Problemsby GlyphTechnical interviews feel broken and exhausting
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mid-life software engineer - just tough it out?
...hard it is for everyone to hold on to their jobs these days, should I just accept the lack of passion and prioritize the flexibility while I have it? I could just focus on managing at this stage of my life and let my techncial skills whither and die, but I also feel like I'd end...
...docs, heck yeah a simple "add this to my calendar" completly fails in gemini... Gemini sucks for everything even its own google apps... Claude and Codex even DeepSeek and Kimi are milestones better than anything Google has launched. It is unfortunate that having such an amazing...
Applying for a job makes me feel so bad
...I have to mentally prepare for 2-3 motivational interviews for each company (I kinda hate how fake it is) and then there's the technical interview. At the end they tell me "We're unable to offer you what you asked for because you don't have a degree yet. We encourage you to...
...two long interview loops at two FAANG companies, and the number of LC questions was frustrating. Some of them were problems I practically had to memorize because their solutions relied on very specific tricks that rarely come up in real engineering work (take, for example, the...
Interview advice
...first ever technical interview for a company so im really nervous so do any of yall have any tips. Im a junior so these are really important opportunities to me..
Accepted a new offer, but drug-test timing may force me to give only three days’ notice. Ask to delay start date again?
...again-possibly to October 19-after already requesting one delay, risking that I look unreliable or that they reconsider the offer.. - Give my current employer only three days’ notice, which I feel is unprofessional and could burn a bridge.. What would you do in this situation?...
1 year employment gap
...have much of an option as was undergoing a major illness, but am glad to be fine now. Any tips to confidently answer why I took this gap ? .
Openly cheated on the first-stage coding assessment
...without it + recording my thought process afterwards. . As you may already know, I am fed up of applying to jobs and I am completely hopeless. So I basically didnt gaf and openly had claude open on another browser and jumped between hackerrank and claude. I basically just copy;...
Tips and resources for IBM z/OS / Mainframe (coming from cybersecurity/networking)
...that I absolutely must know? (e.g., VTAM, SNA vs. TCP/IP, OSA-Express adapters, etc.). Any tips or advice for the technical interview given my background? .
Struggling with 'basic' interview rounds after working of complex ML infra
Been looking at ML Infra / MLOps / ML Platform hiring lately, and the roles seem to fall into three buckets:. Data eng-leaning: feature pipelines, model pipelines, and the infra around them. . ML eng-leaning: model training pipelines, PyTorch, strong ML fundamentals. ....
Help: 25 y/o shithead
...i maintained data reports, managed, updated and looked for data inconsisitency. Idk how do i put that into words for an interview now. How do i tell them i didnt have to write SQL queries most of the time, it was mostly done on client softwares which they gave us since it was...
Help. I am Dumb 25 y/o. Hear this
...i maintained data reports, managed, updated and looked for data inconsisitency. Idk how do i put that into words for an interview now. How do i tell them i didnt have to write SQL queries most of the time, it was mostly done on client softwares which they gave us since it was...
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12 posts from 11 people in 6 places, about 2 a week over 43 days. Mostly on r/cscareerquestions, r/analytics, Hacker News comments. Tools named alongside: Claude, IBM, Coursera, PyTorch.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "interviews" rule. First post Sep 20, 2026, latest Nov 1, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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