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You have a stable job.
Salary comes every month.
You know the codebase.
Your manager knows you.
So you stop preparing for interviews.
Then suddenly 3 years pass.
Your salary barely moved, your skills are mostly specific to one project, and now you're scared to switch because you don't know if you're actually market ready.
The job that made you feel safe slowly made you comfortable.
Has this happened to anyone here?
How do you know when “job stability” has turned into a career trap?

Hi Everyone,

I'm just curious to understand how development has changes across places after Claude. I personally work at a Bangalore based startup, in my workplace since claude came out, most developers are not even aware of what changes claude is making, they only look at the output and then push the code. This code we push without properly evaluating is not the build used in production, mostly to create a POC for demo. I know the productivity rate for pushing code and features has increased. But is this the same way happening across all industries (fintech, MNC's, enterprise softwares etc)??

Forget promotions at this point, we can't even move internally and work on some interesting projects. The people in those teams aren't leaving or getting promoted, and with the external market being so bad, there aren't many options outside either.

Everything feels stagnant and completely deadlocked.

I’m really torn between financial comfort in India vs. experiencing life in Europe.

About us:
- 28, married, wife is also 28
- I’m a software engineer; wife is a business analyst
- Wife is currently on a few-month career break
- No kids yet. No plans to have them in next few years
- Currently living in Bangalore

Current situation in India:
- Recently joined a top AI startup
- ₹90L fixed + ~₹75L/year in ESOPs
- Very comfortable lifestyle and good purchasing power
- Close to family

Dublin offer:
- 150K Euro/year salary
- 50K USD/year RSUs
- Would move to Dublin with my wife
- Company sponsors visa and relocation for both

Financially, I’m not sure the move makes sense after Irish taxes, rent and cost of living. I could probably have a more comfortable lifestyle in India.
But I’ve always wanted to live abroad, experience Europe, and travel extensively with my wife. Since we don’t have kids yet, this feels like the easiest time to do it.

So I’m struggling with:
💰 Stay: Better financial comfort, strong career opportunity, lower COL
🌍 Move: Life experience, Europe, travel, living abroad — something I’ve always wanted

For those who have made a similar move from India to Europe, would you take the Dublin offer in my situation?
Was the experience of living abroad worth giving up some financial comfort in India?

I imagine there is a huge meltdown going on, especially if the rumors are true about the leaks originating from Rockstar India

Hey Seniors,

I'm a new grad from a tier-1 college and I joined Amazon with a return offer after my internship. In my previous team, I had an exceptional review and my mentor and manager were heavily impressed but I'm alloted a new team which I joined a month ago. Just 1 week down, I was assigned a very heavy project which I discussed with a few college seniors working at Amazon, who said people generally get such projects in their second year and so. It's a tier-1 very critical service. I've been trying to understand things with help of LLM but I'm struggling too much to grab things that fast and the goal is to deliver it in 3 months. Seniors are also less helpful in this team. I'm so depressed and having self doubts now, thinking that I would be put in PIP. Please guide me how to deal with this.

Hello Folks, I have been searching jobs and it is getting absolutely difficult to even get an interview scheduled due to 90 days notice period.

Everyone wants an immediate joiner, and nobody is even to schedule an interview even if I say I can negotiate my notice period.

I was wondering shall I drop my papers tommorow, and eventually by November, I will be in immediate joiner gang.

But one of my senior advised, this seems to be worst time to drop a resignation because I will be entering the declining job market and might end up getting nothing.

Please drop some advices.

Note: 4 YOE, AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer, Mumbai location. Currently in a MNC.

I’m joining my first company as a Software Engineer Trainee in ~2 weeks and have no idea what to do with the time 😂

I thought once I got placed, I’d just chill, travel, binge series, sleep, etc. Because we anyway get grilled in jobs that we actually miss our free days.

But I’ve been building a personal project for the past few weeks and I’m actually too invested in it to stop now.

Another catch is that the company’s tech stack (.NET, C#) is also quite different from what I’ve worked with (mostly MERN/Next/TS). Although the first 3 months are dedicated training.

So what would you guys recommend?

1. Do absolutely nothing, chill and enjoy the free time
2. Learn the basics of the company’s tech stack
3. Continue building my project
4. Some combination of the above?

For those who went through this, what do you wish you had done before your first job?

Will IT careers really last post 35 for juniors nowadays?Is the senior engineer demand enough to accomodate almost 4times what it does today.

I saw recently the cs IT and similar branches seats has atleast quadrapled since 2010 in the IIT NIT IIIT system. This is excluding the numerous private colleges that has come up.

Add to that the impact of covid overhiring.

Even if we assume that that AI wont be much useful in senior engineer's productivity...which is less likely,but still.

Do you think the IT industry can accomodate this sheer volume that is coming up in next 10 years.

Not to mention people will be retiring less due to reduced salaries.

How much the IT industry can actually grow in terms of employment?

What skills do you suggest that can give maximum returns ,apart from AI skills cause that's almost a given.

