KINDLY DO THE SNEEDFUL SAAR MY UNCLE IS DYING SAARPrev thread: >>109850473
posted this a few days back, still kinda need advice. appreciate anything.>been doing the bare minimum (if even) for months>completely ghost people and barely even work on projects anymore because of how much they piss me off.>check meetings this morning>meeting tomorrow morning with boss and his boss for 30 mins with just the word "touchpoint">omgomgomgomgomg it's happening>start planning vacation trips, start imaging my neet life, start telling my friends last go around the rodeo if they want anything on a discount.>literally start talking to coworkers and start being more open about "lol yeah this place is shit".>people are probably like wtf this guy was the moodiest motherfucker why is he so happy now>have my last 1:1 with my boss>start making shit up like "ohhhh just working on a big move to be near the office" to troll him because I know he's firing me>wait a minute he sounds oddly supportive and okay of it.>weird alright>meeting happens, decide "fuck it what's the touchpoint about">mfw it's a re-org and not a firingHow do I handle being part of moving to the department by myself. There's a lot of things I want to change about my current workflow and I think keeping quiet here is what really fucked me. I'm debating whether to start mapping and plotting shit that I want to achieve or run through with my new boss or keep quiet and play it by ear. What would you do? I'm strangely optimistic about moving to a new department where I'll have a better stake on the applications and tools I manage.
>>109872837why do you have layers of bosses again?
>>109872837You should post bait like this on r/recruitinghell to make some unemployed Redditors actually rope.
quick call?
>>109872874the fuck do you mean?>>109872859sorta weird, we hired a manager for my role but he doesn't really "manage" and feels like a coworker with more authority and capabilities in the system. I still technically report to him but we still both report to the same guy.
>>109872837does this really need to be reposted 4 times? my advice is STFU. that would have saved you from posting this comment 4 times because you would have not blabbered about moving to be closer to office.
>>109872953The fuck is your problem? You can just fucking ignore it then. Jesus fuck SORRY for asking about work related shit.
>>109872859you ain't living the corporate life if you don't have at least 3 "bosses">your actual boss that approves time off and raises, non-tech>your boss' boss that gets involved if contract-related shit happens>team lead you have to consult for technical stuff, assigns workloads>the client asks you to do somethingin the (paraphrased) words of Terry Pratchett>we don't have kings anymore, but there's still a guy up there ordering people around and i really don't know the difference
>>109872906ok
>>109872983weird af i was talking to someone about resident evil on /v/ and they also mentioned to read terry pratchett books. probably just a coincidence but it's been twice i've seen the guys name today.
>>109873045hello
>>109873121"sorry, one sec… i think my mic isn't working"*fumbles with headset"can you hear me now?"
>>109872906>>109873146just email me
Updating my LinkedIn humiliation ritual…
we run ear files in jboss in containers in kubernetes in the cloud and there are weird xa transaction errors in the logs and the performance is inconsistent (read: terrible). is decaf good for you?
>>109873179>is decaf good for you?It likely increases your risk of bladder cancer.
>>109873174How is this a humiliation ritual, exactly? In my experience, I ignore 99% of recruiter messages, and I get them almost every week. Some of them message me more than once. If anything, the tables are reversed here.
>>109873194damn, they should put warnings on the coffe machines. but better make them red and include a stacktrace, else nobody will look at them
This may be weird but I was friends with another guy in another group. One day I just see him gone (his social media is like completely hidden and can't find him anywhere), funny enough through some coincidence I'm moving over to his group. Is it bad if I ask whatever happened to him?
>>109873215I hate having to lie or be disingenuous, I hate corporate speak, I hate writing like a faggot, and I hate having to write it via chatgpt and knowing people will spot me as a fraud
>>109872774I am actually really scared about being potentially laid off. I don't know what to do.How do you avoid the chopping block especially since AI seems to have amplified the layoff bracket even more.
>>109873287maybe don't ask it in a huge meeting, ask someone in private
>>109873179> *disables transactions*errors fixed boss
>>109873061discworld is pretty damn good. i've basically inhaled it over the course of last year. 100% would recommend
>>109872964my problem? well, it's quite simple really.
thinking about picking up a J3
>>109873318save enough money so that you can go back to school for something that is in demand.this isn't a field with reliable long term prospects anymore.even if they sent all the egregious h1b fraud back to india its still going to be a very competitive market for the foreseeable future.
Currently making 900k a year from overemployment, thinking of picking up a fourth.
>>109873287>>109873366This. If you're moving over, it's a pretty easy topic to bring up with the project manager or whomever the team point is.
>external recruiter calls me to remind me of the interview tomorrow>also mentions that apparently a lot of previous candidates were stuck up pricks and suggested a laid back attitude, while also explicitly telling me that i seemed to be pretty affable to her and that our chat went really wellto be fair, talking to this lady felt like talking to a human being, instead of the usual HR demons
>don't get paid directly for overtime>bonus is 7% of base salary>base salary gets taxed at 25-30%>bonus gets taxed at 40%how is this supposed to motivate me
>>109872694giwtwm
>>109873669You have a job and are not homeless
Manager showed up in the cafeteria. The fastest I ever noped the fuck out of there after grabbing 2 pieces of cheese jfc
You guys ever get blackpilled noticing 90% of people are both fat and retarded?
>>109873971No, because I don't live in a trailer park.
>>109873971yeah but then I just take my medication and it all goes away :)
>>109873630You'll still be jeetcoded hard tomorrow.
>guilt trip and induce fomo on your employees by spurting the most unhinged bullshit to be ever witnessed like>>"you don't proofread compiler output why would you sweat so much over blindly trusting llms and mindlessly pushing everything thrown at you to prod">on-call rates have not increased in 4 years
>>109873995The state with the lowest obesity rate is like 25% and that's obese doesn't even count fat people
>>109873971I'm stuck in boomerville so not only is everyone fat and retarded but also old I'm stuck here job hugging until AI replaces us it's so over
>>109874074Ahem, as I was saying... I knew we'd get here eventually.
>>109872906I called, you didn't pick up. that was your chance. let's try again tomorrow.
