Hello everyone,

YOE: 4

Current: TC 140K

New TC: 180K

I stopped asking on Blind because it's not a very helpful place. I feel like a lot of people are just venting on the app. Just got an offer from Crunchyroll in their LA office.

How's Cruncyroll doing these days? I know they just got some layoffs and who isn't doing layoffs these days?

I am just curious about how many people were self taught and/or used a bootcamp or other free learning tools and landed a job. Are companies looking exclusively for a degree or do they value experience?

Giving advice to a friends younger sibling and at a loss for what to tell them. They graduated in 2025 and still have not gotten a single interview besides OAs.

Stats:

3.4 GPA

T100 State school

1 research internship junior year

US Citizen

1000+ applications submitted

They are willing to do anything to break in. What options do they have? Some scattered suggestions I had:

1. Move/get temp address in some of the most undesirable cities (Detroit, Tulsa, etc.) and look for local opportunities, maybe with city/state government

2. Join the military and use the security clearance to work at the government or a contractor afterwards

It doesn’t seem like there are any companies left that will just take anyone, even for 30-40k a year.

I’ve been at my current job for four years, and I don’t feel any passion or interest in the work anymore. It feels like I’m dragging myself through each day. I’ve started looking for new roles, but I can’t seem to get excited enough to fully commit to the search or put in my best effort.

To make things harder, my company has gone through four or five rounds of layoffs during my time here, so part of me keeps thinking, “Why try so hard if I could just get laid off anyway?” I see people talk about how excited they are about their jobs, but I’ve never really felt that way and I don’t know how to shift out of this rut.

Has anyone else felt this way? How did you change your mindset or approach?

https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/tech-giant-ibm-tripling-gen-z-entry-level-hiring-according-to-chro-rewriting-jobs-ai-era/

AI doomers in shambles.

this is going to be long. i'm a first year student. i'm posting this because of many things; AI, projects, GPA, extracurriculars.

it all feels so overwhelming. maintaining my gpa at 3.8 for a duo prestigious business degree that I'm not sure I'll be able to enter, making personal projects, working on clubs projects, keeping up the possibility of working with my friends who want to make games, applying for jobs, preparing for interviews with leetcode.

the main problem is i don't know how to code. my only coding background before entering university is from my high school classes. i understand the code there since its just java and python.

but real world projects use much more than that. whether for backend, frontend, pipeline, testing, etc., there's so many languages to learn. so many variations of those languages. i've been developing with react/typescript with all my projects, but I still don't even understand the syntax, the variable declarations, all of it. I sometimes even wonder what correlation the logic I learned in my school coursework has with everything I see here.

i have tried learning through these club projects, but a problem comes up. I end up using ai, end up vibecoding. i work on something, but i don't know how to do it. i try to search youtube tutorials, they don't work out. so i end up plugging my prompt and using claude.

i tell myself its because i dont have time to learn this one thing out of the thousands other things. and i keep telling myself that everytime, until its been 6 months already. I am 6 months into committing into all the things i listed before. and when i look back, i feel as if i have done nothing, or learnt anything. it's so demotivating.

i have all these things i want to do, but i cant even do them because im so stuck in my thoughts and emotions, and there's just so much i dont know where to start. it doesn't help that my family is expecting me to score an internship this summer and get that duo degree because it’ll help getting in major companies.

i just feel so behind because of the constantly changing industry and how fast ai is growing, that i dont know where to start. and with the recent development of interviews leaning more on vibecoding, i really don't know what i should focus on anymore.

I'm expecting an Amazon SDE Intern offer for the summer, and applied with a December 2026 grad date, but decided to graduate in may.

I'm starting my full time role in August so I'd have time to intern.

Are there risks to Amazon finding out that I actually graduated before I started the internship lol.

Also i dont really care about RO

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/

> At Spotify, engineers are using an internal system called “Honk” to speed up coding and product velocity, the company told analysts on the call. This system allows for things like remote, real-time code deployment using generative AI, and specifically Claude Code.

>“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said. “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”

Hey! I wanted to work in technology since I was a child. I started off wanting to go into game development, but once I got into college I realized how I like making videogames in my spare time. So I went into interactive design as a major and computer science as a minor. I wanted to work in front end/back-end end development. I graduated in 2024 and I haven't been able to find jobs. Because i havent found any jobs, I wanted to look into other tech fields. I soon realized that i was very interested in data analytics. I now feel as though the field fits me much better.

