Problemsby GlyphTech job hunting is brutal right now
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Ask HN: AI Side/personal projects to improve hireability?
...like serving or higher level application and agent development personally. Part of my struggle is to come up with anything meaningful that isn't like connecting some open source stuff together. I know personal projects don't tend to help much after some years of experience but I...
Tired of high workload and AI
...with the layoffs, new developers are hired. Requirements are coming very fast and it's difficult to work on Platform Building, Service Provisioning, Ops work all at once.. We have like unlimited AI. But eventhough it takes time to analyse the requirements, review the designs and...
still time to pivot out of CS?
...will have been for nothing. I didn't feel like this during year 1 or 2, but now I do. I wish I realized sooner, it would've been easier to switch. This degree isn't a lot of money but I will finish it because having it is better than not.. But I do want to consider options after...
I’m using multiple AI bots to automate my job search. Am I overcomplicating things?
...I’m trying to figure out:. 1. Am I overengineering my job search with too many bots?. 2. How can I reduce token consumption without sacrificing application quality?. 3. Would you consolidate everything into fewer agents or keep them specialized?. 4. How would you split tasks...
Nearly 30 years in. Time to call it a career and drive a truck?
...in for far too long, underpaid, but within commuting distance and it was stable so I stuck with it. Finances don't allow me to retire although I get a job at Home Depot and still get by. Or even full time pizza delivery.. Thought about a career change but how does one even start...
Seeking advice from seniors working in DE and using agents
...Because I am seeing a lot of posts from people in tech saying the same thing and it's difficult to ignore.. I will be starting fresh and may not get a junior DE job and have to start as an analyst or in another adjacent role. By the time I will gain experience to transition to...
Final year student looking to capitalize this duration at max
TL;DR: Final-year CS student focused on Full-Stack Development, looking for advice on making the most of the time before graduation. I'm exploring career opportunities, AI-related skills worth learning, and fully funded Master's opportunities abroad. I'd love to hear your...
Business IT Graduate Soon (UX focused) ALREADY Considering a Tech EXODUS Pivot! ADVICE PLEASE!
...seems better long-term fit to do it part-time as Independent Consulttant than rely on Unreliable Companies who can fire you anytime??!😭. Especially given how often us Autistics get fired from jobs??. And Job market is absolutely broken, that more helping type jobs are only...
💼 Resume/Career Day
...Sharing your resume for feedback (consider anonymizing personal information). Asking for advice on job applications or interview preparation. Discussing career paths and transitions. Seeking recommendations for skill development. Sharing industry insights or job opportunities....
I had 5 jobs in about three years, most of them under a year. How do I fix my career?
...that an introverted person like me may not fully use its potential. So the question is, how do I recover my career? Is it better to start over, wipe my career, get a degree, start over? Is it better to do something else? I would rather not consider lying on my CV?. What would...
iOS developer, laid off, been looking for work for 2.5 years. Feeling hopeless. What can I do?
...People tell me to branch out from looking for only iOS jobs, but I feel like it would be difficult to get a job doing React or Android or Web or something when I have by far the most experience with iOS. Though at this point, I'll take anything. In two months I won't have a job...
Question on an observation with certain rejection letters...
...the application happened and when the application has been responded to it's sort of hard to tell if it is automated or someone flipped through them as well. (Think it's been 2-3 weeks on them)..
Should I reach out to former bosses who I parted with on awkward terms?
...laid off and started connecting with former colleagues on LinkedIn and a couple I'm struggling with are former bosses at a previous company (the employer before the last one) that I was at for 15 years:. 1) I did some good business with this boss after I started that job as he...
Interview tomorrow (5+ YOE DevOps), CV deep-dive, but I’ve been caught in reorg purgatory doing nothing for months. How do I spin this?
...I just transitioned off those projects a few weeks ago (similar issue as option 2).. How do I handle this in a technical deep-dive without sounding like a liar or a slacker? Has anyone successfully spun "reorg purgatory" to a hiring manager?. Thanks in advance!. TL;DR: 5+ YOE...
Stuck making $100-$180/month locally while my skills are way beyond that - How do I actually break into remote work?
I honestly don't know what to do anymore. In my local job market, tech salaries are stuck between $100 and $180 a month, which is honestly a joke.. The frustrating part is that my actual skills and projects are way past that. I’ve built heavy, complex projects dealing with...
Do all MSPs micromanage like this?
...I brought that average down to under 50 within a month. Everyone else on the team was struggling with basic tickets, so I was literally teaching them concepts like what a GPO is.. I eventually reached a point where I had no work left to do, but I wasn't allowed to handle certain...
Current IT job market
...but I think it has gotten worse. I also noticed a lot of people just getting so frustrated that they are retiring. Companies don’t seem to want employees (honestly they never did but they didn’t have a choice).. It seems to be getting worse? Thoughts?. A lot of people have a...