Hi, so I've been in Google for about 2 years now. I'm not being considered for the September promo cycle and there's a probability that I might not be even for the next cycle. By that time it'd have been 3 years of me as an L3 here. It is an org issue. Last time, there were 0 promotions in my org from L3 to L4. This time, it'll barely be 5. So I'm not optimistic. I've been good at work so far so I'm obviously a bit salty about not being considered for this cycle. About a month back, I also had a personal crisis so I'm not in a good mental space right now. I also don't really enjoy my work here. I interviewed for Rubrik L4 but failed it. This is the worst I've felt in a long time. I need some advice on what I should consider ahead:

1. Stick it out here and be hopeful about a promo next cycle.

2. Go for SDE 2 at Amazon, LinkedIn, Microsoft, etc. This would definitely mean a salary cut. I have considered Glean, Databricks, Stripe but I don't think they're hiring for L4 currently.

3. Since I'm from a Tier 1 IIT, I can land a few HFT interviews. I'm considering C++ quant dev positions. Would this be a good idea at this stage or am I too late?

4. Try for a startup. I'm open to this option too but can someone suggest names of the ones that will pay at par with Google?

Please be kind.

I’ve noticed this alot with fresher resumes.

People put 15-20 technologies, frameworks, projects and skills on their resume. Some even put their competitive programming ratings and rankings.

But then interviewer asks a basic question related to one of those things and they have no idea how to answer it.

Same with CP. Someone might mention a very high LeetCode/Codeforces rating, but when you give them a normal LeetCode Medium they struggle to explain the approach or even solve it.

There is nothing wrong with not knowing something. Nobody knows everything.

But if you are putting something on your resume, atleast know it properly enough to answer questions about it.

Mention React? Know the basics properly.
Mention a project? Know what you actually built and why you made those decisions.
Mention a CP rating? Be ready to solve problems.

Honestly a simple resume with 5 things you know well is much better than a resume with 20 things you just touched once.

Don't try to look like you know everything. Just mention things you can actually defend in an interview.

if you are preparing for GEN AI/ ML/AI interviews.

Checkout my new website for prep. This is something I made for myself. Thats why no paid domain.

Its free to use - No signup.

Let me know if its of any use for you.

Thanks in advance.

I'm building a Tamil voice companion. Long conversations, 5 to 10 minute calls, not a task bot. Current stack is Sarvam saaras for STT, own LLM in the middle, TTS at the end, all over LiveKit. Google Chirp3 HD sounds better than Sarvam bulbul for Tamil TTS, but pitch isn't adjustable and there's no Tamil custom pronunciation.

My quality bar is ChatGPT's Tamil voice conversation. Best Tamil voice AI I've used, the naturalness and turn taking especially. But that's speech to speech, and I need a cascade because the text seam is where my safety gates and memory live. So the real question is how close a cascade can get.

1.Tamil stack: Sarvam or Google, or is there a third option I'm missing? ElevenLabs Flash has no Tamil, and benchmarks put Deepgram Nova-3 at around 68% WER on Tamil, so that's out.

2.Memory across long conversations: I'm doing structured extraction into SQLite (facts with validity windows) instead of RAG, mainly to keep the prompt cache warm. Has anyone run Graphiti/Zep or Mem0 for a non English voice agent? Curious whether extraction quality held up.

3.Scaling concurrent sessions: self hosted LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat. What did you pick and where did it break? My voice to voice latency is currently around 2 seconds. Batch STT and non streaming TTS are my suspects, moving to Sarvam's streaming websocket endpoints next.

Will report back with numbers on whatever I test.

Hi everyone, I’m currently working as a Data Science Associate Consultant at ZS in Pune. I have 6 YOE and a package of around 35 LPA.

The work culture here has become unbelievably toxic, mainly driven by my Consultant and Manager who are aggressively pushing for their own promotions at my expense.

Here are a few examples of what I'm dealing with:

* Insane hours normalized: When I raised an issue about the long working hours and working on weekends, the Consultant straight-up told me that "14-hour workdays are just ZS culture."

* Stealing credit: I worked on stabilizing a project for months. Once it was finally stable, the Consultant told me to step back. He then presented it to upper management, claiming I did no work for 3 months and that *he* fixed everything in just 3 weekends.

* No basic humanity: I was recently admitted to the hospital for 3 days. Instead of letting me recover, they called me about 10 times, telling me to "just give the KT (Knowledge Transfer) and then go do your thing."

* Hostile 1-on-1s: My manager asked me to brief him on my key activities over the last 3 weeks in a 1-on-1. Instead of a review, he just bashed me, accusing me of "only complaining and doing no work."

*Getting pushed out: The project I built was highly successful and brought in over 10 new projects. Both of them took all the credit for this revenue.

Now, they are twisting the narrative to make me look like the villain while they look like the saviors, and it feels like they are trying to force me to resign.

My Dilemma:

I desperately want to leave and have started preparing, but I have heavy family responsibilities and simply cannot afford to quit without having another job lined up.

I’m also terrified about the current market. Is the market good enough right now for a Data Scientist with 6 YOE to match a 35 LPA package? Honestly, my confidence is shot, and I am not in the right frame of mind to make a massive life decision, but I can't survive here much longer.

My Questions:

1. Has anyone faced a similar situation? How did you cope and navigate your way out?

2. Is there any way to quit while making them formally accountable for their toxic actions and credit-stealing?

3. How is the DS market right now for my experience and salary bracket?

Thank you for reading. Any advice would mean a lot right now.

TL;DR: Toxic managers at ZS Pune stole credit for my work that brought in 10+ projects, harassed me while hospitalized, and are now trying to force me to resign. I have 6 YOE (35 LPA) but can't quit without a backup due to family responsibilities.

Need market reality check and advice on how to hold them accountable.