>>109872774Hey guys. Got an offer on linkedin but it seems fishy as hell and they want a 60/40.I mean look at this compensation:CompensationCompensation depends on experience, technical specialization, project requirements, and level of client involvement.A typical full-time engagement model will be revenue-sharing models such as 60/40, 60% for our team and 40% for the partner.Exact terms are agreed upon before starting each engagement.Multiple OpportunitiesOne advantage of our partnership model is that it is not limited to a single project.Developers with sufficient availability may participate in additional projects when workloads and contractual requirements allow.This creates the potential to increase earnings over time while maintaining a continuing relationship with our team.We do not, however, expect developers to accept overlapping engagements when doing so would conflict with client requirements or prevent them from delivering high-quality work.Who We Are Looking ForOur ideal development partner has:5+ years of professional software-development experienceStrong English communication skillsExperience communicating with international or U.S. clientsConfidence participating in technical video interviewsStrong software-engineering fundamentalsReliable internet and professional remote-working environmentAbility to work independentlyStrong responsibility and communicationInterest in a long-term partnership rather than a single short projectDevelopers located in South America or compatible U.S. time zones are particularly well suited for the partnership.Why Work With Us?Time SavingInstead of spending significant time searching for projects, submitting applications, negotiating contracts, and handling billing, you can concentrate primarily on engineering.Our team focuses on the commercial and administrative side while helping developers maintain a consistent pipeline of potential opportunities.US JobsHigher salary!!
>>109873146yes, i can hear you. what is your question?
hows your yom kippur been going, /twg/?
>>109874206sir this is very urgentsir
>>109872912>he doesn't really "manage"Common story
>>109874243sorry, I already called you, and you didn't pick up. I have to move on. Try again tomorrow.
>do coderbyte test>they have their own little section that I can use to search for sutff>most results are from stack overflow>they block the browser so i have to use my actual browser for that shit.hope it doesn't affect me too much.
i got pulled into a call because an external contractor wants to rewrite a critical but tech debt nightmare component that will be obsolete in a couple years. so high risk, basically no reward. i told them my reservations but apparently it's already budgeted for. sure, milk the company some more and when it inevitably fills the prod database with impossible to untangle shit we'll get called in to help
>>109874404but it will be in kotlin. i'm looking forward to opening the repo at 6 am because the shit broke prod and be greeted with "suspend fun". yeah thanks, i know
>>109873669it motivates you to leave that 7% bonus on the table, and not work the overtime.
>>109874227smells very indian coded.Kindly do the needful saaar.
>>109873548just wanted u to know that i saved this image
>>109874519>smells very indian coded.right on the money. however I don't know if it is a scam or not.
>>109874241Had to look up what the fuck that was when the lead put that on my calendar
thinking about dropping J2 it's too crazy
>>109875945LMAO the salty comments
>ask chatgpt to recommend me some engineering books>half of the recommendations are written by jeets
>>109872774Jeets can be ground into diesel biofuel for the upcoming war
>>109875945did (s?)he get a job shaving carrots with those big ass buck teeth? or perhaps a job farming rice paddies?
>>109875945SF is retarded
>>109875967I have the same issue with O'Reilly. What's worse is that the chink books are more like 1000 pages of spark notes for people who just want to pass college.
>>109875945KEK Not that PMs being lost is something new, but I really thought AI was supposed to clean up the tech sector by driving non-tech people out (skill floor raised so only chads get to keep up), but even just the act of "programming" with AI seems to be much closer to "soft skills" (being good with english words) rather than just skillz. Why have skillz if you can just tell the agents a nice concrete story they can follow?fml I just wanted to learn and write great code
Well I’m about to get fired. How easy is it to get a job out there these days bros?
>>109876061>>>/g/utwg
>>109872906If you can schedule a TCP/IP line in the next twenty four hours I appreciate it.
>>109876061~6 months seems accurate (unless ML I guess)
>>109876061Idk but I have been trying for around 4 months. Last year I spent 7 months before I was hired
I actually think that changing job would let me meet people who would like to talk with me or I may like. There's no point working if there's nobody to appreciate my effort.
>>1098760618-12 months. used to be sub 8 months 2 years ago.
>>109873630Wait is it normal to talk to actual soulless demons of hell? I've only ever interviewed for a position 3 times over 12 years because the rest was either nepotism or freelancing (no HR involved) and the one time I actually did talk to a HR lady she seemed normal. Kinda nervous at one point but it looked like she was self conscious over something. Seemed like she was just following a script of what questions to ask. To take a page out of her book, what was the most difficult HR interview of your career, anons?
I just hope accusing coworkers and bosses of shit they might not have actually done or that I can't prove is not grounds for justified firings, because if so, I might get fired without severance.I just want them to let me go with severance, but they don't want to.
>>109876189My job fires people same day if they are not accountable. It is wild to hear stories like this amongst the entirety of the workforce.
Asking for a friend - any of you working at a place where the use of AI is limited as a means of policy, regulation, or law? I'm thinking of a scenario where the smallest error could cause deaths, say pacemaker firmware, autopilots in aircraft, weapons systems. I'm not necessarily talking about you can't use AI at all, just something like you can use AI to write code, just not to test it (including unit/integration tests and manual testing), or you can use AI for research, but not for coding etc.I figure the correctness risks AI introduces (it's nondeterministic in that the same prompt won't give the same output twice unless temperature is set to 0, it sometimes makes assumptions without checking things, and a number of other specific but distinct risks of AI)... I'm too high to write a sensible thought but basically I'm just trying to find out if these types of spaces do now or will at some point exist in the future, where as a matter of regulation basically people won't be able to turn the codebase/infrastructure/working environment into a polluted slopscape... sounds like it could be a nice place to work once everything else has truly and fully gone to shit, but idk if those regulations/policies will actually come to fruition (or already exist)
>>109873630Lol, you're falling for classic sales tricks.
>>109876228Sourcing my ass, industries like aerospace, defence etc. probably have a stick up their ass about not letting juniors run the code through a chink AI they found on google to prevent leaks.
>>109876207good thing I'm not american.
