You can try applying the concept of Uber/Ola for school and college commute

Isn't Uber Ola already have sharing feature which is solving this use case?

Engineering Manager

Kind of. But what I am proposing is that parents can book a school van or school bus on monthly basis for their kids. Cuz school offering this type of service charge heavily from parents so definitely we can build some model to charge lesser than that. And kids can't be sent to school by uber or ola

Mechanical Engineer

If anyone can share and discuss about something interesting you might be working on, tricky to solve. Feeling a little bored with all the routine stuff.

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Anybody working on something interesting and hard to solve?

Intern

Anybody working on something interesting and hard to solve?- Grapevine

Being someone who gets bored easily, I don't have that urge, or lets say am reluctant to start work everyday (analytics - not a fresher). 
Keeping switching aside, what's something I could do to find ownership? If not for turning this to something extremely interesting, least I wouldn't want to go through this every morning. 

I understand there's many out there doing it just for the money. Apne koi turning points he tho share kardo yaar, kuch try kar lete hein. It's Monday tomorrow :(

Bored at Work

Data Analyst

Thinking about building something stupid over the weekend, would be great if someone else is willing to contribute as well. 

No intention of doing anything with that at the moment.

Bored! Anyone up for a weekend hack?

Founder

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

So I am working at a startup for around a year now. Everyday I see, it feels, what am I really doing? Where is the life headed? 
    Doing bare minimum or doing your tasks and fucking off isn't enough. It's expected that we outgrow constantly, as if it's this work that we can always think about and nothing else. At the end, am wondering if it's still worth it?
    1 day it feels that let's just quit it! Next day I feel, okay, I do want the money. 

I ain't looking for suggestions here, just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way

Getting increasingly bored of work at startup

Been there, but money is very important especially for a middle class family, for most of us we are earning 5x more than our parents at least and have huge expectations from families to provide them with good life

Software Engineer

Consultant

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

Hi everyone!

I'm a data scientist. I'm bored of the work that I do at my work place. So want to work on some side projects particularly in machine learning. I have tried kaggle but for some reason don't find it motivating enough. 

So would like to hear from fellow engineers/data scientists how do you guys do this?

How to get unique ML project ideas?

Data Scientist

Basically let's say if you're on remote and you are working on a large code base which was built over the years. You have been assigned something to do & you end up in a hurdle or loop. You can't seem to get it working or whatever you think it's not working. How do you proceed in this situation, given the remote environment , can't go and tap on someone's shoulder's immediately. Please share your thoughts. I'm getting stuck in this kind of situation these days and would need insights.

Context; Mt exp is around 6YOE, as fullstack dev.

How do you thrive or unblock yourself from a hurdle

Being part of software engineering fraternity, I always had this introspective phase where I would question the work / development I am presently doing whether it's interesting/innovative or a routine feature development. Few dilemmas and discourses are as follows 

1. I am building a product feature which basically requires me to copy paste most of my routine modules like creating similar entities in DB or creating the same services. It really feels mundane and a routine drill work. 

2. But let's question first point, do we really have no way to have the innovative spectre in routine work. This is where a proactive engineer has an opportunity to stand out. It totally depends how they bring in innovative sparkle. This contribution may be on any domain be it security, data handling, analytics or UI. 


3. So concluding remarks, it's just not the product and it's scale that makes the software engineering enticing but it's also the other way round where engineering can also play a leading role making the product interesting. 

Be the change you want to see

Work Pattern - Routine vs Innovation - Do you really have a choice

Staff Engineer

Curious to know what to do folks here do in their working hours when they are having a chill workload week/day in a WFH setup.

I just hopelessly wait for some ping or adhoc task to come up and end up wasting the whole time scrolling the phone.

What to do when bored during working hours

DevOps Engineer

Actual job: export these 1894 user emails into an excel sheet for marketing by EoD please

Interview: In 15m design a 100k rps platform

Interesting thread from previous post on If candidate be asked un realistic problems in the interview

How do handle 100k RPS/s scale?
  
I believe such questions just to test if candidate can think and apply certain software engineering design principles at hand. Understand approach how do they handle corner cases ( if they can identify) technical depth, also good way to test fundamentals.  
  
For eg https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/   
  
https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc  
  
Such problems really pushes candidates to thier limits. I love to go deep in OS & database, distributed systems.   
  
Would love to see, discuss what interesting tough engineering problems you folks ask in interviews? 

#tech #softwareengineering

Interesting tough engineering problems you ask in interviews?

I'm on bench for last 1.5 months and there is still no hope for any project allocation. Now I'm bored as well as scared for being idle. Someone please suggest something. I'm already learning new things in my spare time but is there any way of getting a project by connecting someone.

Asking for some suggestions

Data engineer

I have a feeling I have become dumb/dumber as the folks around me grasp things much faster ! I am a 33 year old guy and have been having this feeling since last couple of years. 

Anyone else in the same boat and if yes,what could be the reason behind this and potential solutions ?

Feel ‘dumber’ as you age ?

Strategy & Operations

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Anyone in the scene building some exciting stuff? I am a growth marketer by profession but curious-er than George in general and want to explore new domains with some fun problems to solve. 

