17 yr old LinkedIn branding coach sprinkling job search gyaan without having one 🥲🥲🥲

Opportunities are so much more then when I stared. We never flaunted getting a job into a Top company even when options were fewer. What is the need to give average gyan on linkedin for getting a job offer. Open question to Gen Z why are you so desperate for social validation?

Rant. Chappri Interns and mid af SDEs on LinkedIn have destroyed the entire point of the platform. Every Tier 1 graduate working at Microsoft or Walmart posts their own pic in some Manali hillstation and give 400 lines of unsolicited gyaan, which virgin btech 2nd year students cant help but drool at. I get it bro/sis, you mugged up 800 LC mediums and Microsoft came to your BITS campus and picked you up because you solved a system design question in the interview which scales infinitely for infinite users. No, i dont want to enroll is PrepCracker's System Design Cohort for just Rs 69,999 and replace Hotstar's CTO. Folks like Arpit Bhayani and Addy Osmani are the only reason I open linkedin to actually get some ground level reality of how to be a better SWE, but all i see is bhaiyya didi telling me why my resume is not getting selected because i didnt pay Rs. 1,999 for their Topmate Resume Review session. Due to them Twitter is full of 2nd year dimwits who think swe is the only path to liberation and their bhaiyya didi will be their guiding angel. They won't. They'll turn out just like your average 3.5lpa employee at WITCH. The only way to become a good swe is figure shit out yourself and do what you love. Its that simple. Im from a shit tier 3 college. I've cracked FAANG and that too with 42 lc solved. What DSA bro? Thankyou to the Grapevine team for building a good platform where genuine watercooler discussions take place. Deleted LinkedIn for good until i get my sanity back.

I’m an Eco major graduate from a top-tier DU college, currently working at a consulting firm with around 1.5 years of experience and a CTC of 9.5 lacs. I’m not enjoying the work at all, but I’m bound by the salary I’m making. There are no significant financial constraints. I’m trying to find a job in other industries, but nothing fruitful has come up yet. I’m also passively studying for the CAT/GMAT. I really wish to take a leap of faith and quit my current job, but I’m scared to take this step because of the good salary I’m receiving (which is quite substantial for a fresher). I also feel there’s a calling for me to do something better with my life if I quit. Do you have any suggestions?

I finally got a job offer after being jobless for around 7-8 months now. But the company is offering me the same CTC I was previously drawing. Reasons they sighted were that I've been jobless for a long period now. Is this normal? The company is good. Has a good set of customers. Has raised good funding recently. Team seems to be good as well. But its the CTC that I'm unsure about. What to do ?! P.S. my prev CTC was also entry level pay, say 40k in hand on avg after all deductions.

Every second/third post on my feed is promoting some mentorship/coaching. Fed up with it. The post starts with some gyaan ( mostly related to interview) and then ends with mentorship or coaching promo. Especially people who cracked interview at amazon and microsoft. And now any random company. Some post has pic too, which is fully unrelated to the post. From SDE’s perspective. Job at work is different from interview. And i am sure current employees, if they have to go through interview process of the same company for the same position, most of them won’t be able to crack in the first go. ( Unless they know the exact questions to be asked ). Coding rounds. Companies usually have a set of questions (question bank) and interviewer picks question from it. Except for the very exceptional case, it is quite difficult to solve these questions if you haven’t solved them ( or related questions) earlier in the given time. So, it all boils down to how close are you to their question bank. So, instead of other things, if linkedin mentors posted about the questions they were asked, that would be more useful. To be continued….

I want to understand if you are also satisfied with your compensation?

Have you observed this trend of getting scammed? Early career professionals ➡️ Online Courses Colllege Kids ➡️ FAANG/MAANG didi/bhaiyya School Kids ➡️ JEE cram schools Here’s why career advice is generally bad. 1. Those who share career advice online are generally out there trying to shill you paid courses. They tell you what you want to hear so you pay up. 2. Any career advice that works will lose its edge over time. Because it becomes widely adopted, and that’s precisely because it works. Example: If everyone is building a portfolio website then it becomes the defacto standard. I’m not saying that don’t build a portfolio website. What I’m saying is, that it becomes less effective over time because you building one is not a clear differentiator. Imagine sending a letter by post to an early stage company’s founder where you want to work, he might be more willing to schedule a call with you because you chose an approach that they might not have experienced first hand ever. Also, I’m not saying that the above said approach will work, since it’s unproven you’ll have to experiment and evaluate if it works. Maybe a good heuristic is to “do what it takes to stand out” and that means being creative with how you navigate work life. 3. Those giving advice generally impose their thought model onto you. They make assumptions basis what they think is right. This is not a bad thing but it does not account for your specific constraints. Finally, if you do want to ask for advice. 1. Ask “How” questions to those not much older than you, since they are executing in the trenches. 2. Ask “Why” questions to much older folks, you try to get closer to their first principles, which is the base level truth that cannot be divided further. Avoid asking “What” questions to anyone, generally it’s good to think them through yourself.

I am keen on working with an early-age (Series-A/ seed) startup. Dont even know where to start looking. Dont want to advertise on Linkedin. Any suggestions?