How do I get a job at a real company? I'm 15 years into my career as a software engineer and I've only ever worked at companies that nobody has ever heard of, most of which are defunct now. My resume gets automatically thrown in the trash everywhere I apply because no real company wants to hire someone with no corporate experience. I make $90k a year working for a small 50 person company that's on the brink of bankruptcy, which is the same thing I was making 10 years ago working for shitty startups that all failed. Is there any way to escape this pit or am I doomed with this cursed career for the rest of my life?
How do I get a gf?>go outsideOk, where? And do what?
>>109876399I got a harder question:How do I get a bf?
>>109875945>3/10 asian american women are getting jobs at funded AI startups with zero prior experience>meanwhile I've been unemployed for two years after having a heart attack from work stress and eventually being forced to resignI need to buy a shotgun and just end it at this point
>>109876040you don't understand though, the people just soft skilling the AI models are writing code with a billion bugs and security issues, the pro dudes are just productive enough to not need juniors anymorethe entire SWE market is bifurcating heavily and the only people being forced to hire non-tech people are the VCs funding the boys club and need some sort of surveillance to make sure they aren't having all their money stolen by a bunch of frat guys
all the people leaving or just mysteriously "not with the company anymore" have me spooked /b/ros
>>109876411Just install grindr it's actually that easy
>>>/pol/543056718
god damn the GoC applications are a gauntlet of condescending questions. But I refuse to look at my disgusting manager anymore
>>109876061Ive been looking for a job for almost 10 months now lolIf I didnt have tons of money saved up id probably be dead by now.
>>109876439Take a tech CEO with you on the way out.
Reminder that going to conventions/trade shows in your industry is worth a thousand resumes. Networking is everything. The people in charge of hiring have no understanding of whatever skills you possess. You have to operate on their field.
>>109876239yeah, had the same thought, but I'm curious to hear it from people who actually work in a place like this and what the vibe is about how things are going now or how things may look in the future based on what they're hearing through the grapevine
>>109876464That's for assisted sudoku or, doing the unthinkable, not for bf (or gf).
>>109876439People with less experience are easier to manipulate and control.
>>109876439How can somebody be forced to resign? What? Stop you from having iron hands and iron will. I refuse to resign. I will get laid off with a comfy severance package or find another job.
>>109875945I want to marry her and do the most perverted stuff to her
>>109873971only if I need to report to them.white, black and brownoids don't register in my vision. They're just background. I only see Chinese as humans I interact with and they arent fat or retarded. Just a little autistic at times.
>>109876228Yep, written into the security policy for general use that the user is still the owner of all accountability for anything they submit as valid. And the AI solutions philosophy for bespoke highly repeatable issues, is to be DAMN sure you need LLM involvement, instead of just good API integrations, and that it's a lead, not a source of truth. I'm in banking.
>>109876515They will fire you for cause and black mark you on the work number, retard.
>>109876553for cause of what?I'm not being funny or ironic
>>109876562Harassment.
>>109876569you had a heart attack, how it that harassment from you?
>>109876569nta but that shit is illegal in my country.of course you, as an american worker, have no rights, and your employers can do as they please with you
>>109876548>Yep, written into the security policy for general use that the user is still the owner of all accountability for anything they submit as valid.That's the same for every company retard. No company on earth is going to say to "use AI and blindly trust the output" in their written policyNot surprised someone in banking would think that what you wrote resembles what I'm asking about
I'm tired boss
get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus get hit by a bus please get hit by a bus I don't want to see you tomorrow
>>109876664I'd go into any specifics, like it's application around loan approvals and discrimination, or code uplifts for systems handling billions of dollars in transactions in one specific system daily, but you're a rude cunt who asked a bland question and got a bland exploratory response.
>35+ years old>no kids, no gf>have some properties but they are so shit I might as well sell everything and buy something else>have ideas for businesses but I have no clue how to implement anything, don't know anyone with the specific knowledge and I'm too lazy to even look for knowledgeable people to help me build stuffI'm so lost I'm sabotaging myself. i don't really know what I'm doing with my life anymore. I have no direction. maybe I should just kms.
>>109876996Play vidya, watch anime and drink yourself to death like the rest of us. Besides even if i had a couple million liquid it wouldn't make me quit my job.
>You're absolutely right to push back on that —
>tfw Product department is five guys and the boss wants to pivot to AI infrastructureI don't feel good
>>109875945>best candidate>0 prior experience>200k starting>only 3 months of looking for a jobThat said>exploding offer (and very tight one at that) for supposedly the best candidate they haveAlways a red flag so I hope she's getting spitroasted and never paid.
>>109876072There has been no ML jobs since ~2021. t. PhD from yoshua bengio's lab, stuck doing """AI engineering""" nonsense (aka backend dev but you call out to openai and anthropic APIs) because that's all the jobs available now.
>>109876207My job fired me on the spot for asking for a raise following the most glowing performance review ever and having been promised such a raise 2 months prior.
>>109876239>>109876548Nope, they let people do whatever the fuck they want these days.Used to help build and sell security-restricted AI tools and it's been impossible to sell because everyone's letting everyone use claude and unironically deepseek (from services, not just local) for a few years now.
>>109876371Generally you don't without nepotism. The best way to go is to find a startup which is likely to get acquired soon, but obviously it's a gamble. Worked for me though. I learned I'd much rather stay with noname companies.
>>109877182God dam man.
my manager has 4k followers on linkedin I feel intimidated
>>109874005nah, it's an internal IT position, not US>>109876179there's a lot of variation.some are very formal, some are human beings, and the actual demons ask that type of dumb question, or completely ignore any and all kind of minutiae when asking for previous experiences>>109876238nah, i personally thought the interview was more informal than usual even before she contacted me againfingers crossed, out of all the places that called back, this one is the only one that kinda interests me
>>109877189I know im getting old because im actually considering turning into one of those aquarium boomers.Wonder if its worth investing in a set up with various fish as a "hobby"
>>109877424Before you do that be sure to invest in good dehumidifiers, good stands for the aquariums, water testers and good filters. Fish, corals, salt water or anything odd's and ends are a huge pain in the ass. If i lived in a hot state i might've gone down the route of reptile breeding but fish is also a viable market in all states.
