Hey everyone,

I’m at a bit of a crossroads and could use some advice from folks who’ve been through similar choices.

I have 2.8 years of experience working mostly on legacy banking projects (Java, Spring). Recently, I started upskilling on Spring Boot and cracked two offers:

• Company A: ₹10 LPA – Great tech stack (Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, GCP, CI/CD pipelines), high potential for learning and growth. Workload might be higher, and it's an on-site role via consultancy.
• Company B: ₹12 LPA – More relaxed, better immediate pay, but the work is mostly around average tech (some legacy code, SOAP based web services). Long-term tech growth might be slower.

My long-term goal is to reach ₹18-20 LPA in the next 2 years by growing as a strong backend engineer and possibly moving to a top product company. I'm not under immediate financial pressure, so I'm thinking of prioritizing growth over short-term money

I’m leaning toward Company A for the tech exposure, but the extra ₹2L in B makes me pause a bit.

If you were in my shoes, what would you prioritize — money or growth at this stage?

Appreciate all thoughts and advice!

Edit: Company A is not willing to match Company B offer since they have fixed bands.

Recently, I’ve noticed a troubling trend on L!nkedIn, the rise of overly “motivational” posts that follow a predictable pattern.

It usually features a photo of someone wearing FAANG merch or posing inside a FAANG office, paired with a caption that basically screams: “Hey, look at me! I work at FAANG!” What follows? Generic motivational fluff, vague advice, and surprise, a link to their Topmate profile.

Out of curiosity, I followed one of these individuals who posts this stuff every single day. After observing for a few weeks, the pattern became crystal clear. Almost all of them follow these five steps:

1. The Hook: Offer “free” referrals or resume reviews. just book a 15-minute session.

2. The Flattery: During the call, shower the person with compliments. Make them feel seen. But provide almost zero actionable value.

3. The Ask: Beg for a 5-star rating and glowing review.

4. The Pivot: Once they’ve stacked up 50+ reviews from free sessions, they start charging 1000+ for 30-minute calls, advertising “5-star rated by 50+ users,” while hiding the fact that the ratings and reviews came from free sessions.

5. The Profit: Monetize desperation. Because, let’s be real, if they were actually growing in their career, they wouldn’t need to side-hustle fake mentorship.

To make it worse, they operate in packs, liking, reposting, and hyping up each other’s posts to boost reach and credibility.

Let’s be clear: Referrals should be organic. They’re an endorsement of someone’s potential, not a commodity to be sold.

They are just taking advantage of desperate people working hard to get a good job. I hope someone with a solid L!nkedIn following scr€€nshots this and shares it. The right people need to see what’s going on.

Hello 👋 I'm a Java Developer with 1.6 years of experience, specializing in Spring Boot, Microservices, and Backend Development. I'm currently exploring new opportunities and actively looking for a backend engineering role.

I've applied to several jobs through LinkedIn and referrals, but I’m not getting shortlisted. Could someone please help me improve my resume? I'm targeting product-based companies with a package of around 20 LPA.

Are the skills I’ve mentioned sufficient, or should I learn and include additional ones? I’ve also worked with OAuth2 and have a good understanding of design patterns—should I include these in my resume as well?

Joined 2021 as fresher(3.8 yoe) Current Base 18 L RSUs: 16L/ year for first 4 years

In next 4 months, it will be 4 years and RSUs will be over.

What salary I can expect for such situation from next company,

[Edit] Unfortunately didn’t got refreshers just annual bonuses every year

[Doubt] What I can expect if I switch after RSUs over and only base?

So, currently I'm already working in a company for 12 lpa wfh. And now, after 9 months from offer letter I got the TCS Chennai sipcot, joining letter yesterday. My TCS category is Digital (7lpa). So, should I join tcs because it's more Job Secure. What's should I do I'm confused ? Please help me out.I need your valuable suggestions.

Hi everyone,

Posting this on behalf of my younger brother who’s currently 17 and just gave his first JEE attempt. He scored around 92 percentile (General category)—which isn't enough for a good NIT or IIIT. The main reason for the low score was Chemistry.

Now here’s where it gets tricky.

While his JEE score is disappointing, he’s genuinely very good at programming. He’s an intermediate-level programmer already, has won a hackathon, was in the top 1% in another, maintains projects on GitHub, and uses Linux as his daily driver. He codes in C/C++ and Python, builds stuff regularly, and has a pretty solid technical foundation for someone his age.

