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For everyone wanting to quit their jobs but can’t due to the recession and ongoing layoffs, you need to build a better relationship with you manager. This way your work gets easier and hopefully you will buy yourself some time before you absolutely need to quit because of your horrible manager. I found this really cheap course that’s absolutely a value bomb that’s going to help a lot of you - http://bit.ly/BBBF3

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around: - Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company. - Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers. - Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more. - Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. - Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done. While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built. <Rant Over. Peace>

I have seen a lot of these so called competitors programmers saying we are an entrepreneur and have started a company which only sells courses for DSA and they earn too big from it. Are students now a days so blind that even pay money for these just to get a job. I know job market is bad for freshers but still dont you think it is too bad.

The number of influencers trying to sell their courses on coding and systems design has just went nuts. Anyone and everyone who is working in FAANG / MAANG/ WTFAANG seems to be selling dreams to everyone that this is how you get into and sustain into large scale companies. Once these engineers join after clearing interviews (which are more or less a repeat of the same questions being asked for a thousand times), they find it hard to scale themselves to solve the real world challenges that are thrown at them. And then the complaining starts from all the angles. For the sake of it, FAANG and all other such top tier companies are not gonna help you once your mental peace if completely f…ed up. If you think you are genuinely interested in solving issues at scale, spend some real time learning the basics, how the day to day software you use works, spend some time actually researching and banging your head trying to grasp how things are, because most of the challenging issues you are gonna face in your upcoming career won’t have youtube videos available to explain you why they happen. Stop filling the pockets of influencers to teach you things which you should be putting efforts to learn by exploring yourself. Rant over

Why engineers can’t be engineers? Such hard selling of courses is really becoming painful on LinkedIn nowadays. Instead of spending time on tech content, these sellers build random stories. Please save yourself from such sellers.

Hi everyone I just wanted to take some guidance from you guys, currently I'm working as a Software Engineer but as I found my keen interest more towards Product roles sides like Product Manager. Please guide me with the steps what all steps should I do to achieve this role without MBA?

So recently stoa announced that they’re revamping their business. And for some reason everyone (other startup founders/ twitter folks) were supporting them and telling them not to get discouraged and to keep building and other shit. I’ve interacted with a few stoa students and they have nothing good to say about stoa. Apparently they were promised placements which no one got. Most of the people I know who did the stoa program, did it because they were sold the idea of getting a good consulting / founders office kinda job. The fees aren’t cheap for anyone coming from a middle class background. What pisses me off is why are we as a society encouraging such founders - like they sold something without being able to deliver which had a direct impact on the life of students. In my personal humble opinion these people need to be called out.

Saw some misguided student post about PM internships. This is for anyone considering a PM internship. DONT. A fresher should not be going into Product Management. Focus on building hard skills first. You need an edge/alpha in your career strategy while reducing risk. Atleast work for 1 year in the industry in a hard skill role. Then, think about transitioning. This does two things. 1. You have a core differentiator compared to other candidates: Engg/ Design/ Sales/ Data Science/ Analytics. Having a PM internship is not a good enough differentiator. No company would hire a Product Management intern over someone with hard skills in another domain. Product is different. In SDE, it makes sense to have multiple internships as it gives confidence to the recruiter that you’ll be able to do your job. In PM, no recruiter worth their salt will consider a PM internship contributing to you being a successful PM. Your internship doesn’t contribute anything meaningful to its ability to communicate your skill. 2. You realise if you’re getting into a field because it’s a fad or you’re genuinely interested in it. I’ve seen many such freshers switch into product and get into suboptimal orgs. Don’t. Do your career a favour and work on your hard skills. That alone will contribute a lot more to your Product Skills than some poor internship. As a GPM at Gojek, I will never hire anyone who has done a PM internship unless they have a solid track record in a hard skill based role. You can only be a good “enabler“ if you can empathise with a “builder”. Can you be a PM out of college, YES? Should you? NO. You’ll realise this later in your career. First gain experiences building/enabling real products, you’ll thank yourself for that when it helps you build better Products. Also, stop listening to these charlatans who masquerade as Product Gurus. They are out to make a quick buck. Don’t do these Product Courses. It’s all a farce. First, get some experience and then you’ll know