>>109877431please do not the snek...
>>109877435Only if there were real life Lamia's/Gorgons anon.
>>109877431Salt Water fish sound like a huge pain in the ass to maintain so im gonna only stick with fresh water fish and plants probably.
I was told it would take a few days to hear back from my interview but the next one is already set up. Is this a red flag?
>>109877751You were told wrong i took a full 3 weeks to get back with a job offer from one company i thought i bombed the interview with and never heard back for the others i thought i had passed with ease.
>>109872774Pajeets are so fucking tech illiterate it's insane. They never raise tickets, they never private message anyone, they just @ entire teams when they get stuck.>erm my deployment failed, why? Is something broken?FUCKING READ THE EXCEPTION FOR ONCEWe hired this self taught nigger once and you know what, he surprised me, he pulled himself up by his bootstraps. When he didn't understand, he fucking googled it, and before long he rose up as a reliable guy that knows his shit in the company. This was before AI btw. Maybe I'm an asshole, maybe I should just mute my notifications, but I can't since 9/10 times the notification is sent by anyone else and it's valid. It's only these fuckers that do it. And no amount of telling them or my manager gets them to stop. They stop for a few weeks maybe and it's back to normal again.>@everyone my local build is not working, why?
>>109878325idk, we don't hire indians here
>>109872774I did pretty much nothing today. How do I stop letting so many of my remote days end up like this?
>>109877863Wait, what? You took 3 weeks to get back to them?
>>109878423Yeah they must've been desperate 2025.
>>109874230sorry, this question is too direct and comes off as passive aggressive, this incident will be reported to HR
>>109875945>foid>AI>startup>product managerBINGO
>>109878453If it makes you feel better these asian women seppuku out of the industry faster than the male asian counterparts.
>>109878484yeah because she can "move in with her BF" and save up the entirety of her salary, while her BF pays for everything
part of a re-org and I honestly thought I was getting laid off since i was burnt and did NOTHING for months. now my new boss is asking me what my projects were and stuff and I have no idea what the fuck to say. (part of my burnout was that projects were getting cancelled/repriotized left and right and at some point i just stopped tracking what was happening)
>>109878530maybe you should flip burgers or something your tiny brown brain cant handle IT work apparently
>>109878530LMAO if you wanted to do nothing in your life then join the military to do police work.
>>109874010I have heard this analogue now couple of times in real life from the most stupid Reddit soilords and it always makes me want to throw my office chair at them
>>109878686pic is not wrong though, it only gets worse
>>109876061Took me over a year to get AI janny piecework. Want to rope desu.>>109876411That's the neat part. You don't. :^)
>>109878504I moved abroad and I know of three couples from my homeland through work. In all of them the husband is working full time and the wife is staying home. They don't even have kids so basically they are living the NEET life without any financial worries. All of them have been here for years.
@here good morning saaars, ur gae :)
>Quick Call
>>109878999>hi GM, i've a query
>>109879024>SAAR PLS I HAZ QUESTION
>>109878999My manager just calls me without warning.
>>109879119>TFW my manager ruining my day with a email/message/call.
Taking a sick day today.I'm not really sick but my sleep got majorly fucked up and I wound up with only 4 hours and I don't have the mental to be productive.
>>109879132taking a day off you might as well take the weekat least in my cunt if you take one day off its one day no pay, but 5 days its 1 day no pay and 4 days 80% sick pay
>Probably get paid seven figures>Cry about muh mental healthAbsolute gaylords.
>>109879209>posting AI marketing materialtunak tunak tun tunak tunak tun da da damrmm very good saar*bobbles head*e = mc^2 + ai
>>109879024That’s already better than myHi[waits for reply]Good morninghow are you?[waits for reply]
>developer on our team gives a presentation saying some task takes 4 days and how they created an agent to make it only take one day>tfw it shouldn't even take one day regardless of using an agentDid everyone just give up and become stupid I get you want breathing room on your task/story or whatever but that shit does not take 4 days to change a version number and some import statements. This doesn't even include integration or end to end tests these people are pissing me off
>company restructuring back in March>entire departments laid off>offered extension for 3 months>workload skyrockets, life is disintegrating outside of work>extension renewed for q3>job hunt looks bleak, apparently a BE dev not only needs to have 10 years experience, 5 at a team lead position, but also recognize 8+ patterns in leetcode, 5 years in Kubernetes, write CDK deployments from memory, no other tabs open, for at least 2 major cloud providers to be considered for a position writing, and have implemented 2 or more IDPs, all so you can setup SIEM self ssrvice report endpoints in ElastiSearch)>extension renewed for q4>now working 50 hours a week for 40 hour pay to come home and study/build portfolio crap in stacks I will never ever use for 2 hours every night and all day on weekends just so I can try and get an interviewI'm just fucking tired, man. Last weekend, I tried to just play a video game for the first time in forever, and I couldn't even get in 10 minutes without getting back up to go back and study and work on bullshit github portfolio crap because I can hear sand constantly pouring through an hour glass.
>>109879436>Did everyone just give up and become stupidNo, everyone was already profoundly retarded, but they're now proud of it when they used to hide it.
>>109879478>only 50 hours a weeklmaoI have never had a job where I worked less than 70h a week in cucknada. It's one of a few reasons I'm never coming back from europe. (another one is the cost of life is much lower yet I get paid much more)
>>109879579That's insane. 70 hours a week is 8-21:00 M-F and still another 10 hour day on Saturday. That's how people die on the job.
>>109879579Considering my current pay if they could let me work 6x12's i would have my house paid off in 2 years easily.
>>109879597No, I went 6 years at 105 hours a week average. That's 15-16h a day plus both weekend days. No vacations or breaks.To die you need to hit 20h+ a day repeatedly. That's what happens at black corps in japan, for example.>>109879606>being paid per hour>everlmaoNo, you get paid for "40 hours" but if you do less than (in this case) 70 you get fired on the spot.
>>109879651That's submariner shit and they have to get rotated off or they crack/wreck the fucking boat. Even in places where they gray market/legslize amphetamines, you're not maintaining a 100+ hour full cognitive load. I saw them try that shit with heavy equipment operators and it bombed. Badly.
