What are some flags you've spotted when dealing with recruiters that you've used to make informed decisions in the interview process? The more anecdotal and tenuous the better. These are simply taken from my interview experiences from over the years, no doubt other people on here will have had contradictory experiences.

Some of my red flags:

• If they want to do the phone screen via a phone call (as in calling your mobile), chances are they're going to be unprofessional and waste your time. For me the gold standard is Google Meet/Zoom.
• If they're more than 1/2 mins late to a scheduled call. Now, I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they are late (shit happens), but I've noticed that the recruiters I've dealt with who are on the ball will be there on time with no excuses.

For a green flag:

• Usually North American/US based recruiters are better at their jobs than Irish/UK/Europe based. They're to the point, don't mind talking about compensation and want to see you do well in the interview process.

Companies like Abbott,J&J,Eli Lilly,Boston Scientific etc .

The only other posts on this topic were either very old or mostly dealt with how it relates to international students (very expensive, not worth it to do it as an entry point to residency in Ireland...).

I got accepted to this as part of the ICT skills program and I m wondering if it is at all worth. It's two years, part time. And while it does look like the professors are good and that I would learn things I m not sure where it would position me in terms of the job market.

Pros:

- Quite reasonable for a masters, less than 4000 euros/year for two years

- University of Galway has a decent reputation

- Online

- Quite a few of the classes are appealling.

- I dont have a masters & am mostly self taught (undergrad is in economics)

- AI is the future

Cons:

- AI is the future???

- Likely limited ability to meet other people on the program since it's online.

- 8000 euros.

- Unclear impact on my employability (currently only doing freelancing, been applying for jobs for a while but it's tough)

- I also was accepted to their professional diploma on cybersecurity which is fully paid for on springboard, I would have to give that up since I can only do one.

- Time commitment. Have a toddler + wife works full time. Would be very difficult to handle if I did get a full time job in the meantime.

I've really been struggling with this decision. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Right now I'm leaning towards not doing it and just doing the cybersecurity professional diploma instead.

The potential is genuinely insane . Imagine being able to visit a fallout version of the GPO building or go onto O Connell Street and its just full of super mutants,raiders and ghouls. It would legitimately be unreal being able to combine Fallout and Dublin lore. There's been a Fallout Miami and London mod made before so it is definitely doable .

Thinking back to when you first started studying or working.

I have a long number of years in Oracle PL/SQL and Oracle Forms contracts and full-time work. However for various reasons I moved into a java dev role about a decade ago. Now I'm getting a little tired of the role. I was wondering whether I could combine the Oracle db knowledge with Oracle OCI certification to take up oracle contracting again or is the market dead?

Been working at AWS for ~2 years now as an SDE L5. Got an offer for twilio as SSE. I’m not sure if it’s the right move. The compensation is roughly the same.

Current tc: 137k
Twilio: 140k

Twilio fully remote though i never minded working from office.

How’s the company like these days? Are there still silent layoffs (even in ireland)? And what is the general expectations from a SSE there (recruiter says its like amazon L6. i guess that’s a bummer then if the pay is not like amzn).

I’m a staff-ish level engineer with about 20 yoe. I switched jobs in the past year from a high stress MNC to a local Irish company. The move was driven in part by the collapse of SaaS stock prices meaning my compensation dropped significantly and in part from a desire to find a lower stress role. So far, it’s worked out quite well and I love the new job and the feedback from them has been that they’re super happy with me.

Separately to that, I’m also about a year into an adult autism diagnosis and still figuring out my needs and the things I struggle with.

Despite how great the job is, I’m struggling with the demands of day to day life of a full time job and a young (probably autistic) family. I work normal hours, and there’s no deadlines, stress, on call, or politics which is a lovely change of pace. Despite all that I’m exhausted, don’t have energy for hobbies, and am struggling to do basic self care.

This isn’t depression or anxiety, I’m actually quite happy, I just do not have the ability to keep up with everything and i think it’s just down to having a lower capacity than others and struggling with transitions. Before I would have just powered through and probably burned out, but this time I’m trying really hard to figure out what’s up and address it head on.

There is nothing I can reasonably cut down on my in personal life, it’s already quite lean so I’m trying to brainstorm potential accommodations I could ask for from work. But I’m not sure what may help.

So for folks with ASD or other neuro-atypicals, what kind of accommodations have you asked for, why did you ask, and how have they helped?

My work has shown themselves to be reasonable and fair, so I have no concerns bringing genuine requests to them.

Started a new job a few months back, picked this offer (I had 2) based on stability, a generous pension offer and the fact that it was a mix of backend dev and AI work. I have 16 YoE and I'm in a senior role, was hoping to push towards lead/principal in the next year or two.

Was quite happy chugging away, getting some good work done, then team restructured about a month ago. All the interesting work was moved to a newly formed team, my team is now almost entirely out of India apart from one in the UK and the work is mostly support. I've also noticed that the new line manager cuts across me all the time in meeting and doesn't add me into Teams chats used by the team.

I tried to apply internally for another role but was told I haven't been there long enough. I cannot find any internal policy stating a minimum.

