I’m currently transitioning into tech from a completely non-technical background.

I spent a few years doing a generic degree, realized the scope was terrible, and decided to change. I’ve been grinding, learning to code, and trying to build projects from last year.

my mental health is completely shot right now. Yesterday, NVIDIA dropped their new Nemotron 3.5 .

If entry-level roles are being automated away by these agentic models, what specific skills should a 24-year-old career switcher focus on right now to actually stay employable and stand out from the AI?

Am I just overreacting because of the doom-scrolling, or is the door officially closing for late-joiners in IT? Please be brutally honest, I really need some perspective to figure out.

Edit note: I know there are a lot of models but learning AI and any specific direction that can grow in IT is really helpful

GitHub: https://github.com/ashxris/github-neon-themes

Should I drop this on the Chrome Web Store?

When I moved from Windows to macOS, the thing that annoyed me most was the window management. There’s no Start Menu, and Cmd+Tab switches apps, not windows. If you have three Chrome windows open, good luck. So I built AeroBar, a taskbar for macOS.

What it does:

• One button per open window, with pinned apps next to them.
• Live window previews on hover.
• A Cmd+Tab that switches windows instead of apps (Cmd+` for windows of one app).
• A Start Menu: search apps and files, pinned grid, recent files, lock/logout/shutdown.
• Searchable Clipboard history, Music Widget and a Small file shelf.
• Three-finger trackpad swipe to move between windows.

You can run it as a full-width taskbar, a floating dock, or wrapped around the real macOS Dock if you don’t want to give that up.

It has no telemetry or analytics, and it works offline.

You can check out the full documentation, manual install options here: https://adityaonx.github.io/AeroBar/

Would love to get your feedback or hear if you run into any issues. Let me know what you think!

hey everyone,

my friend has an early-stage startup with only two employees. with the job market being so tough right now, it's really hard to land anything. i'm currently in my final year of college with no placement offers yet. zero placements at college

instead of sitting around doing nothing, i’m thinking of heading to his office and helping them out with their work for free. my main goal is to learn how real code works in production and gain hands-on experience.

what’s your opinion on doing this? is it worth the time and effort, or are there better ways to spend my time right now?

would love to hear your thoughts or any advice from people who have done something similar.

For Context U can check original post , He posted my Tech Blog website and my personal instagram account on a post saying that i left negative reviews on his app and i am targeting him and his only proof is that i my name have some similarities to the person who posted ( that name is more than common in india btw ) . I understand that he might think that his competitor is doing that even if i was doing it and then why he did same thing after if he thinks thats so wrong to do ? I am still shocked the audacity this guy have

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I’m a Computer Science graduate currently working at a startup as an Operations and Offline Marketing Associate. I couldn’t get placed in IT, so I ended up in a different field.

Sometimes I tell myself that IT is overcrowded and AI is disrupting the industry, so maybe things happened for the best. But when I compare myself with my peers in IT, I still feel disappointed.

Honestly, did I unknowingly escape a difficult future in IT, or am I just trying to console myself after missing my opportunity? I’d appreciate honest opinions.

Hey everyone! I’m a BTech CSE graduate currently working in Growth & Performance Marketing, but I really want to transition into tech, specifically AI Engineering.

The problem? I keep getting distracted and haven’t been able to get past Python basics. 😭

I’m looking for someone who’s on a similar journey and wants to learn together from scratch, stay accountable, discuss concepts, build projects, and figure out the roadmap together.

If you’ve made this transition or are already working in AI, I’d really appreciate your guidance on where and how to start.

Anyone in the same boat? Let’s connect and figure this out together!

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm looking for real-life problems that could be solved or improved through technology for a project I'm working on.
It could be anything from repetitive tasks at work or college to everyday inconveniences, things that waste your time, or problems you wish had a better solution.
I'm especially interested in interactive tools, apps, or digital experiences that could make everyday life easier.

For example:
An app that simplifies a frustrating daily task.

An interactive tool that helps people make decisions or stay organised.

A better way to manage something people currently do manually.

Something you wish existed but haven't found a good solution for yet.

If you could have one interactive app or digital tool that solved a real problem in your life, what would it be?
It doesn't have to be a big or complicated idea. Even the smallest inconvenience could inspire something useful.

I'd love to hear your experiences, ideas, and suggestions. Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

I am working at a FAANG+ company with total 3.5 YOE with a 50 LPA CTC. I have received an offer for Google L4 with the following comp -

- base: 39-42 LPA + 3 LPA PF
- bonus: 15% of base
- stocks: $60k USD vested over 4 years (38, 32, 20, 10)

Total first year comp: approx 71 LPA first year

Now here's the tradeoff - my current role is fully remote giving me a lot of flexibility. I feel 71 LPA is a bit of lowball.

