With tools like REA making reverse engineering easier, even companies like Adobe are feeling the heat. Funny how innovation is great until someone challenges your business. They now realise that AI needs regulations

I want to build a career with high earning potential and long-term growth.

For people earning ₹50 LPA or more:

What's your educational background? IIT/NIT or a regular college?

What field do you work in, and how many years did it take to reach this level?

What skills or career decisions helped you the most?

Is an MBA worth it for reaching this salary range? Does the college brand matter more than the degree itself?

With AI changing the job market, which careers will remain valuable and pay well over the next 10–15 years?

If you were starting your career today, would you pursue an MBA, focus on technical skills, or choose another path?

I'd appreciate honest experiences and practical advice. Thanks!

Edit : thanks to each and every person who commented 🌸

I am here to confess.

I am a 2025 BTech grad from a tier 3 college. I got placed in one of the top 10 service-based IT companies in India in September 2024 for their cute little salary, but I was very excited. Previously, I tried getting an internship, but I could not land one anywhere, so this was a very big achievement for me. A guy who couldn't get an internship got placed in an MNC, first in his department. I was very happy.

Days and months passed. No updates.

I tried many companies. I tried Cognizant. During the coding round, my poor old second-hand laptop didn't work in the middle. I couldn't complete the round. I raised mails, called the support team, explained my situation, but nothing worked. After that, they mailed again, saying they would interview me for another role. Got selected in that (mail came after 6 months). Got excited again. Onboarding was on my birthday, then, due to some background issue, some name mismatch in PAN and offer letter, the offer was revoked, and they went completely ghosted.

Then came IBM. Did well in the coding round. 2 questions: 1 passed all test cases, another question failed only 2 test cases out of 15. Didn't get another round mail. Then suddenly, in a Telegram group, one random guy said he went to another round. He cleared one question completely, but in another question, only 3 cases were passed for him. Don't know why he got into the next round but I didn't.

Then came Virtusa. I did aptitude, coding round 1, coding round 2, and communication round. All I did well, but I wasn't moved further. They hired on a first-come, first-served basis. I found out by asking a few peeps in Telegram. Even though I did well and completed all the coding questions, guys who did only 2 or 3 coding questions were moved to the next round just because they completed the communication round before me.

Then came Accenture. Passed all their rounds continuously, then, due to their stupid exam platform issue, I couldn't enter the coding round. I was waiting in the lobby for 3 hours. I passed and moved forward but couldn't enter there. I raised queries, sent emails, called the support team. They rescheduled my coding round. Cleared it, cleared the interview, received a congrats mail, but after that, complete silence.

On the side, I was giving my everything for Zoho. Completed 3 rounds, waiting, thinking to myself, this time I will definitely get that Zoho offer, but instead received a mail that hiring was frozen.

Tried startups, but all they offered was 2 to 2.5 LPA with a 3-year bond. I didn't join there.

I was also doing an internship at that time. The manager was shit, but I bore with it. They offered a very good package for freshers, but when I asked about it, they said they had just hired freshers and couldn't hire me now. After the project was completed, I was left out, even though I gave my best there.

There are a few companies where, if I had prepared well, I would have gotten in, but I didn't because of me. I will accept that. But there are others which had nothing to do with me. I didn't make any mistake. Why me? I asked myself.

Then got into one of Infosys' subsidiary company. I wasn't happy, but I had to in this market.

Job commute is long, daily wasting 4 to 5 hours travelling. Pay is not much, tech stack is old, maintenance job, daily getting drained the shit out of me. Can't enjoy what I have, can't leave because of all the things that happened to me.

But due to the current market conditions and things that personally happened to me during my job search, I accepted it.

Don't know what to do. Just a confession from your fellow so-called future of Indian youth.

1.) The craft has now shifted to being able to write precise, concise, human readable specification documents which can be translated by the LLM model into clean and well structured code efficiently.

2.) The challenge is, LLMs do not work like compilers i.e they are non deterministic by nature and hence it is difficult to predict what it will generate when the prompt becomes more abstract and detailed.

