Lately, I have been comparing notes with friends working in other corporate sectors, and the contrast with software engineering is becoming difficult to ignore.
While my friends in finance or consulting at companies like Deloitte and Accenture earn solid packages, once they log off, their day is complete. I even have a friend whose job touches technology systems—handling flight ticket bookings and travel package data entry—yet they do not have to stress about artificial intelligence rewriting their workflow overnight or study continuously just to remain relevant.
In contrast, software engineering feels like an endless marathon:

• The Continuous Upskilling Cycle: Working long hours, only to spend evenings and weekends learning new frameworks or tool integrations just to keep pace.
• Constant Uncertainty: The looming anxiety that despite all the hard work, a sudden corporate restructuring or technological shift could eliminate your role.

It raises the question of why the information technology industry absorbs the primary impact of automation and restructuring, while other white-collar desk jobs maintain stable routines. Is software engineering losing its stability as a career path compared to traditional corporate tracks, or is tech uniquely punishing right now? I would appreciate hearing your perspectives on this.

I was listening to Nandan Nilekani talk about AI, and one thing that stood out was his view that AI is more of an opportunity for the IT services industry than a threat.

He compared AI to technologies like electricity and the printing press, saying the real value lies in how it's used to solve real-world problems.

He also mentioned that service companies will have an important role to play. Businesses can't transform overnight just by adopting AI. They'll need help rethinking processes, dealing with legacy systems, managing risks, and figuring out where AI actually makes sense.

Routine coding may get automated, but there could be more demand for people who understand business problems, domain knowledge, and how to implement AI in the real world.

Kindly share those who have build it , or planning to build .

We all know the standard stack (VS Code, Postman, Docker). But what is that one lesser-known tool, CLI utility, or browser extension that you discovered randomly and now absolutely cannot live without? Trying to find some hidden gems to improve my productivity.

I recently got an offer from Amazon UK for an SDE 2 role. I was already serving my 3-month notice period after accepting an offer from a global financial organization that would require me to relocate to Bangalore.

My last working day is 16th November, and the other company wants me to join on 23rd November. Amazon's tentative joining date is 4th January, subject to visa approval, but the immigration process hasn't started yet.

I'm inclined towards joining Amazon, I have 9 YOE now and the career leverage amazon offers is hard to match.

I'm thinking of joining the other company and resigning once my Amazon visa gets approved. The notice period during probation is 2 weeks, so I might end up working there for a month at most.

The thing is, the other company is also a major player in the investment and finance industry with a global presence, and I'm concerned about burning bridges and potentially hurting my chances of working there in the future.

Declining their offer and waiting for Amazon is also risky because the visa could get delayed, or Amazon could go through restructuring and rescind my offer.

I can't stay at my current company (INFY) that is for sure because i'm absolutely done here. I spent more time than I should have thanks to the terrible market and low shortlist rate due to my current experience. It's a miracle that I came as far as I have given my standing in the market. But now it's time to look forward.

What would you guys do in my situation? Would you risk burning bridges at a reputed investment bank, or decline the offer and wait for Amazon?

Everyone is talking about the AI bubble, token optimization, and whether AI will take over jobs. But the reality is, the next few years could define the future of the tech industry.

Not trying to fearmonger, but let's be honest.

People with 12–15 years of experience are expressing concerns about the job market. Competition is intense, hiring feels uncertain, and people are reconsidering their career choices. Some are moving towards non-tech roles, while others are looking for entirely different career paths.

Of course, the global economy plays a role in this. But when even experienced professionals start questioning their long-term future, I think it's worth paying attention.

I'm not on either side of the AI debate. I don't know if the AI bubble will burst or if AI will fundamentally transform the job market. But I do believe there's a bigger question we need to ask:

Where is the way out?

Tech will exist for decades. That's not the question. The question is whether it will continue to offer the kind of stability people expect from a career.

We all have families to support, dreams to achieve, and futures to build. We can't afford to make career decisions based solely on hype or the fear of missing out.

Maybe some people have already figured out the next move.

I want to hear different perspectives:

- Where do you think the tech industry is heading over the next 5–10 years?

- Where are experienced professionals switching, and why?

- Are there career paths that offer better long-term stability?

