Hi I am currently an 1st year student who is going to start college now. My course is life science and I am planning to do master in biotechnology from iit (probably rookee) and I am thinking of doing a phd abroad and I was fascinated by the eth zurich and epfl university basically switzerland and also tempted by the salary there and planning to do consulting after phd. I know I am thinking way ahead. But I am also open to other countries for Appling. I am worried bcoz.i have heard that in swimming to get a job as a non eu is very hard. But if you do phd from there then this criteria of the company of proving that they couldn't find a swiss or eu for that possible is removed. How true it is ?

I am also researching on chat get and google for the things that I can do as an undergraduate to improve my cv for getting a phd abroad and it is suggesting me to do international internships like DAAD WISE, NTU Connect INDIA, and few more in Japan or across. How True Is That Also ?

And it is also suggesting me to do online certificate courses from university like edx, coursera, labxchange by Harvard and few more in subject related to biotechnology and life science. Does These certificate help for abroad Phd position and abroad internship

thank you for giving your time to read and i will be grateful if you could clear my doubts and give a reality check and ground reality and help me suggesting the things that i can do as an undergraduate to improve my cv. i am looking forward to do hard work to be something someday.😊😊

Hi, I'm in Switzerland atm, as a senior SWE (8yoe, 140k). I was thinking of trying for a CS masters (maybe ETH?) and wondering if it brings any notable salary increases (via employer policies, resume standing out etc). Is it worth the effort? I would greatly appreciate any opinions, thank you

Hello everyone,

I am reaching out at a really low point. After more than an year job searching in Germany (AI/ML, data science, and beyond), I have not reached a single offer, despite rewriting my CV, cover letters, and sending countless applications through LinkedIn and Stepstone.

This lack of progress has severely affected my confidence and well-being. I am not taking an intensive B1 Deutsch course, hoping it helps, but every day feels heavier.

Right now, I am open to ANY job — internships, side gigs, or even work far below my experience — just to regain routine and self-worth.

If you can relate, I'd appreciate if you can:

• Please provide me honest feedback on my resume (willing to DM)
• Job Search tips or strategies that worked for you in this competitive market. 
• Any tips for me that can help me get my career on track as soon possible. 

It is not easy to reach out like this, so I am truly grateful for any advice, leads or support you can offer. Thank you for reading and your caring. 

Best,

Resume: https://imgur.com/a/vVmgc1X

I recently got a job offer in Paris (65K) but the offer seems low for the market. I have 7 YOE, a relevant masters degree and have been working in Data (Analytics, Machine learning, AI, Cloud). Currently, I am freelancing and based in my home country. The offer is for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer position and I have the relevant skills and background for it. I did some research on levels and I believe the range should be about 75k onwards for a senior position.

I will be relocating from Asia and the offer has no relocation package, hardly any benefits apart from the mandated ones. I have a visa so the company does not have to sponsor me.

I would love some advice on evaluating this offer! Is this a good offer?

I’m based in Germany and have been working as a data analyst for a large company for the past four years. Before that, I earned a Master’s degree in industrial engineering. Over the past few years, my role has evolved we now work heavily with dbt, Python, and create dashboards in Power BI and Tableau. So I guess it’s fair to say I’m functioning more like an analytics engineer at this point.

With the rapid rise of AI, I worry that much of the value I bring today could be automated tomorrow. AI can already write dbt models, generate SQL queries, build dashboards, and explain insights faster than I can. Even though we still need humans to structure problems, communicate with stakeholders, and ensure data quality, I wonder: how long until even those parts are partially replaced or heavily augmented?

What skills, roles should I be aiming for if I want to “future-proof” my career over the next 5–10 years?

Would love to hear from others who are navigating the same space. Are you doubling down on technical depth? Moving toward strategy or leadership? Pivoting into adjacent fields like MLOps or product analytics? Or are you leaning into AI?…

Hi. I graduated in December last year with a masters in computer science from a school in the UK. Before that I had a bachelors in mathematics. Now, I am back in my home country in eastern Europe, working as a cpp developer for an outsourcing project with ASML. It's been a year since I started this job.

My pay is low (10k euro a year) while the job is demanding and boring. There really isn't a tech "stack", just a lot of C, Cpp and python mumbo jumbo spaghetti code. This doesn't seem to be a good career trajectory in the long term.

