Spent months learning Android dev and Spring Boot backend. Now I can build a fully working app. Just started my third year and I'm looking for internships in Android dev, but with all the AI-replacing-devs talk, I keep wondering if I picked the wrong path.

Anyone who's been through a hype cycle before ? does this feeling fade once you're actually working? And for those hiring or interning right now — is this fear even matching reality on the ground?

I started my relocation journey in May 2025. I had just come back from traveling in the EU and naively decided to give relocation a try from India. I was an iOS tech lead/EM at the time in India so I naturally applied for EM roles.

From May to September 2025, I kept applying passively to EM roles with almost no response. Got 1 callback from N26 in Germany but they ghosted after initial screening.

I researched a bit and decided to pivot to apply for SSE roles. The main reason for this was that the volume of IC roles was much higher. Also, I went through 100s of LinkedIn profiles of EMs in EU, and found that it was extremely rare to relocate as an EM.

But to apply as an SSE I had to overcome the DSA mountain, since I was pretty crap at it. Finally decided to stop crying about it and solved 100 questions from Neetcode 150 from Oct to Dec 2025. I also prepared for other technical rounds in these months. IMO, I prepared too much just out of fear of rejection.

Started applying mid Jan 2026. Got shortlisted for one EM opportunity at Adjoe in Hamburg. The technical rounds were fine but I was crap in the behavioural round and got rejected. In between the rounds, I had a panic attack while walking to the office — bad enough that I had to go to the ER and get it checked. Wasn’t heart-related, but I had other issues to deal with. Don’t take mental health lightly, guys.

After that setback, I decided to take things a bit lighter and not get too obsessed. The medication I was on also helped with the anxiety.

I connected with a recruiter who helped me optimize my profile, and I started applying again. Got shortlisted at Bolt and at Glovo. Got rejected at Glovo and surprisingly got an offer at the Estonian company, even though it was the harder one to get into.

The entire journey was a whirlwind of emotions and there was definitely some luck involved. I did not expect to land an offer in 2.5 months of applying from India in this market. Hopefully this inspires you in your own relocation journey.

As for the visa, flight and temporary accommodation, the company takes care of it all. Even with that since the embassy of Estonia is a small one in Delhi, finding slots is next to impossible. Luckily found a slot and now waiting for my flight in 20 odd days time.

As for the compensation, it is 2x (stock options excluded) of what I earned in India, which was around 55L. Estonia does have some caveats like harsh winters, reserved people and proximity to Russia which will take some getting used to.

But I’m making this call based on my preferences for green spaces, low bureaucracy and digitisation. I believe Estonia is on the up, it’s only 35 years since it got its independence and it has achieved a lot (no. 1 in cleanliness, no. 6 in PISA ratings, widely spoken English, complete digitisation, voting is digital too, free public transport etc.)

TLDR: Indian iOS Tech Lead spent ~10 months pivoting from EM to SSE roles, grinding LeetCode, and battling anxiety (literally ended up in the ER mid-process) before landing a software engineering job in Estonia after 2.5 months of serious applying. Don’t sleep on IC roles if you’re relocating to the EU, and don’t ignore your mental health.

I am in TCS as Ninja Candidate . I was offered Adobe Analytics Developer role. I know full stack development but could not convert to offer in any other company so joined TCS . Here in project interviews luck matters . should i take this role (Adobe Analytics). Will it be a problem for me when switching job after 8-12 months . I am going to make my DSA more better and development. So does previous work exerience matter when switching on basis of DSA and development skills . there is also a fear that if i reject this and after some time i have to take support role here possibility is there

i've got a compensation interview left at a palo alto startup, how much do i demand?

i have 1+ yoe as a software engineer. they didn't have a JD, i cold dm'd, got on a call, passed the interview, so yeah. their stack is pretty wide. python, sqlite, vscode itself (vscode fork), and more that i don't remember right now.

my current compensation is not that great tbh, it's $540 (local company) which i why i don't think i should let my current pay be an anchor point for my next pay, because for one, it's a palo alto startup, and second, of course they are gonna pay much higher than just $540. this is what i don't know how to calculate, a valid number. do i ask for $3000, $4000, or $5000. i dont know. they are on a hiring spree right now. 5 people joined just within june incl. me.

Basic details

Company: Agoda
Role: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangkok
YOE: 8
Education: B.E, Tier 3
Current company: Product-based, non-FAANG
Result: Selected

Round 1 — Coding

Two questions.

Q1: Monotonic stack / nearest smaller element.

Q2: Given an array of priorities, return the rank of every element. Higher number = higher rank.

Round 2 — Platform Design + Code Review

Setup: data supplied to multiple airline aggregators.

Issues discussed:

• No rate limiting
• Incorrect API methods
• Lack of horizontal scaling
• No DB replication

This discussion went on for around 40 minutes.

Other topics:

• Software testing
• Rolling out to limited traffic

Last 10–15 minutes: code review.

Example improvement discussed:

• Use strategy/factory pattern instead of long if-else chains

Round 3 — System Design

Prompt:

Build a flight aggregation system

Topics covered:

• Clarifications
• Functional requirements
• Non-functional requirements
• Core entities
• API design
• DB choice
• High-level design
• Deep dives

Round 4 — Culture Fit

Topics:

• Technical leadership
• Handling conflicts
• Pushing back on design decisions

Result

Selected. took multiple rejections before finally cracking this one.