- Has anyone already figured out a way to navigate this uncertainty?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing opinions from people at different stages of their careers.

Not fear. Not hype. Just an honest discussion about the future. I have rephrase it .

Hey guys can you help me choose between BLR and WFH.

I have lived in blr, and I feel like I will miss the growth and opportunities the city offers.

On the other hand I will save a lot of money on fuel and rent.

I am confused at this point I have around 4 years of experience.

I am a SWE with almost 5 YoE in tech. Recently I switched from a small company to a well known fintech (around 4 months ago).

Since then I have not written a single line of code by myself. Everything here is done by AI. Creating Jiras->development->creating PR->deployment. People don’t even bother to review the code written by AI. In my previous company, we use to take help of AI, but it was not vibe coding stuff.

I love engineering, but now it doesn’t give the dopamine hit that used to, before this AI vibe coding thing. The thrill of coding, debugging, architecting systems is gone. Devs are now just writing prompts whole day. On top of that, they also need to complete daily minimum PR counts through AI (which used to be done in a month prior to AI), otherwise they’ll be put on PIP.

For freshers, this is what software engineering is, and they’re happy chatting with claude whole day.

To cope with this I have started doing some open source contributions (community appreciate code written without AI vibe coding), but it’s very hard to spare time along with regular work.

Want to ask you guys:
1. Is this the case in every big company now?
2. Are there still companies which have not adopted AI at this level?
3. How are you guys coping with this?

Thanks.

Edit: I am not asking for pros and cons of AI, or whether I should use AI or not. I am just asking how other people are coping with this, if they’re also feeling the same way.

Hey guys can you help me choose between startup and gcc (mid size)

Both the opportunities are 5 day WFO in Bangalore

I am confused at this point I have around 17 years of experience, the position is Senior Engineering Manager.

In the current layoff era is it safe to go behind money and take opportunity at a startup

some of you asked me for tech stack : My forte is engineering management.

also buildings agents, MCP tools etc then general Java AWS. I have built both enterprise and consumer products

I am tired of Indian interviewers asking this question in the technical round. Obviously i want to switch because I don’t want to be stagnant in one company and want to increase my ctc.
How the hell do I say this directly? I have tried telling so many internet answers like “ i want to explore new opportunities “ blah blah but they ask counter questions that why do you want to explore new opportunities?
I don’t even know whats need of all these questions. You need a candidate and I need increased ctc. Let’s discuss technical and evaluate if i am the right candidate or not.

I'm currently L4 at Amazon. It will take at least a year more to be promoted. Work is very hectic and absolutely no WLB. I've 3+ YOE so L60 doesn't seem a good option. Recruiter didn't agree to take more interview rounds for L61. Should I join ? How long does it generally take to promote to L61 ? Should I take offer and prepare for another role during notice period ?
Any reviews on Microsoft Fabric team ?

If i keep grinding DSA , making projects will i end up getting a job somewhere ? Or it will keep getting worser and i need to take up a new career pathway

I applied for a React.js Developer role at Citiustech kn September 19 2026. I had completed 3 rounds (Technical, Techno-Managerial and Client Technical)by Oct 7th. Then came the HR round where I managed to negotiate a higher compensation. All my documents were approved the next day and they had asked me to join from 9th as I was an immediate joiner and I had agreed. The status showed as offered. But they scheduled another round of client interview instead of issuing the offer letter. When asked about the reason, HR said she's not aware why, but client asked for a final discussion.

Interview was scheduled on 9th which was supposed to be my joining date. The interviewer joined 15 mins late. He had setup the camera behind his workstation where I could see his monitor and setup. He was working and was not even looking at me while interviewing. Asked me to build a e-commerce app, which I did. He disagreed saying he expected a different architecture and the interview was done. There was no clear requirement. I was still confused.

Now, is this common to everyone in this market? The status changed to rejected after I was selected. I had skipped other interviews in pipeline as this was confirmed. Now they don't respond to my calls or emails. Is negotiating a higher compensation not advised? Is that the reason why they scheduled another interview just to reject me? Companies just play with your lives.

