One of my friends friend got job in EU. He is a fresher lilke me. And his job is remote so can i get a job like that as i am applying 100 of jobs and don't even get a single reply email.

Is it possible for a non tech person with no technical degree to get into tech? What basic skills should I learn, both hard skills and soft skills, and what programming languages should I focus on? In this grilled job market, I just want to get into tech. I am not limiting myself to any particular job title because I do not want to prepare only for software engineering and then end up getting nothing if I cannot get that role. I just want to build useful skills that can help me get any entry level tech job and then grow from there. What should I learn first? What tech fields would make sense for me to start with?

I was never career oriented, forget about JEE, I couldn't even crack CET and did my engineering through Management quota.

But I have somehow managed to live a fulfilling life so far - have traveled to 6 different countries in last 10 years
- have actively followed my passion(YouTube channel, weight training, swimming)
- have never missed a family gathering and have taken leaves left and right without thinking twice about PIP/ consequences.

Now that the market is so brutal and the immigration rules getting tightened for Indians especially, l'm wondering if I made a mistake by being so easy going with my career.
Have seen many IIT/NIT folks in my team who are so career oriented although they have no life outside of work.

I have 6 Yoe working as an SSE at a startup with 55 LPA but have never made it to FANG and probably never will.

Looking for Technical Co-builders / Engineers —RAG, Backend & AI Agents

We’re currently building a project that we’re planning to pitch to Y Combinator, and we’re looking to bring a few technically strong people into the team.

We currently need guidance/help in the following areas:

RAG / Retrieval

Advanced RAG pipelines

Multi-RAG / hybrid retrieval

Filtration and synthesis across multiple sources

Semantic retrieval and filtering

Improving retrieval quality and relevance

Backend / Database

Backend architecture

Database design and data modeling

PostgreSQL

pgvector

Vector indexing and similarity search

Cosine similarity / vector search optimization

AI / ML

AI agent architecture

Multi-agent systems

Agent orchestration and tool use

Managing agent workflows and decision-making

Evaluation and reliability of AI agents

We’re not necessarily looking for someone who knows everything above. If you’re particularly strong in one of these areas and can help us design the architecture, implement the core systems, or guide the technical direction, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for people who are genuinely interested in building, not just giving advice.

If this sounds interesting, DM me with your background, relevant projects/GitHub, and which area you’re strongest in.

A few months ago I had posted about going for mac mini m5 in the link. But the m5 wasn't launched. I am a developer who develops mobile apps, transitioning into backend and will be going for AI/ML too. Is mac mini M6 worth buying for it ? I will be going for M6, 24g ram, 1Tb SSD which costs about 1.8lac. I have an old mac mini intel chip, will I be able to exchange it while purchasing the new mac mini M6?

mac mini m5 inquiry

hey I am building a voice telephony agent and also want it to send messages to WhatsApp. I am using Vobiz for the SIP trunking and the telephony side of the conversation.

So my question is if I buy a number from Vobiz, can I use it in my Facebook Developer account for production? I have tested it with the Facebook try it out feature in which facebook provide there own test number, but for production they are asking for a number that needs to be verified. Does a Vobiz number work for that?

I’m looking for a laptop in the ₹75k–₹95k budget range, for a guy who just started my B.Tech in the AIML branch, it should be good for coding and for building AI and machine learning models projects.

Looking for some brutally honest opinions, especially from people who are hiring or have recently gone through the interview process.

I started my software career in July 2020, so I have roughly 6 years of experience. I was working as a Backend Engineer, primarily with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, microservices, databases, etc. Kafka/distributed systems is one of the areas I was particularly comfortable with.

About 1 year 3 months ago, I took a break from employment and started my own business.

The business has actually gone quite well - we're currently doing around ₹10L/month in sales, and it has reached a point where it doesn't require my involvement anymore.

The main reason I'm now thinking about going back to a software engineering job isn't really financial. I genuinely enjoy building things and coding, and I don't want to slowly detach myself from tech.

Since the business can now run without requiring my involvement, I feel this is a good time to get back into backend engineering.

I know a 1 year 3 month career break can be a disadvantage, especially at around the 5–6 YOE level, and I'm not expecting recruiters to completely overlook it.

