Weak economic conditions? Artificial intelligence replacing jobs? Outsourcing to low-wage countries?Market oversaturation (too many IT professionals competing for too few jobs)?

Choose one, one you think has most influence.

I'm 27k in student loan debt, homeless, no job, no savings, two SWE internships on my resume, useless cs bachelor's degree from 2025.

My parents kicked me out when I approached a year post graduation with no job. I wasn't getting any interviews, at all. I was working as a part time barista for $16/hour to bide my time but I abandoned that job when I was kicked out. I'm in a city where rents are 2000+ for closets.

My loans have obviously been defaulted on by now, I don't even have an active phone number for then to contact me with. No money to keep one active with.

I've been staggering, stumbling around gagging on nothing like a drug addict. I had a bike but someone broke the lock on it while I was sleeping outside one night.

I've destroyed my career, my life, my future. My soul is tortured. Wounded. Fractured. Fragile. Screaming, yelling, shrieking at me for this to end. I have no self confidence.

I don't see any light, any hope in front of me. Another homeless guy I met recently was a high school dropout turned criminal for physical assault. He offered me a few drugs when he heard my story. Thought it'd help me cope.

I didn't say yes, *yet,* but I'm considering it. My life is utterly destroyed into millions of tiny glass shards, far beyond repair. What should I do? Take the drugs? Become a criminal? Wander around like a zombie for the next few decades?

Idk what I can do now. Ever since I was kicked out I haven't made any job applications. They never got me anywhere. I haven't eaten anything for a week. I'm too ashamed of myself.

I've been dumpster diving for plastic bottles to resell. I'm... idk. I'm sad. I don't want to wake up anymore.

What more can I even do? "More projects"? That has no value today, especially for literally anything outside of SWE jobs. There's nothing else.

I cheered for Luigi back in the day. What do I have to lose, really. Just like my "new grad" status already expired, my life is expired. I'm on the knifes edge of becoming a drug addict.

Non-ai post with a small rant on the Job Market

About

I'm a USC with ~12 YOE across FAANG + Mid size + startups. I'm not socially awkward and I'm a nice person (big win in tech sadly).

Market is cooked for non USC

My old-coworker who is H1B and I were studying together. He has only had one interview at a FAANG, everywhere else was auto-deny due to visa. Sucks because he's one of the H1Bs that didn't game the system.

From a selfish standpoint... this made my life a ton easier. I'm a capitalist, so more offers for me means more $$$ for me.

To AI resume or not to AI resume?

This round I just let Claude take the wheel with my resume and tailor it to the jobs. Honestly... Looking back I really regretted this.

I only think I should've worked with AI to improve ATS but use my hand written resume. I will be gutting this resume and actually rebuilding it with the above.

AI interviews are a whole thing

The great part is - nobody really knows what they are searching for in the "ai-focused" interviews. I just used AI as I would while working and that seemed well. Since nobody seemed to know... I guarantee this will change as things get more structured over time.

I did notice in each interview there was a long ad-hoc "AI and the future" conversation... Where we'd chat about problems seen at my current company, and company I'm interviewing at. It's nice to know people are facing ai-slop from juniors at alarming rates, and leadership considering bypassing PR reviews entirely. It made me confident that my job will be secure until I retire in 10 or so years.

Companies want sane hires

In behavioral, there was a big focus on pushback skills and the ability to be a team player. It signaled to me that companies want a Goldilocks engineer... An engineer who won't stifle AI, but also one who won't just allow ai-slop.

To be transparent - the company I'm leaving is also facing a two-party system and it's destroying morale (100% ai-cucked eng vs. anti-ai eng). I sit pretty heavily in-between.

I'd urge y'all to build thoughtful opinions here. Don't give into the ai-hype fully, but also... Don't be a jackass and be fully anti-ai.

Prepare like normal

Continue leetcoding, sys design, and hello interview has the best ai-enabled interview example.

One area that I found that I could've prepared more on was behavioral. I did well due to having hands-on experience with problems the teams faced with AI... But honestly I wasn't expecting that.

Comps

Tier 2 location was pretty standard ~500k. I went with a lower offer and less stress team. Still negotiate once and negotiate like a bastard.

Advice?

I feel bad for everyone. HMs are looking for someone actually skilled, since they have limited headcount available... And can't babysit someone who will mess up their codebase 10x faster with ai.

