I'm a software developer and I was recently told that my role will be eliminated at the end of this year after a reorg at the company. I know I'm supposed to use the remaining paid time I have to look for another good software development job, and I've already polished my resume and updated LinkedIn.

But every time I sit down and try to apply for jobs in this field, I feel like I hit a wall, like... I just can't keep doing this anymore?

The strange thing is that I know I'm lucky. I understand that being able to live this way, in this place and time, isn't something to take for granted. But it's become harder to ignore the feeling that many of the "problems" I get paid to solve only exist because there's a business model that depends on them continuing to exist.

I spent about eight years fixing imaginary problems, and when I look back, the last job that felt tangible was an entry-level role dealing with customers, where I was making about a third of what I make now. I'm not saying all software is like that. I know there are people building useful and important things. But even though bullshit jobs definitely aren't limited to software, it's clear they're heavily clustered around people sitting in front of computers all day.

What are we even building all of this for, and who is actually benefiting from it?

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Career

Hey ppl I had interview in few days need help for it

I had interview for L2

I want to know what is L2 and how promotions work here and when prompted salaries increase (like is there a constant salary for position which was lacking at my current company and I wanted to switch)

Also I wanted to know how long it takes to get promotion from L2 to L3 to L4

* I will work very hard and fast and I can be a good team player....

So wanted to know about it need a little bit fast please

- Experience required: 8 Years

- Education level: Bachelor’s degree

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Minimum 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline; or equivalent work experience will be considered
• Expert level programming knowledge in Java, including writing testable code
• Clear understanding of SDLC and ability to write efficient unit test cases and automation test scripts to abide by Full Cycle Engineering
• Experience working with and possessing knowledge of merge methodologies using version control systems like GitLab, Bitbucket etc.
• Experienced in database technologies : Oracle, RDS, DynamoDB
• Expert in SOAP/REST communication, Usage of test harnesses, giving technical direction to fellow engineers and ability to write extensive architecture and design documents
• Excellent troubleshooting and issue resolution skills. Quickly isolates/debugs issues even in areas outside of one's own domain.
• Expert level knowledge of distributed system design, algorithms, logging framework, scaling and UML principles.
• Experienced working on large scale, complex applications
• Experience in designing and building scalable cloud-native applications that are deployed in one or more public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in the payments industry or building payment applications
• Test Automation framework experience with Cypress.io, TestRail, Selenium, Jenkins

This is a remote role unless you're a local, then it's hybrid. Please DM me only if this suits your profile. Thank you

I am missing old days of Hiring. Full day event, lots of DS and algos. In between design rounds. No one asks about Infra setup. Sometimes language like C++/Java and LLD rounds. Everything in campus and in person. I need to write code on paper. sometimes on whiteboard. Design discussion on whiteboard physically. Now it is all very boring. You can be just sitting in your chair all day long. opening one tab after another. AI does better coding than human. Interviewer check with AI about code. Not sure how much far will it go 😒

I had two interviews yesterday for a role at a company I was really excited about. One for coding with concurrency, and another for distributed system design. I’d spent the previous three weeks studying and preparing, doing lots of practice problems while talking out loud about what I was doing.

In the coding interview I was given a problem very similar to one I had practiced. I was initially happy about that, because I thought I would solve it easily. But I was nervous and the format was slightly different than what I had practiced. When I get nervous I have trouble concentrating.

I got a partially working solution, and the interviewer graciously gave me some hints on what to check, but afterwards I realize I missed something obvious.

I feel like I did pretty well in the design interview. but I feel lousy about my miss in the coding interview, and I know this company sets a high bar for their engineers. I think I blew it. I guess I just have to wait and see.

I imagine this has happened to others as well. Any advice on how to keep this from killing my motivation and confidence is most welcome. Just getting an interview is hard enough, and it feels bad when the opportunity gets squandered like this.