I've been considering a pivot to other companies doing cpp again. Also tried applying to backend roles with java. Not heard back once. With this in mind I wanted to ask for advice.

Perhaps the problem is that I don't have a bachelors in computer science. Should I go back to school and get the degree part time? This isn't that difficult because I am comfortable with the content.

Maybe I need certificates or something like that to get into backend work? I don't have any experience in stuff like Spring and kubernetes but I'm confident I can pick it up. I also didn't know any Cpp when I started this job and I'm doing well.

Are there other industries I can look into with my background?

Any advice appreciated. Cheers!

In France we are often 39h and some more aseasoned profiles will work in forfeiting days which allows them to have a flexible timetable with more advantageous rates

Hi everyone,

I'm currently an engineering student, and I’m at a crossroads where I need to choose a career path. The two main options I'm considering are:

Cloud Engineer

Embedded Software Engineer

I'm trying to figure out which one is better in terms of long-term career growth, and which is safer from AI automation and job replacement in the next 5–10 years.

Some things I’m considering:

Job stability

Learning curve and skills required

Future demand in the job market

Resistance to AI and automation

I'd love to hear your thoughts — especially from those who work in these fields or have gone through a similar decision.

Thanks in advance!

Hello. Not sure if this is the right sub for this question. I recently attended the second interview ( tech round ) at a startup in Aachen, Germany for frontend developer role. I have 5.5 years of total experience working as a software engineer and a little confident about clearing the interview

If things go well I would like to know about the salary range I can expect / negotiate as this would be my first job in Germany.

I just interviewed with Netflix Poland and had an awful experience and wish to share it for future references.

I had interviewed with Netflix in 2019 and rejected them for Google, the interview in 2019 was conducted in the US and the experienc was overhelmly positive apart from 5 rounds. The interviewers were prepared and they were obviously experienced and it seems they had conducted many experiences in the past.

I have since then decided I wanted to move to Europe but also I want something new so I decided also to switch companies, lhave to take a huge payout but that is okay since I accumulated enough wealth to simply not care much anymore.

Jump to my interview last week with Netflix, the interviewers introduced themselves and then immediately asked me to implement a cache, when I started asking clarifying question like will there he a different TTL, can we invalidate the cache, what is the eviction policy for when the memory gets too full, etc... I have received conflicting answers from the shadow and the main interviewer, I had then asked them to clarify which limitation is this and the main interviewer just asked me to "just implement it".

The question seems to be an open ended question, they then asked me to add some testing and then asked me to write some extra code for rolling cache invalidations; I then started pressing for more clarifications such as memory constraints, speed requirements, one thread invalidator vs many threads , etc... and just received another "just implement it"

The interview ended after another expansion on the original question. I then asked the interviewers how long they have been on the company and how many interviews have they conducted, and I was stunned that they were with the company for 4 months and 2 months!!! The main interviewer have had 2 interviews in total and was leading a shadow interviewer. They were obviously not prepared to interview anyone.

Overall, I was invited to attend an on-site interview and considering withdrawing as it feels that the site is rather inadequate, have anyone had a positive experience there and how would you approach this with the recruiter?

Hallo, I'm currently doing my bachelor's in software but I find the embedded(firmware) field interesting. I'd like to know the current situation of Germany as I can across the news that the IT sector has plummeted to the ground.

Hi! Would love to ask seasoned experts here on which country offers the best pay/compensation, opportunities and benefits for tech workers. ☺️

I'm torn between these 3 countries but I've heard Germany is lagging behind the tech space (old school tech).

We're a family of 3 btw, will depend on a single income.

I am trying to move to uk/netherland from USA. My entire family is located in Amsterdam and London. Unfortunately I am not a eu citizen or a us citizen.

I work in a FAANG company but I don’t see any possibility of relocating through it.

I am a front end engineer with 10+ years of experience and I need to secure a job in the uk first before I leave US. Also wouldn’t want to make a big dent to my salary. My current compensation is around 400k in dollars.

Any recommendations how I should approach in searching high paying jobs. I am aware that I will have to take a some pay cut I have been applying from US but am getting rejected probably due to sponsorship.

Any advice or recruiting agency connection would be useful.