>>109879718>full cognitive load.Yes. Under this schedule you become basically unable to think. Everything is tunnel visioned, efficiency is significantly down, stress makes you paranoid and irritable. Costly mistakes happen more frequently. I estimate you're, at best, about 30% as efficient as a more normal schedule.But you won't "crack" or die or anything. It can be continued indefinitely.
>>109879740No offence, man, but how old are you? That shit will literally kill you past your 30s. And no, you are not built different. If fucking Leo Lukenas can die from thrombosis due to that, you and I will too.
>>109875963just use your imagination and get a grip
>>109879794I'm 36 and you don't know what you're talking about>let me tell you about your lifeVery american of you.
>>109878864>That's the neat part. You don't. :^)Pooner's or terf's first attempt at demoralising psy-op.>>109879794>>109879794>>109879740>>109879718That's how you can get admitted :))))
>>109880004>Very american of you.entertain us.
>>109879478any anons reading this thread who are still in school studying cs should read this post and try to fully understand it.this career really isnt worth it even you "make it." this guy broke in, made all the cuts, made all the layoffs, has plenty of experience, and it still looks bleak. and hes working himself to death. companies really aren't hiring outside of network unless they have to. that is disregarding all the blatantly fraudulent visas taking domestic jobs, which is at least a third of the industry. that is not an exaggeration.if you are studying cs right now you are retarded. the only entry level that are reliably getting hired are people with connections and above 99th percentile performers.a good move would be to just do it and save all your money to pay off a house asap. even then, you can get screwed over. government budgets just perpetually skyrocket everywhere and they have to raise the taxes. where im from, old people are losing their homes because they raised property taxes (already some of the highest in the country) and then hit them with a property reassessment and making them pay like $600 a month.mass immigration, flynn effect reversed, h1b fraud, AI, offshoring, tech hypersaturation, mass surveillance, neverending taxes, neverending COL raising, looming NATO vs russia china conflict, world filled to the brim with trash plastics and various toxic chemicals... yeah the future is so great.
>>109880372Every industry is fucked. I just want to solve problems for a job and nothing else.
i am so glad i never work more than 45 hours a week
my boss is a complete retard. he doesn't understand technology whatsoever.>asks for a nightly database backup>not sure why we didn't have this already but okay>write a proposal recommending serverless db like supabase>he doesnt want to pay $25 a month>"can't you build a website like this with AI?">i can make a database yes but where will we host it>"what about my mac mini?">it has zero storage left>there's no redundancy if it goes down>you'll still need to pay for a tunnel or use a shitty free one to reach the API>"can't we just store everything as text files on google drive?">no. that will be an unmaintainable nightmare >"i don't care, we already pay for it. get it done by next week"i hate dunning kruger gen xers so fucking much it's unreal
I stopped caring to understand the PRs Sol makes for me. Sol says it works, so it works.
I haven't read a single email in two weeks and so far nothing has happened.
>>109880408are you currently in tech or is this one of those childish copes which CS students post?if the latter, you would do yourself a huge favor to mentally grow up. barring welfare or dying before your parents, you will end up working. you do not want to be making min wage with student loan debt.the people doing this childish cope are probably lazy agoraphobes and internet addicts. obviously, there are problems to be solved outside of tech. you are probably studying this degree because so much of it can be done online since covid, while the actual competitive, valuable programs dont have the same relaxed requirements.more likely than not, you just want to have a chance at WFH and being able to be on the internet all day every day and avoid talking to people. guess what, you still have to talk to people in tech. the harder part isnt writing the code its collaborating with stakeholders.a lot of industries are fucked. not all of them are fucked. at the very least, healthcare is in very high demand and it pays quite well. if you are trying to get a middle class income and you are an ordinary person without connections, healthcare is the safest bet. that requires you complete courses that aren't completely bullshit though.you are really going to regret getting a useless degree when the hammer comes down and you are forced to work whatever is immediately available because you fucked around and wasted your time. you will be doing labor that actually sucks really bad and not paid much for it.people that do stuff like getting useless degrees have not seen how far the "working poor" rabbit hole goes. if you had, you would know not to fuck around this much because your life can end up very miserable making stupid ass mistakes like this.maybe none of that applies to you but i have run into so many people like this online.but hey anon, it's just advice now... you can do whatever the FUCKKKKKKK you wanna do.
>>109872774anyone else notice a rise in car crashes on your commute? turns out these are all fucking jeets. i passed a crash recently and there were three grown ass jeets standing around it cause most of them are cheap af and carpool to work. they dont know how to fucking drive. and ive seen so many of them speed to work, terrified of losing izzat points for being late, endangering everyone else around them. fuck jeets
>>109879209tell me how I know you've never worked a tedious, mentally heavy tech job in your life
>>109881242does there even exist such jobs and if so where
>>109876439>meanwhile I've been unemployed for two years after having a heart attack from work stress and eventually being forced to resignskill issue
>>109876526Like what?
>>109876371>15 years>$90K salarypeople are hiring, just not retards
>>109878863the military has some of the best lifetime health, housing, retirement, and car/home benefits of any industry. it's rock-solid for a reason. for a few years of service, the military can subsidize nearly everything in your life until you're dead.
>>109872774Why don't all the currys then pull together and pay for the operation. Surely they earn enough. And if not, take a loan. That's your dad.Is begging for money and scamming just part of their DNA?
>>109881345People who swear by Tricare have lrobably never had to rely on it.
how does one make 90k in techeven new grads make more at this point
>>109881410I have a liaison who handles all my claims and dealings with them. Haven't needed to talk to any of those jeets in nearly a decade.
>get job offer>still waiting a few weeks later for start date to be finalizedwhy is everything so fucking slow
>>109881323What is that supposed to mean? $90k is about the average salary for a software engineer in my city. And it's pretty good pay for a company that isn't even profitable and barely scraping by. The problem is that I can't get jobs anywhere other than these kinds of companies. It's like I've been permanently branded as unemployable by the broader tech industry because my entire resume is just working for companies like these.
>>109881487>$90k is about the average salary for a software engineer in my cityWhat country?