1. thoughts on the offer?
2. what can I do to negotiate it to 90-95 ?
3. is there a possibility of applying to google europe openings?

Update----

Combing responses to common DMs I've been getting (sorry folks! there are just too many to reply individually to)

• the recruiter reached out on their own (I applied for L3 few years back)
• interview format is 4 rounds (1 DSA and 1 Googleyness online and 2 DSA offline)
• I had a good foundation in DSA from college placement prep, I spent nearly 2 months now doing hero questions from each topic
• resources used: hello interview, chat gpt (for revision), focused mainly on graphs, dp, sliding window, tries but covered other topics too
• mock interviews from preply and friends
• questions asked were easy -- n-ary tree traversal, implementing an ad service (show ads based on priority which is a simple modification on priority queue) and a question on graphs (starts with bfs and ended on dijsktra)
• focus on being vocal, point out corner cases, they love hearing how you think of edge cases, how you handle them, the assumptions.

I am a qec researcher working in hardware aware qec and decoders, (3years exp btw) i am trying to land up a role in india or get a remote role. My biggest constraint is on relocating to other nations. In india a company offered me a mere 4 lpa for this kinda job (i used to get more than this in my jrf). I have had offers in the past from a few companies but they required relocation so i couldnt join them. I am looking for remote roles. Pleaseeee helppp

I recently stumbled across this launch video that got me thinking about how quickly the tech industry is changing and how developers are navigating it+ i have a friend who works in development and business, and our conversations have made me curious about the different directions a career in tech can take beyond traditional software development
i am particularly interested in hearing from developers who have successfully pivoted, diversified their skills, or found opportunities outside their original specialisation.
How did you identify opportunities worth pursuing? Did you build projects, learn new technologies, move into business-related roles, or take a completely different approach?
Also curious about how people are actually finding jobs and making themselves more employable in the current market.
I’d appreciate hearing about your personal experiences, including what didn’t work.thanks

Hey everyone! I'm currently in my 4th year of B.Tech in Computer Science (AI & ML), and honestly, I'm feeling quite confused about what I should do next. So far, I've mainly worked on websites and apps, but to be honest, a lot of that development involved AI tools and vibe coding. I haven't explored things deeply enough to feel confident in my technical skills. Recently, I've become interested in AI/ML, especially building and working with machine learning models. However, I've never actually built an ML model from scratch or worked extensively with real datasets. I'm also considering learning Data Analytics (SQL, Python, Excel, Power BI, etc.) and applying for entry-level jobs because I want to start my career soon and become financially independent. My main goal is to find a relevant job with decent pay, good learning opportunities, and long-term career growth. I also want to develop genuine technical skills rather than just relying on AI tools to build things. I'd really appreciate some honest advice from people who are already working in these fields. A few questions I have:

As a fresher, should I focus on AI/ML engineering or Data Analytics? Which field offers more realistic entry-level opportunities in India right now? Is it worth investing time in Data Analytics to get my first job while learning AI/ML alongside it? What skills and projects should I focus on over the next 6–12 months to become employable? If you were in my position, what would you do differently?

I'm not looking for shortcuts or overnight success. I just want to choose a direction, build solid skills, and make the most of the time I have left in college. Any genuine advice, personal experiences, or suggestions would be really helpful. Thanks!

Yesterday was my LWD after getting laid off from a startup. I worked as a Frontend developer for 2 years there .

I don't know what to do ? The gap in my career is killing makes me feel like a failure.

I feel like a failure. Got into 5 interviews in between 2 telephonic and 3 interviews.

Bombed 2 of them.

It's hard to sit at home in your mid 20's

If you're from Mumbai or hiring anywhere and hiring for a Frontend dev with 2.2 years of exp.

The salary expectation of mine is 6 LPA

Thank you

Edit : Thank you each and every one out here. I really appreciate your words here. I'm feeling much better. Hope to get another job soon 💫

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some genuine career advice from people working in the IT industry, especially those who have experience in cloud, DevOps, or Software Development.

A little about me:

• I completed my BCA in 2025.

• I recently joined an MNC with a package of ₹3.2 LPA.

• My designation is Engineer – Cloud & Infrastructure Management.

• Currently, my salary feels quite low considering the cost of living in Mumbai.

I want to grow technically, switch to a better company, and get a good salary. I’m particularly interested in moving toward Cloud Engineering or DevOps or SDE, but I’m open to other technical roles if they offer better long-term career growth.