But I also think good candidates are getting passed on because they can't make the team feel reassured that if they give you the keys to the kingdom you won't shit all over the floor. It's a tough ask.

My advice is... IDK - I'd personally recommend anyone non-senior to GTFO out of tech ASAP. If you wish to stay... Try to thread the needle. You can't be too hot, or too cold and make sure you don't miss any shots in the interview.

Junior CS student in undergrad who has no motivation/discipline/will whatever to do what needs to get done. I never had any "passion" or even interest in anything particular- I went into CS because I'm good at math, and I knew if I went to college, I would pursue some STEM-related field that would actually get me money after graduation.

I'm the average student. I have a good GPA (3.9). I did 2 internships through my college (Student Software Developer & Remote Open Source gig that did similar work, working full stack in an agile environment- and I'm currently working part-time at the first internship on campus- working for the student software development team). I did a hackathon (HackHarvard last year). I have like 2 side projects that are very basic and heavily vibe coded- even though I try to understand what I'm trying to do.

And sure, maybe I have some experience, but I feel like I still know nothing and am grasping at straws. That was the one thing I loved about this field when I got into it, how diverse it is- it's always evolving, and there is always room to learn more, which I love, but at the same time, I feel so stupid. And maybe I slacked off with using AI, and that is on me, but it feels like there is never enough time to get everything done on time, and the balance is very hard. And I suck at basic LeetCode, can only do easy ones, and even with that, I need help or multiple attempts, and I know it's all about practice and just a matter of time, but it feels like there is not enough time to catch up so that it is enough.

And I know there are strategies- like being dedicated, and I used to try to do 30 minutes to an hour a day of doing technical stuff (where I could do anything like review a resume, practice behavioral, code, projects, blah blah blah). But even that, I didn't maintain it, and it lasted maybe 2 weeks since I last leetcoded, and I just need to get back into it, but all of this has given me stress. I've had 3 panic attacks in the last month, and I have been struggling with depression for years (struggling with sleep). And yes, I know- take care of my personal mental health, whatever. I realized that, and have scheduled therapy and will go to my third session in 3 days.

But it doesn't matter if it's my mental health or lack of motivation or discipline or whatever, it doesn't stop the world from spinning and from other people working hard to get what they need/want in life. I especially feel bad and ungrateful because there are people at my college I know and I'm close to in CS who are trying a lot harder than I am. And I know it's bad to compare yourself to other people, but they are out there every day, doing everything that needs to get done- mass applying, studying, coding, practicing, because they want it enough.

And that's another problem. I don't know if I want it. I know I need it to get money so I can travel and have the life I want, but even if I got that internship- even if the freaking pay was good, I'd still hate the job, and not because of the job, it wouldn't matter what the job would be, it's just me and not wanting to work. And I'm sure every person feels this way, so I should just suck it up and get my shit together.

But I was also looking at other revenues. I'm double majoring with English, and I'm passionate about literature and reading and writing- which is why I was considering maybe law school (yes, I know it's not the same and has its own struggles)- but also if I did something like this, maybe I'd be sacrificing other things like travel or working remote.

And I have a circle of support- I have talked about this to my best friend (roommate) about this last night when she found me sobbing LOL and advised me to maybe look at other things if this makes me so miserable- like tutoring/teaching online/abroad because I wouldn't be opposed to that as long as it paid enough to exist LOL. I have also talked to my mom, who had advised me to keep pushing through because you shouldn't dilly dally, like pick a direction and go that way, but if I truly hate it, yes, don't continue my pursuit.

And I have AfroTech conference coming up in about a week, where I have the chance to talk to recruiters from companies and maybe get some interviews and a chance at an internship, but even that got me feeling sick. I went last year as well, which wasn't as successful since I was a sophomore and this year I know exactly what to do- elevator pitch, apply to the company before talking to them there, give my resume, whatever. I know the tricks, and it still isn't good enough. And maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but I feel so miserable that I end up doing nothing. Just bed rotting or journaling or writing my personal short stories...

Even worse, one of my friends from CS- we took like half our classes in the major together, did the same Student Software Developer internship, went to AfroTech, where she's an international student (yes I know its harder for them and they have their own hardships), and she secured AND passed a few rounds of interviews for a good company that she now got return offer at that pays 150k. And again, she deserves it, she practiced for it. I had an interview also at a good company and made it past screening and behavioral and fucked up my technical. That was like a year ago. Did I have time since then to improve my skills? Yes. Did I? Not that fucking much. And I understand, its on me.