If you just need an extra brain in the room or a few extra hands to get things done, let’s talk? Would be more than happy to explore how I can assist you in your growth journey😄

P.S. Money’s not a motivator. I’m just looking for a means to test my skills and knowledge in a real-world scenario. If I like what you’re building, I am open to working for free🤷‍♂️

Got some spare time nowadays. Folks looking for an extra hand?

Growth Marketer

Same as title. These days due to low job security and having faced layoff last year, I always feel the need to continuously do interview prep like DSA, LLD, etc even when I am not actively looking for a job. Plus, due to new technologies coming up, I feel the need to keep upskilling too. If I don't upskill or do interview prep continuously, I feel guilty as if I am wasting time. I feel like at this point, I am just living life to upskill and interview prep. Is there a way to balance all this along with work as it gets very tiring after a while and I feel burnt out?

How do guys balance daily work and upskilling?

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

It feels like there's no space for creative people in tech anymore. Everything is either a wormhole which sucks the creative energy out of you, or you end up working a job that's so taxing on you mentally that you never have the space take on hobbies or follow your passions. 

Getting jobs themselves is a challenge. People see creativity is such a uni-dimensional manner that it is hard to get jobs in startups or otherwise. I've been attempting a job switch for a while now either there are no openings or no one is willing to hire. 

Is there a solution to this madness?

Being creative is a curse

Copywriter

Long post ahead!!!


Its been around a year since I've started working in a service based company as a Frontend dev, WLB, compensation and all is good based on I've just started.
During this year of working I do not feel like I've done anything, our team is working on a product for past 2-3 year and its nearing the completion. My role was mostly to cordinate with testing team and solve frontend bugs and minor addition to the project (which was mostly copy pasting), even doing these minor task took me some time initially and I still have to take help from seniors time to time. 
I got kinda bored with all the repetitive task and I requested my manager to assign me to other development happening within team, he agreed and assigned me some different task but I cant seem to understand anything here, 
I get stuck in the most basic things, I feel stupid when I am not able to come up with easy solutions.

I am seeing other engineers learning new tech stacks in a small amount of time and getting hold of it while i am not able to understand things in my own tech stack.

I've recently gotten a appraisal as well(my company is quite good and gives it to everyone) and I feel like I don't deserve a bit of it.

 I am a 2023 graduate , I did MCA because that was the only good option I could see for myself(mostly cz of money) at that time earlier to that I did a bachelor's (Non CS) without gaining any knowledge of anything.
My basics are not that good, In college my only focus was to get a job so I did DSA and some front-end development using ReactJS(projects mostly code along with ytube) to be able to grab a good placement.

Is software engineering not for me? If no, then how do I overcome this, i don't wanna be a mediocre.

Am I a bad engineer?

Hey folks, wanted to understand a couple of things from experienced folks here -

1. What does freelance consulting look like?
2. How to start working in freelance consulting(shadowing/independent projects for free/volunteering etc.)?
3. Are there any hard barriers to entry(YoE, MBA, T1 grad for example)?
4. What platforms should one use to obtain projects that pay decently well - 2-3 hours daily leading to ~30k earnings monthly? If this is an unrealistic expectation, how does the payscale build over time?
5. Any other insights/comments that would affect the decision to work on freelance consulting.

Thanks in advance!

Path to working freelance(consulting) sustainably

Analyst

I am an engineer, what I enjoy is solving technically challenging problems. I don't really want to spend my time bothering with non-code solutions to your business problem, and I don't care how much money my code makes you. Just have a tech lead give me a challenging tech problem to solve or build for(WITH the necessary requirements) and I'll get it done. Simple. 


Personally I'm saddened to see how chasing impact has taken over all good tech companies, and how you basically HAVE to create value and take ownership in other ways if you want to be SDE-3 or higher. I would rather be a more technically competent, deliverer SDE (think someone who's extremely good at being an SDE-1). Climbing the SDE ladder is boring.

Any other engineers find it boring and frustrating to chase impact?

To be fair, companies are paying you to earn money, not solve tech 
  
 You have to find things to simplify and innovate in that impact only

Software Developer

Hi guys,

Thinking of building a personal project (web dev), which would be a solution to some real world problems in your day to day life.

Getting bored after work so any suggestions or any idea that comes up in your mind, please share!😃

Real world project ideas

Want to discuss if sabbatical being a taboo is valid and peoples opinions of it.
I will start with mine
Background - 
8 years in tech 
3 company switches 
Sabbatical of 1 month, 3 month and 6 month between each break.
Personal experience - quite enriching. Though there was panic and anxiety of not having a job during the period, it truly helped me take a step back, reassess my career trajectory, and mostly just Destress and re prioritise

Every now and then i loose my true love for tech and product and the sabbaticals helped me to rediscover that by just reading about technology that was not outcome driven ( like for switching a job) 
Quite rewarding each time in terms of salary jumps also. I think i was able to make a better case for myself at a particular position just because i had more time to process stuff from last job. 
It also helped me make better decisions for next thing which has in general helped me shape my career better ( i think atleast) 

Open to anyone sharing their stories/perspectives related to sabbaticals

Anybody working on something interesting and hard to solve?

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