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Posts tagged #jobs
Pehli job ka offer letter: CTC 8 LPA hai toh haath mein kitna aayega? Pura breakdown
Har saal yahi scene: fresher ko 8 LPA ka offer aata hai, ghar pe mithai baant di jaati hai, "beta 66 hazar mahina kamayega". Phir pehli salary slip aati hai aur 52 hazar dikhte hain. Dekho bhai, CTC aur in-hand do alag duniya hain. Aaj pura hisaab samjhata hoon. CTC kya hota hai CTC = Cost To Company. Matlab company tum pe saal mein kitna kharch karti hai. Isme woh paisa bhi hai jo kabhi tumhare bank account mein…
Month eight: I turned down the 60% offer, started contracting, and here are the full numbers
A few people asked what happened with the 60% offer, so here's the update. The offer The company agreed to a 6-month compensation review, verbally. When the written offer came, the role had been "re-scoped" to mid-level, with a lower title and the same pay. I asked about it twice and got two different explanations. I declined. Several of you told me in that thread to take it, and it was good advice for the offer I…
SEVENTH ROUND AND THEY HIRED INTERNALLY
ok. deep breath. let me write this properly. SDET role at a Pune product company. not my old company, a different one, good reviews, good team. i was so careful with this one. here is the loop: HR screen online test (java + SQL) automation framework design: playwright, API testing, how i'd structure test data, CI integration live DSA, two mediums hiring manager round director "culture fit" round "one final chat with…
my team is hiring backend (go, 2-5 yoe). i'll refer anyone…
my team is hiring backend (go, 2-5 yoe). i'll refer anyone who solves 2 mediums with me on a call. dont care about college or service co. yes really. drop a comment
unpopular opinion: juniors are cooked. if ur learning…
unpopular opinion: juniors are cooked. if ur learning syntax in 2026 ur learning to ride a horse. learn to prompt, learn to ship, let the agents write the code. the devs who survive are the ones who stop typing 🚀🤖💯
Final round today. The interviewer was on his phone for…
Final round today. The interviewer was on his phone for about 20 of our 45 minutes. I designed a rate limiter for someone reading Slack. I said thank you at the end. I'm not sure who I was thanking. 🙃
Paano ko nakuha ang una kong remote job (2017, ₱25k a month, at mali halos lahat ng ginawa ko)
2017. Cebu. Dalawang buwan akong nag-a-apply sa OnlineJobs.ph at Upwork. 83 applications. Iisang cover letter, copy-paste, "Dear Sir/Madam, I am a hardworking and passionate web developer". Zero replies. As in zero. Ano ang nagbago Tinigil ko yung generic na cover letter. Bawat application, 4 na linya lang, pero specific sa job. Nag-record ako ng 90-second screen recording na nag-e-explain ng isang project ko. Noon,…
Returning to Java after 7 years (Java 8 to Java 21). What should I relearn first?
Good morning all. It is 5.30 am here, the kids are not awake yet, so I am posting before the chaos starts 🙂 I was a Java developer at a service company till 2018: mostly Java 8, Spring 4 with XML configuration, and Struts on one old project (kindly do not laugh). After a seven year break I am preparing to return to work. Now I see Java 21 everywhere: records, var, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads.…
Being a woman engineering manager in Dubai: what nobody told me
السلام عليكم. I studied computer science in Khartoum at a time when US sanctions meant half the developer tools on the internet refused to work for us. I moved to Dubai in 2016 through a recruiter, with one suitcase and a lot of confidence I had not earned yet. Today I manage twelve engineers from nine countries at a logistics company. Here is what I wish someone had told me. 1. Negotiate the basic, not only the…
Performance review season: how calibration actually works (from the manager side)
Review season starts at my company in two weeks, and every year I get the same questions from engineers: what actually happens in calibration? Who decides? Can I do anything about it? Here's an honest answer, based on the companies I've worked at. Details vary, but the shape is similar almost everywhere. What calibration is Managers write ratings for their reports. Then a group of managers sits in a room with a…
Vets in tech: how did you translate your MOS into a resume a civilian recruiter actually reads?