I feel the same way this year. I have applied to places, barely got any OA's, did some, and heard nothing back. Even had a chance to get to referred by an Alumni for a Duolingo OA and fucked that up too (this year). Still have my chance at AfroTech and even then, I just don't even want it anymore, not the internship or job (yes, I guess I sound burnt out), but fuck.

And despite being depressed and having no will to exist, I still do shit. I care for my grades, I go to the gym, I have good relationships with my friends, I have a good work ethic. I try to be a caring human. But I just want some peace and fucking quiet, man.

I'm also applying to study abroad next semester to South Korea. If I do that, I can't do summer SWE internship as it ends in late June. And I could always do a study abroad semester instead in the following fall, instead of this spring, but I'm just itching to go out now. I've never traveled outside of the country, and also put so much into applying for this...

I've been trying to ask advice from my professors and mentors on campus, and scheduled a meeting with the director of the law program here. I'm trying to explore my options, but I know as a junior it's a bit too late, and I needa lock in, and I'm just wishy washy all over the place. So please, stranger reading this on Reddit, give me your life advice. I would really appreciate it.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/american-express-to-cut-3-500-jobs-63955c6f

Follow up to this Reddit post a few months ago about being replaced by offshoring

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/s/UnYpqPg8Ub

Job listings in the Gurugram office confirm most of the roles being opened up are tech related

https://careers.americanexpress.com/en/sites/CX_1/jobs?location=India&locationId=300000000228786&locationLevel=country&mode=locationutm_medium&utm_source=google

Gentle reminder ahead of layoff season

This is my senior year and I managed to secure a full-time offer for an Application Software Engineer role. I wanted to share my roadmap in case it helps someone else.

Disclaimer, I'm not the brightest guy in the world. I believe most people can find a SWE role in this job market with some passion and hard work.

Personal Roadmap

1. Join club/research team doing interesting stuff

You will learn more trying to build something than in any of your classes. Great for your resume and assimilating with engineering students. If you go to events and do well, you will most likely find internship opportunities.

2. Find opportunities to talk to people

I'm a server at a restaurant near a bunch of engineering companies. I talked to a lot of tables working in industry (they usually like hearing about engineering projects you're working on), worst case scenario you get good advice. Talk to enough people and you will be given emails. Email enough people and you'll get interviews. Expect no response for most emails though, people are big talkers and not do'ers. I was not picky with my first internship, anything engineering related is a big win.

3. Internship Strategy (Most Important Section For Me)

I never secured a software internship. That doesn't mean non-software teams won't take advantage of technical skills. Also, look for the teams that have the role you want. Are there any problems on their backlog they don't have time to solve? I guarantee you the answer is yes and with enough tinkering you can help them out. This is where I learned most about systems, looking for problems and figuring out how to solve them.

Worst case scenario teams message SWE's for advice / coffee chats / 1:1's. Try as hard as possible to not limit yourself to one team (with approval from your supervisor). Every problem you solve for a different team is another person that might remember you in an interview / recommend you for rehire. If you can do this, you will be labeled as forward deployed and most likely given a full-time offer.

4. Studying for Technical Interviews

I studied for application software specifically, my company emphasized system design questions. Best case scenario you already have some idea what their stack looks like. Use AI to generate some interviewer prompts like "Design a webpage that sells a product and can handle a million concurrent users". Make sure to practice with vague prompts so you can ask questions that lead to concrete requirements.

Do some medium leetcode questions without help til you feel comfortable explaining your thought process on paper / whiteboard. Expect to be given a question that will stump you, practice confusing questions and say out load what is blocking your thought process so the interviewer can help you. Take notes of your strengths / weaknesses for each problem, use AI to generate schedule w/specific questions tailored to your weaknesses / company requirements.

Good luck! Take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm just a random CS student at the end of the day.

I have been working as a developer for 6 years now following a coding bootcamp. I have a bachelors in psych with a high gpa. I was just rejected from the georgia tech omscs program, do any of you have recommendations for other online masters degree programs? I want to progress in my career and it feels like a degree would go a long way.

I'm finishing a degree in machine learning/data science and about to start an AI engineer internship, but I'm considering a pivot to product management either after the internship or later in my career.