3.) I fall in the mid-level engineer category and I find it so difficult to get the LLM to write concise and clean code for a task.

4.) Management keeps saying that I need to loosen heavily around the structure, design and code cleanliness and I think that is a recipe for disaster.

5.) I am young and I find myself once again confused and anxious about being in the right career

Question 1: In your workflow, how are you getting IDE agents to write precise, concise and well-structured code?

Question 2: If you create detailed specification documents for the LLM, how much time do you actually spend in creating the documentation itself as compared to iterative-prompting technique (you write prompt, code gets generated, you review it, you again write prompt and repeat)?

Question 3: How much time do you spend reviewing the code as compared to you would have spent in iterative-prompt-review technique?

Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I'm at a career crossroads and would appreciate some honest advice from people who've been in a similar situation.

Here's my situation:

- Current CTC: ₹5.5 LPA

- New offer: ₹14 LPA

- Experience: 1+ year

- Current company: Remote work, good work culture, comfortable environment, and a decent work-life balance.

- New company: Mumbai-based role that requires relocation, but seems to offer better technical exposure.

My current company is trying to retain me and is willing to increase my compensation to around ₹8–9 LPA at most. So, staying would mean keeping the comfort of remote work and a familiar environment, but accepting a significantly lower salary than the external offer.

On the other hand, moving to Mumbai would mean a higher cost of living, rent, commuting, and adjusting to a new work culture. However, the ₹14 LPA offer is a substantial jump, and I feel the new role could help me grow faster professionally.

I'm trying to look beyond just the immediate salary and think about where I'll be in the next 2–3 years.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on a few things:

1. With 1+ YOE, would you take ₹14 LPA in Mumbai over ₹8–9 LPA with remote work?

2. After accounting for Mumbai's rent and living expenses, is the difference still significant enough to justify relocating?

3. How much should I value a comfortable work culture and remote flexibility at this stage of my career?

4. Would you prioritize higher compensation and potentially better technical exposure early in your career, even if it means leaving a comfortable job?

5. If you've made a similar switch, did it help your career in the long run?

I'm not looking for a simple “always take the higher package” answer. I'd genuinely appreciate perspectives from people who've experienced both sides.

What would you do in my position, and why ?

My company is terminating my role due to business restructuring. The reason is termination of the role due to business restructuring and redundancy (and ofcourse AI). But they are also providing option to Voluntary resignation. For this company will provide some compensation amount. I am a recent graduate and this was my first company, and I’d only recently started working here transitioning from intern. Work experience is less than a year(including internship).

My questions:
1. Does redundancy negatively affect background verification or future hiring compared with resignation?
2. Which option looks better on a Job profile and during interviews?
3. Could voluntary resignation create problems if a future employer asks why I left?
4. Any similar experiences?

I'd appreciate advice from people who have handled HR, recruitment, or similar employment situations.

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Hey !!!

If you land at Kempegowda International Airport (BLR), you already know the pain: an Uber, Ola, or BluSmart to places like Indiranagar, Koramangala, Whitefield, or HSR Layout routinely costs anywhere between ₹1,000 to ₹1,500+.

Most of us end up taking the cab alone with 3 empty seats.

To fix this for myself and fellow travelers, I built a lightweight, privacy-first web app to help travelers find co-passengers heading to the same neighborhood and split cab fares on the spot.

How it works (Zero Friction):

\* No Signup / No Login Required — No passwords, no phone numbers, no forced downloads.

\* Check-in in 5 Seconds — Select your terminal (T1 or T2), choose your drop neighborhood, and optionally enter a nickname.

\* 45-Minute Live Matching — See co-passengers who landed around the same time heading to your area.

\* Live In-App Chat — Coordinate a quick pickup spot (e.g., "Near Pillar B3 at T1") without giving away personal contact details.

\* Auto Clean-up — Tap "We Paired Up!" to exit the queue once you find a co-passenger, so the active list stays fresh and clutter-free.