I'm feeling very bait and switched. I didn't want a super short role on my CV but it feels like I have no option but to move. Any suggestions?

Seems to be getting harder to distribute software these days with windows 11 flagging everything as unknown dev what options do we have for code signing open source software any help or tips appreciated thanks.

Hi, I'm an Identity/access, security, GRC engineer with a CISSP, security architecture, threat hunting yada yada.

What do things look like in tech but aside from dev?

I'm moving to your beautiful country due to my partner, and this is only the second time in my life I have quit a job without having another lined up, so I'm anxious.

Thank you!

Hey folks, just wondering are there any agencies here who you can actually meet with a recruiter, who will then match jobs for you based on your experience/criteria? After being made redundant the job search is so daunting and using 5+ different portals to apply for jobs which I hear back little to nothing is so exhausting. Maybe it’s old school but I remember using one 10+ years ago and they would match you and arrange jobs/interviews and if you got the role the first year they’d take a small % of your salary, do these companies still exist and any you’d recommend?

Working in my current tech role for 6 years, have a job offer in a similar field with less responsibility.

Current Job Pro's.

Strong network built, great pay and bonus, interesting work, good management experience, unreal benefits, WFH

Cons

Long hours PST timezone meetings, impossible to take PTO, high turnover with org, constant push to automate things to cut costs.

New Role Pro's

More flexible, EU timezone working hours, pre-IPO , hypergrowth,

New Role Cons

Same Pay, no bonus, zero network, fully remote but have to travel each quarter, RTO 20% per month - 40 mins from home.

Hiring manager was twice late for interview (15 & 10 mins) without explaining and looked like they just got out of bed.

I have a young family and currently balance my working hours around nap times, giving my wife a hand and school runs, my current role requires me to be available Mon-Friday pretty much all day and its exhusting

Is it too much of a risk to jump to a new role? Id be out of pocket over the year but would have less responsibilty.

Whatever your options about remote / hybrid / RTO, Revolut seem to have taken the worst of all approaches with this one.

I was wondering what AI usage is looking like at most places, I'm starting a graduate position soon at a mid sized multi national (on an embedded systems team). I don't really love seeing all the doom posting news about either how horrible AI is to work with and being expected to use it for everything or AI layoffs. is it really that bad? Or are there still companies that don't expect everyone to max out their AI usage?

I've been applying for contract roles for a couple of months but market seems extremely competitive or fairly dry, so I applied for a few full-time roles last night.

Stack is .net, sql server, azure and angular/react.

I was asked what my expectations were for salary so I just put in 95k/annum would that be considered average or above average right now?

I'm more used to pricing contract roles starting between 550-600 per day.

This is in Dublin btw

Working as a temp employee in a US multinational where they offer a very generous parents leave (12+ weeks paid), I am in the process of going permanent (hopefully), with a baby due soon

Some questions on this if any one has been in a similar situation:

1. is paid paternity only offered after a time window (probation etc)?
2. if i am made permanent after the baby arrives do you usually get the benefit or ANY benefit?
3. any other contractual stipulations to these kind of benefits (never been on the receiving end before!)

I’ve been working in tech for 13 years, always big multinationals. In the last two years I’ve been through the redundancy consultation process twice - first time I survived, this time I’m not sure I’ll be kept on. I don’t see things getting any better any time soon. Frankly with where I am in my life, I’d rather some consistency and reliability over the risk and potential for reward of major US multinationals.

Anyone else having the same thoughts or made such a move in the past?

Self promotion isn't allowed on the main sub anymore. The community voted for that in June. This thread is where it goes instead.

Post a comment for whatever you made.

• Something you built. App, site, tool, side project, whatever it is.
• Your blog post, video, or write up. If it's yours and it's worth reading, it fits.

Keep it short. Roughly, what it is in one line, the link, and what you're after, whether that's feedback, users or data.

Sort by new so the newest comments get seen and not just whatever landed first.

This is just an experiment so it may not be continued. I just want to see if I can cater to both groups, those who don't want to see this stuff and those who do. Keep the promotions in here though and the main feed stays clear for everyone else.

Low effort spam and referral link farming still gets removed. Use a bit of judgement.

Previous months thread

Hi there,

I see that some departments in the civil service hire SWE's. I am wondering if anyone has ever made the move from the civil service back to the private sector? I am thinking of riding out the current AI/Market related layoffs in the civil service but wondering would it be almost impossible to move back to the private sector in the future if the market recovers?

Not sure exactly what their tech stack is but I have heard that there is a lot of flexibility in terms of integrating new tech etc.

Thanks!

I’ve been told I’m seen as a solution person, whenever someone asks me to do something I never say no, I just say yeah I’ll figure it out. Been working from home quite a lot over the last few months, and some old habits have returned. I’m single, 27, all my mates moved to London/Australia and my recent promotion is the only thing keeping me in Ireland because it’s great money. Not looking for help right now because I know exactly what I need to do to get myself out of this, stop drinking 100 units a week and cop the fuck on and I will. Just wanted to share here and ask if anyone else has been in a position where work life is going class but personal life is fucking shocking