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Software Developer

Machine Learning Engineer

Look for keywords in your dream role .. optimise those keywords and prepare accordingly

Senior Consultant

Good question. Just build your project /complete your tasks . Learn whatever terms you encounter in the depth that is must have .

Right but how do I know when to pull myself out because each term in itself is a massive rabbit hole, if you know what I mean. Or let me rephrase, when doing as you suggest, to what depth I go to?

Software Engineer

Since there are infinite things you could know about in SWE/ Your tech stack. As a beginner how do you restrict yourself with common denominator(s) in all of its usecases. Like how do I narrow it d...

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Since there are infinite things you could know about in SWE/ Your tech stack. As a beginner how do you restrict yourself with common denominator(s) in all of its use-cases. Like how do I narrow it down to which topics I MUST know before applying?

Infinite things to learn. How to narrow it down to the bare essentials?

Infinite things to learn. How to narrow it down to the bare essentials?- Grapevine

I'm a 2023 grad, and gained 6 months of experience in RPA, specifically Power Automate and Apps. 
However, I'm facing a lack of growth in my current role, as the projects as less.

I've become comfortable with my current situation, receiving a consistent salary and doing wfh, but now I'm concerned about the future and the stagnation of my skill set.

I've decided to upskill myself with a more relevant tech stack. I'm confused between opting for 
1. Java backend with Spring Boot.
2. MERN stack. 
3. Upkill in power automate, apps. 

As a fresher, I'm unsure which path to take. Any advice would be appreciated.

Confusion hai, solution pata nahi🥲

RPA Developer

What type of company a fresher should target to start his career?

My goal, for the foreseeable future, is to become the OG engineer, to be able to build anything in a weekend that my brain ideates

What's the most efficient way to learn new stuff? I wanna start implementing all these project ideas I get, but all these ideas are of such diverse tech domains. I wanna learn GenAI, IOT, blockchain, ML and also how to make drones, but things keep pooping up and finally jab thoda sa time milta hai toh college exams hit. 
So what's the trick to learn new cool interesting shit as fast as possible. Mastering all these domains won't be possible I know, I just wanna get enough knowledge to be able to make stuff

How to be the OG engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I've turned 27, roughly 3yoe earning 50k which is low but I'm upskilling. Currently due to layoffs, AI news and just a very unhealthy state of IT things are getting very depressing and I personally feel like I've already lost or missed in life. 
People are planning to get married around me everything is so sudden. 

People of grapevine, what advice would you want to give people like me who feel lost. 
Any general advice such as financial planning, lifestyle changes or just tech advice any advice which has helped you to live peacefully and comfortably would be greatly appreciated.

FOMO in tech

Advice : Please stop with the tutorial and enrolling in courses after course. Doesn't take you anywhere. Been there and done that.  
  
 You will end up with stupid clones which does seem like a value add in your resume. It's just there in everyone's resume.  
  
 Build one project, one solid project, maybe something to do with MFE. Not CRA react app but something with webpack if you prefer. Maybe a ecom app with seperate mfe for order and billing. Show the interaction between them, post on Twitter while you build. Share insights and maybe you will end up being in a recruiter's eye.

Frontend Engineer

First year college student enrolled in a Computer Science & Engineering (Data Science) degree in a Tier 2 college.

Talked to a few engineers living in my PG. They said to learn Java and DSA 'cause they are evergreen fields.

Python is being taught in college since it is used more in data science.

What would you suggest?

What techstack should I learn?

Hi folks,
I recently got laid off from a startup where 50% of the engineering team was let go. I was working as an SDE and during a restructuring, my role was changed to SDE-2 without any increase in pay or responsibilities. I have a total of 2.5 years of experience. In my first company (where I worked for a year), there weren't many projects, so I didn't have the opportunity to learn or code much. However, in my second company, I primarily worked on the backend using Go, Django, Kafka, MongoDB, & PostgreSQL.
I realize that although I gained exposure in my second job, I didn't delve deeply into the technologies. I mainly focused on completing business tasks quickly, learning new things just to finish the task at hand, without solidifying my understanding afterward.
My experience seems suitable for an SDE-2 role, but I'm unsure if I can perform the role with complete honesty and may struggle. Some friends in similar situations reassure me that this struggle is common in SDE-2 roles. However, I feel I might be better off starting again as an SDE-1, focusing on my weak areas, and aiming for a promotion later. There are very few SDE-1 job openings currently.
I am actively interviewing for SDE-2, and not able to clear system design interviews. Tbh, I feel very humiliated as when I am not able to answer their questions it feels like I am wasting their time or they would be thinking: Oh this guy has been working for so long and doesn't even know anything.

Now I get it why people think Indian Software engineers are not that good in comparison to other countries' devs: the reason is people like me. 
This realization burdens me with guilt, occupying my thoughts constantly. However, I am confident that I can crack SDE-1 easily. I have good DSA & good enough LLD, &HLD skills for SDE1. I am looking for companies who can match my prev Salary: 22 L, 2 Bonus.
Can u help how to navigate this career situation effectively without increasing my guilt or feeling constantly humiliated?

Laid Off | Stuck Now | Too Anxious | Please guide

First work on the feeling of humiliation and self worthlessness. Don't ignore this, I've done it and it's one of my biggest regret. Working on this will feel a waste of time initially given job search is highest priority, I assure you your future self would thank you.  
  
