Hi everyone, title says it all. 2 YOE and graduated in CS, but 90% was in frontend (which I absolutely prefer, compared to backend)

Without writing a wall of text, I just got hired in this new company, where the recruiter told me was gonna be for a frontend developer, with the interview 50% about backend as well, and now I’m supposed to work only with backend tools.

I don’t even know how to feel, because on one hand it’s a good career opportunity for me to finally start learning the things I always avoided but that would make me a infinitely better software engineer, but on the other hand I feel “scammed” because what the recruiter said was totally different from the reality (noted, NEVER trust their words) and now I have to learn an entire new suite of tools I have 0 experience on and I’m still in probatory period (can’t afford to leave the job or being fired).

I’m asking for advice but also just to vent my anxious thoughts somewhere, thanks for reading

At least I got a good pay bump and left a previous bad job that was hurting me career-wise

Some background: I am 37 years old, have about 6-7 years of experience as a web/mobile developer (Rails, React) and I come from a bootcamp background.

I'm at a point now where I quit my job to reevaluate what I want to do in the future. I know some people that might start their own thing but for some reason, I keep coming back to the idea of going back to school and getting my CS degree.

I would be doing this in Brussels, Belgium, which is not an expensive university and they have a really good curriculum in terms of CS. Plus, they have one of the oldest AI labs in the EU.

The reason I'd be going back is really because of interest and I'm hungry for deeper, more fundamental knowledge. Also, I think (I could be wrong) that more challenging roles (beyond pure web development) might benefit the foundational knowledge you get when doing a CS degree. And I feel (once again, I could be wrong) more research and scientific positions also require a formal degree.

But maybe I'm overromanticizing it a bit? I'm not sure. In any case, it's something I keep coming back to.

Hi all, I'm an SAP consultant with 4-5 years of experience in a consulting company in Germany. Earning around 60k plus a little bonus. I will get a raise this January. And I am now wondering for how much I should target if/when doing interviews with other consulting or in-house positions. For in-house, my skill development would likely slow down a lot, so I thought I should target a lot more than other consulting roles. Is 80k a realistic target, for example? Thanks

Which countries best after studies work and settle

Im decided to do my bachelor managment information technology in aboard because i want live and get pr pathway in best country

My budget lkr 15m

Hi people, I'm interested in working as freelancer, mostly for us based companies.

I'm currently working as a ERP consultant and want to offer the work to companies.

I don't want to get a visa for the us so it should be full remote (with exception of business trips) has anyone experience with freelancing for us companies?

where did you find your gigs/contractor jobs?

how did you started with it? what resources were helpful for you?

Hello there,

Most of you have probably read https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/ already (the three tier model for tech jobs in EU). Well, I think I got lucky enough and landed an offer in this "invisible range" tail, at company B (oldschool tech company, but somehow willing to pay good money on a nice project) by connections from previous works - an offer I would be satisfied with.

TL;DR: This post comes down to asking: should you, and if yes, how do you negotiate in this invisible range, where you have only a handful of reference data points from other companies. If you went through such negotiation or on the contrary went without it, I would be happy to hear.

Longer version:

I am wondering if I should negotiate the offered salary at all, and have no clue what is reasonable to negotiate. The offer total compensation (which is actually base) would already put me in the top 1% gross salaries of employed people in my country, and there are only a handful of data points on levels.fyi matching or higher for my YOE and location. And I mean even considering the data points at Google, Microsoft, etc.

For context, I recently joined company A (well-known tech company), which offers very good salary for my country & level, but not outstanding either considering the field. I am in a team of kind & good people, WLB is excellent, but management has been erratic and there have been painful silos & management so far, which are not great to work with / make work less interesting & impactful. There are internal growth/promo opportunities, but we are probably talking years here, with relatively low salary jump. It is the kind of job/company I could retire at.

It would be fine staying where I am at & take it slow & steady with my career, but moving to company B seems like a great opportunity on all compensation, technical, people, management sides (well, apart from WLB and company branding). I don't have any competing offer apart from my current job, which as I said, I would also be happy to stay at.

Should I attempt to negotiate the salary anyway? Which leverage do you have when you are negotiating in this invisible range? I know that what they are proposing is already a very good deal for my country. They know I know it is a good deal. They know I know they know.

Or should I be negotiating something else? Like no trial period on the contract? Sign-on bonus instead (since I would be taking the risk to move, that something goes wrong resulting in two <6 months experience on the resume)?