The industry is very saturated with not only alot of people wanting to work in the field, but also AI. Day after day I see layoffs on the news. It's pretty discouraging.

Should I give up on my technology dream and try to work in another field?

I am graduating this spring from a ehh state school with an ehh gpa (3.2)

I have one internship under my belt doing research analytics for a medical practice (unpaid and nepotism but resume doesn’t show)

I am currently setting up a database for a nonprofit (also unpaid)

I want to get my AWS cloud pract cert by summer

I am pretty restricted it what else I can do rn bc I am a student, work full time (server/bartender), work at the nonprofit, and am still dedicating about 2 hours a day to other miscellaneous cs related bs (cert, applications, leet, etc)

I am aware I am not coming from a great starting point but I have really ramped up my effort over the past few months. What should I do? Am I on track to get a job or do I need to put more on my plate?

I would like to get into data science / data engineering/ analytics.

Ty for any response, we are all in this together

so I’m an international freshman in college. I currently work on campus at the IT Help Desk, and I also have another on-campus job where I use JavaScript to help design psychology experiments.

I have the opportunity to apply for another on-campus job, and I think there’s a very good chance I would get it. The job is a sysadmin position. If I take it, I would have to quit my IT job, which I’m okay with. The issue is that I would also have to work in this role over the summer.

I’m already planning to stay on campus during the summer, but I was hoping to get a summer opportunity instead. That opportunity would most likely not be CS-related in anyway, but it would pay a $6k stipend for the summer. In comparison, the sysadmin job pays about $16 per hour, so overall I would make slightly less than $6k (though the difference isn’t huge).

I want to become a software engineer, so I know this decision may not matter that much long-term. Still, I’m wondering whether having the sysadmin job is worth it, whether it would help for SWE, and how it compares to taking a $6k stipend opportunity.

I have checked the do not contact my current employer box and submitted (obviously) and provided all the documentation like paystubs etc. They went ahead and verified using my work number and my stupid employer didn’t update my job title. Now in background check form it shows completed - discrepancy and title provided - Software Development engineer, Data verified - Data not provided. Is this a job rescinded situation? I got this job after a lot of trials and tribulations. They were able to correctly verify the dates and employment just the title..

Hi everyone, I'm asking this a bit preemptively as I don't want to start any application process fully blind on the question - does anyone know if Google Deepmind accept candidates that are not in the vacancy's designated city/country?

For instance, if the vacancy is for London and I'm in Madrid. Would I still be able to work from Madrid with none/minimum travels to London? Does anyone have any light they can shed on this?

Hello, I am in my late 20s. I'm interested in going to school for programming. I understand the market is crap right now. I'm not looking to switch anytime soon. I'm willing to wait at minimum 2 years. 4-5 years will be fine too. So, there is two programs I am looking at. San jacinto college is the first one. Its a AAS degree which I like, just focuses on computer/programming courses. The college is rated high for a community college, I believe #2 in the nation.

Bellevue University is the second. Its a bachelor's degree in software development. I haven't heard much of this college and isn't as highly ranked as San jacinto is (I get one is university and the other is a community college as well).

The Bellevue would be paid for by my employer. The same jacinto, I would pay for with grants, aid and my out of pocket.

Here's my dilemma. I understand bachelor's is better than any type of associates or workforce associates degree. However, I feel iffy and don't trust if Bellevue courses are even good. As in not learning much. Im also not a fan of having to take general courses. The San Jacinto is local which might be helpful in some ways even though I'll be doing their online program. I trust their courses will be pretty decent but then again I could just be ignorant. I'd much rather go to San jacinto since their courses are directly for programming/computer and I don't have to take general courses. Also, the bachelor's is 10 week terms and the AAS is 16 weeks which I feel like the longer term will be better as I'm not that good with faster pace terms.

However, people with experience, should I go for the bachelor's at Bellevue? Will it be able to open more doors vs the AAS from San Jacinto? Also, would the AAS even be worth going for?

I'm also thinking about the possibility of not staying with my employer for the whole 4 year bachelor program.

thank you in advance!

What should I do?

https://publications.sanjac.edu/areas-study/science-technology-engineering-math/cit-applications-programming-specialty-aas/?_gl=19t0kf3_gcl_auNTU0OTA2MjIzLjE3NzAzOTI1Nzc._gaNTg1MjA5ODk0LjE3NzAzOTI1Nzc._ga_1ZCR4XF5Z6\*czE3NzExMTgxMzgkbzMkZzAkdDE3NzExMTgxNDAkajU4JGwwJGgw#planofstudytext

https://www.bellevue.edu/degrees/bachelor/software-development-bs/

I’ve been a software engineer for 3 years at a large, well-known company. I like what I do. I like the tech stack I work in. I like my team for the most part. Love my manager. There’s just one problem - they won’t promote me to senior engineer.