 Now you are clearly very self aware, most incompetent people don't even know their shortcomings. And you know what, many comparatively incompetent people are making much more money, having much less self doubt and just living more - it's like being more self aware is a curse.  
  
 How do you get out of this curse? It's a slow process. Write down the things that make you feel that way, come up with an an action plan on what you could do to reduce that - clear goals and actions always relive anxiety. Writing things down is extremely important, keep coming back to it whenever you feel the same way, eventually you would reason your way out of this. Most of the time you are in a loop, living in guilt and self doubt for the same reasons over and over. Documentation of these feelings over time will make it look so silly, how could the same problem give you so much mental pain again and again.  
  
 You will do just fine career wise. With a few more years of experience, I can guarantee you will evolve over time, the problems giving you so much mental pain would seem very trivial then - that if you are able to resolve these feelings - otherwise it's a hell I wouldn't want for my worst enemies.  
  
 Some questions to ponder over -  
 1. Can you do the job search while being just a little gentle on yourself? 
 2. Does failure mean you have no worth? Can you fail more gracefully?  
 3. Does 2.5 years of mistakes(even if it see that way) mean you can't do amazing things in coming years? 
 4. Above all, does feelings of humiliation and worthlessness help you in any way? If nothing else changes, wouldn't it be better to just be a little gentler on yourself? 
  
 Take care, you don't have a career problem, a mental health one instead

Hello GV friends, please suggest the names of some software companies that will pay more than 70+LPA base/cash for 15 YOE Engineer for senior engineering roles (Staff / Sr Staff / Principal Engineer or Architect roles).

Also please include the city / location if the company is only localized to a few cities. (I'm open to relocating to Delhi-NCR, Pune, Hyderabad, or Bangalore.)

Thanks in advance for your help. 🙏🏼

Companies that pay 70+LPA base

Staff Engineer

Swiggy has become a toxic Ex for me now and there is no time to think about it at this point (for me atleast)
I need to get back on my feet soon (sole earner in my family) and need some help. 

It has been a really long time since I prepared and stepped out there, so need some help in knowing what's going on out there. It would be great if someone can help with these:
1. Any interview resources I can start with
2. What all things I need/should prepare for
3. Any tips and tricks for the interview preparation

I think it will be a lot of help for me and others too who are in the same boat.
I was an SDE2 here and thinking of stepping up to SDE3 as well but right now even an SDE2 role would suffice. So will prepare accordingly

Help with interview resources + preparation guidelines

I have been working as full stack developer past 7 years in stacks like react, react native , flutter, spring boot , nest, graphql so on and so forth. So far being generalist has worked for me as I am never out of projects. However recently I met one Engineering manager who advised me to become a specialist in one domain for better growth going forward . How do you all see this specialist vs generalist idea ?

Specialist or generalist .

Tech Lead

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In my org seniors often give random advice, most of it is useless. For example, they once told me that don’t work for money, work for problems, you’ll get money as a outcome.

What’s the worst advice you’ve got in your professional career?

I started my career as a backend developer and started liking the domain and started learning new stuff and getting better at it now after working for 2.5 years being a backend dev in two different startups i recently  joined a big tech as a software engineer and i am asked to learn front end frameworks like vue.js i don’t mind learning new stuff but nor feel great as well as i always wanted to take my tech career in backed side of thing .
Yes i was told before joining 20/80 % (frontend/backend).
Not complaint or something just wanted to understand other forks pov on this .

Peace

Is it normal with tech forks?

I have been working as a software developer for the past 4 years mostly on startups. Pay is good(top 10%) no issues while working everything good in work life no problems. But there is always a feeling that I am not good at basic understanding of development I feel it is because  I didn't go to any IIT or any other major colleges or didn't study for any particular exams. I just learned everything by doing it not by preparing beforehand. There is fear that maybe that's not always enough which makes me a little bit afraid of giving interviews of big tech companies.
So I am not able to decide where I should go from here. Should I start with  masters or should I just learn everything I can from basics to have a solid understanding or maybe some other path.

Master's or While working learn on your own

I have had my fair share of playing around with different Kinda off generic Ml models and projects but It had been mostly random and not organised.

So now i want to dive deep into some niche in this field maybe even understand some relatively easy research paper and work on it too. 

Before doing all that I still want a very good base in the fundamentals. So as an experienced person in this field or a skilled student or a tutor do you have any suggestions for me maybe some resources which i can use . Also i must say that i am not planning to spend a lot of time(at most a month) for clearing the fundamentals as i am aware of most of the stuffs and wish to focus more on a specific concept as quickly as possible.

A fast paced onto the point approach will be really helpful. Are statquest videos good enough for this ?

Also i will really appreciate if you have anything else to tell me beyond what i asked for.

Thank you.

Guidance for ML breadth/Fundamentals

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With AI improving we see it is quite capable of writing decent codes, how can someone new to tech decide on what to pick up? Frontend or Backend or both. Nowadays they say Full stack developers are in demand but shouldn't one be good at at least one thing and have knowledge about other things? How to prioritise what to learn. There are just so many things that I'm a bit confused as to what to learn and focus on. I'd like to seek advice from a future perspective, and any predictions on how the tech industry might shape up.

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