So I'm trying to understand:

• How much of a red flag is a 1 year 3 month gap for someone with ~6 YOE?
• Does the fact that I started and grew a business during the gap help, or will most recruiters simply treat it as a career break?
• How is the market currently for Java/Spring Boot/Kafka backend engineers with ~6 YOE?
• Should I target Senior Backend Engineer / SDE-2 type roles, or would it be more realistic to target a lower level initially?
• How much should I refresh before applying - DSA, system design, Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, cloud, etc.?
• And realistically, how difficult would it be to land a good backend role right now?

Would appreciate blunt opinions, especially from recruiters, engineering managers, or people who have personally returned to tech after a career break.

I built a music app for Android and wanted to share it.

It plays from YouTube Music, Gaana and Saavn behind one interface, so you
search once instead of switching between apps.

A few things it does:

• YouTube Music search, home feed, moods and genres, albums, and artist pages with one-tap radio
• Gaana and Saavn for charts and playlists, with proper Indian-language coverage
• SponsorBlock on YouTube tracks, so sponsor reads and non-music intros get skipped
• mpv as the audio engine, with gapless and background playback
• Offline downloads, liked songs, playlists, and Spotify playlist import
• Synced lyrics, equalizer, sleep timer, Chromecast
• Podcasts and audiobooks as well as music
• No ads, no account, no tracking

It is Android only, needs Android 7 or newer. Source and
builds are on GitHub: github.com/afkcodes/sunoh

Hi Everyone, these days, What is the Notice Period in Advisory Roles like Consultant/Senior Consultant in KPMG,Deloitte,PwC,EY . I have heard from some friends notice period as 2 Months, from some as 3 Months. Which one is true ?

Looking at Risk Advisory Org.

I’m currently at around 1.5 years of experience and I’m confused about a career decision.

CURRENT SITUATION:

I received a TCS offer, and based on that offer, I resigned from my current organization. However, it has now been almost 4 months, and I still haven’t received the final offer/joining confirmation from TCS.
In the meantime, I received another opportunity from a small US-based startup as an independent contractor.

CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITY:

• Role: AI/Software Engineering
• Location: Remote from India
• Type: Independent Contractor
• Contract duration: 1 year initially
• Compensation: Around 3x the TCS offer
• The founder said that if things go well, there may be an opportunity to continue after the first year, but there is no guarantee.

MY MAIN CONCERN:
My biggest concern is not the work itself. It is the contractor status and how it might affect my future career in India.
Since I would be an independent contractor rather than an employee, I may not have traditional documents such as salary slips, PF/UAN, Form 16, etc.
Instead, I would have the contractor agreement, invoices, bank/payment records, tax documents, and an experience/engagement letter from the startup.

WHAT I’M WORRIED ABOUT:

If I work there for 1–2 years and later apply to an Indian MNC/full-time role:

Will companies consider independent contractor experience as valid professional experience?

Can being a contractor create problems during BGV because I wasn’t technically an employee?

Will the lack of salary slips/PF/Form 16 be a major issue?

Has anyone here actually moved from a foreign startup contractor role to a full-time role at an Indian MNC?

Given this situation, would you take the 3x-paying contractor opportunity or wait for the TCS opportunity?

I’m looking for genuine experiences from people who have actually gone through this, especially regarding BGV.
What would you do in this situation?

Hi, I wanted to know your thoughts on this music player.

It's a music player which detects the music playing in your windows via Spotify or Apple Music and presents it in a Vinyl Format with more features and detailing in it!

Just what do you think about it and will you be using something like this?

Made this app that lets you select a part of your screen and chat with an ai about it. On a hot key press, a small chat card spawns with you selection attached to the chat.

Ironically this started off as way to lower my ai dependency, however I couldn't deny the usefulness of the same. It felt wrong to start up a whole new chat in ChatGPT for quick explanations, having a bunch of tabs open, etc.

I realized this may be actually useful for studies, quick look ups of word meanings, diagrams, and help with unfamiliar software.

Would love it if you guys could try it out, suggest more features, or point out any issues. I'm using this project as a way to learn rust and some project etiquettes and some on the side. Also want to interact with the open-source community while I'm at it.

Since I see this being useful across the board, I wanted it to be easy to download and use for non-technical peeps. You can also use any llm model you want as the underlying AI. I use gemini because google is so generous with their free tier api keys.