>>109881495America, in a low cost of living city in the south.
>>109881503A $90K salary, with 15 years, regardless of where you are in America is shit. You should making double that.
>>109881247every single IT job is like that. computers fucking suck, incompetent people in tech do too, retarded users are even worse.
Oh shit.It's so fucking over.
>>109881536what about ones where the difficulty isn't just tard wrangling
>>109873630that's what she wants you to think lol
>>109881345You don't get healthcare for life unless you do twenty years nigger. Also, they no longer pay a pension upon retirement, they only share contributions to a 401k while you are active duty. Congress members pulling in millions a year from illegal kickbacks needed to nickel and dime the schmucks making $50k a year and then wonder why retention is in the shitter when you remove the only reason to stay in
>>109881531Well that's why I'm asking what I have to do to not get my resume auto-rejected by every major company I apply to. I've literally not once in my entire career gotten a response back from an application to anything other than small seed stage startups or failing companies that can't afford to pay real market rate salaries, despite having the experience and meeting all the requirements of the job listing. The only thing I lack is a CS degree and experience working at large well known companies.
>>109881574>You don't get healthcare for life unless you do twenty yearsCope. I already put in my time.
>>109881578>I've literally not once in my entire career gotten a response back from an application to anything other than small seed stage startups or failing companies that can't afford to pay real market rate salaries, despite having the experience and meeting all the requirements of the job listing. The only thing I lack is a CS degree and experience working at large well known companies.No. I bet it's your social skills, and the recruiters just didn't like your vibe. There are many, many qualified people out there, but if you're not likeable or someone who the rest of the team can gel with, you won't get hired. Vibe checks are *very* much a thing in the recruiting world. Simple as.
>>109881590Cope that you said "a few years". My current employer gives better Healthcare with zero premium for me anyways, cope on that
>>109881607I never got to the recruiter stage anywhere so how would they know if I'm likable or not? My resume just gets auto rejected everywhere. I even recently had AI rewrite it and pad it out in a way that makes my career sound way more impressive and it still made no difference.
>employer covers non-urgent healthcare>emergency care is free in my country
>>109881641As long as you already have a house, emergency health care is free in the US as well
>>109881639>even recently had AI rewrite it and pad it out in a way that makes my career sound way more impressive and it still made no difference.There's your problem. No one wants to read AI slop.
>>109881656This is true. Society cares about home and landowners.
>>109881656i prefer to rent for optionality
>>109881668It really doesn't sound like AI slop. Here's one bullet point as an example>Modernized a legacy Vue application by refactoring core modules, eliminating redundant code paths, and improving maintainability and performance.
>>109881684Everything after application is boiler plate nothingness
>>109881697So are bullet points just supposed to be short sentence fragments? This is how I had written that bullet before the AI rewrite>Rewrote a large portion of a legacy Vue app to modern standards, eliminated code duplication and made it more maintainable for other developers on the team.
>>109881656Depends entirely on your state's homestead exemption laws, and whether you expect to ever sell.
>have to do "meet and greet" to see if I'm a fit for company culture after technical job interviewwhat's the point of this stupid shit
>>109881777To see if you're a fit for company culture after the technical job interview
>>109881684That bullet point says a lot of nothing>refactoring core modulesOkay, so you rewrote some code>eliminating redundant code pathsYou did some deduplication>improving maintainability and performanceHow?Here's a freebie: Use STAR. HR roasties want to read about you identifying and solving problems that improved the product or helped the team. They don't want to read vague slop. Write your own words.
>>109881777literally this >>109881807No one wants to work with a sperg that everyone hates.
>>109881892So my original resume >>109881708 was better? It got auto rejected form every job I applied to so writing it myself wasn't working either.
>>109881911No. It read like shit, and I bet the AI didn't improve on it either.
>Here is another department for you to manage their domain and computers and phones and users>They need a new server? Don't worry, it's ordered>What do you mean I purchased a rack mount server for a broom closet with no server rack?>Just go out there and take pictures of it and measure it>Also, you can finish up this computer I'm pretending to work on. You need parse 7204 alerts to find out what the issue is. Also I'm leaving early today and Thursday I hate my boss. He refuses to retire but also refuses to work. He just pawns everything on to me while making double my pay. He also gets to work from home but I don't.
>>109881920Then how do I get a good resume if I suck at it and AI can't do it either? Is there a resume writing service where an actual recruiter will write one for you? Because those services seem like scams to me.
>>109881708sounds good to me, but hr people might read it as "did not contribute anything to the bottom line, just noodled around on tech"
>>109881958My Brother in Christ, do not come here for resume advice. It's witchdocter bullshit unless someone actually works at that business's HR, and people here don't care if you get hired, they want to call you a faggot and derive sexual gratification from you being unhappy.
>>109881947this is standard proceduresomeday you may be lucky enough to be in his position
pros of doing frontend work>you can see visible progresscons of doing frontend work>it's faster to prompt Claude 100% of the time than to do hand codingStarting to go insane bros. This is my third week doing a frontend redesign as a backend dev and every day is essentially just having Claude Code open on one monitor, localhost up on another monitor, and the Figma up on a third monitor.
>>109881425nice baitmost new grads are making 65k CAD
>>109882100>someday you may be lucky enough to be in his positionSorry but do-nothing jobs are reserved for Boomers and they will be phased out when the Boomers retire.When anon is 60 he will be working with his nose to the grindstone 24/7 or be fired
>>109881898hr roasties will think this and then hire thousands of h1b jeets and women that lack any technical skills whatsoeverbut hey, at least they're a good cultural fit!
>>109882120This is most AI powered coding anywhere, you are now more QA/PO/architect than engineer
>>109882120welcome to nu-full-stack development anon
>Good news, anon. We're extending your contract!>We've sent your new termination letter. Please don't sign it until your new termination date.