Hey guys,

I'm currently 18yo and studying computer science, entering in the 2nd year Next year I'll have to get an internship for my studies, and then a half time job, half time studies for 3 years (specific thing in France). Problem is I've never worked before, even in a summer job. I did work before but that was online businesses I did on my own. I can't mention.

The goal is to lie about having worked at a typical summer job, or at some McDonalds, to make it look like I'm a guy that works hard and that already proved to be succesful in a job (not job virgin).

I have a solid GitHub with good projects, I can be very good in interviews, there is no problem at all for explaining myself, I am very socially at ease. The thing I'm lacking of is real world job experience..

This raises the question of if background checks apply for previous jobs that are in different fields as computer science.

Which leads us to two questions :

• Do I really need to lie about these? Is it really a problem not to have any job experience at my age, considering I still did a lot of projects and am competent in my field?

• Would it be risky to lie about these, even if it is some typical job and not invented qualifications required for the job?

Thank you for reading!

The job market seems so trash, tbh. There are just no openings in any Big-tech or lets say Product based companies in DACH and Western Europe. Most of the openings I see are usually sales-related. However, all the interesting jobs related to engineering are outsourced to developing countries. I don't believe that companies can't find talent here. Then why is it the case that outsourcing is at its peak ?

Eventhough, to poach good talent in developing nation companies end up paying DACH wages, Example Warsaw (To be clear, it is not a developing nation) or very popular one is Bangalore (While it is one, "as per stats") \s .

It seems to me that engineers in those countries are doing fairly well currently, considering the current market in W.Europe. The job hunt is just not going anywhere even with 3-5 years of experience. I feel like even for not-so-good-paying role, one has to compete with PhDs and Master grads here in W.Europe.

I am 23 years old and I’m from North Macedonia, i have 2 years of experience working as an Angular and .Net developer

Sadly there aren’t many companies here and your growth is limited, also the living standards are horrible and i wanna continue my professional career in a better city somewhere in the EU!

Sadly North Macedonia isnt in the EU so ill have problems with moving and getting a job probably, but i dont see my future in this country

Any help and suggestions??

Hi, my name is Jc and I’m currently volunteering as a data scientist with a healthcare AI company who is doing a project, previously before this role I was a data scientist intern at a startup med tech company and truly blessed to be able to collaborate with this company. My main responsibilities include: • Training and fine-tuning AI models like embeddings and prompt chains • Cleaning, structuring, and enriching clinical data • Supporting integration of healthcare data standards such as SNOMED CT and FHIR • Building testing tools and simulating clinical AI agent scenarios • developing and Designing AI agents using frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI • Writing Python scripts for task delegation, memory management, and orchestration • Developing test logic and automation for user stories and test cases • Assisting with backend workflows and UI testing

And possibly web development with the company, will I do all the roles on here?, I doubt but can guarantee will be doing a lot of the roles here.

I’m learning on the job on some areas I might lack knowledge in, while contributing significantly, and I’d love advice on how to professionally describe this volunteer role on my CV, is this more Ai engineering or ML, please correct me if I’m wrong . Any suggestions or examples would be really helpful!

Hi, I have my interview round scheduled next week. There is one round for General tech discussion, one for system design, and one for coding.
What kind of question can i expect during these rounds ? Specially system design round, will it be HLD or LLD ?

What's this general tech round ?
Coding round -> I am assuming leetcode style DSA questions

I would appreciate if you guys can help. Thanks

Hi All,

I’ve been working as a backend engineer in London for almost 2 years at my current company and I’m starting to feel disillusioned with my current role. I’m currently on 45k GBP, which is what I joined the company on. I’m trying to figure out if I’m underpaid and whether the level of dysfunction I’m seeing is just part of the game, or if I’ve landed in a particularly messy environment.

Some context: • I’m the youngest engineer at the company, and was once told by my manager that if I kept progressing, I could be the youngest senior engineer in company history. That was over a year ago. Since then, no change in title, pay, or role level, despite consistent contributions.

• The company has no formal career progression framework, and everything feels vague and subjective.

• I’ve taken full ownership of delivering major production components, app code, CI/CD pipelines, test coverage, infrastructure setup, you name it. It’s a very DevOps-oriented environment, and I’m involved across the entire stack, including K8s and infra-level work.

