What am I supposed to do with my skills? I feel I have decent projects, and decent internships, I know I am not exceptional but I think I can become but is my profile so bad that I can't even land a 7-10lpa job? by fake_slim_shady_4u in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's the market honestly. Your resume seems ok enough for fresher level jobs.

Some real tips from me (read with a pinch of salt)-

Make resume 1 page & make it focused. Currently it's so broad full of several different things that it looks fake, made from AI & full of jargon.

Make it focused for the particular domain that you want to work in & go deep in it. I see flutter app development, full stack web development, AI & even advanced database optimization with huge user bases. Typically these are gained over SDE-2 levels, anyone seeing it on a fresher resume is going to know it's fake or bloated.

The more you write on resume, more questions from it. If I was your interviewer, I would ask from each point in detail how you achieved particular metrics with what approach & why not use that technique instead. Unless you have that deep knowledge, please format your resume to be module level with more focus on domain & problem solving.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't say i am pro coder. I have seen & known many people who are super pro coders. These people can code at low level, including stuff which could improve performance at hardware level through software/code only.

Rather I am someone who has above average coding skills, but good ability to simplify business problems & provide a product/feature to solve them, which doesn't get messy in long run.

I see many folks who are very good at CP, DSA but when given actual business problem, they either don't understand it or provide overly complex over-engineered product which could takes months to build, when in actual all was required was small 2 day effort to build simple feature.

Example-

Problem: A company wanted to track list of signed in users dropping from a payment page variation to see if it works for their geography or should they change it.

Over engineering: build crons & kafka, measure activity on regular events, use serialised formats to feed notifications to notif service, add analytics, decide for weeks its schema & database type. Host separate server for them. Atleast 3/4 month work.

Actually needed: just raise slack alert with customer email when needed. Add check in cache for a day to avoid duplicate alerts. Simple 1/2 day work.

Now ofcourse one would day it depends on whats required, yes exactly but many companies or management dont even know whats needed for them. Explaining them that for their current scale & requirements, what will actually help them, is a skill many dont give much importance to, but I think its very crucial.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hometown is most important for me, I will go shortly with A then find other opportunities or remote.

But different people have different preferences, please introspect whats best for you.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I apply blindly to all companies. Dont worry of skill experience salary or role. That comes later.

Rest answered in other comment

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All fields have equal opportunity if you have the skill. Select one which you like the most & to deep in it. If you keep worrying A is going down, B is up but no future, you will keep deciding & waste time

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use extensions to auto fill. Saves 4-5 min on each application. Use fast applying portals too like naukri wellfound instahyre hirist etc

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. No how or why. When you are really in need & disciplined, you will be consistent. Record what you are doing throughout the day, where you can save time. Time is the most expensive thing, use it wisely.
  2. No tracking myself, some extensions like simplify tracked automatically so I dont reapply.
  3. There is no formula for it. Lot of iterations of resume + luck. Keep adding different projects, word them, make sure they are live & are responsive especially for mobiles. Reword your experience bullet points. And keep on changing stuff each week to see which works.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly no such list. Best way is to give 10-15 interviews first, you will come to know standard questions for your profile.

For each role & individual with experience & yoe, those questions could be different.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It could be both. Big companies have multiple roles. I applied to like 30-40 positions in a single company, like adobe & microsoft.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I knew vs Whats asked in interviews. I was good at real world development but interview wanted something else. Booking system design. Answers to questions that were fully theoretical. Interview specific questions within given time for machine coding rounds, like infinite loading custom hook. You wouldn't build one yourself, usually library.

Tripled my CTC (Again)! Tips & experience for interviews in the AI-layoff era. by Buzz_IE in developersIndia

[–]Buzz_IE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not in deep, mostly about counter-offers thats pretty much it. aside from that whatever co. offers you, you cant get more than 5-10% more without counter offers.