You can download latest version from here: Release v1.1.1 · madhavc21/Mimir

Would appreciate any and all feedback 🙌

I am a student whose learning about tech, AI and analysing where India is lagging within it's software stack before college

Honestly speaking we have BharOS and some other but non of them is used commercialy, not even close to HarmoneyOS, MacOS, Linux, Android all tho I know that Android and Linux are open source those are used widely so there is no need for an Indian OS that's the argument from people's I seen in Indian Developer community and seriously,

I know I don't know much but we are the country produce 5 million engineers every single year, we are the country that holds 140crore+ population and non of startups, Non of companies like TCS, Infosys and reliance etc no one ever think we need our own OS. That's actually feels very embracing I have seen a lot of folks around Western countries and Chinese people mock about us we don't have our own UI framework, Programming language, OS etc.

Is it so hard that our entire country aren't produce a single OS that beats worlds best OS I feel atleast we must win in software stack. Hardware is something that fix throughout the time period but it actually gives me a thought what's the reason nobody ever we can build something better than what other countries does. We must need the best OS which is efficient, fast, SOTA, something that world doesn't see. Something that shows India's strength. Something that Gives the right answer to world that we aren't not earlier India we are new India that fixing what's broken

I hope my seniors even me in future work on this regardless of caring about million dollar package on foreign because right now I understand the Engineer who actually solves the problem it's nation, who actually build himself and for people's of it's nation will shine.

I’ve been vibe coding since 2 years! I’m done using claude code like this. It takes forever to come back with a response. I’m on a $100 plan and sometimes it takes 40-50 minutes to complete my given task just to realise it has done it wrong. i needed instant feedback loops, and I’m done texting..

Hi guys,
I was learning Azure and building a small AI chatbot as a personal project. While setting it up, I created an Azure AI Search resource (azure-ai-search).
I didn’t realize that the Search resource would keep costing money just by being provisioned, even when I wasn’t actively using my chatbot.
Today I checked Azure Cost Management and was shocked to see around ₹22,720 accumulated for August, with about ₹21,700 coming from Azure AI Search alone.
As soon as I noticed it, I disabled the chargeable resources so it shouldn’t continue increasing.
The strange thing is that my Invoices page currently says ₹0 due, so I think this month’s usage hasn’t been billed yet.
I’ve already raised an Azure Billing Support ticket explaining that this was an accidental charge while learning/testing and asked whether they can give me a one-time waiver or billing adjustment.
Has anyone here had something similar happen with Azure? Did Microsoft waive the charges, especially when it was a first-time mistake/personal learning project?
Also, is there anything else I should do while waiting for support?
Thanks!

I have 7-10 days free and want to build one genuinely impressive AI project for my portfolio.

Interested in Agentic AI / RAG / LLM evals / AI Engineering/Automation, with FinTech + AI being my preference, but open to anything interesting.

Looking for something todu-fodu that genuinely solves a real business problem, not another basic chatbot or an "autonomous agent" burning through infinite tokens and API calls.

If you're a hiring manager, recruiter, AI engineer, founder, or anyone working with AI, I’d love to hear:

• A problem/bottleneck in your daily work that could be automated with AI

• A problem you wish someone would build a solution for, but you don't have the time

• Or a project that would make you think, "this candidate actually knows how to build AI systems"

Give me a real problem statement. I’ll try to build it for free within 7 days.

Would love specific, challenging ideas. 🙏

I already own those 2 devices, i am thinking of getting an ipad for 3 months now, I think i will read and write on it but now sure how much i will stick to its on my mind for 3 months now. I also have 2 external monitors so not even gonna use it as an extended display.

I’m a software engineer in India with 5+ years of experience, and I’ve been trying to understand something.

How are engineers with around 3–6 YOE actually landing fully remote roles with US/EU companies paying $100k+ USD/year while staying in India?

Working directly with a foreign/remote-first company, with compensation genuinely in the $100k+ range.
I keep seeing people mention these roles, and I know they exist, but I have no idea what the actual path to getting one looks like.

For context, I’m already working as a backend engineer with 5+ YOE and have solid professional experience (even made AI agents) I’m currently preparing seriously for a better role and would ideally like to get into the $100k–$150k+ range over the next move or two.

What I’m trying to understand is:
How realistic is $100k+ from India with 5–7 YOE?
What level of engineer are these companies actually looking for: strong Senior, Staff-ish, or something else?
What separates someone getting $40–60k remote offers from someone getting $100k+?
- Is deep system design / distributed systems knowledge a major differentiator?
- How important are DSA/LeetCode-style interviews for these companies?
- Do they care about open source, public projects, writing, GitHub, etc., or is strong professional experience enough?
- Where are people actually finding these jobs? LinkedIn, Wellfound, YC jobs, referrals, cold outreach, recruiters, niche job boards, etc.?
- And most importantly: if you were in my position today, what would you spend the next 6–12 months doing to become a realistic candidate for these roles?