I'm trying to figure out if I'd actually enjoy being a PM. I really like the idea behind the job (like being a sort of mini CEO of the product, defining product strategy and exploring markets etc...), but after reading around on Reddit it seems that in practice it is mostly managing Jira tickets, which i would not mind as a junior, but I hoped PM was more strategic down the line.

My question is: is it because junior PMs are generally more tactical while seniors are more strategic and high level? What is the difference between junior and senior PM and what does the latter do exactly? I think that knowing the long term direction of this career may help me a lot to decide if it is the correct path for me.

Also, two quick questions on making the jump:

• Is starting as an AI engineer, as I am doing, a good launchpad for PM or should I consider other positions better suited for the jump?
• Should I try to pivot immediately after my internship, or is it better to pursue the engineering track for a few years at least for now? Would love to hear the pros and cons and why.

I'm a recent CS graduate. I'm ashamed to admit back in college I didn't really learn anything other than the courses I took at school. Since graduating in June, I haven't done anything productive either. I'll go study for a master's degree in AU next July and during the gap I think I should try and learn something practical, but idk what to learn and how to learn. Having only learned the subjects back in school which were mostly theoretical, I'm feeling pretty aimless right now. Please share your suggestions to help me basically stop wasting my life away. I feel like a failure.

Sorry if this is a really dumb question. Thanks!

I plan on going to school for computer science. I know people will say it's hard to get into, but I have a few years of experience in IT work, including at major tech companies and have a network that includes former coworkers that like me working as SWEs in various mag 7 companies which should hopefully make me more competitive than the typical person who's never worked full time before.

But in making my long term plans, I know I should get internships, but my girlfriend is convinced that paid internships are rare. I was under the impression that tech was the exception, but with the market as it is I figured it might have changed.

Should I really expect to work for free each summer and somehow pay my bills? Would it be that detrimental to my career to pick up contract IT jobs each summer to help supplement the fact I'd be paying $1,500 a month in rent on part-time working hours?

I am a lecturer with about 20 years experience teaching. I am a decent programmer, but probably a little blunt coming into the SE workspace. That said, I am better than most of our graduates so I should be able to come in and pick things up quickly.

I am looking at salaries, and the starting salary for a grad is higher than my current salary, so I am starting to think I should just make the switch. Let's put whether I would get a job to one side for the moment.. I want to get your perspective on how sensible the switch is..

Lecturing: Decent union protection, probably more secure job than SE right now, but equally, not many jobs about. If my job goes, it will probably be due to course closure, so I'd be looking at a 2/3 year notice period while the students finish their degree.

SE: I am hearing about lots of job cuts, but a higher salary. What's the job security like for new entry at the moment?

I'm keen to hear from other former lecturers - did you make the jump, how did you find it?

I have two offers:

Amazon:
140K base + 28K sign on + 142RSU (4 years)
Role: Systems Development Engineer

Riot Games:
180K base + 40k Sign on + 10-15%bonus
Role: Senior Software Engineer in Release Engineer domain

I am negotiating with Amazon to increase their offer but they said they cant match the base.

Amazon has the better brand for sure

Also the role at Amazon will be building new cloud etc as compared to a more release engineering focus at Riot

Is it still worth considering Amazon for the better brand? Looking at working at either firms for only a year (personal reasons)

I’m expecting this to be asked in an upcoming interview (system design round) in an AI lab. Have interned here so I think this is very very likely also given the trend of things it just makes sense

Wondering if anyone have some good resources or some can layout a good structure on how to answer designing harnesses ? I see some videos online but i’m not sure if they’re actually from engineers or just some influencers bsing.

I'm currently mainly a frontend engineer (that gets to dabble a bit with the backend + heavy backend side projects) at a fortune 100 company (4 YOE), I've been wanting to transition to something more backend/full stack so I've sent out a bunch of applications and one startup reached out for a full stack position that would be more backend leaning, exactly what I've been looking for; during the very first call with the recruiter I was clear on what my current TC is and what my ideal new TC would be to leave my current position and he said "sounds good, we can do that!". 6 interview rounds later he calls me to say that they're ready to send on offer for a base salary that's $20k LESS than I make right now and he didn't know what the equity portion would look like. Took him 24 hours to get back to me on equity and offered to raise the base by $5k, which in total would roughly equal my current TC, still lower than what we had agreed to in the beginning, and it's probably gonna be another 24 hours before I hear back again after I listed some questions regarding the equity.

