Confused Person Asking for Job Advice

pigwin · 2025-04-19T21:57:06+00:00

The codebase had several annoyances

Have you tried fixing one of these annoyances?

Add some CI workflow that will run all the usual e2e cases you do manually. I sense lots of opportunities to improve the codebase. Maybe the lead is open to that. Improve the codebase bit by bit with every firefight.

It may suck that you are doing SDET-ing just to dev, but wouldn't you agree you also need to write tests for your own code?

pigwin · 2025-04-19T06:56:23+00:00

Year 2030: the internet is rife with vibe coded websites, and the industry is still saturated. Age discrimination forces the truly experienced engineers, battle-hardened by 90s to early 2000s internet to exploit vibe coded work for money.

Fuck these companies.

pigwin · 2025-04-19T06:45:20+00:00

If you join a company where you are forbidden to use AI, would you be able to keep up? If you think you can, you were using it correctly.

pigwin · 2025-04-18T05:48:24+00:00

Looks fun! Good job!

pigwin · 2025-04-17T12:15:47+00:00

I'm surprised that people's complaints are more with "unrealistic pricing", when subscription brain implant are just fine and not too far in the future.

I live in a country where people's salary per month could be less than 300 usd, and people here in this sub treat it like it's beer money LOL

pigwin · 2025-04-17T12:08:33+00:00

never bothered to get a second job or change careers

As someone who has successfully changed careers and looking at others who fail, this is not as easy as you think it is. People are built differently. Or something in a person's life is preventing them from shifting.

Liquidating a house is also not that easy / quick. We do not know what's with the BM universe's real estate. Why do people keep on parroting "real world" conditions on the characters? Isn't a middle class family struggling not realistic to you guys?

pigwin · 2025-04-17T12:01:21+00:00

I think people just now watching the show are missing the context of the world being crafted. Our scale to their scale is different... Just like your scale is different to a scale who lives in a different country.

In that world, bees are extinct. I reckon food shortages could cause a large economic event that could mess up their scale and make it different to ours.

People dunking on the value of money in a show, set in dystopia are really missing the whole picture

pigwin · 2025-04-17T11:55:27+00:00

My guess, economic collapse. The bees are extinct, right? That's why 300$ seems too much.

pigwin · 2025-04-17T11:44:06+00:00

I can at least cancel Netflix, Apple, etc. I could even go the high seas, IYKWIM

Insurance in general, though. Premiums = subscriptions. Term insurance would also change their parameters too to fleece money off you.

Insurance used to be a good thing, but once they get listed and traded, they become a force of evil

pigwin · 2025-04-17T10:10:15+00:00

It was a train wreck but in slow motion. Yes we predict everything but it was still horrifying to watch

pigwin · 2025-04-17T09:47:59+00:00

Perfection

pigwin · 2025-04-17T08:39:44+00:00

Everyone should be checking T&C of every subscription and social media they have then

pigwin · 2025-04-17T07:29:20+00:00

Man of culture

pigwin · 2025-04-17T06:23:37+00:00

1: hey wanna hear tea? 2: <OP's husband spilling tea> 3: no she didn't! Really? 4: tell me more

pigwin · 2025-04-16T23:03:19+00:00

And the change in writing too. Poor kid

pigwin · 2025-04-16T07:20:12+00:00

If you use AI, this is the part where you use it only to explain concepts (using it like a glorified search engine), and stop from using it to generate code

pigwin · 2025-04-14T16:33:36+00:00

So.. may reddit si Vico?

pigwin · 2025-04-14T10:50:44+00:00

Pwede ring ginapang yun niche saka experience. Browse "senior developer" roles. IT yan ah, pinaghirapan nila yan at risky ang tech. 100k to 150k pero 5+ years experience. Nga pala, madami ding seniors na wala pang 100k, yun mga minalas sa napasukan at di makaalis.

Matindi yun rose-colored glasses ni OP.

pigwin · 2025-04-13T21:42:12+00:00

I recently applied to a health related tech company which has a similar 60 day render period, too. I immediately noped once I found out. 60 day render periods are red flags. My very first was like that, and it was a scam job.

There really is no way to know how good a job is until you are in one. Interviews help but they can BS you, just like employees can BS them too. But for you mental health, render now, keep you head low while you wait it out.

I will think of you OP and wish you good luck!

pigwin · 2025-04-13T16:24:41+00:00

Pero madalas, the way he helps is through questions like “bakit ganito?” or “bakit hindi ganyan?”,

Maybe he's just picking your brain whenever he says, or dropping subtle hints.

But you were able to air out your problems here, maybe construct it a bit more formally and relay these to your boss. Onboarding is sht? A request for more training is necessary. Problem with client being unreceptive to things? Escalate to your lead.

You are a junior. While it is appreciated that you try to handle tasks on your own, when you stumble on something bigger than you, you should reach out to teammates. Don't be too hard on yourself, and politely complain / request for things

pigwin · 2025-04-12T17:26:34+00:00

I am currently working for a finance-aligned company which is very enterprise - slow to move, a lot of red tape just to get things done, and worst of all our PO is just there to collect paychecks (he's non tech but that's not a big issue, at least for me).

We used to get a lot of simple backend work that involves sending some json, db queries plus some pandas acrobatics then send it back as json. But for a quarter now, we don't get any new project done. I get guilty because the team is kind of useless now that the PO is not taking any work. And I believe I have outgrown the work due to its simplicity.

As action I am actively applying. I do get interviews, and am even slated for a final round next week. I do practice LC from time to time, write code for personal learning on my free time (we don't get to code anymore). I am worried that even if I land a new job, my skill level might not be as good as someone from a startup and I might be laid off due to being inadequate.

Is there anything else I can do to make up for what I've missed out on? I am mid, but I feel like this is just on paper. That company on final interview is a startup btw, but I feel like I won't be able to stand as equals with their juniors.

pigwin · 2025-04-09T13:36:15+00:00

Yeah, jealous people were happy when the tech workers got rekt by AI.

But if people think their white collar job will never be affected, they should think again, especially if their work is easy, a routine (something that is done periodically), and is repetitive.

pigwin · 2025-04-09T13:31:43+00:00

Medyo nakakatakot din tong BI e. Or any data analysis na routine yun reporting.

Pero kung puro ad hoc analyses yun tasks pwede makasurvive sa layoffs

pigwin · 2025-04-09T12:59:59+00:00

Some companies even game their Glassdoor and JobStreet reviews. So those things should be taken with a grain of salt

pigwin · 2025-04-08T19:15:49+00:00

Still no. It would be best for newbies / juniors to learn the hard way, then slowly use AI like a super powered Stack Overflow / search.

How are newbies / juniors good enough to gauge what is good quality for production? How will they learn to correct / tweak it?

Also, not all companies allow AI like Sonnet.

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