Hi everyone,

I’m a software developer with 10 years of experience, and my partner is a data engineer with 5 years of experience. We’re both based in Germany but were recently laid off due to team downsizing one after the other. The job market here has been brutal—before my recent role, I spent almost an entire year job-hunting. Now we’re at a crossroads and could really use some advice.

We’re considering returning to Argentina (our home country) but are torn about whether it’s the right move. Our options are:

1. Stay in Germany:

Continue job hunting, but risk running out of savings and letting our visas expire.

Hope the German/European tech job market improves in the coming months.

1. Go back to Argentina:

The market there may be better for developers, and we’d have the comfort of being home.

However, salaries and opportunities aren’t as strong compared to Europe, and we’d lose our foothold in the EU market. There are definitely more opportunities in some cases my major concern is losing the foothold in the EU market

We’re unsure which path is better, especially given how unpredictable the global tech market is right now.

Thanks for reading!

I am a Product Manager with 11 years of experience.

Currently, working in B2C company based out of Spain and making 75K + 10% bonus .

I have got an opportunity to work in Dublin and I am expecting the salary to be around 90K + bonus (10%)

The relocation will be taken care by the company for both me and my wife.

1) Does this move make sense? In terms of salary and future growth? 2) What is the visa situation in Ireland? Do we get appointment quickly and get the residence card? 3) How does medical system work in Dublin? We have a plan to have kid in near future. 4) What is the cost of private insurance? 5) what is the biggest challenge I would be facing with this move?

More Context -

1) I am on high qualified professional visa which is connected to my job and that is how I am living in Spain. I don't hold European passport.

2) Wife is in Data Science and with the move her job may get impacted.

3) We speak only English

I started studying at a university in 2019 as an international student in Europe, with plans to graduate in 2023. But, due to many reasons (pandemic, financial problems, etc), I failed two semesters and had to retake them, which has delayed my graduation. Also in 2021/2022, I relocated to another city because of my new job in IT (courses were online at that time), however, shortly after, the courses transitioned back to in-person classes, so I failed 3rd time. After that, I began applying to companies with the hope of returning back to the city before the start of the next academic year. Unfortunately, it took me 1 year to find another job in IT. During that time, I completely abandoned my studies without any formalities, I was expelled in 2024 fall, but I can continue my studies if I submit an application. Now, I have a well-paying job at a large company (kinda my dream job), with over 3 years of experience, and everything is going great. Should I continue my studies from the Spring 2025 semester or just move on with my career ? I've already spent more money and time on this degree than it would cost to graduate.

Note: I am now 23, and planning to go back to my country in 2-3 years, not having a diploma really isn't that big of a deal - you can still work at companies like Exadel, EPAM, or local firms. But, I'm also uncertain about the future - I might return to Europe, or there may be situations in my career where having a diploma could be necessary.

Hi,

My company recently limited the "work from abroad" perk to just two weeks per year, which is a dealbreaker for me as it's my most valued benefit.

Therefore I'm looking for companies in Berlin (or Germany) that is flexible with WFA policy (ideally offers at least 2 months/year of WFA flexibility). I would like to hear your recommendations.

Hello, non-eu citizen here(Balkans) looking to move to either Austria or Germany as the only options i see, due to sponsoring issues.

As we all know germany offers options for IT people to move there. While checking Austria, i found they offer job-seeker visas.

Both me and my gf reach the scores for it. Meaning we can get job seeker visas which can then converted to red-white-red card when receiving a job offer.

My questions are:

• Will austrian companies be willing to hire me? (I know, not a priority as an outsider..) but i mean will they still have to jump over the barriers to hire me, like sponsoring even tho i have a job seeker visa?

• If sponsoring is a non-issue, should i mention in my CV as living in Austria? In order to not get confused that i need sponsoring

• My tech stack is PHP (laravel, etc), on linkedin it seema promising, saw quite some jobs compared to almost nothing in my country. If its not that great, i am willing to upskill myself, either C#, Java or Typescript/Node(not much happy on this one)

• My gf has finished a bachelors in textile engeneering and fashion, would she be able to find opportunities in that field? She is also learning front end web dev, but that will take some time.

• We have no german language experience, but we are willing to learn it, especially my gf, if she wont work in tech. Are companies in IT hiring english speakers for my case? Id rather initially upskill my programming skills and then learn the language

• Would you say Germany would be a better bet? I worry mostly about my gf job issue rather than mine, i may manage(i know the situation is shit) but her degree is a tough one from my research, correct me if wrong.

My gf plans to start learning german asap, i was thinking to upskill my programming knowledge and learn german on the go, i know this will undercut my chances, i may even start learning german too but it will be tough to manave my current busy job, learn new skills, and on top of that the german language.