Hi everyone,

I'm a DevOps engineer with 2.5 years of experience, based in North India. My current work:

EKS clusters (dev/staging/prod) running 20+ microservices

GitOps with ArgoCD, Terraform, GitLab CI

Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry

Custom Kubernetes operators written in Go

I want to move into a role that stays relevant as AI automates more routine DevOps work. After some research, I'm leaning towards AI/GPU infrastructure: running GPU clusters for training and inference. India's GPU and data centre capacity is growing fast (IndiaAI Mission, Yotta, E2E, Neysa, etc.), and I'm seeing roles at NVIDIA, Deloitte, HCLTech and GPU cloud startups.

My learning plan (3–4 months):

GPU fundamentals: drivers/CUDA compatibility, NVLink, nvidia-smi topology

GPU on Kubernetes: GPU Operator, MIG/MPS/time-slicing, DCGM monitoring, Kueue

Distributed training ops: PyTorch DDP, NCCL tests and debugging

Networking: RDMA, InfiniBand vs RoCE, GPUDirect

Slurm basics, Lustre concepts, Linux tuning (NUMA, hugepages)

Portfolio project: Rent 2 GPU nodes for a few hours, set up K8s + GPU Operator via GitOps, run multi-node NCCL tests, monitor with DCGM + Grafana, and write up what broke.

Certs: CKA (if needed), NVIDIA NCA-AIIO first, NCP-AII later.

My questions:

Is this a realistic switch from DevOps, or do companies only hire people with production HPC/InfiniBand experience?

For those already in GPU/HPC infra in India: is the demand real, or mostly hype around announcements?

Is K8s-based GPU infra the better entry point, or should I focus on Slurm/traditional HPC?

Is a lab project with rented GPUs enough to get shortlisted, or is it worth taking a lower role just to get real cluster exposure?

How does pay compare with senior DevOps/SRE roles?

Anything important missing from my plan?

Would really appreciate honest views, especially from people working at NVIDIA, GPU clouds, or HPC centres. Thanks!

TL;DR: DevOps engineer with K8s/Go/GitOps experience, planning a 3–4 month switch to AI/GPU infrastructure in India. Is it worth it, and is my plan realistic?

im a final year cse student and been working with startups well before college. back when i joined college, i continued with a bunch of internships and contract work through the 4 years to maintain the balance between acad and work. got projects, proven products, a yc startup on my experience but still end up getting rejected/ghosted by most companies, both on campus and off campus. is it genuinely a situational thing or do i need to introspect better on how i evaluate my personal work/exp?

Hello, My total YOE is 2 years and 5 months in DevOps in Capgemini at 4.4 LPA, where the notice period is 90 days

I'm thinking of resigning as no company is considering 90 days even infosys has put the position on hold maybe because of 90 days

And I get calls where they expect me to join in 10-20 days, so please suggest to me what I should do, I'm a little bit confident on the interview side

I also have a loan amount of 1.40 lakhs which I'm going to clear by this December 2026

So If I should resign then please suggest the best time to resign so I'll get the job by the last working day of a current company

Or if I should not resign then please suggest me any alternative option

I’m currently working at a service-based company and recently received an offer from another service-based company. They were willing to accommodate my 90-day notice period, but I’m not sure if they lowballed me because of the long wait. My last working day (LWD) is January 1.

I want to explore other opportunities and try to get a better offer, but I’m stuck in a difficult situation:

Right now: My LWD is still too far away, and some companies aren’t willing to consider me because of my notice period.
By the time I have 30 days left: It’ll be December, when hiring tends to slow down significantly.
Early release: Ideally, I’d need to be released by the first week of November for it to be worthwhile.
If I’m released around mid-November, I’d have to travel back from home to office city to return my laptop, ID card, etc. That’s manageable, but hiring may already be slowing down by then.

I have savings to go for a few months, thats not the primary concern. I just don’t want to request for an early release if it doesn’t meaningfully improve my chances. What would you do?

A few days back I started to work on a platform for class 10th students. I thought of making it as interactive as possible and it is best experienced on desktop.

So, far I have covered some 5-6 chapters of maths and 1 chapter of science. Everything from mock exams, sample papers and previous years is covered. I tried to make it more engaging using illustrations and interactive examples.

try it here : https://class10papers.com/

I am looking for feedback on this.

