HelpmeOut25
HelpmeOut25

Please guide 🙏

I was on bench in infosys for almost 1.5 years and just went into project for 3 months, not learned anything as that was very fast paced and complex project which was about to deliver. Situation arises and I had to switch. Somehow cracked the first interview after preparing very interview centric in a month. Next company hired me as Sde 2. I told them I have only 2 years of experience but cause of my previous salary they gave me Sde 2 designation. I was happy but worried that I have no relevant skills , how I’ll be able to handle the job. I tried to learn concepts as much as I can , I assumed I’ll get into a project with existing codebase. I’ll be able to do my task by analysing the existing codebase and in few months I’ll be able to pull off. But things went south, they pushed me in a complex project which need to developed from scratch and have very strict deadlines, here the team size is really small, currently 3 developers with no senior or TL. Currently I am the main player as they gave me sde2 designation. They expect me to deliver high quality code and deliver complex story independently within limited time. And me who struggles in writing html css. Although I have conceptual knowledge of angular and knows how things work and understanding code. But due to lack of handson and no experience i feel confidence and don’t know how to proceed. I was trying to uplift myself from a long time but now I’m really tired, I feel that I’m depressed and need consultation. I feel I am no good, I have no skills and wasted 2 years of my life doing nothing. I feel worthless and my whole personality got affected. I don’t feel interest in anything, feel no hunger, just want to close my eyes and never want to open it. I feel shameful as being from a middle class family, my parent have all I wanted. Had an education loan running, my parents was very proud of me when i got my job with a decent package after college . I feel I failed them , I feel I can’t do anything in future now, everything seems dark and no light. I feel tired , heavy headed all the time . Sometimes things to leave all the things and end myself. I want guidance , I want to be good in something, feel confident and want to work and grow. I have some saving by which I’ll be able to pay education loan emi’s for 1 year, and will be able to survive with minimum expenses for 6-8 months. I am thinking to take a break for 4-5 months and upkill myself in data science or cloud as per market trends, and then enter into IT with some confidence and relevant skills. Cause currently I have no confidence and always feel fear and depression.But i fear if I do so, career break will ruin my career, what if I may not able to get the job and end up being unemployed. I will waste my 2 years and previous experience. I really need guidance at this point of time of my life . Anyone who can guide me on how to proceed from here and what to do next. I am really looking for a hope in form of guidance, I am really confused and demotivated. My life is not making any sense. If someone can guide me at this point of time and really help me out , I’ll preach you like my god for rest of my life. Please help 🙏. Save me🙏

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kannada_goutila
kannada_goutila

Let me tell you one thing - I understand what you're going through. I have been in a position like you have.

Here's what you need to do - Stop worrying about complexity and everything first of all. When you're given requirements, try to pick one task without worrying about all the other items and try to finish it. When the people above you will see your pace, they will try to push you finish items faster, but do not worry. Say you doing your best and that you need more engineers if they expect a faster pace.

Lastly, use LLMs to get pieces of code that you want to write and stitch them together. Even if it looks complicated, once you will spend a month or so with the new tool, you'll learn almost all the functional aspects of it.

I understand the feeling again. I've been there. But you will come out of it more confident and strong. Just don't worry about what will happen if you can't deliver. It's not going to end the world if you don't deliver. It's just a tech projects, and they go wrong all the time.

abcd123
abcd123

Yep.👆good advise.

  • Keep a rough notebook on side, take notes of what you are doing now and whether it is in write direction towards requirement. This will also help you put up right questions and negotiate for time.
BrilliantFort
BrilliantFort

Dude the company which hired you... Knows what they got... So no matter you to do best of your capabilities and then be ready to fight back verbally when they try to blame... Nobody is saacha or perfect in this world... So they were very well aware when they hired you ...grow a spine... Do your 9-5 perfectly with your abilities

Me in same situation in 2007, got hired as mobile developer. But I cleared interview only by theoretical concepts.

My advice is work and put more effort, trust me things will be difficult at initial stage and am sure you will shine and respected eventually

Attitude is everything here!

BTW, am currently a VP in a product MNC with 20 years of experience.

LordMercury
LordMercury

IMHO, Don’t quit your job , not the solution, market is ruthless and it will not be easy to comeback to a job and will cause more stress additionally. Really important to use your time wisely after office to upskill , you can rather study what you will need to do at work tomorrow and then do that.

HelpmeOut25
HelpmeOut25

I am ready to study and all, but how I’ll be able to deliver it. They have huge expectations from me and I don’t feel like I can deliver that kind of work to them. It demotivates me. Neither I can develop in frontend, it irritates me and make me feel sick.

ImpureTown
ImpureTown
EY19d

Use AI tools to get help , read articles and stack overflow to get things done . Keep your pace it will get better with time .

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