone here is like me, what did u do? Did u pivot ur career elsewhere? masters, semi tech jobs? literally any guidance would be helpful. what should someone like me pursue or what to do??

Hello! I have 3 years of experience as a software engineer but a year ago got into a great company as a QA engineer. While I found software engineering to be difficult, it was still something I could understand and it came more naturally to me. I have absolutely hated doing QA work. I was doing automation programming for a while at the start of this new job and I liked it a lot. Now however the contacting of devs for info and trying to suss out different problems that pop up in Slack for people has been not fun for me. Also the fear of maybe missing bugs or me just testing something wrong has been getting to me.

I think part of it is that I am on the autism spectrum and the more social aspects of QA work have caused me difficulties, but I'm not sure. I have been taking a long time to handle my QA tickets and have been stressed at what I feel like has been my lack of productivity over the last month or so.

I want to ask my boss if I can switch over to doing software engineering again on one of our companies teams, but I'm worried that it could show I'm not cut out for QA and I could end up with no job at all. I don't even want a pay raise, I just miss feeling productive and also satisfied with my work. Any advice here is much appreciated and what I should do.

I have over 2 years of solid experience as a Backend/Full-Stack Software Engineer before moving to the UK. I worked at a service based company building production microservices for a major bank, and I also have startup experience building voice enabled alexa applications.

Since moving here, I estimate I have applied to over 10,000 jobs. I’ve tried everything writing custom CVs and tailored cover letters, alongside firing off hundreds of Easy Applies. I have also attended countless tech meetups across London. Even though my core stack is Node/MERN, I’ve branched out and gone to events for Rust, Python, Django, JavaScript, and React. Honestly, these meetups feel completely useless for actual job hunting. Apart from getting a free slice of pizza, they have led absolutely nowhere.

​ A lot of people automatically say "it's because you need sponsorship." But here is the thing: I was on the Youth Mobility Visa for the last 2 years. I had the FULL right to work and didn't need sponsorship, and I still got zero interviews. Now, I only have about 20 days left on my visa and actually do need sponsorship, so I know it's basically over here.

Because I couldn't land a tech role, I now have a 2 year gap on my tech CV. I am 26 and single, but I am essentially the breadwinner for my family back overseas. I have spent the last two years working exhausting survival jobs just to pay my rent in London and send money back home to keep my family afloat. This left me with absolutely zero time, energy, or disposable income to take courses or upskill. In the UK, there is at least a minimum wage so I could survive. But in 20 days I'll go back home, I know I will be completely unemployed I won't even be able to get a survival job. I will have zero money and no resources to upskill.

The constant rejection has taken a massive toll on my mental health. I keep trying to build personal projects, but I end up deleting them because the imposter syndrome hits hard. I keep self doubting and convincing myself that my work isn't good enough and that I am not cut out to be a SWE anymore.

My questions for this community:

- Why am I not getting any interviews even with my proven experience? Is the market just that bad right now, or is my gap an automatic rejection?

- What do I do about my career gap? How do I explain that I spent the last two years doing survival jobs without it ruining my chances? Do I put these non-tech jobs on my CV to explain the time, or leave it blank?

Any advice from people who have been in a similar situation would be appreciated.

During college I loved creating backend systems, building a full stack student portal, APIs, clean architecture. I got placed through campus hiring based on dev skills, but was assigned to a DevOps team instead.

For 2 years I've worked on AWS infra: EC2, Aurora, IAM, Terraform, Jenkins. Legitimate experience, but narrow, no Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana in daily use.

The dilemma: I keep being told Platform Engineering is the "best of both worlds," combining infra and software skills. But the more I dig into it, the more it feels like infra work with occasional coding, not the systems-building-with-clean-architecture work I actually loved doing before this job. I don't want to just provision resources, I want to build things. If it around provisioning resources that's fine, like building a tool like Terraform

I also hold an AWS MLOps cert (as my company's AI strategy 🤦), but no applied ML engineering experience.

“It feels like my career stalled before it started, and I don't forgive my first company for that, but I'm grateful that I got my first job

What I need honest opinions on:

1. Is my read on Platform Engineering fair, or am I misjudging it?
2. Should I pivot toward Software/Backend Engineering despite having zero professional dev experience (except during internships and side projects), or is that too big a risk to leave 2 years of so called "infra experience" behind?
3. Is "keep the DevOps job, build backend depth on the side for 6 months, then test the market" a sound plan, or naive?
4. What am I not seeing here that someone further along this path would tell me?
5. Am I naive to think that Development would be better than DevOps, since I hear things like DevOps/SRE jobs have high demand.

Trying to avoid both naivety and overthinking. Direct feedback welcome, tell me if I'm wrong about something.

What does the future hold? Will everyone be sent to the meat grinder eventually?

Hi everyone,

I'm a 2026 graduate and I'm considering joining a Primary Research Analyst role at Acuity if I receive a PPO. My long-term goal, however, is to become a Software Development Engineer.

My concern is about the current hiring market. If I spend about one year working in Primary Research (not software development) while continuously learning DSA, backend development, CS fundamentals, and building strong projects, would companies still consider me for SDE-1/Associate Software Engineer roles?

I'm worried because:

Many entry-level SDE roles seem to be filled through campus hiring.

Experienced SDE roles usually ask for prior software development experience.

My 1 year of experience would be in Primary Research, not SWE.

Has anyone here successfully made this transition recently (2025–2026)? Or have you seen colleagues do it?