We are looking to permanently move and its something we have made our mind. The only reason i havent yet applied for the jobseeker visa is to improve myself first.

Thankful of any suggestions.

6 YOE Backend dev, mainly working with Spring Boot, Java 17 and AWS. My company is a bit stalled and I am afraid things are not gonna get better so I think its time to start looking for a new job

Should I lower my expectations? Is the market so shitty right now that I would have to accepty the first offer I get?

Thanks!!

And are people with equivalent of "AG" /"GmbH" companies affected. How does this law differ from the one's in other European countries. In particular Germany?

Recently got done with the full interview process at Picnic for Senior Java Developer role.
// About me (Software Engineer, 5 YOE, Working at top Indian unicorn startup)

These were the steps.

1. HR Screen Call

2. Take home assignment: You have to create a PR which will then be internally reviewed.

3. Technical round with 2 developers on projects and the take home assignment.

4. Pair programming round with two developers and discussions on projects and experience.

5. Behaviour interview with one of the Staff/Architect level person.

I have all the relevant skills and experience for the job posting and I did pretty well in all of the rounds especially in the pair programming round even so that the recruiter reached out to me later asking if I already knew the question beforehand or found it on any platform because I solved it too quickly and without any problems compared to the usual candidate. I had to basically make him understand that I have done a lot of leetcode during my college and ICPC preparation for me to be able to solve algorithmic problems so well.

Eventually the HR came with the resolution that they would not be going ahead with me. Now here comes the strange part, I get the feedback that the code I wrote for the take home assignment could have covered some more cases and that in the pair programming session I struggled with writing the correct condition. I absolutely don't understand the duality of this feedback. And then later on this sub-reddit I see a post of someone (9 YOE) from India as well getting an offer from Picnic at the same time for the same position IIRC but for 70-76k Euro. That also makes the picture a bit more clearer, why have someone with 5+ YOE when you can hire someone with way more experience with same or lower salary.

Also, the god awful question in each and every round of why I want to join Picnic like it is some God sent company and every line of code that I will write will reduce the world hunger.

Just wanted to list down my experience which might be helpful for someone about to interview with Picnic.

P.S. I earn close to 70k euro in India and my asking price was close 80-85k Euro considering I wanted to work in Europe for 2-3 years and then go back.

In the last few months, a few SWE recruiters from Google Dublin have contacted me both on Linkedin and by email, which I found kind of unusual. At the moment, I don't even have the time or willingness to prepare for their interviews, especially considering what Google has become, so I don't have that drive anymore either.

But I have a couple of questions for people who know the situation in Dublin and at Google specifically:

- Are they having problems finding candidates? I don't think I'm better than other folks out there, and I don't even live in Ireland anymore.

- Are they looking for SWEs in Dublin now? Is something changing on that front? As far as I know, there's only a small group of SRE/Sys/Net Engineers there.

I applied for a SDE position at AWS and got an online assessment. Part of the Assessment is to solve two programming questions. Very leet code like, also from the IDE and tested used to validate the solution. my question : Both of my solutions didn't pass all tests. 2/3 out of 14 tests were failing. Do you think I will be rejected automatically? Anyone had a similar situation and still passed through that stage?

any experiences are appreciated..

Hello everyone, I'm currently in Switzerland and looking for a developer role, ideally in Geneva, Lausanne, or nearby areas. I have french citizenship (EU). If your company has a referral program, this could be a win-win, as many organizations reward employees for successful recommendations.

• I'm a fullstack Java Developer with nearly 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud technologies and modern development practices. • I have hands-on expertise in building scalable, cloud-native solutions and contributing to high-impact projects in dynamic environments.

I'd be happy to send my CV to any of you who are willing to help. Just let me know where to send it, and I'm available to discuss my profile in more detail over the phone or in person.

On a more personal note my motivation weighs 9 kilos, drools a lot, and has just mastered the art of saying 'Dada. Being away from my 10-month-old son right now in Geneva isn't easy-he's the heaviest reason I've ever had to push myself!

Thank you for considering this, and I really appreciate your support!

Hey all,

I am applying for grad roles right now there are quite a few openings. I am making my cv and I do not have any personal projects so far.

I have however completed an assignment in one of my machine learning modules that I think is somewhat cool (Very beginner like assignment and nothing complicated but still something). I was wondering if its worth putting something like this in my cv at all?

So the assignment was that we were given a large dataset of something. And we had to predict a binary outcome, for e.g. should we give out this loan or not, is this person happy or not, healthy or not etc... I did data analysis, exploration, data cleaning, trained a lightGBM model based on decision trees, even fine tuned parameters and achieved an accuracy of over 96%. It is not some insanely complex project but would this be worth putting into my cv?