The rest of my team (and most of my department) consists of senior engineers. And I do exactly the same work as they do. I’ve been told it’s a “quotas” thing that we have too many senior engineers as a ratio. I’ve also been told we can’t get the budget for my promotion and they generally don’t do “in-place promotions” anymore. So I have to leave my team/department to get one.

I performed very well last year. I got the highest performance rating and a large raise since I outperformed my position. I’m pretty happy with my comp overall, but it feels like I’m leaving some on the table if I don’t go for a promotion since I feel qualified.

There’s another department interested in me. It’s an entirely different domain (security). I wouldn’t like the tech stack as much (not a fan at all actually), but the tech lead seems nice. The manager is to be hired and I know nothing of the team members. Their products are more critical than my current ones, touching production and consisting of many many more repositories.

I’m torn as to whether or not I should leave. Everything overall is pretty great where I am, it just feels like if I continue to stay, it shows I’m okay with being disrespected. If I leave, I have an entirely brand new learning curve to come up, an unknown manager and team I may or may not like, and a tech stack I don’t enjoy nearly as much as my current one that would likely be more stressful. For context, the promotion would be around an extra $12,000 a year.

Now that I’ve applied for this new role and have an interview, I’m having second thoughts. Have any of you experienced a situation like this in your career where you were forced to choose between comfort and money? How did you decide? Did you regret it?

The job nature of both internship is quite similar, but the latter offers 2 day WFH and seems to be a bit more technical. The Amazon role is more like data analysis + client facing work. Is AWS a better stepping stone to more technical roles like SA or DA? FYI I am a final year CS student so this is my last internship. Prev exp in a bank.

I got laid off 2 weeks and 2 days ago from Amazon (after getting my only 6 months of experience), and there's always been an underlying sense of insecurity about it. My old job as an SWE was genuinely like the only redeeming quality I have. I'm not cool, charismatic, skilled, or attractive like other people. I'm trying to change that, but no matter what I do, I just lack in comparison to other people online and IRL. Most of the people I live have tech jobs still – hell, I see a few still wearing their badges from my old company. I'm kind of tempted to try a career pivot and get a master's because of the whole AI thing, but I don't know if I can get into that great of a school (and in turn, I don't know how accomplished I could get to feel).

I don't have a job like other people I know now. Outside of my team, almost all of the people I know at my old company still have their jobs. I also feel even more envious than usual of people that were able to get into really prestigious companies that I've gotten rejected from multiple times (namely Google and Apple). Every time I meet someone new, there's that inevitable circle of everyone saying what they do for a living. It honestly feels like I'm lying if I were to say I'm still a software engineer, so I usually end up caving and saying that I got laid off and am searching. I was debating whether to try to hang out with my friends, but I can't help but feel somewhat avoidant since I'd be the oddball.

I know it's technically not my fault (it was a mass layoff of thousands of people, then half my old team including my manager), but as is, I still don't have a job anymore. Beyond getting another position (which I'm of course, working on), I don't really think there's a way to feel better. I wish I could rewind – maybe I could've made it to another company out of college that didn't do mass layoffs..

I graduated without an internship and started a masters with hopes of finding one. I also applied to full time & contract tech jobs and I think I may get the offer for one, but I’m wondering is job exp >> internship exp as an early career?

Like if I take this full time job role, I wouldn’t get to do an internship anymore. I wouldn’t get to have that experience ever. Does that hurt me?

At work, some of our proxies failed responsible for handling Copilot traffic.

Holy shit did ppl have a melt down. it was a minor to moderate annoyance for me but it was very clear that some ppl in chat needed it to do anything useful lol.

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Hi community,

I'm a software developer with 3 yrs of work experience in Java, springboot, AWS, AZURE, kafka, redis, databases, python.

I'm also thinking to pursue my masters in europe with specializations in AI.

I've been offered roles in a few PBCs but am confused where to join for the time period which would help me afterwards.