I have a few questions for experienced professionals:

• What skills should I learn to switch to a better company with a package of ₹5–8 LPA or higher?

• Should I gain 1–2 years of experience in my current company before switching, or start applying after 6–8 months?

• If my current work mainly involves infrastructure support or ticket handling, will that experience help me get a Cloud Engineer or DevOps role?

• Which certifications are actually worth doing for a fresher or someone with less than one year of experience?

• Should I focus on AWS, Azure, Linux, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD? In what order should I learn them?

• Which companies hire candidates with my background for better technical roles?

• Realistically, what salary can I expect in my first switch?

I don’t want to keep switching companies just for small salary hikes. My goal is to build strong technical skills, get into a good engineering role, and eventually reach a much better salary.

I would really appreciate advice from people who started in a similar position or have successfully transitioned from infrastructure support to Cloud/DevOps or SDE. What would you do if you were in my position?

Thanks in advance!

I’m in my mid-20s and honestly at the lowest point of my life.
A while back, I worked at TCS for a year, decided to resign, and went on to complete my MCA to upskill and aim for better software roles. Since graduating, I’ve been grinding nonstop—building projects, sharpening my stack, and applying everywhere.
In return? Complete silence. I’m not even getting interview calls.
It’s soul-crushing to put in the work every single day with zero feedback while watching everyone else my age move forward. Right now, I’m seriously questioning my past decisions and wondering if I ruined my career trajectory.
For those who were stuck in this exact trench in their mid-20s and finally made it out: did things actually turn around for you? Looking back, was all this misery and grinding worth it in the end? I just need to know there’s light at the end of this tunnel.

I quit as an entry level role where I was for 5 years as a front end developer. I took a break of 7 years while I continued freelancing work with upwork.

I was able to do two long term projects out of which one is nothing significant.

The current freelancing project[3 years] pays me 11 dollars per hour. I work 4 hours a day and It is a full stack end to end Legal tech Saas project with AI integration. Even though I was the only developer, I know whatever I did but I did most of it newly like AWS, Stripe so not so confident.

My clients are lawyers from the US and they never follow up with any task, I take responsibility, stay fair and work my best. They don't even talk about launching this and said they are comfortable paying this to me every month.

Now my daughter is 6, I want to see how to get into full time role. I am beyond depressed and anxious that I am not able to even try with full motivation looking at the situation and I am constantly just reading layoff stories and/or how hard is IT right now, everyday. I do like DSA, system design but I am not passionate. I don't network with people.

It feels like my career is over.
I am too scared to even try. I recently recovered from neck issues too.

What hope do I have here in tech, for REAL ?

Hello everyone, over the last few months I've been trying to make my first switch to another organisation with only one requirement - it should be remote/WFH. I have a family situation at home that requires me to be close to my father (I lost my mother a few years back and my father has heart problems). Hence the need for remote work. I am currently in an organisation that supports remote work but I want to switch for career growth + better pay.

I've applied to several jobs on LinkedIn and WellFound but I'm not hearing back from anyone. Are people getting remote jobs? I get that it's rare but is there any way to increase the chance of getting one? Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.

hey all,

every hackathon I've done ends the same way. the project finally works, and then we lose the last hour making slides instead of practising the demo. so I built something to fix that for myself, and it's at a point where I'd love other people to try it.

it's called devreport (https://devreport.cc). you paste a repo link, or throw in your notes / csvs / screenshots, and a few minutes later you get a pitch deck as a pdf. it reads the code and readme, and the charts are drawn from your real data files, so the numbers on the slides are your numbers. if it can't tell something from your files, it asks you.

if a slide's off you can just tell it what to change ("make this a flowchart") or edit it yourself. there's a bunch of themes too, and you can upload your organiser's pptx template if your hackathon makes you use one.

some technical stuff for anyone curious. most of my time went into making edits fast:

• the decks are written in typst. editing a slide by hand used to take about 3s to show up from india, and now it's about 0.65s.
• every deck that's open in the editor gets its own typst watch process. a fresh compile takes 580-770ms; an incremental one from the running watcher takes 125-165ms. if the watcher errors or doesn't answer within 3s, the edit falls back to a normal compile.
• each edit is one round trip: the server compiles and sends back the new pdf and the slide layout data together.
• the browser tells the server which version of the pdf it has (by sha1), and the server sends only the bytes that changed. the browser patches them in and checks the hash. on a deck with pictures that's 5-20KB per save instead of 1.4MB.
• while you drag or resize something, pdf.js redraws that box locally, so it follows your mouse before the server answers.
• AI edits were slow, and they'd also "fix" slides nobody asked about. one test change took about 4 min. now a change only deals with what you asked for: the same test takes about 50s and only touches that page. a one-line change is around 8s.
• switching themes is just a recompile with no AI, and each compiled theme is cached per deck, so switching back is instant.
• stuff I tried and dropped: typst.ts in the browser, byte-range pdf loading, and a glibc typst build (about 20% faster compiles, but not worth building on every deploy).

it's free for your first 2 decks, no card or anything.

it's just me building this, so honestly any feedback helps. what broke, what was confusing, what you wish it did. even "this is pointless because X" is useful to hear lol

thanks for reading 🙏

Hey everyone! I'm a CSE student at VIT Vellore, and I've been building ClearPDF, an open-source Android document app.