I was put in charge some "AI R&D" tasks and this is the most rewarding do nothing job, I send like 4 mails a week and hit ctrl+enter on claude all day and my managers praise me for it and all the great advancements we are accomplishing with my hard work when the bubble burst I'm killing myself, this is the closest I got to neetdoom since turning 18 and I'm not going back
>first interview round with the proper people after a first go with the external recruiter, which went well>they just asked me a couple of questions, really driving home the point that they're looking for someone who can deal with non-technical users like a normal person instead of a sperg>all while looking like they were coming back from their sons funeralsthere's no chance here, is there?they already rejected me for one reason or another and i was just a bother they had to go through
>>109882159Who are you arguing with? Why are you shooting the messenger? You really are the sperg no one likes
>>109882359You'll never really know why you get hired, rejected, or fired.Just keep interviewing.
>>109882451Bless you, Chief O'Brian.
>>109882359Yep. I remember being interviewed by someone who deadpanned just read a script the whole time. Halfway through one of my answers he told me he has issues with every single thing I just said. After that I gave up and just tried to end the interview as quickly as possible.
>>109882140Maybe in montreal, where meanwhile the col is almost as bad as SF. Protip: take an english main language job and suddenly you get paid normally.
>>109881708>Modernized a legacy Vue application by refactoring core modules, eliminating redundant code paths, and improving maintainability and performance.Vs>Modernized a legacy Vue application by improving maintainability and performance.
>>109882320Why do larpers think jobs with AI in the title means "using AI memes to produce code"?
>>109882509Let me interview for you. I will make this person like me. You do not understand, I need people to like me. I want to be the mayor of nothing. God help me, I will win that re-election.
>>109882577>using AI memes to produce codeif only you knew how retarded the world is out there I'm using AI memes to produce meme AI agentsthe codebase is like 5 layers removed from me now
>>109882520Can you tell your fellow Montrealers to stop hiring so many africans just because they speak fr*nch?I'm tired of dealing with them.
>>109882656Impossible. It's deeply ingrained in canadians, and doubly so in quebecers, to do the absolute most retarded evil shit ever at all times even if it kills you to do so.
>Your purchase is complete. Sign up to get rewards and track the status of your order.>Entire your order number to sign up>Enter your name, date of birth, and address>enter your email and phone number>confirmation code sent to your email, here's your account number. we've emailed you a temporary password>try to sign in>doesn't accept my email, needs the account number>sign in with account number + temporary password>reset your password>must be between 6-16 characters, contain numbers and a special character>password changed, please log in again>enter the confirmation code we texted to your phone number
>>109883113Why did you post that here
>>109883174I thought fellow tech workers might appreciate the absurdity of having these needlessly retarded processes in 2026
>>109883380Yeah but when they don't do it you'll scream on bluesky about how tech companies are responsible for you being hacked by shitrat prajeet, so how about you stfu
>>1098834431. these companies get hacked anyways, and its never individual user accounts but their entire databases which leak all your passwords because for some reason these jeets still still don't salt + hash2. I use the macos password manager for all of these websites
>>109882656>>109878988Ottawa has actual black people now in the traditionally white neighbourhoods now. They seem like immigrants. Usually homeless are white drugmaxxed retards, but now we have black homeless sleeping in bushes. Last summer one head locked a fat white guy who was bothering him. I called the police. The black dude was seemed insane from low iq. I saw a band of scrappy black teens climbing on a scissor lift outside the grocery store, and ~30yo black males standing in parks at night. I started asking myself where I can walk to avoid them. This was NOT a thing 2 years ago.Locals in Montreal have mentioned the same thing. Thats why they closed Atwater station at Alexis Nihon and you need to walk a few blocks to Guy Conordia station. Black men are going in the women's washroom at Alexis Nihon Mall and harassing women. Don't believe this? Here. https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/bench-removal-at-alexis-nihon-raises-accessibility-concerns/ And notice the lefties crying "homeless people are a part of our community!" It's so twisted. For the love of God, Mark Carney, STOP IMPORTING THESE "PEOPLE".
>>109883536In both montreal and toronto it's been like that (but mostly poos and mudshits rather than nigs; the two groups are constantly at literal (gang) war with each other and murder innocents in that name on the daily) for a long time. At least since 2018 or so in Montreal for sure.
I am doing the needful sirs
>>109883585You seem to have forgotten so I’ll say it for you:And that’s a good thing
>>109883585What neighbourhood in Toronto? Every time I visit Toronto, I don't feel threated from indians or blacks. I don't recall homeless people in my face there. Anyway, are we helpless in this situation? Like >The entrance located in Square Cabot at 2322, Sainte-Catherine Street West is closed indefinitely to improve the safety and maintenance of the station.We just accept that our place is shit?At least in nyc, the train stations had groups of police monitoring the place. They leave at night, but its still better than nothing.
why are people so useless here? I've been asking help on work related stuff and all I get are troll posts. yet I see a bunch of lookism incel bullshit in here all the time
>>109881083i saw an indian woman just ignore a red light and turn into a guy at an intersection. it was the only time ive seen a car accident irl.automobile fatalities are climbing rapidly everywhere because of junkies and giving third worlders licenses. that is, if they even bother to get a license. a lot just drive without license or insurance and somehow never get thrown in jail. multi time DUI convicts are let off every time with minor slaps on the wrist until they kill somebody and then they serve a really light sentence. someone in my neighborhood had their child killed by a guy high on fent and meth and he got a 10 year sentence. i live in an area that is considered "strict" on DUI sentencing too. its all a joke.
>>109883523STFU I don't care about your stupid bitching
>>109883814>lookismThere are studies demonstrating that looks matter.
>>109883977who the fuckkkk cares this life is your oyster, don't let physical traits determine what you can or can't do
>>109883814>why are people so useless here?some retards took over this general and utwg months ago, and he wants to destroy it, for whatever reason.
>>109881083there are a lot more third worlders on the road in general nowadays. not exaggerating, during and immediately after a bunch of ICE raids in my town was the best time ever to be on the roads. way less traffic and noticeably fewer retards doing shit like running stop signs or swerving across multiple lanes with no warning.
>>109879209First world problems. I bet these people all took the vax.