Now he’s at a crossroads:

**Option 1: Take a drop year, prepare seriously for JEE Advanced or improve his percentile in Mains, while continuing programming.**

**Option 2: Join a decent college now (likely a private or lower-tier state college), and keep working on his coding skills in parallel.**

His concern is that if he takes admission now, he might lose the leverage he currently has by getting lost in a less competitive environment or not having the time to grow technically. On the other hand, taking a drop is a risk—especially when there’s no guarantee of a significant percentile boost.

If anyone has gone through a similar situation or has any advice, please share it. Should he take the drop or join now and keep pushing his dev skills?

I have always been good at academics. I scored good, did several projects, and was involved in organising department activities during my engineering college days. A straight-A student.

After engineering degree in electronics and communication, I got a job at GE Transportation in 2018 as an embedded software developer. I was okay with C and C++, but I was good at getting the job done through replicating or copying code online. I worked from home during COVID, and it took a toll on my mental health. After three years, I lost interest in the job and I couldn’t continue in the job.. Around the same time, I got into theatre acting, and I just fell in love with my newfound passion. I quit the job because I couldn’t manage both.

Let me come to the point, sorry, I'm broke. I’ve been broke for 2 years now, it's been 3 years since I quit IT. I now want to find a way to earn using my engineering (E&C) background and follow my other passion. I need help in figuring out a way to make a living. Most of my friends are in the VLSI industry, and they make good money in their 9-to-5 job, and a 9-to-5 job isn't going to work for me again, I've realised that., I am willing to work more than 10 hours a day, but it has to be my independent freelance work. Because only then will I be in control of the 'time' when I want to work or not. Even if I get a job, I know I'll be thinking about freelancing jobs again after a couple of years. So, why not start right away into freelancing is my thought. What type of freelance jobs do companies usually hire for? I want to work individual project basis. I know it's only in software development that I can find such work. But I don't know yet what are my other options? What industries should I focus on? I am trying to avoid IT, I feel it's just not for me.

I have 7 years of experience as a backend developer.

Here is the comparison between my current company and new company-

Current company (US based):
Designation - Lead Engineer.
Pros- Good work life, Stability.
Cons- No learning, Negligible hike for the last 2 years.
Model- Hybrid.
Tech stack- Python, django.
Salary- 22 LPA.

Offer I have:
Designation - Senior Software Engineer.
Pros- Work looks good, Better pay.
Cons- Stability, Too many switches on resume.
Model- Hybrid.
Tech stack- .NET Core, C#.
Salary- 32 LPA.

This new company is an Australian start up that is starting their operations in India. In fact I'll be first senior engineer in India.

Initial rounds were online and final round was in person where I met VP engineering.

(He, CTO and other people had come from Australia to look for office space and conducted last round of interview in person)

Now I although I talked to the CTO about their long term vision but I still have some doubts maybe because market is so unpredictable now. Also I am not sure what my WLB will be in this new company.

Does it make sense to move to C#, .NET from python, django?

It will be my fourth switch in last 7 years. Will it affect future employment?

Should I make good use of current WLB for preparation and target MAANG companies?

I am really confused. Please give your suggestions.

Tier 3 college , skilled enough to crack medium level leetcode without effort.

Also have a portfolio of unique and challenging projects.

I'm ashamed to say this, but rn, my salary is 4.5 LPA. I make 37k on hand every month. I'm the sole earner in the family. Is there any job that pays atleast in 8-10L range?

If you've ever juggled a full-time job, prepared for government exams, and tried to keep up with tech upskilling (like DSA/dev), how did you manage it?

Would love to hear how you balanced everything—time, energy, mindset, and whether it worked out for you in the long run. Because after all this AI talks and software engineering for fresher and mid level is disappearing I am legit scared even if it's true or not. I'm rethinking all my life choices at this moment thinking to go for govt exams idk.

Hey everyone,
I noticed that most resume builders either force you to sign up, collect your data, or lock downloads behind a paywall. So, I built a simple, free tool where you can create and download a resume instantly—no login, no ads, no strings attached.

It’s 100% free. Just trying to make something genuinely useful.

Would love your thoughts or feedback!

I am a student from Tier 3 college and i dont know if companies will be coming in my college or not.

I am in my 3rd Year in 6th SEM after 2months in July we will be having our internship breaks also applied at many companies but didn't received any note yet

current situation :

- solved 67 DSA questions 32 easy 1 hard and 34 medium ( chasing quality questions )

- learnt MERN stack from Love Babbar online course.

- Doesn't have any referrals from friends or family.

