I was wondering what personal laptops are being used by Indian Developers and why that particular choice was made. Please enlighten with your choices here.

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Hey everyone!

I recently got selected at Société Générale (SocGen) through campus placements at my college, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai.

The offer is for an SDE Internship + Full-Time Employment (FTE) role. The offer letter mentions the following:

• Fixed CTC: ₹12.21 LPA (excluding the variable component)
• Internship stipend: ₹32,500 per month
• Variable pay: Additional, based on individual, group and company performance

I'm happy about getting this opportunity, but honestly, I don't have much clarity about what to expect next. We haven't received much detailed information from the college placement team regarding the work location, team allocation or what the transition from internship to full-time employment will look like.

I'd really appreciate insights from people currently working at SocGen or those who have worked there previously.

A few things I'd like to understand:

1. Work location: Is the SDE role generally based in Chennai, Bengaluru, or another location? When are freshers usually informed about their final location and team?
2. Work culture: How is the engineering culture at SocGen? Is it a good place for freshers to learn, take ownership and grow technically?
3. Technology stack: What technologies do SDE interns typically work with? Is the work primarily backend development, full-stack development, banking applications, or something else?
4. Work-life balance: How are the working hours, workload and general work-life balance for freshers?
5. Compensation: For a fixed CTC of ₹12.21 LPA, what would the approximate monthly in-hand salary be after deductions? How is the variable component typically structured?
6. Internship-to-FTE conversion: What are the expectations during the internship, and what factors determine successful conversion to a full-time role?
7. Career growth: Is SocGen a good place to build a strong software engineering foundation for the long term? How are the learning opportunities, mentorship and internal mobility?

I'd especially love to hear from people working in the Chennai or Bengaluru offices, if possible.

I'm not looking to complain about the offer. I'm grateful for the opportunity; I just want to understand what I'm stepping into and prepare myself accordingly.

Any genuine experiences, advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I would give it 5-6 years before that happens, its already slowly happening

Hi seniors, I'm a 2nd Year AIML undergraduate, this is my resume up until now. Where can i improve to make my resume stand out and increase chances of placements.

Critics are welcomed, thanks in advance.

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if AI can do 350 open math problem that too in average span of 3 hours, it can very well do most of the swe work just fine.

open math problems are insanely tougher than system design. system design seems tough because one need to apply dsa knowledge to real systems to obtain efficiency in real situations.

but after all it is all code and dicumentation ai has to learn which it can do very well. it can very well assimilate different ways to do it. and most of the ai models are gradmasters on codeforces which is way above average shitty developeor in the industry.

also the people who still feel their knowledge is beyond the scope of ai, are either top 0.001% engineer or self validated elites and genuises who are donot wish to open their deluded eyes to the objective reality, hence resorting to ostrich approach.

My offer's IP clause says the company owns everything I create during employment, "including during off-duty hours," with no exception for personal projects. Here's the email I'm planning to send before signing:

Hi HR,

Thank you so much for this offer. I am extremely grateful and genuinely excited to join as an AI Engineer, and I am ready to sign.

There is just one point I'd like to clarify before I do. The Assignment of Inventions clause gives the Company full rights to everything I create during my employment, including work done in my off-duty hours.

I'd like to request that personal projects meeting all of the following conditions remain fully mine:

•Done entirely in my own time, outside working hours

•Done on my personal devices and accounts, without using any Company resources (equipment, LLM tokens, compute, tools, etc.)

•Not using any Company knowledge or confidential information

•Not competing with the Company's business

Anything I build for the Company, during working hours, or using Company resources or information would of course belong to the Company.

I truly believe encouraging this kind of personal exploration significantly boosts productivity. I have seen this first-hand at my current company, where many insights that helped my work came from side projects I built in my own time.

A short written addendum would work perfectly, and I will sign immediately once it is in place.

Thank you,

Does it sound good?

This upskilling constantly staying in a fear of losing job making me feel I am not living my life I am in a kind of simulation living and days are passing years are passing and this will end eventually in this choas am I living my life ... do you get such questions what you do to live the life peacefully.

I want to ask freelancers who have been working from home. We know how it’s risky situations day by day.

First due to AI, many people lost significant chunk of their website traffic, lost revenue, small player literally got out of the business.

Now there are only few handful of people who have shifted to Insta and YouTube, so this makes me wonder.

I got a Data Engineer job as a fresher through a referral. The issue is that I’m being put directly into a project without formal training.

