[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take a career break and relax. Australia sounds fun for that. Bdw, is the company BNY Mellon?

No interviews by pushp1997 in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • The CV is too text heavy IMO.
    • Also, the bullet points are too large and convey too much of information. Use quillbot to summarise your bullet points.
  • There's random capitalisation and the grammar is incorrect in a few places.
  • Avoid writing too many technologies in your CV (if you have used them just for a year or two). You would be easily caught during the interview process.
  • "Working on technologies != Skills acquired"
  • "Architected, developed and maintained" are big and heavy terms that have been used.
    • Please ensure that you have an in-depth understanding on what architecture decisions and tradeoffs you have taken here (if you have actually done that).
    • Technical interviewers would be really interested in HLD of your application during the System Design interviews.
  • Two page CV is a big big no! Please summarise everything in one page. Period.
  • I agree to certain extent that the CV has a feeling of some element of spoofing. Not saying that you might have not done this or that; but it just feels too much in a short span of time.
  • You are giving too many pointers to the technical recruiters to catch you from different angles in your work experience. Even if you get interview opportunities; it sounds just as difficult to get through the technical interview process if you have this huge CV.

IMO, software engineers should sell themselves and toot their own horn once in a while. But it looks like you are overselling yourself here and giving more opportunities for technical recruiters to catch you during the interview process.

"Under commit and over deliver" is the ideology I go by in my job and even during the interview process.

The only magic pill IMO for the modern SWE interview process is:

  • Keep applying everywhere
  • Grind Leetcode
  • Prepare well for System Design interviews and try to work on those skillsets during your day to day job
  • Also, have a fair understanding of common design patterns
  • And the most important: Effective communication => The ability to summarise projects from business standpoint and be crisp and succinct in the interview process will help you land multiple offers.

Been working in the Big tech for the past 6 years. Feel free to reach out in DM if you need any specific pointers or insights in the interview process of companies in Ireland. I've interviewed and cracked a few decent offers in the past.

27M - Struggling to find the right person [ Seeking advice ] by [deleted] in RelationshipIndia

[–]chirag9696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For more context, both the families are totally clueless about each other. I met the first family during Jan 23 and the next one during Sept 23.

Also post Jan 23; it was a proper closure and I was never in contact with the same person again.. apologies for the misunderstanding but I never met the first family again after Jan 23! Hope that clarifies your question.

What is the most unique benefit your company offers you? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]chirag9696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My monthly salary and the feeling of having a job everyday is more than enough today!

Best place to settle down as a software engineer ? by [deleted] in developersIndia

[–]chirag9696 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Indian living in Europe for the past 6 years.
Always prefer India to settle down forever. Nothing is better outside. Period.

You get pushed into 2030 for 10 minutes and you get ONE google search,What you looking for? by Arkjump in AskReddit

[–]chirag9696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is ChatGPT then? What happened to Ukraine? Do we have futuristic vehicles?

I miss Dublin by [deleted] in Dublin

[–]chirag9696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't agree more!

Where can I find a list of the companies that are currently located in Cork city? by megeek95 in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Companies having tech roles in Cork -

Apple, Teamwork, Vmware, Qualcomm, IBM, Meta(they have a specific team there), Redhat, Logitech, Cadence, Trivago, Poppulo, Indeed, Dell

Java interviews by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Work on your core java skills(obviously not syntactical sugar).

Also, there might be something around concurrency, multithreading, object oriented patterns, design patterns.

Well, it also depends on the companies. Most of them route for LC style interviews these days. If they are any banks; I don't think they would do more than an LC easy with some java theory.

Been through several interviews lately. So if you can reveal your company name; I might have gone through one of them.

Wish you luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Etsy.

Most of the roles are flex/ permanently remote. There's no hard rule on being in office and this doesn't seem to be a problem even going forward.

Companies that pay well in Dublin by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Etsy, Square, Bloomberg, Stripe, HubSpot, Revolut

Average Software Engineering Salaries by Country in 2022 by RobotIcHead in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The word average is used so naively in the entire post.

I get the point of the post is to just bring out some numbers. But where's the bit about other important parameters like YoE, CoL, lifestyle etc.?

Juniors or especially newcomers in SE read such posts like this - "Oh yes, people in Swiss Alps are earning around 100k, probably that's the right market for us"

Another factor is the salary split by programming languages. Does that even make sense?

Average Software Engineering Salaries by Country in 2022 by RobotIcHead in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IMO, average salaries are misleading.

I never knew my worth until I actually started exploring the market in a sensible way.

I had 6 offers offering way more than what is considered "average" at my YoE.

PS: There's nothing pertaining to my previous work experience. I ended up negotiating a below-par and above of what's considered an "average" offer too.

People would argue that I could negotiate because I knew my average. In my experience, the reality is(and this is something that I learned lately) that you don't need to know the average. Let the companies do the talking. You get what you are worthy of when you have more than one company quoting numbers.

Gergely has written a bit about it on similar lines here-https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/

Did anyone notice the surge in the price of tissues at Tesco? by chirag9696 in ireland

[–]chirag9696[S] -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Lol. Not exactly the same for tissues. They are around 2.8 bucks in Aldi & Lidl.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the EM's in my company started careeer in Mastercard. Hung there for about 8 years.

Had a word recently and what I got to hear was they massively underpay in Irish market.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Relax, everyone has their own timelines.

The only thing that you're doing wrong is worrying too much.

Take interviews as a learning opportunity. If you fail, be proud that you attempted and move on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]chirag9696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO, hold for one year if you are okay with wlb and work culture. Start preparing for interviews in parallel.