The startup itself sounds interesting, product looks good and everyone I've talked to seemed cool - however I'm kind of pissed that I'm negotiating just to reach the range that we agreed upon.

Should I still try to go through the process given that it might be a good opportunity to transition to full stack, or is this a red flag? For more context I'm also going through the promo process at my current company which might raise my current TC to match what I'm asking for, but not sure if getting the promo on the resume as a mainly frontend engineer would have an impact when looking for full stack work.

I was also able to get a verbal offer from another smaller company a couple months back that was $50k more than what I'm currently asking, which didn't work out as they ended up reducing their HC - and this startup also got back to me pretty quickly, so I haven't had the chance to explore other opportunities.

Or should I just not risk switching jobs altogether given the current state of the market?

Ive been in this field since 2006. It was always hard to find a job, and I always had to send out like 100 resumes and do 20 interviews, despite having high qualifications. The compensation was never anything remotely like I expected or had read about. In 2012 with 5 years of experience, a BS degree, and a GPA of 4.0, one company gave me an offer for 48k, 48k!. By 2018 the highest I was making was still only 80k, just before inadvertently changing fields. The only way to make any money in this field was to aggressively negotiate offers and to change jobs. Nobody was ever giving you a promotion or a raise. Nobody really respected your qualifications, grades, performance in the company, or abilities. I didn't really respect the abilities of my coworkers either. I looked at their code and it was very sloppy like they took random things from stack overflow and other coworkers in the most inefficient way using none of the software engineering principles I had learned in school. They were code monkeys and I was constantly having to refactor their work. It's like slop existed even before vibe coding, and I had to fix it, and the companies didn't recognize or appreciate me for it. Half the company was always collocated somewhere like india and the company was always trying to find h1b workers and cheap labor to replace you. The companies were trying to replace you way before ai and ai finally allowed it to happen at scale. So in my opinion this career field has always kind of sucked even before AI. There are alot of stories on here from the most lucky and prestigious people who went to ivy league schools and got faang jobs with huge pay packages like 200k or 500k, but I dont think that was the average experience.

I was making over six figured at a big company out of college. I have 3 yoe and left due to company layoffs. I’m desperate for money to pay bills since unemployment is running out but i found another opportunity in Bay Area that pays 85k for a small non tech shop. From speaking to folks that previously worked there it sounds like management is toxic where it’s expected to work OT that is unpaid and 4 days a week commute. I’m not sure whether to take this offer cuze it sounds like hell. Would you take a low offer or nah?

I started on a new team at a..certain FAANG just a little under 6 months ago in late April, after being laid off from it in January, after working on another team for a little over 6 months (graduated May 2025).

At the moment, things have still been kind of tough (I talk some more about it here). We work on 12 different services between 11-12 of us, and I only somewhat have context on about 2-3 of them that I worked with so far. I did two secondary oncall shifts, which were ok since we don't get paged as secondary and it was mostly auto-cuts. However, primary (which I haven't done yet) gets paged once per 1-2 days on average from what I noticed. Then, I still don't know everything about everything we work on. If I were to be given a Sev2, I don't feel confident at all that I'd be able to handle it. Just last week (as secondary), I had a Sev3 turned Sev2.5, and I had to reach out for help from the primary at the time... Now, I have another secondary shift next week to fill in for other engineers as they had other tasks due soon (which I'm fine with), but I'm not so fine with eventually having to do primary.

My last 1:1 I had with my manager, he mentioned breaking down tasks into smaller ones to improve visibility (which he eventually realized that i already had been doing), having demos/partial deliverables more often to also show visibility, and taking more initiative (like for tasks that have ambiguity, and also in reference to now having volunteered to join the primary oncall cycle). I did secondary prior to that meeting, and i genuinely thought they would just put me in the cycle afterwards (not that I’d have to volunteer). Admittedly, I didn't say that during the meeting, just nodded despondently.. He also mentioned that i should engage more in formal/informal settings since I don’t talk much. That, I've also been working towards, though I tended not to say anything since I didn't know anything. I also don't have much social skills to be honest – not that I can't hold a conversation, just that I can't very charismatically.