I'd especially appreciate hearing from recruiters, hiring managers, or engineers at product companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon, Atlassian, or similar.

What would you recommend to maximize the chances of making this switch?

Thanks!

I am 16 years old and I've learned C++ (although I forgot most of it), Python, and I am currently learning the Flask framework.

I'm interested in web development, and I was planning to become a full-stack developer, but I have heard that this path isn't good in the long term because it forces you to work two jobs (without including DevOps) for the salary of one, besides the pressure, and you don't get to learn one path very well. Furthermore, most of the companies that hire full-stack developers are small-scale enterprises that do not have the money to hire two or three people. This made me change my mind to become a back-end developer and take advantage of AI to help me on the front-end side to build my portfolio.

I have two problems about my future career and one about my way of learning:

1- I don't know if I really want to be a back-end developer.

2- Is the back-end path rewarding and stable?

3- My biggest problem is that I don't know how to measure my efficiency in learning and what free resources I could use to learn (I have watched some courses on YouTube, and in most of them, the instructor doesn't focus on making you understand what the code really does).

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I am just not getting interviews at all. Please tear apart my resume, would love to get feedback I can work with!

Edit: Just a clarification. My official full-time role at the gas company is in IT support/operations, where I’ve been for over a year. I took that up because the job market was bad and I really needed a job to stay afloat. However, I’ve been actively working toward transitioning into SWE, so I started taking on engineering-focused work internally.

The project listed on my resume under that role is the internal tool I independently designed and developed after identifying workflow problems, while collaborating with developers at the company for guidance/integration. They’re not my primary day-to-day responsibilities, but they are real tools built in a professional environment.

The startup and research experiences are separate work I contribute to outside my full-time role, mostly because I’m trying to gain more software engineering and AI experience. I still consider them valuable because they involve real development, collaboration, and technical ownership.

I've sent around 80 applications. About 70–80% never even get viewed (I checked the visa sponsorship box). I've had 3 screening calls, but they usually lose interest once they find out I need visa sponsorship. My undergrad is from a top a university here, and my master's is from the top university here (in the top 50 globally).

That said, I also think my resume is pretty terrible and all over the place(genuinely crashing out feel like I've spent my life doing a bunch of nothings, feel like the bottom of the barrel).

I need some constructive criticism. Should I build better projects? Focus on one specific area instead of doing a bit of everything? Try to get an AI internship at an MNC? What exactly should I be improving?

I'm also thinking of shifting my focus from full-time roles to contract or part-time work. I honestly just want to make some money at this point. My goal isn't anything crazy, I’d be happy with contract or part-time work that pays around $1k/month(rent basically).

Would appreciate honest, constructive feedback.

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Anyone else been in this situation?

Hey everyone,

I need to get this off my chest because it's been eating me up for the past month.

A while back, I got a job offer as a Software Developer Trainee. The package was decent, the company was good — honestly it checked a lot of boxes for a fresher like me. But there was a 2-year bond clause, and something about it just didn't sit right with me, so I declined the offer.

At the time, I thought I was making the right call. I told myself I'd find something better without any strings attached. Fresher, confident, maybe a little naive.

Fast forward to today — it's been a month and the interview calls have basically dried up. Most companies have already wrapped up their hiring cycles and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox every hour hoping for something.

Now I'm genuinely questioning whether I made a mistake. That offer had a good package, a reputable company, and real experience on the table — and I walked away from it over a bond that, honestly, a lot of companies have anyway.

I know a 2-year bond isn't ideal, especially early in your career when you want flexibility. But looking back, as a fresher with no experience, was I really in a position to be that picky?

To anyone who's been in a similar spot — did you regret declining an offer? How did you get back on track?

And if anyone has tips on finding openings outside the main hiring season, I'd really appreciate it. Feeling a bit lost right now and just needed to put this out there.

Thanks for reading 🙏

I graduated Dec 24 and I can’t get any job interview. I’ve tried internships nothing and I’ll get to the interview round and then they’ll tell me we like you but you have no internship like it’s getting so depressing now. Idk what to do anymore. Should I look into switching careers ? bc I don’t know how many No I can take anymore. Should i switch career?

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I work in cybersecurity. I've been working for the past over a year as a contractor, but the contract said that there was an expectation to hire as FTE. I built them out an entire code pipeline that automates a very complex custom process saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars and condensed their workload by 75%. End of the contract is coming up and the boss says they are going to open those positions but wants to put the jobs out their to the rest of the market to see who else they can get because they want to pay 70k dollars less in salary instead of hiring us and paying us what would be equivalent pay that we make now. The problem is they are stupid and don't have a proper code repository so everything lives on my local machine. If I go...so does the entire process that I had built.

Would you stay and take $70k less pay and leave the second you got a better offer or would you say no thank you and walk away having no job but knowing that the process that was built for them won't exist anymore and they would fuck themselves. Even if someone else were to build the entire thing again from scratch it would probably take someone 12-18 months to rebuild...even with AI.

Hi everyone,

I have an interview scheduled next week for a Full Stack Developer role at Northern Trust.

I have 10yrs of experience primarily focused on Core Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and SQL, with a more limited, functional exposure to Angular on the frontend.

I would deeply appreciate help with Northern Trust Interview Process: If you have recently interviewed here for senior roles (Tech Lead / Sr. Software Engineer), what did they focus on? Was it heavy on LeetCode algorithms, or more focused on Spring Boot internals and system architecture? and also from UI what was focus?