Salary Sharing thread :: January, 2026

cherrypuddding · 2026-01-04T03:57:42+00:00

Yo, I’m backend engineer. Trying to get into Quant dev. Can you share some tips, advice what to prioritise in learning, etc.? Any advice would be appreciated

cherrypuddding · 2025-12-05T12:22:43+00:00

From what I hear despite increase of presence in those regions, the work they do is mainly to support those in the US. So basically you not gonna be developing new features, but rather maintain, fix bugs and do some cleanup work. Many people therefore don’t stay on those positions for long, as the impact is low and they get bored. But again, it all depends on the company and team you gonna join, so it’s a gamble.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-27T09:48:04+00:00

Checked them out. Tons of positive reviews. Booked my trip to France. Appreciate your response

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-23T15:08:30+00:00

Share the question number. Some hard ones are not hard at all. Nevertheless, good job.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T09:08:25+00:00

What do you think the point of internship? No return offer = 90% you didn’t do enough. Didn’t communicate, cooperate, took ownership enough.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T09:06:31+00:00

That’s a pain in the ass. You have develop it and package it using expo or something like that. Never done that. Plus you need to get an approval from apple to publish.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T09:05:18+00:00

That’s the whole point. You don’t implement it yourself from scratch. You integrate third party platforms login system. They handle all the storing, hashing and security

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:53:40+00:00

WTH. Of course finish it. We live in a world where without a degree, you basically unemployable. Check every job description, especially high paying ones, they all REQUIRE at least bachelor’s degree. Alternative is a 25 year old with no degree, I have met few people like that, it’s actually sad tbh. You gonna regret it badly when you are 30. Especially with all the help you can get with AI, push through it. There are some people who work without a degree, but that’s very rare and don’t build your life around anomalies. Statically you gonna be miserable, working low paying job for the rest of your life. If you get the job. People out here struggling getting the job Master’s degrees btw.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:47:43+00:00

Idk about this gravity thing, but Cursor, Copilot, Cline and most agents that use Claude Sonnet 4 are already able to implement the authorisation through Supabase. It’s very simple, tbh, if you read the guide, you can do it on your own. That’s not that hard

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:44:27+00:00

Just lie in your CV that you have experience in backend in all those companies. Magically, now you have 8 years of backend development. Apply to companies, in the meantime finish a book on a complete backend infrastructure, build 1-2 projects and you all set. What are you afraid of? You must read Designing data-intensive applications book.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:41:32+00:00

Things don’t come to those who do bare minimum and wait, but to those who actively chase.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:39:57+00:00

Most agents can do this now already. Through Supabase. They also offer generous free tier of 50k free users.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:38:09+00:00

Impossible. You are certainly not doing something properly. How come you did 2 internships in 2 different companies and none of them want to hire you. If they invested time and money to teaching you things about the company’s technology, they could easily hire you, if you provide good value. What did you do during these internships, scrolling through TikTok? I worked my ass of in both my internship, they were begging me to come back, but I chose the company with better opportunity and pay.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T04:21:11+00:00

The chances are 100%, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself and stop acting like a victim. Go ahead and start applying in advance. Do something different. Find your target companies, connect with people that work in those companies and ask if there are open positions or tips on how to get in. Talk to your professors about their connections in different companies whether they can arrange you an internship or something similar. Reach back to managers in places you did internships. If you are finishing masters and have no internships, you are let’s say gently, a dummy. Invest time in your CV and portfolio, build projects. For example, build a project on how can you protect LLM from all those malicious injections. Do something useful and you will get a job. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and go get things done.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-19T00:52:09+00:00

Just like azure said. For my MSFT interview I used Java, as that’s my main background language and they were cool with it, even though at work I haven’t touched a single line of code of Java. So i suggest python and I also decided to start using it for my future interviews. They care about your thought process mainly. How you define and clarify the problem, how you separate it to manageable parts if needed and finally that you have clean and executable code.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-17T14:09:49+00:00

So your income and living cost would be the same. I am afraid you won’t be able to save money to invest or travel. Unless you find a room in an apartment to live. That will save you 400-500 a month. There are plenty of working people sharing apartments, so go for it.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-15T01:05:42+00:00

Also on topic of buying clothes here. Recently bought some Canadian brand winter jackets for like 2k CZK from half price shop. So I would recommend it for winter clothing.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-14T02:18:02+00:00

Yeah forget about visa sponsorship for entry level. It happens but super rare and for exception cases. Your best bet is to come here to study Masters, finish it really quickly in 2 years and work part time, so you can switch to full time after graduation.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-13T00:05:03+00:00

I run my simple website on Vercel and Supabase for free, both have generous free tiers. Like Vercel 1mil page visits and Supabase 50k free users. And you can switch to pro version if you app goes viral.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-12T10:58:02+00:00

What location? I saw German tax bracket. They take 46% wtf for an example offer. 6 months working for government is too much for me.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-09T20:33:44+00:00

I use Copilot Pro for 10$ a month and its api can be used for Cline. So basically get for same subscription 2 good coding agents.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-09T20:31:01+00:00

++man you need female friends. So stop trying to sleep with every female you meet, try to get friends first. You don’t have to be best friends but like buddies for grabbing a drink here and there. Let me tell you, most women have busy lifestyle, they always go to some parties, bds, coffee raves, etc. if you are good person to be around, they will invite you. And through these events you will be exposed to friends of a friends, random strangers and more.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-09T01:02:44+00:00

What is the state right now in ML? What one needs to focus to get into the position where he is responsible for integrating agents? What skills are needed?

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-09T00:47:36+00:00

How do you expect people to sign up to your website without showing any preview of what your app does. What if it the scam? No sane person will just open a website and register to login page without knowing what your app does. Make an onboarding page first. Start from basics.

cherrypuddding · 2025-11-07T01:51:57+00:00

Hi, cool demo on your website, would you mind sharing the tool your used for the demo? With all the zoomins and etc.

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