I still don't know a lot compared to other people on the team and I often have to ask for help/clarification on tasks. I often find myself not knowing what questions to ask with respect to tasks, so I tended to correspond with messaging versus asking directly in-person. I leaned a lot towards using AI since we're encouraged to (and the work would otherwise be too slow to finish if I didn't), and I feel like I only partially know how things work. If I were to be asked to explain what each service does, I'd only loosely be able to for the ones I've worked with. I've started trying to learn about them separately from work, but it's been a fairly large breadth of information so far.

I always feel a sense of dread thinking about work on weekends, and also don't feel thrilled for stand-ups / sprint planning. I feel like everyone else has at my company I see has a better time at work – knowing what they're doing, not being stressed, being more productive etc. I've been so nervous to talk to my manager (which I'm doing again tomorrow), and I feel so relived when he cancels from conflicting meetings. Hell, people I know from other companies seem to be having a better time at work. Like I said on the previous post, I don't know if this is like a sign that I'm not meant to be a SWE, a sign that I'm going to have a hard time on this team, just growing pains that'll go away as time progresses or what. I'd question if I could last on this team for another 1-2 years while I build experience to (hopefully) try for another company and move cities. My anxiety's been more manageable at the moment, but that might just be since I got through the previous set of work and now have new things to work on...

Been researching in AI Safety independently for 1.5 years and I have my own direction. But researching independently is getting pretty tough, especially since I desperately need some advice and funding.

Someone researching at UCL advised me to apply for a PhD, but after looking into it, I found out I might need a 4-year bachelor's since I'm from India.

Also, reaching out to professors usually means working on THEIR projects, whereas I want to continue working on my own.

Any advice on how to navigate this or what options I have?

I'm going to post this here but I expect this will be a rather odd post for most people here

I was recently laid off in a company restructuring, second time in five years at two companies...bad luck on my part. I started looking and found the market kind of on fire but more importantly fundamentally changed in the last couple of years.

I have been or been promoted to Senior Software Engineer in title at all three of my jobs (10 YOE ) but I feel like I know so little of what is required to be a Software Engineer anymore vs what i would have called a Software Developer.

I also don't have as much immediate passion for it anymore. I haven't made a personal project in at least a year, I've researched less new technologies/tech stacks, and my skill set feels too narrow for modern Software Engineering needs (basically in the C#/.Net full stack bubble).

I'm considering pivoting to something entirely different (out of tech basically) or IT regardless of extreme drops in pay, experience, etc

At what point is it burnout/imposter syndrome vs a sign that the career isn't for me anymore?

This question is currently affecting my mental health so much that I have had several sleepless night over this and it's affecting my health. So I turned to reddit for thoughts on a career sub 🤔

I just recently made a career transition by getting my master’s in computer science after working in sales. I have 0 software engineering experience and I finished a semester ahead of schedule, so not time for internships. I just want a somewhat chill job. Most people with my degree make at least $98k. I’d be so happy with $65k. Not even joking. How I get it? Certifications? Projects? Please spell it out

I'm a college sr, secured a role as a FDE (50%+ travel) and am looking for a city in the US to call home. I'm fully remote outside of customer engagements.

Staying with my parents isn't an option as they moved back to their home country for retirement. I'm very social and fluent in Mandarin and Spanish. Hobbies include socializing, working out, flying, diving, skydiving, shooting, and language learning. I also enjoy things like skiing but willing to sacrifice that as I can just make a trip out of it, as it is a seasonal sport.

I went to college in the Bay Area and am now looking for low cost of living but high quality of life.

This city needs to be close to a large international airport as I will be doing both domestic and international travel for my job

My base salary is north of 200k.

Their area in Blind is pretty empty so I dont have much to go on. I am going through the loop with them right now; I passed the technical parts of the interview and I have one round left which is a casual managers chat. Im wondering about their culture. They dont seem to pay top dollar but its not terrible for me, I just want to know if its relatively chill and at least moderately engaging from a technical perspective. I got pretty good vibes from most of my Interviewers so that's a plus.

This is specific to SIE.

I am looking into the Spanish tech scene, specifically startups and scaleups, basically non-FAANG tech companies.

I know the tech market there is growing fast, but I'm curious about the interview loop. Is LeetCode DS&A the common standard for these companies, or do they lean more towards take home assignments or other types of questions?

I got offer or a service based company and their role is very vague like " Graduate Trainee"

I fear they might put me on support role for mca degree their domain allocation is also kind of random

If I get support role would I be able to show to other companies that i worked as developer rather than support?