Business analytics student, am i cooked? (I really need advice)
...Bi and getting exposure to ERM systems now as well . I need a genuine, non sugarcoated advice on what career path I can ACTUALLY aim for with AI slowly commoditizing entry level BA stuff.. Is it worth specializing in data science, data engineering, or AI/ML instead?. Would I be...
Taking a break from tech with only 2 years experience, bad idea?
...tech career. Would I be making a mistake? Honestly part of my decision is because of how awful the tech market is right now and how difficult it would actually be to get another job..
3.5 yoe, Generic .Net dev. Been looking for since january. What am i doing wrong?
Title. Im making 60k. I am filtering for remote roles.. Ive been applying and looking since January and havent been able get many interviews. I dont know what Im doing wrong. I botched the first interview by blanking out and couldn't reverse a string. I know im probably going to...
Got laid off by AI (who could've thought)
...the 23rd and now they let me know they no longer needed me. . I'm upset, demotivated and frustrated that stuff like this happens out of the blue. Not a single hint that I was going to get sacked but here I am now. Thankfully I saved up most of my money so it will keep me afloat...
How do I know intentions of my company when it comes to AI coding
The intentions behind programs to adopt AI tooling are two: - Prepare a layoff for about 80% software engineers to increase margins - Improve the efficiency so we can deliver more and better products. Asking those who have gone through either path, what were the signs that made...
💼 Resume/Career Day
...Sharing your resume for feedback (consider anonymizing personal information). Asking for advice on job applications or interview preparation. Discussing career paths and transitions. Seeking recommendations for skill development. Sharing industry insights or job opportunities....
I have achieved my degree but have No idea where to go from here
...asking for experience in a job field.. Point being I don't really have anyone to ask but how do I go about the job search. . sorry if this is over asked. .
How did you move on after getting rejected from a potentially life-changing job?
...one and that may have led to me to not being polished during the interview. That's the problem with using LLM's to build you something and then not knowing the in's and out's when it comes to explaining the project..
Netflix Layoff Sob Stories
...I just got laid off from Netflix. If anyone is hiring please help.. OK getting laid off sucks. Fine, whatever. But some of these people have been there for a lot of time, 5+ years. Plus a pretty good severance package. They shouldn't have to worry about a new job for years. Yet...
I recently watched how Laura Tan, Ex Staff Engineer at Meta and now a Principal Engineer at SpaceX, use AI to write code and merge 2500 PRs into the main branch in a single month. Can this be interpreted that many devs will get fired cause dev's demand will be lower?
...AI agents.. However, I've also heard that some companies are rehiring employees, so I can't make a final conclusion about the job market is gonna be good or bad in the near future lol. Ps. Today Netflix just fired 6% or 10k of their employees tho.. so this is another sign that...
Losing a lot of hope after rejection
...company in my city). . this entire new grad process has really soiled my passion for cs, how do i get it back? how do i approach the job market?. Stats:. US citizen, T100 no name uni, 3.7 GPA, one prior F100 cybersecurity internship (no return offer due to budget).
[Bug]: Spend-log writes collapse and proxy memory grows unbounded under sustained concurrency (reproduces with no OTel/callbacks)
...identical to #32250 (`spend_log_transactions` grows unbounded when entries fail to flush) and to the long-running #27954 thread, but **reproduces with zero OpenTelemetry/otel callbacks configured** - our config has no callbacks at all, so the tuple-key trigger that closed #32250...
Horrible customer service
Be careful which email you sign up with - if you have a work account and want to subscribe for personal use separately, it’s not obvious how to sign up with a different email, and you can’t change it. They told me their policy under those circumstances was to issue a pro-rated...
Have you ever felt “guilt” about having less impact at a job?
...all that. And would love if others could chime in relating. this has really made it a struggle to enjoy the new WLB I’ve achieved. .
Fresher DA trapped doing AI image gen, but sitting on a goldmine of marketing data. Need career direction.
...marketing domain, and then jump ship to a real DA role at a better company?. Given the terrible job market and my background in AI/DS, what is the smartest way to leverage this specific dataset to get myself out of the AI prompt-engineering trenches? Any specific project ideas...
Struggling to transition into production MLE roles. Open to advice on how to close this professional gap after layoff
...video work could reach production, and my position was affected.. Here's where I'm struggling.. I keep getting interviews for MLE and Senior MLE positions, so I assume my background is relevant enough to pass initial screening. But during technical interviews, when it becomes...
Setting WLB boundaries
...life balance due to employee behavior after only my first week there. . My question is how do I maintain a proper WLB when employees and teammates are working an almost 9-9-6 (sometimes even a 9-9-7)?. For starters, I have almost 9 YOE, I've worked every from start ups to FAANG,...
Fresher DA trapped doing AI image gen, but sitting on a goldmine of marketing data. Need career direction.
...marketing domain, and then jump ship to a real DA role at a better company?. Given the terrible job market and my background in AI/DS, what is the smartest way to leverage this specific dataset to get myself out of the AI prompt-engineering trenches? Any specific project ideas...
