How to be a successful software engineer

I’m great at leetcode and sys design discussions. But have probably shipped very few lines of code at this point in my career. Yep. Seriously. I have coasted a lot by just doing corporate politics, architecture discussions, and design docs etc this has led to me feeling impostor syndrome but also sad and empty inside. I contemplate leaving SWE path. But I want to be a better developer not just leetcoder Yoe 7

Hi Grapevine, I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things. Ask me your question. I'll be back at 8 pm and begin answering!

Hi guys, I am working at an MNC as a front end developer. I am going to complete 4 years soon here which is no less than a nightmare. I should have switched so long ago but I am still stuck here. And it's wfh, so I have been feeling so depressed lately having no professional life. I gave some interviews last year but couldn't clear and have been feeling demotivated since then. Please help!!

I'm a frontend dev, with close to 5 years of workex. I've been trying to switch to a full stack dev role for a couple of years now. Tried switching internally, but it didn't work because there were too many backend devs and too much dependency. Stuck with an infinite leetcode loop, did online courses but couldn't put those skills to work in building projects. I'm looking for some advice with a focus on cracking the interviews. The plan is to take up a Full stack dev role in the next 3 months. Thanks in advance!

I'm a software engineer with 2 years of experience. I feel like I don't have programming acumen and can't understand things like others. I really struggle at my job and has to give extra time even weekend to perform at my job. I don't understand big codebase, integration services. I feel like quitting this job and do something else but can't gather enough courage as job is paying well and paying my education loan also. Please suggest what should I do? How can I become better at my job and do well without feeling humiliation daily

I am an EE Final year undergrad from a Tier 2 College. I have worked with production apps and am still working with a startup (mostly PPOed). I never did DSA/CP and got hooked to dev only. Now having worked for over 20 months I get sad when I see people who did 2 months DSA getting 30LPA and Where I am not rejected from the shortlisting itself (Oncampus). Recently saw a guy with no experience, literally getting a 60LPA job with a 33L base. And now I doubt my life choices, why did my efforts of managing college and work at once end up in such a disgusting manner. My PPO won't be even half of his CTC. And a guy with just 5-6 months DSA cracks a 60LPA job. Life is tough but shouldn't be up to this extent. How should I tackle this crisis?

I hate working 9 to 5. I simply hate it. I loathe it. I worked so hard all my effing life to get here and I hate it. I learnt DP and what not. It’s been 1.5 years since I started working full time as a software engineer and it just keeps getting worse. I make upwards of 15 lpa. It’s not that I have a bad work environment, it’s great. It’s just that I feel absolutely rotten working a 9 to 5 as a software engineer. Ideally, I would like to own a small business of my own. Despite watching hours of content on how to do that, I haven’t been able to come up with anything that seems like it’s gonna work, you know… Thinking of doing an MBA but that’s BS too, right? It feels like very soon I’m just gonna quit and be broke. 🤷🏼‍♀️ It feels like my life is over at 23. Kill me now. My question to you is first, am I alone?, second, can I help you in your business in any possible way?, third, should I do an MBA?

I'm a 4th year student from a pvt college. Did 3 internships, one in a decacorn, one in a unicorn. Have an offer from Amazon for SDE 1 when i graduate, and one from the company I'm working at right now. Reached so far only with development skills, projects, hackathon wins and OSS contributions. My leetcoding and competitive coding skills are downright garbage. I have absolutely no motivation to become a leetcode monkey and get more offers, but given the current market scenario, seems hard to get good offers without mugging up 800 leetcode questions. Folks in software engineering who made it with leetcode, how did you do it, and what did you do to kill that builder urge and mug up leetcode. I can't do this anymore.

When I saw Twitter and LinkedIn most of people titles shows fullstack developer and here I am afraid of calling my self a frontend enginner, because there is so much to learn in each domain itself. Currently, I am working as a Frontend Developer in my current company and each day I am learning something new in Frontend. My question is that, should I continue exploring Frontend in my initial years and gradually explore other domains like backend or devops. Because, I stunned by looking at the Job description of the companies that are hiring even for entry level jobs. I wanted to your thoughts on this, What you do in your company and how you all improve the domain you are working on. You can also share any useful resources too. Thanks

I do not seem to get good quality work ANYWHERE Had been ex-FAANG intern, there I was made to do grunt work too Then worked in a startup, my role there is software engineer in name only, the work I do is more like that of an SDET/QA, literally wrote very little code till now What can I do to save my career? Why do companies scam so much? There is so little overlap between JD and actual work