I wanna achieve at least minimum of 5 LPA - 7 LPA job what should i do please guide me

I've been working as a DevOps engineer for nearly 3 years now at a Fortune 500 company in the automobile space. Been trying to make a switch for the past 6 months, but I’m barely getting any interview calls from other Fortune 500s—even when I apply through referrals and my resume scores over 80% on resume ATS checks. I’ve seen people say that if you’re already in a Fortune 500 company, other big companies will reach out to you directly—but honestly, that hasn’t happened for me at all. Just trying to figure out what I might be missing or what tricks others are using to actually get noticed.

Hello 👋 I'm Harshit, a Java Developer with 1.6 years of experience specializing in Spring Boot, Microservices, and Backend Development. I'm currently exploring new opportunities and looking for a backend engineering role.

I want to improve my skills and become ready for interviews, so I want to give mock interviews for that, If anyone is available to help or can guide me in this process, I would truly appreciate it.

Thank you!

Hey guys, I messed up big time preparing for govt examinations but couldn't make it through. I'm currently feeling low too given I haven't upskilled much😕. I worked on automation using Swift(major part) and Ruby (around 3-4 months using Selenium, but haven't learnt much). So my skillset is on Swift mostly. Now, I'm thinking to learn Selenium but not sure what language to go with. I am good at Python than Java. What's the scenario in the market? Are there more openings on Java than Python? Please guide me on this.

Also, if possible, can I know what sources are available and how much time do I need to become at least interview ready?

Thank u so much

A quick background, I joined in my company back in 2023 july, and there were no project opportunities for me , so was on bench for like 8 months (in this time i spent some time wasting and then realized and wanted to brush up my skills, so worked on some personal project) and then they shifted us (non billables) into AI specific usecases, training and POCs then I got into this new cybersecurity related POC where we are working now and this seems like it might become some project(like an IP). Since I dont have a client project experience in this 1.6 years of experience, feeling a bit underconfident about trying for a switch and would appreciate any brutal/respectful feedback on my resume

I currently work for a very good PBC however, just before joining here, I had worked for a SBC (decent repute in the Indian Data Science space) for 3 months-ish. Majorly, I was hell-bent on a “tag” and “PBC” also the type of projects the SBC was planning me to put in weren’t tad bit Data Science, to say the least. Cutting to the chase, as I am planning to be in the market again, will it be wise to remove this short stint from my resume and from my Naukri and LI profiles? I am cool with mentioning this during Authbridge background checks since everything is clear from mine and this SBC side (PF, release letter, exp letter etc). However, I have no major work experience in this SBC during these 3 months as mostly I was going through their introductory modules and stuff. I have 3 years of experience in Data Science and this SBC was my 2nd company, just as an info.

Last week, I sat down and built my personal website using AstroJS from scratch, without any theme. I am a full stack developer and struggling to land remote jobs or contract jobs.

Actually this wasn't the only one thing I did last week - I built an agency website for me to sell developer services (clueless how to get clients), but I did that. And being an indie hacker, wrote a soft boilerplate code for Astro+Svelte+Supabase for future sideprojects.

I have been Python dev (Django, Streamlit, Flask,etc) and discovered Astro this year only. And loved its simplicity. So I thought to give it a try!

In my personal website: I have a landing page which showcase me as a full stack dev, I have showcased my past work with case studies (on going, but wrote 3 so far), and blogs.

The roles I am looking are product based in newly funded startups (remote)...

Initially I was very confused on existing software engineer role to leverage AI in their work which everyone is talking about apart from using ChatGpt or Claude to get code assistance or similar task. Then I came to know about RAG , MCP using which you can finetune existing model to your peculiar need by providing your data also. Now I have couple of questions

1) Can anyone please share their use case where they have used AI to innovate or automate anything ?
2) have you used Python , Java or any other language for this ?

I am serving Notice Period, I got offer from wissen(19), accolite(20.5), Capgemini (16), altimetrix and ey both are in discussion. I work in a witch company, as you know I did develop several APIs but not confident enough as these companies expect a lot. Any suggestion or help is much appreciated

YOE: 1.9

I have worked mostly with Flutter in my first company but since there were less jobs in Flutter and I knew Java , I decided to learn backend and apply to jobs in backend as well

Offer 1: Stock trading company (SE-Flutter)

Tech Stack: Flutter and Dart CTC: 15L (13.2L fixed) Industry: Stock and options trading (Bootstrapped midsized mature startup and possibly better work culture)

Offer 2: Logistics company (SDE-1 Backend)

Tech Stack: Java , Spring Boot, Microservices CTC: 13.34L (12.5L fixed) Industry: Logistics and supply chain (IPO startup, mixed reviews about wlb and culture)

Which one would you pick considering the companies, roles, futures scopes, industry domain etc ?