Production-grade Agent Graph Engineering: a LangGraph project and blog series, distilled from 5 years
...for it was wrong within a week. Onboarding anyone onto that took weeks, and I was the bottleneck for every change. At some point I realized what I actually wanted was a state machine, so I started writing a small graph library for it, and then gave up, because doing it properly...
nearly halfway through my IS degree and have been diagnosed with AuDHD... I feel lost.
...my colleagues and friends. From what i understand of the job market here, it isn't as impossible to get hired compared to the US or UK. I also have family members which i could ask for help, but i feel extremely insecure about my abilities as a dev.. I've been watching dev job...
openai - item_reference
...and every multi-turn Agent session against a non-OpenAI, Chat-Completions-only backend is broken. We have identified, applied, and validated a one-function source patch that fixes this (detailed in Section 4). We are requesting this fix (or an equivalent, more robust one) be...
Stuck in my career. Please help.
...current salary for it to make sense for me financially.. So with my new job, I can work hard to get a permanent position. In 5 years, I'll automatically get back to my old salary (~90K) at my current position since it happens automatically with the government. I can also aim for...
Is 5-6 months sabbatical a career suicide now?
...to be eligible for yearly bonus paid in April, plus don't want to waste this break on terrible winter weather. . I feel I'm tired in the way that short-term PTO can't cure. Work feels physically uncomfortable. . Also my daughter will go to school next year, so next summer will...
Networking + Events/Tech Conferences in the Bay Area
...or internship experience, just self-initiated projects as well as research experience. Any advice helps, thank you!.
I'm struggling to choose a good path to break into Data Science
I'm a software developer with 6 yoe at the moment, but, I want to make a change on my career, I don't have any bachelor degree at the moment and I live in a 3rd world country, I'm not jumping ship because the job market is bad atm (it is bad) but more so for passion, I was...
Got fired for failing the PIP and I’m mentally drained
...spending 6 months of unemployment due to my past layoff and got fired yesterday for failing the PIP. I moved to another city for that job and now I feel mentally drained and I’m starting from the negative not the zero. . I don’t feel like using my laptop anymore to apply for...
[High-School student making career decision] Is Computer Science still worth it in the AI era?
...development, while at the same time I keep seeing people saying that CS graduates are struggling to find jobs. So I’m wondering whether CS is still a good and safe degree to choose if I’m already not particularly interested in coding. I don’t want to spend 4 years studying...
💼 Resume/Career Day
...Sharing your resume for feedback (consider anonymizing personal information). Asking for advice on job applications or interview preparation. Discussing career paths and transitions. Seeking recommendations for skill development. Sharing industry insights or job opportunities....
Hope post for those without internships
...hearing all the horror stories of hundreds of applications with no responses and with my lack of experiencing I didn’t think I stood a chance.. I ended up getting a phone screening for a job I applied to months ago which led to a single interview and then an offer as a SWE 1...
How should I follow up with TMLR submission once all review responses are submitted [D]
I have responded to all the reviewers with proper rebuttals and modified draft. One interacted with me and after acknowledging the response kinda disappeared again after asking additional questions. I have replied to his additional questions too but he hasn't raised his score....
...before they get laid off. I get that. But there is a whole world out where reality just doesn't work out like that. FYI, this project was in C. C, as in one of the languages that the LLM's should have the highest amount of data for. So if the model had "literally solved" the...
Need advice to break into healthcare analytics
I’m looking for advice on what to do to break into healthcare analytics. I started off working as an EMT technician in 2018 & switched over to being a medical assistant in 2022. I have experience with epic & have an understanding of the healthcare systems. In 2022 I ended up...
Does not being open to remote roles hurt my job chances significantly?
...vast majority of job opportunities I am receiving are remote now, and it has been quite frustrating.. I'm sure I'll find a good opportunity at some point...but is this normal? I was under the assumption that remote roles are drying up, but my experience has been the opposite....
Any advice for good Stats Interview Prep?
Currently in the job market as an experienced Data Scientist generally targeting Senior/Staff roles that span Data Scientist/Applied Science/MLE. I have an MS in Stats, so one thing I've generally focused on during my interviews prep is overindexing on coding and ML specifically...
Solo data scientist at a sports-tech company, 12 months in - am I doing this "right"? Looking for an outside perspective.
...at ~365-client scale, or whether it's solving a problem I don't actually have yet.. 2. How do I lay AI-ready groundwork with no roadmap for it? . Leadership wants "AI in the product", riding the wave, like everyone else, and expects me to give them a head start. I don't have a...
Fed up with the current uk job market
Hello all, I typically lurk here for novel ideas but I just want to post here to express how vexing the job market in uk is. . I've been a data engineer for over several years now and took a gap to cofound a startup for a few years, but things did not turn out as expected...
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Software developers and data engineers encounter a frustrating job market, difficulty getting hired, and insecurity about their developer skills.
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