The app is completely free to use.

Try it here: Bangalore Airport Cab Share

Tip: Bookmark the link or add it to your phone's home screen so it's ready to use as soon as your flight lands!

Would love for the community to try it out on your next flight into BLR and drop any feedback or suggestions below! Safe travels! ✈️🚕

https://reddit.com/link/1x8bc4y/video/wstvii3zc1wh1/player

With all the recent developments, Reddit will eventually sunset old.reddit.com.

Some of us power users will miss it badly. So I made a Chrome extension which would not only make the new Reddit UI feel like old.reddit.com but it would also allow some of it's functionalities on this new Reddit UI. The extension is available here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/orib/knaoadjobmjpgedlmdjpadlfdldcoanf

Full disclosure, I took help from Cursor in creating this since I don't know JS that well. So I know that you are thinking about your privacy, I would too. So I have made the extension free and open-source. The code is available here: https://github.com/rajtilakjee/orib

Suppose someone is from a Tier 1.5 college and gets a 6-month internship/offer at Amazon, but unfortunately, their PPO gets rejected at the end due to headcount.

How difficult would it be for them to find a new job as a fresher, especially in the current job market?

Would having Amazon on their resume help them get shortlisted for SDE roles at other companies

For people who have been in a similar situation:

How long did it take you to find another job?

How much does a 6-month Amazon internship matter if you don't get a PPO?

What would be the best strategy to find a job quickly after the PPO rejection?

Would really appreciate honest advice and experiences from people who have gone through this or know someone who has.

I recently interviewed for a Machine Learning Engineer (IC4) role at Coinbase in Bangalore through a referral. Here is my experience.

My background:

• 2.5 years of experience at a product startup

Online assessment
First, there was an online psychometric and reasoning test, followed by a recruiter call.

Then came a CodeSignal assessment with three coding questions:

• A simple DSA problem
• Implementing bagging (bootstrap aggregation)
• Implementing Naive Bayes from scratch using only NumPy

Domain round
This round covered basic ML concepts and coding. I had to implement gradient descent for linear regression and answer questions about loss functions, parameter initialization, and batch vs. stochastic gradient descent.

There was also a SQL section, which was honestly my weakest part. I rarely use SQL, so I struggled quite a bit with the queries. An AI assistant was available for checking syntax, but you could not use it to generate the entire solution.

Tech Execution round
This was a practical ML problem. We were given a heavily imbalanced fraud detection dataset in CSV format with more than 45 features. The task was to build a model and justify the decisions around feature selection, missing values, class imbalance, and train-test splitting.

Behavioral round
The hiring manager asked about my previous projects, professional experience, why I wanted to join Coinbase, and a project I was particularly proud of.

I have 2.5–3 years of experience in the MERN stack and I'm looking for a job in Hyderabad.

If anyone has recently got a job in this range, could you share:

1. How did you get it (portals, referrals, LinkedIn)?

2. What did you prepare, and how?

3. Which companies are hiring right now?

Thanks in advance!

By god grace I landed into a startup like company ( old company but less than 15 employee).
My work is primarily Java backend(springboot) and little frontend with NextJS.
Need to work adding new features and maintain code on ERP products.

I do understand the code and they allow AI assist code.
Problem is I find that I am doing most of my work with AI. I don't feel like learning. If I try to write code with hands , it will take more time.

My goal is to become great at backend enough that I won't need AI if AI bubble pop.