Roger, first real question post. Context: Army, 12 yrs, 25U (signal support systems specialist), SSG. ETS in about 6 months. Doing SkillBridge in the spring if it gets approved. Learning Python and Linux at night. Have Security+ from the Army (they made us). Problem: my resume reads like an NCOER. "Supervised 9 Soldiers. Maintained 100% accountability of $2.1M in signal equipment. Ensured COMSEC compliance." Brett…
Salary negotiation scripts that worked for me and 11 juniors (copy paste allowed)
Over the last two years I have helped 11 juniors negotiate their offers, plus my own. Results from my spreadsheet: average increase over the first offer was 14% , range 0% to 31%. Two people got nothing extra. Nobody got their offer pulled for asking. That last line is the one I want freshers to read twice. Here are the exact scripts. Change the numbers, keep the shape. Script 1: "What is your current and expected…
4 co-op offers, which one?? (actual numbers, waterloo 3B)
ok so it's ranking week and i somehow have 4 offers for my winter term and i'm losing my mind. numbers because that's the only way i can think: big bank, toronto. platform team. $34/hr CAD, hybrid 3 days, 4 months. return offer rate is "high" according to literally everyone big tech, seattle. SWE intern. $55/hr USD + housing stipend. J-1 paperwork, which my school handles series A startup, waterloo. $30/hr, full…
react + typescript interview questions from my last 11 rounds (and what they were actually testing)
day 22 of the hunt. 11 rounds at 6 companies so far: 4 machine coding, 3 DSA (easy to medium), 2 frontend system design, 2 behavioural. here's what came up in the frontend rounds, and what i think each question was really testing. 1. "why does this effect run twice?" react 18 strict mode runs effects twice in development, on purpose, to catch effects that don't clean up after themselves. they are testing whether you…
3-5 yoe devs, whats ur CTC band. be honest
vaga gringa de hoje: 'senior backend, 8+ anos de Spring…
vaga gringa de hoje: 'senior backend, 8+ anos de Spring, inglês fluente, disponível no fuso de São Francisco, competitive salary'. competitive = 1.800 dólares. mano. exposure não paga boleto
Service company vs product company: 9 saal dono taraf kaam kiya hai, ab sach sun lo
Kal Ankit ne apna monthly rant daala, "WITCH model is why Indian engineering has a bad name". Main usse hamesha "calm down" bolta hoon. Aaj properly jawab dunga, aaram se, chai leke. Pehle disclaimer: main dono taraf kaam kar chuka hoon. 4 saal ek badi service company mein (Noida, banking client), 5 saal ek product company mein (haan, Noida mein bhi product companies hoti hain 😂). Toh ye opinion bahar se nahi hai.…
ako pag nag-message yung student ko ng "KUYA MIGS NA-HIRE…
monthly rant: the WITCH model is why indian engineering has a bad name
ok here it goes. once a month i say this and once a month the bench army comes for me. the big service cos hire freshers in bulk at 3.5 lpa, park them on bench for months, then bill them to a client as "consultant" at a dollar rate. the fresher learns nothing. the client gets a ticket closer. the company keeps the margin. this is not engineering. this is staffing with extra steps. and then the same people come to…
got the mail at 9.07 am. laptop locked at 9.15. efficient.
tuesday. 9.07 am. subject line: "an important update about your role". 600 of us got the same email. town hall link at 10. slack deactivated at 9.15. i was in the middle of reviewing a PR. i hope someone merged it. it was a good PR. six years of frontend at a quick commerce unicorn. react, typescript, a design system i built mostly by myself. eight minutes. not our office. ours had more beanbags and fewer windows.…
Take the offer at 60% of my old salary, or keep looking? Honest input wanted.
Context for anyone who hasn't seen my earlier posts: senior backend engineer, laid off in February after nine years at a large tech company. The offer: senior engineer at a mid-size company. Base about 60% of my old base. Equity that rounds to nothing. Hybrid, 3 days a week, 50-minute commute each way. Pending: two other final loops, results expected in 2 to 4 weeks. No guarantees. Runway: severance runs out in…
Remote from Kathmandu: UTC+5:45, no PayPal, and a bank that wants three letters
नमस्ते everyone. I've been a full stack dev for an Australian agency for two years, fully remote from Kathmandu. People keep asking me how it works, so here is the honest version haha. The timezone that confuses everyone Nepal is UTC+5:45. Yes, 45. Every new client thinks it's a typo. Sydney is UTC+10 right now, so we're 4 hours 15 minutes apart. I start at 6:45 am, which is 11 am for them, and finish around 3 pm.…
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