#RedditCscareerquestions

I am looking into the Spanish tech scene, specifically startups and scaleups, basically non-FAANG tech companies. I know the tech market there is growing fast, but I'm curious about the interview loop.…

Been researching in AI Safety independently for 1.5 years and I have my own direction. But researching independently is getting pretty tough, especially since I desperately need some advice and funding.…

I was making over six figured at a big company out of college. I have 3 yoe and left due to company layoffs. I’m desperate for money to pay bills since unemployment is running out but i found another opportunity in Bay Area that pays 85k for a small non…

Ive been in this field since 2006. It was always hard to find a job, and I always had to send out like 100 resumes and do 20 interviews, despite having high qualifications. The compensation was never anything remotely like I expected or had read about.…

I just want to point out a very real fact. AI is not talked about in the real world like it is talked about on Reddit. The blatant disregard for any quality control regarding the use of AI and the constant barrage of how you are "Obsolete" if you dont use…

Fair warning: This post will probably sound hella stupid but I’ve never even considered software engineering until very recently so my knowledge of it and the attached work is pitiful. Mb.…

I started on a new team at a..certain FAANG just a little under 6 months ago in late April, after being laid off from it in January, after working on another team for a little over 6 months (graduated May 2025).…

I am a lecturer with about 20 years experience teaching. I am a decent programmer, but probably a little blunt coming into the SE workspace. That said, I am better than most of our graduates so I should be able to come in and pick things up quickly.…

I'm currently mainly a frontend engineer (that gets to dabble a bit with the backend + heavy backend side projects) at a fortune 100 company (4 YOE), I've been wanting to transition to something more backend/full stack so I've sent out a bunch of…

I’m expecting this to be asked in an upcoming interview (system design round) in an AI lab. Have interned here so I think this is very very likely also given the trend of things it just makes sense Wondering if anyone have some good resources or some can…

I'm a college sr, secured a role as a FDE (50%+ travel) and am looking for a city in the US to call home. I'm fully remote outside of customer engagements. Staying with my parents isn't an option as they moved back to their home country for retirement.…

I have two offers: Amazon: 140K base + 28K sign on + 142RSU (4 years) Role: Systems Development Engineer Riot Games: 180K base + 40k Sign on + 10-15%bonus Role: Senior Software Engineer in Release Engineer domain I am negotiating with Amazon to increase…

I have been looking for a software engineering job for 3 months and im going nuts, i had 20+ interviews and no interview is like the other, i have been asked all kind of trick and gotcha questions for python, docker, kubernetes, php, go, scala, java, JVM,…

Hey everyone, I’m a frontend developer with around 3.5 years of experience, primarily working with React.js and Next.js, and I could really use some advice from people who have been in a similar situation.…

I am wondering if software engineers typically must stick to 9-5. Can most of them work 7-3 if they wished? Of course it is company specific and varies by company, but do most jobs allow the 7-3 schedule? submitted by /u/moe_34567 [link] [comments]

I just recently made a career transition by getting my master’s in computer science after working in sales. I have 0 software engineering experience and I finished a semester ahead of schedule, so not time for internships.…

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/barclays-ai-jobs-cuts.html “The bank’s chief financial officer, Anna Cross, told reporters on Thursday that the job cuts were part of plans to save more than £1.1bn in 2027.…

I'm going to post this here but I expect this will be a rather odd post for most people here I was recently laid off in a company restructuring, second time in five years at two companies...bad luck on my part.…

I feel like before AI, being a software engineer was highly respected. Everyone who had ever touched coding before, whether that be as a proxy from majoring in another STEM (chem, bio,..), engineering, or even to some extent social sciences (maybe they…

I’m ex-FAANG and have watched my former company’s culture deteriorate significantly since leaving (I'll let you guess which one). Morale now is at an all-time low, and years of layoffs, restructuring and culture change seem to have left people pretty…