>>109884289I know literally like Omg can we LE talk about something else besides Indians for once?Who cares if they make up literally more than half of all tech workers at this point? Incels need to do the needful and stop posting about race.As a white guy I have to say, they are just so much smarter than us and work so much harder.Not everything is about race... Except when it comes down to hiring then you just arent a cultural fit, sorry.
just a few years at apple and I'll get this cracked
>>109878530who cares man just enjoy it while it lasts. Your job probably isn't even going to exist in a couple years any way.
>>109881538i thought this man baby left Twitter for good lol.He just couldnt live without the attention I guess.
>>109884008Indeed and thats why i minmaxx my looks and fashion and so far it has gotten me further in tech than actually studying tech doesJust treat it like a system that needs to be optimized, that you’re tweaking every day
>faggot still trying to bait replies to his blogJust kys
>>109875966haters are so tiresome; no solidarity.
>>109884718it's pathetic and sad
>>109884718who are you talking about?
>>109884861Iykyk
So i've been a NEET for about a year and a half now with no dice, I've got 2 YOE. I just got an offer and still can't believe it because I sort of went through the process as a joke + interview prep. I'm being offered a position at Google, in fucking Mumbai. The salary is ₹9M INR so about 95k USD, which is pretty damn good for that area. Am I insane for actually considering this? I'm a chinese hapa and not sure how racist they'd be towards me over there. Would a FAANG position in Mumbai from a guy in Chicago basically be the biggest red flag of all time for future jobs? I'm losing my mind here, not really sure what to do.
>>109885293lmao what the fuck? is this for a SWE position? holy shitunironically take it and then dip after a year or two, at least you get google on your resume. it's like going to jail for 2 years but you get paid $150k a year
>>109885293IDK man, im pretty jaded about things so I would have just ignored it thinking it was a scam, but if its legit i'd say take it.Doubt you'll be able to find a similar job anywhere in the United States right now.
So like what do new SWE employees do for the first few weeks at large companies? and how long can I be clueless before people start expecting me to be productive
>>109885449Just wait to be laid off, really
>>1098854491 week to get the software working on your machine1 week to skim the codebase1 week doing your first PR>how long can I be clueless before people start expecting me to be productive~7 months, speaking from midcorp experience
>>109885491>I get 7 months to skim off ~65k before I get fired for being uselesslol really?
>>109885497oh, 65k is a different story and they'll expect you to get actual work done. Jorking doesn't start until 120k.
>>109885449Large companies can have shit so fucked up i ended up cleaning the break room 2x a day to make myself look busy for a month straight then once i got my accounts i went to work like nothing ever happened.
>>109884546what is it lil buddy>>109885508>Working doesn't start until 120kSeems to be true. I've done basically nothing for 7 years and have been paid 60k to 100k. I wish I could say I did some incredible stuff with all my spare time.
>>109885627Since you didn't reinvest your time into reading work related content, videos and training guides, did you atleast try to get a masters degree/Phd?
>>109885627>what is it lil buddyIt's a recursive segment tree solution to a leetcode question. the guy's code is pretty efficient but he also makes it completely unreadable by shortening every variable into a few letters and merging multiple lines together.I used one of those AI check websites and it says that 100% of that code is AI... idk how reliable that is but...
>>109885449completely team and org dependent. There are places where the new guy is just convenient layoff fodder and it will be sink or swim from day one, there are places that will actually have onboarding and they will push you through a learning process, and then there are places that will forget about you and expect nothing for months. You can really fuck yourself over at the 3rd type of place. It also heavily depends on the complexity of the shit you're working with. My previous team I would expect new hires to have everything set up and running on their 1st or 2nd day (I wrote all the local dev setup/tooling so I knew it worked) or at least to have asked me troubleshooting questions because sometimes shit did break. They would have initial work that week but it would be expected that I or someone else would hold their hands a lot. Usually tiny edits to existing features or small bugs, and then after a bit of that they'd get tossed something small to do end to end and ramp up from there. How quick they picked up on things and how much they got stuck and wasted time not asking for help determined if they got jettisoned within 3 months, the latter being far worse than being a bit slow to learn.
so glad this job lets me get away from my family. fuck.
>>109883644Most everywhere in Toronto. Downtown core is very dangerous and when I worked around adelaide street, there were constant homeless shooting up in the morning and threatening to kill me on the only path toward work, and frequent knifings at the corner of the street I have to pass minutes after I leave work. There are also constant crazies screaming and flailing at people. Go in any public transport (including plane and train terminals) past 10pm and you will see literal waves of zombies and cops just pairing up and pointing + laughing at them as they do their thing. Again you'll be treated to live drug shoots if you're ever curious.You have to be over 1h away from anywhere near downtown to find somewhere safe, but then you have to be careful not to go too far or you're in little (very big) mumbai or terrorist central (like north of little greece, you won't see a single person not wearing a full-blown burka or manrobes).Maybe if you were white you'd feel a bit more threatened because they wouldn't give you a pass for your skin color, shitskin.>We just accept that our place is shit?It's been going downhill very fast for quite a while and while >>109883607 is being facetious, that is LITERALLY what the locals say about it.
>>109884008This is why you have job problems. Though given that your IQ is below 65, you really should never hold a job of any kind.
>>109885293India is outrageously racist. Even against other indians who, for example, don't know hindi, let alone foreigners. The amount of politics and the 997 culture WILL kill you. But as the other anon says, it puts google on your resume. While that will put off most companies, you can try internal relocation or transferring to another fagman. You could get lucky with a bay area startup as well.
My first 4 years of working was traumatic but now I've settled in to working from home and being content in the fact I can barely do work and won't be fired ever because the whole organisation is retarded. I'm just a small fish among big fishes so it's easy to go unnoticed.>>109872983this. My manager hired two managers underneath him. So, I'm the only one who's not an executive. So basically manager 1 and 2 manage me (i guess, not that closely) and my actual manager just signs off on my performance reviews and when I take leave.
>>109885765I gooned, browsed 4chan, travelled, gooned, and browser 4chan
>>109886339I was mostly in North York these past few years, only going to downtown for the labor day air show>Maybe if you were white you'd feel a bit more threatenedwhy do you think I'm brown?
>>109886499You have been trying really hard not to deny it so far and you strangely named muds and nigs, but not poos which have basically populated brampton and kicked everyone out.
>>109886507holy sneed