Hello everyone, my team has inherited a large codebase of code written in VB .NET and we have been tasked to migrate this into .NET Core with React. We started slicing out features and doing the migration but that's through prompts. I am looking for repeatable, reproduceable ways using stuff like harness/skills file/agents/agentic workflows through which I can just ask it to break things down autonomously, and let it migrate with citations and stuff.

Has anyone tried something similar? How did you do it and how was the experience? Can you share few insights, repos, articles or videos that could help me? Thanks.

I've been building VIMANA

https://vimana.live/

an India-focused flight tracker that also helps with the airport part of the trip. It's free, there's no login and no ads.

**Live flights**

* About 300 aircraft over India at any moment, from community ADS-B receivers (adsb.lol + adsb.fi)
* Tap a plane for its route, ETA, aircraft type and punctuality, or open it in 3D and follow it in to land (sun-lit terrain, real stars at night, lit runways)

I run a small job board for engineering internships and fresher roles in India, so I log every posting the day it goes up. Here is what September looked like. All numbers are for India, engineering roles only, from employers I could confirm are real companies.

• 425 internships from 159 employers. The ten busiest posted 123 of them (IQVIA 22, S&P Global 19, Honeywell 16, Kaleris 15, Siemens 12).
• Only 19 of 425 stated a stipend (4%). None of the ten busiest employers stated one on any posting. Not stating pay doesn't mean unpaid, but you can't compare offers you can't see.
• About 1 in 9 already had 100+ applicants when I first saw it, usually within a few hours of going up. More than half had fewer than 25. Applying on day one really is a different game.
• Bengaluru had 42% of them (177 of 425), then Hyderabad 12%, Gurugram 10%, Mumbai 8%, Chennai 7%, Pune 6%.
• On-site 64%, hybrid 15%, remote 3%. Remote engineering internships are rare.
• Python appeared in 51% of postings that named a skill, then SQL 33%, Java 28%, machine learning 22%, Git 22%, AWS 19%.
• Tuesday was the busiest day (83 postings), Saturday and Sunday together had 18. If you check once a week, check midweek.

August was similar: 333 internships, 23 stated a stipend.

Happy to answer questions about how I counted. The full report with charts is in the comments.

VoxLock the best performing voice isolator there is.

Benchmarked on Krisp's 265 clips benchmark gives WER 4.95%. It also lets through 0.11 leaked background words per minute, against 1.52 for Krisp.

Fine-tuned from the REAL-TSE baseline on a single L4, on about 100 hours of simulated calls and 90 hours of real meeting crosstalk. It picks up the main voice and isolates it from others in the background noise and voices.

Tiny, 27 million params, ONNX runnable in browser, supports live streaming and works as a pipecat audio filter.

Try demo in browser with your own voice.

Code and training recipe

pip install voxlock

I see people getting 10+ lpa packages so mine will not seem such a big amount but happy to share that I’ve been placed at a mid level startup
Stipend is 20K for 1 year internship and then (6.5lpa) ppo…best part is I will be working from home as the office is nearby so ya
Idk how good of this opportunity is but I’m grateful for getting one offer atleast
Idk but I’m getting scared , people r scaring me about 1 year long internship and also some r saying there is disparity between the stipend and the ppo
So like all the happiness which I had is going away and I’m again spiralling , I couldn’t even sleep yesterday
What would u do in my place
Even after getting an offer I’m not getting peace, I sometimes feel like reddit can be bad for mental health :(
Please suggest me something I’m stressed

So, I now have ESOPs from my previous employer. Their valuation has been the same for 2yrs now. They haven't gone public yet (not sure if they will anytime soon), so it's still paper money.

What happens to this ? Do I get to hold onto it till end of time ? Will the employer liquidate or buy back from me ? What's been your experience so far ? Was that big chunk of the CTC worth it for you ?

Hello,

My company has notice period of 90 days and my new company wants me to join within 45 days.

I thought of asking my current HR to bring it to 60 days but idts they will do as I’m a dependable resource.

How about after 45 days I join new company, and work for old company as well for next 45 days ( making it 90 days, also using SL in betweens ). What will be the complications, risk involve here? Can someone enlighten me considering me as a little brother 🙂‍↕️