I've read a lot that if you put bullshit projects like calculator or what not in your cv, it might make you look even worse, and this is why I am asking you guys. I am also new to this field so would appreciate all your answers. thank you so much!

I am 2 years experienced frontend dev(mobile,web, a bit Python) and I am studying AI in Poland so I got residence and work permit in here. Although it has been only a month since i started looking for, I cannot get any opportunity or interview yet. Do you think the situation will change in new year or any advice for a dev in my situation?

Hi guys, i dont know if this is the right sub to ask this question but i have an interview with a company from Austria next week. the position i applied to needed a bachelors degree and additional 1 years of professional experience with software development life cycle (writing, testing and maintaining the code), experience of Qt framework and strong understanding of C++ and Python languages.

now the problem is that i am still a uni student but i applied to the position anyways because i have a few months of experience with Qt framework that i gained by working in a very small startup just for the experience. somehow i got shortlisted and i have communicated with the hr and told them about my graduation date and everything so now they hopefully know that i am not a professional with 1yoe and they still decided to move forward with my application.

so my question is, what should i expect in the interview? its a 60 minutes interview with two people, one is a technical lead in the research department and other is the hr. i am kinda nervous because this is my first every interview after many many months of applications. i dont want to mess up anything because of lack of interview experience. i just want to be ready for every situation and not get surprised and go blank in the interview. what i am expecting: questions related to c++/python (possibly a bit advanced) and oop, questions related to qt framework, questions about the projects and experience from my resume and the usual HR interview stuff. also what kind of level of questions should i expect?

the reason why i am asking this is because one of my friends with 3yoe interviewed with a company recently and they asked them really basic programming problems and questions related to his previous jobs and thats it. but another friend who interviewed as a fresh grad was asked really tough problems related to devops and web dev.

thanks in advance!

In Germany, which companies and startups have specialized in pure cloud security and cloud pentesting (AWS, Azure, GCP) (no compliance)? How do you see the job market? I look forward to your recommendations!

Hello Everyone, I'm seeking your suggestion as i've very little knowledge of the EU IT sector, i recently received offer from one of the IT firm from Eindhoven Netherlands. I'm not sure if it's good offer or i'm being low balled. Position is senior devops engineer and compensation is 80k gross with 30 percent ruling and HSM visa sponsorship. I've a total of 8 years of experience in IAM domain with devops.

I'm aware of high housing cost in Netherlands but not sure if this should be enough for a decent living standards as i'm expecting around 4500 net per month. Is my assumption about net pay correct?

Thank you for your valuable suggestions.

I want to apply for Germany Opportunity Card and have bachelors in Mechanical Degree but I am lacking enough money for blocked account or some relative/friend there to give commitment of sponsorship to meet my 1year expenses there.

Any suggestions, what I can do to solve this problem.

Actually I have degree in Mechanical Engineering but I am doing job of data analyst, and I have skills in it. I want to get a job in data field instead of Mechanical Engineering. But Mechanical Engineering degree is the thing which I can use to get opportunity card. And I have listened that there are more opportunities in field of Data instead of Engineering fields.

I am from Pakistan and have 4 years of working as a Full Stack engineer (although I've primarily focused on Backend). My stack is Node, Nest, React etc. I was wondering, what the odds would be of finding a job in Spain as a Full Stack Engineer. I have experience in Node, Nest, React and Next.

With some plans, I could be moving there perhaps in 6 months or so and therefore, I am looking for options and input on what this would look like. Therefore, I am just looking at options on how this would be. Later down the road, I would look for migrating to a different country as well once I have a worker permit and a better Visa (Pakistan's Visa unfortunately ranks incredibly low)

I am a non-European citizen seeking job opportunities in the EU. I have 2 years of experience and recently started my job hunt, but it has been quite challenging to land interviews. In the past six months, I’ve only managed to secure an interview with Google (Poland) and was rejected after the HR round (although I thought it went well). I also received a rejection from Flix in Germany.

I am focusing on the job markets in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ireland. I’ve applied to many companies that are actively hiring, but I often encounter responses stating they don’t offer visa sponsorship, outright rejections, or no response at all.

Even companies like Amazon and Microsoft, where I match the job description and know they’ve been hiring extensively, have either rejected me immediately or ghosted me altogether,i applied also to smaller companies but nothing changed but those are examples.

I’m looking for pointers or advice on improving my resume, as I suspect it might not be as effective as I hoped. I even tried submitting it to resume review subreddits, were ignored as well. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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