What you ppl do in this situation?

I entered the workforce in 2021 and have been working on a not-so-in-demand technology called pl/sql and that too on a niche implementation. I've been trying very hard to shift to other companies to no avail. If I take up something else to master, to be honest, everybody is asking for professional experience - so is it really worth it? I have done a couple of projects but nobody's noticing wherever I apply - for example: a few data engineer projects on aws, airflow, kafka, etc. So I thought I should start applying for non tech roles like business analyst, APM, UX, etc with some hackathon experiences and sql work on my job. I learnt figma, balsamiq, etc. made some mockups and HLDs. Did 100s of courses and got certifications - no use. Then I thought I should get into core programming, so I learnt python (even tried solidity for some time) and did a few projects on python albeit beginner level. Then I thought since I've got a little bit of exposure in python let's do some data analytics. Did a few projects on power BI and tableau and lots of related courses. Out of frustration I told manager that I want to do something else, he was kind enough to refer me into an internal company initiative, but it does nothing unfortunately. My friends said resign and fake your experience (which I was fearful of) so I put my naukri joining to available immediately and still didn't get a single call. Then tried some linkedin optimization stuff. Asked for 100s of referrals in many many companies. Nothing worked out. So, now I want suggestions from the top tier, creme-de-la-creme of Indian workforce and want to know what do they have to say about it.

Joined a new org 9-10 days ago where I had been interviewed for a developer role in a legacy tech stack. Yesterday in a connect the TL told me I won't be working on the development side of things but rather in the environment/platform side of things, mostly doing configurations with minimal or no coding. The role seems very specific to this org and considering this is on a legacy stack I don't think there's much scope even in learning for me at all. I had two stages of interviews with this org and all of them were for a developer role, something like this did not even come up during interviews or the pre-connects I had with them pre joining. So confused and frustrated, because I had accepted this offer since it's a PBC and moved to North India even when I had a 22% higher offer in a tier 2 based service company in my home town. I have two options now: 1. My team has a great WLB. Stick to the non dev role & use the next 6 months to practice DSA & upskill myself from my current legacy stack to something more commonly used like Java/Node and crack some other PBC. 2. Immediately start looking outside and interviewing again for a developer role in my current legacy stack, since I am on probation and can leave early and maybe even get a small hike over current CTC. YOE - 2 Can anyone please give some inputs or suggestions on what to do? Been interviewing since March and I finally managed to clear one and now this shit is happening.

I will go first, i have deleted my first company from my resume because even though i was very good at coding. They put me in a support project in graveyard shift. I faked illness to get out of shift, and later on was removed and put in angular project. I moved on 6 months later to a good company as backend engineer but i really regret joining my 1st company. When asked , I just say the work was not relevant to what i wanted. Please share your experience too.

Last September I was hired as an UI Engineer in a startup in Gujurat. This is my first job in tech. They said that you will get to work on client as well as in-house products. My first task was to fix their in-house product, so that they can re-launch it. Successfully did that. Then they started searching for client works. And till now (March) they have given 4 client jobs to work on, none of it was related to Frontend or UI. One was related to AI, another one was related to a Node Backend, and the current one is related to 3D technology. So what should I do now, it almost feels like a scam. Leaving a company in 4 months doesn't feel right but I can't see any learning or improvement here in my domain. And the worst part is this jobs are brought by my CTO fooling the client that the developer who is going to work on this had 10+ years of experience.

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

Hey everyone, I am kinda product guy. Since my 3rd year this industry fascinated me. I have done 1 year as a software developer with fintech and edtech startup after graduating from IIT Bhubaneswar. Since two months i am thinking i can add more value in product management rather than product development. Please share if you have any leads.

Hired for golang made to php because they replaced whole team with new hires for golang only stuff. Seeing php and reading documents and code I feel like quieting. Compromised on brand name, pay and work in the current company. I thought okay if joining on 14% hike but the work is in golang atleast for this market quality of work will be better. But now getting none. Market seems to be bad if I quiet it might increase the career gap to a year. How to keep urself calm and compose from all these shits?

I’m currently working in a support project and whatever I heard from my seniors and fellow guys at work is that nobody stays with this client and company for more than a year or two. I joined here as a fresher with some really good dev skills but the work and tech here is not allowing me to put them to use. I’m feeling like quitting from here, but again need to brush up my skills as I did not put them to use over a period of 14 months. Also there is a lot of micromanagement going on and I’m not comfortable with that. No one takes ownership of work and tries to push it to you and make you work on it.

Looking for genuine and non diplomatic answers since it will be anonymous. It is upto you to reveal the name of the company you resigned from. Lets discuss!!! I will go first - I quit my last organisation (a famous UPI company) in 2020 because, they still are in old technology. No cloud computing, no kubernates, no terraform. Their entire baremetal infra are in 2 DCs (Mumbai and Bangalore). Leadership ideas are outdated. I was very much bored and looking for a change.