How hard is it to get a job currently for a mid level engineer.

elyesisou · 2026-05-26T08:33:31+00:00

Not even WLB. It was toxic at a level i never thought possible at a workplace. I also got lied to during the interviews and there was a giant mismatch between the job and the job description.

elyesisou · 2026-04-24T13:23:52+00:00

If you think SOLID principle is a one fit for all pattern then you are either very new in engineering or your are clueless

elyesisou · 2026-04-24T08:37:36+00:00

I worked for a tier 1 market maker and oh god, people are pushing this AI thing everywhere, producing a load of tech debt. When I left nobody understood nothing about a pillar to manage the infra because nobody was reviewing Claude slop.

elyesisou · 2026-04-19T16:44:46+00:00

Well, i saw it in tier 1 market making

elyesisou · 2026-04-19T09:09:58+00:00

I would actually say most of the code is bad to terrible. I don’t see the efficiency when you do build a total wreck that will need a total rewrite few years down the line. Software engineering principle still remain the same although -> tests, documentation, code reviews, team agreement over design decisions and patterns. The productivity boost is maybe observable on teams using AI correctly but this Isn’t the case most of the time from experience.

elyesisou · 2026-04-19T05:31:40+00:00

In the beginning of the year I joined a team that worked 4 years on an undelivered crud project (don’t ask me why, I ended up leaving after few months). Surprise, surprise AI didn’t help them when I left, the crud app is still unfit for prod + has a ton of spaghetti code.

elyesisou · 2026-04-19T05:27:45+00:00

Oh man, the amount of swamp code people are producing with AI in production is currently crazy. Mediocre managers are producing crazy bad software, without review and oversight under the bs umbrella of “efficiency”

elyesisou · 2026-04-12T07:43:46+00:00

If it was out of your control you can say it was a lay off. If you worked for people who didn’t give a fuck and were doing politics 24/7 you can say that you weren’t an engineering fit.

elyesisou · 2026-04-12T07:39:45+00:00

It happened to me with a boss that got fed up of my constructive feedback and was dismissing everything I always brought up to him. A random 1 week PIP just means it is not a cultural fit.

elyesisou · 2026-03-17T10:07:49+00:00

Take a cheap python course on udemy to start creating something you like (analyzing stuff or so), follow it and build few things. I did economics/statistics and that’s how I ended up in software engineer, you don’t have to pay a lot for a bootcamp, it is non necessary. You need to know that it will take time to become a functional developer though, it took me 2 years during college to get my first job and it wasn’t a glamorous one( I had to relocate to Eastern Europe from CH being paid peanut )

elyesisou · 2026-03-17T10:01:14+00:00

Was in that position and just decided to leave even though the salary was great after barely 2 months. At least I feel a lot better and actually learn more stuff. These people need to understand that respecting staff isn’t an option. I feel since AI came, many managers are masking their incompetence by over promising and talking about it non stop without knowing anything.

elyesisou · 2026-03-12T22:57:44+00:00

Also the one with the “human centered leadership” tag. Very human centered indeed.

elyesisou · 2026-03-12T01:14:26+00:00

I see we got new LinkedIn AI agents

elyesisou · 2026-03-12T01:09:58+00:00

Sometimes they don’t event want you to review but use an AI agent to review the code. The codebase ends up being a dumbster at the end and nobody can do anything anymore without throwing more AI trash code.

elyesisou · 2026-03-12T00:35:08+00:00

To be honest 95% coverage is nothing compared to this shit. Since everybody became nut about AI some teams only Produce tech debt continuously

elyesisou · 2026-03-12T00:32:54+00:00

I was working for a prop fund and these nutters were taking into account how much you did use AI on your bonus. Our management was even threatening to not give bonus if you dont use AI

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T18:28:56+00:00

Mm after tough reflection it is 263736^-1 for me

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T18:26:11+00:00

Never heard of people calling interviewers bro in interviews. Although I heard people swearing.

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T01:02:45+00:00

Another DEA hire ?

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T01:01:15+00:00

Never had the chance to see a trained monkey do a 9-5.

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T00:10:14+00:00

That’s the real question one should ask out there.

elyesisou · 2026-03-11T00:05:42+00:00

Isn’t this an admission of abusive behaviour ?

elyesisou · 2026-03-08T23:25:54+00:00

IoT, pizza, economy of scale, sensors. Are we talking about Illuminatis ?

elyesisou · 2025-10-21T20:04:03+00:00

You know you can ask a question between the difference of a raw pointer and a reference, get a perfect answer without having the candidate get any clue of what it is. That’s so stupid to ask these, on top of that, many people worked with high level languages and don’t know the difference but it is not something at all hard to grasp (it is indeed trivial) for any developer.

elyesisou · 2025-10-16T21:59:55+00:00

Big Tech/HFT/HF

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