What should I focus on ?
what should I learn down the road in 2 yr time.
What would you expect from Java full stack from 2-3 yr exp.

note: pay is peanuts but I am more for learning.

final year cs student at a tier 3 college, graduating may 2027

background in short:

• been coding since school, started on my phone because i didn't have a laptop
• freelanced backend for a US startup for ~3.5 years alongside college. apis, data pipelines, production systems
• research internships at two IITs this year, mostly LLM pipelines and evaluation

been applying to AI engineer / backend / SDE intern and fresher roles for a few weeks through linkedin, naukri and company career pages. barely any responses, most don't even reject

i don't need training, i just need the work. so trying to figure out where it's breaking:

• does the college filter kick in at resume screening even with real work experience?
• is it referrals only at this point?
• is cold emailing founders / engineering managers worth it, and what does a good one look like?
• or is it the resume? happy to share an anonymised version for a roast

would love to hear what actually worked for people in a similar spot

tldr: tier 3 final year, years of real work, zero callbacks. what's working for freshers right now?

you're trying to keeping up with all the AI and tech stuff and feels impossible, as everything drops on X first and there's way too much of it, even doomscrolling x, you will miss a lot.

made a daily newspaper for it.

new edition every morning, 5 min read. headlines are jokes, news is real. helps you stay up to date about anything that happens in tech/ai world. without having to waste time doomscrolling.

Hi all, I need some advice choosing between two offers.

About me: Data Engineer with 5 years of experience in Spark and Scala, currently working at a bank on 20 LPA fixed.

Offer 1: Synechron
- Role: Data Engineer
- CTC: 32 LPA fixed
- Location: Bangalore, hybrid

Offer 2: Genpact
- Role: Data Engineer
- CTC: 35 LPA fixed
- Location: Bangalore, hybrid

Both are hybrid and in Bangalore, so the difference is mainly the 3 LPA and the company.

For anyone who has worked at either one:
1. How is the work culture and work-life balance?
2. How are appraisals, hikes and job stability?

Thanks in advance!

hi, i have 3 YOE and have been at my current company for 1 year. my manager has informed me that the performance review/appraisal process has started

my previous 2 yrs were at a LALA company with no structured appraisal process, so i have no idea how this works.

how are performance ratings decided, how do they translate into salary hikes and is there anything I should prepare or keep in mind before the review?

thanks!

Check out bio for each PM and let me know what you think.

Hi everyone,

I have 1 year of experience at a big networking product-based company as an SDET Apprentice (not as SDE or SDE Intern). I have been applying for SDE and SDET roles for the past 4 months, but I am not getting shortlisted anywhere.

I have applied to many companies, but I am barely getting any responses. I am not sure if there is something wrong with my resume or if the job market is just bad right now.

Could you please review my resume and point out what I need to improve? Any honest feedback would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!

13+ YOE in an app development which has a tech stack which is quite irrelevant (vb) with experience of management roles. I have been confused on what learning track to pursue in order to be prepared for when restructuring makes my role redundant. Any suggestions what to take up?

Hey everyone,

I currently earn ₹16 LPA CTC and have around 5 years of experience. I have two options from the same company, and I’m genuinely confused about which one to choose.

Offer 1: Kolkata
CTC: ₹22 LPA
Closer to my hometown, although I would still need to rent a PG or flat in Kolkata because my home is quite far from the city.
Lower cost of living.
The company’s Kolkata office is relatively small, so there may be fewer opportunities to network and collaborate with other people.

Offer 2: Bengaluru
CTC: ₹26 LPA
Higher salary, but obviously higher living expenses.
A much larger office with more people to work with, learn from, and network with.
Potentially better professional exposure, collaboration, and opportunities to grow my career.
I feel that moving to Bengaluru might push me out of my comfort zone, help me socialise more, and allow me to focus more on my career.
My biggest concern with Bengaluru is being far away from my family. Realistically, I might only be able to visit home once or twice a year.
On the other hand, I’m thinking about the long term. Joining at a higher package could potentially help me negotiate a better salary during my next switch. I also feel that being in a larger office with more professionals could open up more opportunities for learning, networking, and career growth.
Kolkata would offer a more comfortable lifestyle and potentially better savings because of the lower cost of living. However, since I’ll have to rent in either city, the difference in living expenses might not be as significant as it initially seems.

What would you choose in my position?
Is the additional ₹4 LPA worth moving to Bengaluru, considering the higher expenses?
Does working in a larger office actually make a meaningful difference to networking and career growth?
Would you prioritise family proximity and savings, or take the risk of moving to Bengaluru for potentially better long-term opportunities?