Compensation details

Current base: ₹52L

Agoda offer:

• Title: Staff Software Engineer
• Location: Bangkok
• Base: 225k THB/month
• Joining bonus: 450k THB
• Yearly bonus: 19% of base, performance based
• Stocks: No stocks for Staff level
• Tax: 15% for expats

Other benefits:

• Visa support
• Relocation support
• One-time WFH allowance

Notes

Process may vary by team, level, and timing.

I am working in a small company earning 9LPA, recently got the opportunity at a FAANG company for the SDET role, it compensation is same as that of SDE, i.e 38LPA. I have 1 year of experience.
Should I go for this or should I avoid this, and how difficult or easy to switch back to SDE after a year or two.

Why is everyone obsessed with getting a mac from the office for work. Here also people want to show off or prove that we got mac and moreover they will not do anything extraordinary with mac but still their chul is never over.

And when asked why you want it then they have no proper explanation or justification.

Anthropic just made their best move yet. Sonnet 5 = mear-opus performance at $2/million tokens vs $5 for Opus.

The race to commoditize intelligence is accelerating. What used to cost $60/million tokens now cost $2.

The question is: which layer of the ai stack is still expensive?

Hey, I am a software engineer with 2.8 year of experience rn its 5lpa remote in india ( my first job pays just bearly 1.4lpa ), rn got offer for 16k aed/month (including 800 transportation allowance) so if i take there bus they will deduct 800 aed else not

First of all i am obviously gojng to take that, but my question is, how good or bad is it like i have seen in alot of places it varies some say for single junior 8-10k aed is good some say atleast 20-30k and some say if u have family its more like 40-50k ( i m single ).

My main concern is how much its gonna cost me per month how much can i save. ( as for me i dont drink or like to travel outside much typical gaming introvert )

Post Script :
Alot of people asking process and tech stack

I was hunting for website daily on career page to see any job listing of unpopular company or company that is not primarily tech

I found the new listing on their website, i wasnt looking for specific company it was a wide range of companies across the world moslty in Aus ( where my current compnay is ), sg, germany, Netherlands, sweden l, canada ( got offer from fintech startup a while back but didnt join )

Search via keywords like top companies in that country, top startups, visa sponsors etc and yes USA is super hard didnt even get any call or anything

Few popular companies had interview with Nike, canva aus, amazon, bytednace for sg, and other were almost everything was startup

Hey folks!

I am working as a Senior Software Engineer with compensation : 40L INR Fixed + 40k USD RSUs vested yearly as per -(40:30:20:10) . I am currently interviewing and want help in answering questions from recruiter/Hiring managers

• What is your current compensation? - I answer as above

Need some help in navigating HR questions and understanding what should be a target comp for me given by background.

What salary you got in? Was /is it worth? How much can you save if you’re a couple and single person earning?
Just trying to make a comparison between European countries ( Netherlands/UK etc ) with Dubai

Thanks

I am 2026 CSE Graduate. I have been applying for the tech jobs such as backend dev and everything with my tech stack as Java + springboot but I am hardly getting any calls. I got an option to work as an Operation or logistics. I don't have muc prior knowledge about it. Can anyone share their insights regarding this profile. Should I wait and grind more to stay relevant in the tech market. Getting job especially off campus is way more harder than I EXPECTED and I don't know what should be my next move.

Want to understand the expenses in Dubai for living?
At what salary you moved ? What was your Indian CTC before?

Please quote everything in local currency. Like INF for India and AED for Dubai.

I am considering subscribing to Claude Pro for my daily coding requirements i just wanted to ask few questions

How quickly do you hit the rate limits and should i also consider other alternatives like cursor kr claude is the best one

Please help me

Guyssss I so so so badly wants to move out of India, I’m working as a data analyst in a good consulting company with 1+ yoe graduated from a decent NIT but in core stream of engineers altho I switched to a non core (consulting after 8months of experience in the core company) but I really wanna move abroad how do I do it??? And no I don’t want to do masters or mba the loan thing is not for me!

Hey everyone, ​I recently built a custom form builder to scratch my own itch and wanted to get your thoughts on it. I’m not here to promote, just trying to gauge if there's any interest in this outside of my own use case.

​Basically, I wanted something with low costs and custom branding, so I built a tool that does the following:

​The Output: A clean, conversational UI just like Typeform. ​

The Builder: A block-based, Notion-style editing experience.

​The Storage: All form responses are sent directly to your own Notion database. ​

The Uploads: File uploads bypass typical platform limits and go straight to your own Google Drive.

​I made this just to solve my own problems, but I'd love to hear your feedback. Is this something you would find useful?

What features would make or break it for you? ​Let me know what you think!

Ok so I had lived in Canada for few years but due to not getting any decent job in IT even though I had PR, I returned to India. Since then I've been earning pretty good, living in tier 1 city and it's been almost 2 years now. Now I'm wondering if I made a hasty decision as it seems everyone is trying to get out of India. I'm also worried about the future about my job as I'm not super exceptional or talented, but I get the job done, so if I get laid off I'm not sure if I'll get anything good.

I still have two more years left on my PR, should I try to find jobs in Canada or its better to be in India only.