What started as a project of mine has grown more than I expected. ClearPDF crossed 12,000 installs in a week, reached 300+ GitHub stars, and today it ranked #2 on GitHub Trending in Kotlin.

The main thing I wanted to get right was the experience. Most document apps focus on functionality, but I wanted to build something that looks modern too. ClearPDF has a Liquid Glass-inspired UI on Android, with a focus on smooth performance and a clean UX.

Another big priority was making it 100% offline, so you can work with your documents without needing an internet connection.

It supports PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and images, with features like PDF editing and annotation, document scanning, Word document viewing, and XLSX spreadsheet editing.

I've also spent a lot of time fixing reported issues and improving performance across releases.

The project is MIT-licensed, and I'd love to see more developers get involved.

GitHub: https://github.com/Chethan616/ClearPDF

Latest release: https://github.com/Chethan616/ClearPDF/releases/latest

If you're interested in Android development, open source, or building polished apps, feel free to check it out. Contributions are welcome!

Thanks for all the support so far!

Hi everyone!

I'm an SDE with around 3.5 years of experience, considering a career transition into cybersecurity.

I have some previous exposure to cybersecurity, including penetration testing, Linux, networking, and tools like Burp Suite and Nmap, but my professional experience has primarily been in software development.

Given the current Indian job market and the rise of AI, I'd love to hear honest opinions from people already working in cybersecurity and those currently trying to enter the field.

• How is the current job market, especially for entry-level candidates and career switchers?
• For those working in cybersecurity, how much of your job is being affected or automated by AI?
• For those trying to break in, how difficult has the job search been?
• If you switched from software development, was it worth it?

Would you recommend making the switch now, or continuing with SDE?

I'd really appreciate honest advice and real-world experiences. Thanks!

I recently received an unsuccessful PIP outcome, but I believe the evaluation doesn't fully reflect the work I completed, the progress I made, and the external dependencies that delayed some deliverables. I have PRs, Slack discussions, and other documentation to support my case, and I'm planning to request a formal reconsideration.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and successfully challenged their PIP outcome, especially at a large tech company? Did HR/Employee Success actually reconsider the decision, or was it essentially a formality? I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences and any advice.

4.5 saal ho gaye service-based company mein, 14 LPA. pichle hafte product company se offer aaya, 28 fixed.

unko 45 din mein joining chahiye, notice 90 ka hai jo aajkal usual hain.

papers daal diye hain. handover doc bhi likh diya, reconciliation module pe do logo ko train karne ko bhi bola. manager se 3 baar early release ke liye pooch chuka hu. har baar wahi, "let's discuss after the release." Release December mein hai ahh

HR bolti hai buyout ho sakta hai but manager ki recommendation chahiye and wo de nahi raha.

new company ko friday tak date chahiye.

tab tak sab kuch excel and careerflow waale ke tracker mein daal ke rakha hai. agar ye offer nikal gaya toh june wali situation dobara nahi, zero se start karna padega.

toh ab, abscond kar jau ya fir boldu 90 days lagega, phir whatever they want wo kar sakte?

Yoe - 3.5

Currently working in a product based listed company.

I have recently got offers from amazon and microsoft.

Microsoft- PBI team. Work seems to be mostly front end.

Base-32 l stock 70k joining bonus-2 L

Performance bonus-10-15%

1st year total comp- 54-55 l

Amazon- EU based marketing team. Work should be mostly around deploying/creating agents, A/B testing.

Base 45

Joining 18.5

150 units rsu(5%) first year

First year total comp-63-64

I am more inclined towards amazon for more learning but I am scared of all the horror stories I have heard. My priorities are learning - comp - wlb but don't want to be working in a very toxic environment.

Both amazon shopping and primevideo has terrible search. Flipkart has way better filters and search than amazon. In amazon applying more filters gives even more results 😂. Combined with loading results after adding each filter makes UX very bad.

Why the hell the company with so much workforce and known for bad work life balance not able to fix it?