They know I’m a fresher and said they’ll provide KT initially. There’s also a 3-month probation period.

Can I realistically survive and learn on the job with the help of AI tools like ChatGPT/Copilot? Or is this going to be very difficult without prior Data Engineering experience?

Hey everyone,

I recently received an internship offer from a company called Qveto Technologies. They describe themselves as a small tech firm focused on AI-driven solutions, software development, and cloud technologies. They seem to offer remote internships with a promise of certificates and LORs after completion.

However, I couldn't find many reviews or real experiences online, and their social presence seems very limited. I'm trying to figure out if this is a legitimate opportunity or something I should be cautious about.

I don’t want to assume anything, but I’m particularly concerned about any hidden charges for certificates or LORs after the internship ends.

If anyone has worked with Qveto Technologies before or knows anything about them (positive or negative) I’d really appreciate your input.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for advice from people who have experience with Azure for Startups / Azure billing, especially unexpected high bills.

Our company is enrolled in Microsoft for Startups, and we were working toward the workload requirements for additional Azure credits. We created multiple workloads for this purpose.

We recently discovered that our Azure bill for the period was around ₹10–11 lakh (~$12k USD).

The surprising part is the cost breakdown. The major contributors were:

• Azure Virtual Enclaves: ~₹5.58 lakh - $5580
• Azure Firewall: ~₹4.19 lakh - $4190
• Azure Bastion: ~₹0.97 lakh - $970
• PostgreSQL: ~₹0.48 lakh - $480
• Total: roughly ₹11 lakh - $11k

So approximately ₹10.7 lakh ($11k) came from Enclaves + Firewall + Bastion.

From what we're now understanding, the Enclave deployment provisioned a fairly substantial networking/security architecture around the workloads, including Azure Firewall, Virtual WAN/Virtual Hub, Firewall Policies, etc. The Activity Log shows the Azure Firewall creation/update operations being performed by Mission Enclave rather than individual user accounts.

Our original intention was simply to maintain the required Azure workloads for the Startup credit milestone. We were not expecting the workload requirement to result in this level of infrastructure cost.

We are now trying to understand:

1. Are Azure Firewall and the other networking components automatically provisioned when using Azure Enclave?
2. Is Bastion automatically created or is it an optional component?
3. Is there a lower-cost way to satisfy the Microsoft for Startups workload requirement without deploying this entire networking architecture?
4. Has anyone successfully obtained a billing adjustment, Azure credit, or refund for a situation like this?
5. Should we open a normal Azure Billing Support ticket, Microsoft for Startups support ticket, or both?
6. Is there anything specific we should include in the refund/adjustment request?

We're obviously going to be much more careful before creating any additional workloads. We haven't intentionally tried to consume resources at this scale; the high costs came from the infrastructure associated with the deployment.

If anyone has dealt with Microsoft in a similar situation, I'd really appreciate advice on the best way to approach the billing support case and whether a refund/credit is realistic.

Hi everyone,

My friend has received two offers for a Senior DevOps Engineer role, and both are offering the same salary. He is confused about which one to choose.

Option 1: Mphasis (Client: Schneider Electric)
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Work will be for Schneider Electric client
Hybrid/office-based (not fully remote)
Mphasis payroll

Option 2: Artisent
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Fully remote job
Same salary as Mphasis offer
Considering both compensation packages are equal, which factors should he evaluate before deciding?

Any suggestions?

Hey folks ,

5+ YOE Product Engineer (Python/Backend/AI) - am good in both team management and development work , evaluating two offers. so looking for stability, decent WLB.

1. Zemoso Technologies

• Role: Senior Gen AI Engineer
• CTC: ₹20.00 LPA (Fixed: ₹18.21 LPA | Variable: ₹1.79 LPA)
• basic salary annual : 9,10,500

2. WNS Global Services

• Role: Deputy Manager – Actuarials (Python Stack)
• CTC: ₹23.04 LPA (Fixed: ₹19.20 LPA | Variable: ₹3.84 LPA)
• basic salary annual : 7,68,000

Questions:

1. Work Culture & Bench Stability: How is Zemoso's agency model regarding client billability and layoff risks compared to WNS?
2. WNS Tech Exposure: How technical is the Python actuarials work at WNS, or is it heavily operational?

If choosing WNS over zemoso , what will be the next 3yrs of carrer path will look a like in this case , help me at the earliest pls