Thanks!

For context, I graduated in 2019 with a B.Tech in ECE from IIIT. I also appeared for GATE and secured an AIR of around 1200 in ECE, but I decided to take a job instead of pursuing higher studies.

I started my career at a service-based company at 6.8 LPA, where I worked for around 2.5 years. Since then, I've been working at a Big 4 consulting firm for the past five years.

My current CTC is around ₹27–27.5 LPA, including ₹23.5 LPA fixed and ₹2.5 LPA variable. I work in Oracle Fusion Cloud technical consulting.

The problem is that many of my college batchmates are earning almost 2x or even 3x my salary. I understand that comparing salaries isn't always productive, but it has made me question whether I'm in the right domain.

I'm trying to understand what my options are at this stage of my career.

- Is there still good salary growth potential in Oracle Fusion Cloud technical consulting?

- Would switching to a different domain, such as cloud engineering, data engineering, or AI/ML, make sense?

- If I switch, should I build on my existing Oracle experience or start learning a completely new technology stack?

- What would be the most realistic path to reaching ₹40–50 LPA or more over the next few years?

I'd appreciate advice from people who have worked in Oracle technologies, switched domains, or navigated similar career decisions.

Is switching domains the right move, or should I focus on specializing further in my current field?

Hey folks,

I built a self-hosted job search automation tool.

What it does:

- Scrapes job listings directly from company career portals (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle HCM)

- Runs every listing through a two-stage LLM pipeline that scores it against your resume (apply / maybe / skip, 0-100 score + reasoning)

Stack: FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Celery/Redis on the backend, React/TypeScript/Tailwind on the frontend, OpenRouter for llms. Built almost entirely with Claude Code.

The company list is currently small (Roughly 280 companies). If you know companies hiring on Workday/Greenhouse/Lever/Oracle HCM that aren't in there, PRs adding them would be hugely appreciated. Also open to PRs for bug fixes, whatever.

GitHub: https://github.com/vivekx01/prowl

Would love feedback, issues, or just people trying it out on their own job hunt.

**PwC vs Deloitte USI: which is better for work-life balance, hikes, and variable pay?**

I have two offers for an AI Architect role (India) and need help choosing. I have 9.3 years of experience in total.

**Offers:**

1. **PwC**
   * Designation: Senior Manager
   * Salary: 46 LPA fixed + up to 35% variable

2. **Deloitte USI**
   * Designation: Manager
   * Salary: 50 LPA fixed + up to 10% variable

I'm drawn to the Senior Manager designation at PwC, but I'd like to hear from people who have worked at either firm.

**What I'd like to know:**
* Which has the better work-life balance?
* How are annual hikes and promotions at each?
* How reliably is the variable pay actually paid out, and at what percentage of target?
* Does the Senior Manager title at PwC mean a real difference in role and growth, or is it just a title?

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

I’m a 2025 AIML graduate based in Bangalore. I completed an internship at a company, but the role wasn’t very technical, and taking up a full-time position there didn’t seem worthwhile for my career goals.

I’ve been unemployed for the past 5 months and have been trying to find a job, but unfortunately, I haven’t received many interview calls. I’ve had a few assignments here and there, but nothing that has led to an actual interview.

I’m now considering joining a training institute with placement assistance, and QSpiders/JSpiders is one of the options I’m looking into. I’m particularly interested in learning DevOps and trying to get into a technical role.

I wanted to ask people who have experience with these institutes:

Is QSpiders/JSpiders worth joining for DevOps training?

How good is the teaching, especially for someone starting from scratch?

Do they genuinely provide placement opportunities, and how good are the placements?

What is the current fee structure for the DevOps course?

Are there any other institutes in Bangalore that you would recommend over them?

I’d really appreciate honest reviews, especially from people who have studied there or got placed through them.

Thanks in advance for your help!

I am having 2.5 years of experience in java and now I am trying to switch, but not getting a single call. Is there any wrong in my resume, kindly please advise where I am wrong???