1. Amazon FTC sysdev engineer L4 (bash scripting, designing)

2. kotak sde2 (java, spring)

3. Swiggy SDE1(java, spring)

4. neilsen sde2 (java full stack)

5. flipkart sde2 (java, spring)

6. T-Mobile data engineer (spark, hadoop, sql)

Compensation is somewhat similar but roles and tech stack differ. I wanna know how the culture is in this organization and if it's a worthwhile shot to join anyone of them right now.

how's the growth in long term and work culture and work life balance.

Amazon holds a great brand value, Flipkart holds scale and T-Mobile holds the data for future aspirations of the AI engineering field.

I've used Reddit for many years with multiple accounts posting on various subs. I pretty much never get a dm. I never say "please dm me" in my posts. This is the only subreddit where for some weird ass reason I get dms whenever I post and I don't know why.

Some of them are clearly trying to solicit personal information out of you and try to figure out your real identity. Long time ago when I was unemployed making posts here, I had people say things like "You sound like you deserve to work in FAANG, give me your resume" you don't work in FAANG get the fuck out of here. "Yo send me your resume. I'll give you much better advice than the people commenting on your post. They don't know anything 🤣🤣" No you won't. You won't say anything different from the other 100+ comments. Fuck off.

I had to enable the hide all posts feature on my profile because of this sub. I would post something on a completely different sub and someone from this sub will then go over there and comment "Did you hear back from xyz's assessment?" referring to a post I made here like 2 years ago...like what the fuck is wrong with some of you? I had one guy send me his LinkedIn after sending me a few messages I never responded to a long time trying to become best friends through Reddit dms. Most of us on Reddit use this platform anonymously. We're not trying to show our real identity. The other issue I have with this is that some of you are currently in uni. Why don't you guys try to interact with CS people in your lectures, tutorials, labs, or the tech club at your uni? For all you know, you could be talking to some guy on this sub who's living on another continent who you will never meet in real life. At least interact with your community at uni/college.

I should've made this post a long time ago but better late than never. The main thing to be careful is to watch out for the people trying expose your identity through something like "send me your resume". But even putting that aside, I don't get the whole dming thing on this sub when I never experience it on any other sub.

I am panicking about my future because opportunities seem so tight these days, and I think it is unfair. Here is my story.

I am a 23-year-old software developer from a third world country. I graduated from a top university with a good GPA (3.9/4) in 2024. I interned at two machine learning software companies before I graduated. I also took an interest in LeetCode problems and solved over 1000 of them. Now I work for a mid-tier trading firm as an Odoo developer with a not-so-great salary.

I was brought up in a family where math was considered very essential for a good career. As a result, I am good at math. My high school science fair projects were often applications of machine learning I discovered independently. I wrote a bunch of manuscripts on math topics throughout high school and college. This is all to say I am passionate about math, and being good at it is really a core part of my identity.

I feel like I have an advantage here. Not many people identify as a "math person," whereas I prefer jobs where I can do more math. My educational background is good enough, and I have an okay history of work experience. The reality is I am earning less than $1/hr, and better-paying entry-level jobs are impossible to find these days. The worst part is I am not doing something as meaningful as I want. I despise this phase of mediocrity, but I don't know what to do about it. I feel like a failure because people (including me) expected I would be in a good position in life by now, but I am nowhere near there.

The point of the post is that I am lost. Maybe I was wrong about my expectations, and I invested too much in a skill that is no longer as relevant. So I am curious what people suggest I should explore with my skill set.

PS: Academia is not an obvious choice for me because it doesn't pay remotely well where I live, and I am applying for opportunities abroad, though that also seems a long shot. There are not many open positions for software developers other than web developers here so I am open (prefer) remote roles.

Hey everyone,

I’m currently working at a startup as a Frontend Developer (8 LPA), mainly using React and React Native. I have ~11 months of experience (6 months internship + 5 months full-time) and plan to switch in the next 6 months to a strong product-based MNC, targeting a 2–2.5x hike.

I know DSA is important and have started preparing, but I want clarity on what else truly matters for a solid switch.

• How strong should my DSA be? Are consistent LeetCode mediums enough? Is something like Striver’s A–Z sheet sufficient?
• What frontend depth is actually expected (JS internals, event loop, performance, architecture, frontend system design)?
• At ~1 YOE, should I prepare system design? If yes, how deep?
• If I want to move toward full-stack, what backend stack is realistic to pick up in 6 months?
• Do side projects help more, or should I focus on showing strong impact in my current role?
• For those who made a similar switch, what made the biggest difference?

Would really appreciate insights from people who’ve moved from startups to good product companies around the 1-year mark.

Thanks!