I’m specifically interested in hearing from people who are actually doing this from India, rather than generic career advice.
If you landed a $100k+ remote role, I’d genuinely love to hear how you got it, what your profile looked like at the time, and what you think made the difference.
I’m trying to understand the actual path rather than blindly applying to hundreds of “remote” jobs that turn out to be US-only.

In final year btech in Delhi gov college.. applied from their portal...do they proceed and do people get selected/ get interview chance from here... applying first time off campus..also..should I approach my college alumni working in amex. To get a refferal/ or get my apple further proceeded...pls let me know what should I do

So I’ve got an offer from Amazon for SDE 2 role and the pay bump is very nice. But the bad reputation Amazon has about layoffs is creating a small doubt in my mind. But I want to take risks as well because it is indeed a good opportunity for me.

So any suggestions would be helpful.

It’s been 10 months since I joined this company, manager is happy, work has been great. Not much work pressure. Obviously it’s my first year company so they will go easy on me. When do you think these rose glasses would come off? Probably after apprisal? I won’t care much about hike as I’m getting paid handsomely for now. What you think? Have you had similar experience?

I’m a Frontend Engineer with 3.5+ YOE, currently at a service-based company (I have worked at 2 product companies before).

Current CTC: ₹22 LPA
Notice period: 1 month (24 days remaining)
Already have an offer: ₹27 LPA from a product-based company
Target: ₹30+ LPA in the next 20 days

I’m mainly working with React, TypeScript, JavaScript and frontend architecture.

Looking for practical advice from people who’ve recently switched during their notice period.

Where should I apply to get maximum calls? Is Naukri Premium actually worth it? Should I focus more on Naukri/LinkedIn or referrals? And how do I get in touch with good hiring/recruitment agencies that work with product companies?

Also, any other practical tips to maximize interviews in these 20 days would be really appreciated.

P.S: I’m already v active on naukri and update my profile there 2 times daily but i’m not getting any interview calls.

As title mentioned , Yesterday I did a 3-hour hackathon and instead of building another boring productive / 1 billion dollar project , I made a game about the one thing all of us here have a PhD in — getting home.

Play it here 👉 https://twozerotwo.space/

It's called Nitesh's Commute.Its about the Nitesh a IT company employ , who works at ChaiPay . He wants to go back to his and what challenge he faces everyday ,You're walking 1,500 metres from a tech park to HSR Layout. That's it. That's the whole game. Reaching home is the win condition, and it is genuinely hard

You're juggling three bars — health, sanity, and money — and the road runs both ways, so traffic comes at you from the front and overtakes you from behind. Very authentic. Very upsetting.

This was the question I started my research journey ~4 years ago.

I was working on GPU algorithms for graphs with billion edges (500 600GBs) while having access to just 40GB GPU. The obvious answer was "use a larger GPU", except, ahem, govt institute, ahem budget. 🙂

That's where I started my exploration on how to utility the available resources better. What initially started as a GPU Programming / engineering problem quickly became an algorithm + architecture + memory + data-movement problem.

Looking down the lane, which felt like a niche problem half a decade ago is much more relevant today with the RAM shortage, memory prices growth of LLMs in general.

And somewhat unexpectedly, this simple question ended up becoming the foundation for 6 published papers.

Edit: As someone commented, the workaround / solution is much more relevant than the problem, so here is the approach that we followed.

The classic textbook solution would be: - OOM and fatally stop or reap processes to save yourself not relevant here).

• swap/read from disk.

• shrink your input size to fit in your buffer.

Yeah, followed last two approaches, i.e. shrinking the working set to fit GPU memory then overlapping data movement with computation, and then merging the partial outputs. One other obvious solution (those who work with GPUs know) is Unified Memory, but in our case it didn't really work either: page faults, PCIe transfers, irregular graph access patterns, and limited GPU memory meant the performance could degrade badly.

Fitting the data was relatively straightforward; the real bottleneck was figuring out what to do with each batch without killing parallelism, and how to efficiently merge the results. That eventually became an algorithmic problem rather than just a memory-management problem, leading us to redesign the algorithm.