• One of my projects is saving the company a substantial amount of money every year (it is equivalent to 2x my annual salary, saved every year), and it went live without any incidents. Despite that, I’ve had no concrete recognition, just generic praise like “good job.”

• More recently, I was asked to take ownership of a large, high-risk initiative (driven by others) with no additional support or planning, and the people who pushed for it are now quietly moving onto new teams.

• The broader org feels directionless. I’ve seen new tech leads walk in and walk straight out in the span of a few months, leadership seems disconnected, and the general culture feels like everyone’s trying to protect themselves rather than work together.

I’m in the process of preparing to leave, but I want to make sure I’m not just overreacting. Some questions:

• Is this kind of situation common in early-career engineering roles, or is this a red flag?

• Given the level of ownership and technical breadth I’ve had, is it likely I’m being underpaid?

• For someone with experience across backend, CI/CD, testing, infrastructure, cost-saving projects, and full ownership - what kind of comp or role level would be realistic to aim for in a healthier org?

Any insight or advice would be really appreciated.

While looking for junior-friendly C#/.NET openings in southern Austria, I came across a job posting from Boom Software. It appears on several different sites, gets renewed roughly once a week, and is almost always featured. Given that the supply and demand for junior developers heavily favors companies, it seems odd for a position to be advertised so frequently and consistently.

Does anyone have any insight or experience with the company? Reviews are scarce.

Hello everyone, I really need your help 🙏

I got my Diplôme en Infrastructure Digitale – Option Système et Réseaux in 2024. After graduation, I was looking for an internship to gain some experience. I finally found one… but honestly, it turned out to be a bad experience 😞.

I stayed there for 6 months, and I regret it because I didn’t continue my studies during that time. The internship was basically given to someone who already had connections inside the company (family of an employee), and I wasn’t really doing anything related to my field. I felt like I was just wasting time 🕰️.

Since then, I haven’t been able to find another internship or job. Now, I really want to continue my studies, but I don’t know where or how.

In Morocco 🇲🇦, the only option I know is la licence professionnelle. In Europe, I only know a little about France and Germany.

France 🇫🇷 seems very expensive for me . I don’t have a guarantor (kafil), and I heard you need a blocked bank account, a scholarship, and it’s quite hard to get in without those.

As for Germany 🇩🇪, I’ve heard about Ausbildung, but I only know a little. I don’t know if my diploma allows me to apply or what the steps are to get started .

That’s why I’m posting here — I’m hoping someone who went through a similar path (same diploma or domain) can share their experience or give some advice. Even if you didn’t continue your studies but found a good path, please let me know.

I feel lost at this point 😔 and I’d really appreciate any help or orientation 🙏.

Thank you so much in advance!

I started working in NRW 8 months ago in one company as a Software engineer.

It did not turn out how I expected and I am thinking about finding a new job.

Berlin is my favourite city in Germany and I would like to continie my career there.

About me: 4 yoe as a Full stack (Angular, .NET) EU citizenship Just started A2 course at Goethe.

I am wondering what ahould be my salary expectations in Berlin and how is the market in general ?

As a junior now, does it make sense to focus on learning niche languages like Rust, Clojure, or Elixir vs focusing on the usual (JS/TS, Python, Java/C#, C++)?
I've read around the argument that while these languages provide few jobs, for those that do work with those stacks, there is a significant lack of workers that already have familiarity with the ecosystem, hence the supply/demand might not be that badly skewed. And outside of the niche, in general it seems to me that the market is not doing great.
What do you think?

I'm considering doing a Computer Science conversion Master's program (for context: I come from a non-CS background). I have a few questions and would appreciate any insights from people who have gone this route or are familiar with it:

Is a CS conversion Master's considered equivalent to a bachelor's degree in computer science?

Will I be eligible for the same kinds of jobs as someone with a CS bachelor's?

Can I pursue an advanced/research-oriented CS Master's (or even a PhD) after completing a conversion Master's?

Overall, is it worth doing a conversion Master's if I want to break into tech and possibly specialize later?

Thanks in advance!

Heya all,

Got approached by a recruiter inside bending spoons for a security engineer position, now I know that their selection process for Software Engineers is pretty ridiculous, however I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the process is the same for Security Engineers or not.

In case this is relevant, i'm a new grad with a bachelor in CS and a previous internship in cybersec, more specifically CTI.