I am a working professional in the US. I graduated from a State University about 3 years ago and have been working at a Fortune 100 company ever since. This year I did not get picked for H1B lottery. Unfortunately for me it means that my work authorization will expire next Feb. I plan to enroll in a masters program next summer semester in Germany. I have a B1 German speaking certificate but I am genuinely scared about the Job Market. I can try and increase my German level to B2 before I graduate but considering the current economic situation I am unsure if there will be Jobs available for a new Masters Grad in 2027. What are your thoughts?

For any europeans here who might have experienced this: how do you find a company to do your masters research/ thesis with?
I have been in academic research for some time now, and would love to take a break - and go explore the industry if possible. But I dont know where to start looking for a company who will let me do research with them?
For context if it helps: I will be starting my masters this sept in computer science, focussing on ML and computing systems. I have around 2 years of experience working in ML, and I did my undergrad in UK. Right now I am evaluating my options and considering the best place to do my research with: in academia, at a research lab or at a company.
Absolutely any comments or thoughts or opinions (or even criticisms) are welcome:)

Hey folks,
As an expat who landed in the Netherlands about 1.5 years ago, I've been navigating the Frontend job market here, but I could use some insights from those in the know.
Currently, I'm employed as a senior Frontend developer at a consulting company on a temporary contract. Unfortunately, I've been on the bench for a couple of months now, with insufficient client work available. It seems likely my contract might not be extended in coming months.
I'm gearing up to start job hunting again, but I'm hitting a wall in terms of finding exciting opportunities in the Netherlands. Anyone else experiencing a similar situation? How's your experience with the current job market for Frontend roles here?
Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated as I navigate this transitional period. Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I have been working in an IT field (Atlassian products) for about 10 years now, got some great experience including working for Atlassian itself. But from last year, I have had a hard time finding good work. So I tried to proactively search for it.

I developed a decent website with projects, referrals and references, nothing. Created a profile on all those portals like Yunojuno, Malt, Peopleperhour, Upwork, Contra, nothing.

Contacted many Atlassian partners in the area if they need someone with my profile to help out. I'd say I have had about 2% success rate.

Contacted people I have worked with in the past if they know of someone who I could help, nothing. Attended local meetups, no result.

I tried applying for various Upwork jobs, but the people there have pretty wild expectations, like a $5-$10 hourly for a Senior Project Manager (not my field, but still). With my level of experience, it feels like I cannot compete with someone living in Pakistan who is fine with going by $5/hour.

At this point, I'm just wondering what I haven't done yet. What piece of the puzzle I am missing. I'm considering contracting a business development specialist or a sales freelancer to help me get to new clients, or buying a list of leads that use Atlassian tools and cold-contacting them myself at this point.

This is something that bothers me. I have 10 years of experience in my field including some good references and portfolio pieces and could be considered a senior person with a valuable skillset. Now, I'm a bit lost as to what to do next when I want to find more work. It feels like I'm missing some important piece of information that would help me get new customers more easily or even more simply.

Thanks for reading through my whole post. Have you been in a similar situation? What worked for you?

I interviewed for a small company (less than 50 ppl) about 7 months ago. Long story short, there was three rounds of interviews, I did well in all, but they went with another candidate that had more years of experience

I was approached a couple of days ago by the same recruiter, asking if I was interested in another role - out of curiosity, I said yes, and she mentioned that the same company wanted to expand their team even further. The company was wanting to speak to me, and I had an initial chat with the hiring manager - we talked about what has happened since then, and asked each other questions. It was really informal. At the end of the call, the hiring manager mentioned that they have other candidates they would like to speak to (That's fine), but that they would like to put me through to the next stage - but the interview process is now four stages (call, technical test live, take home exam, then meeting with the team/culture)

I'm thinking I want to decline this interview going forward because I don't understand why would they would want to do another set of technical tests. I was already evaluated in the past and they were happy with my skills - what do they think is going to happen, that I've gotten worse at my job in the last 6 months? The technical exam that I did in the past for them isn't anything that would be reusable by the way, so I don't think it's them getting free work. I could only think that this is for me to 'impress' the new engineer that was hired initially.

Should I continue interviewing or decline? I would feel like a huge idiot if I went through another four rounds of interview for them to give to another candidate (seven rounds in total, fool me once...). I could understand this if this was FAANG, but this is a small company with less than 50 employees...

Hey guys,

I'm 28, I'm Belgian and I've been offered a job in a big German software company. I would need to relocate and I can choose between the region of Paris or the region of Cologne/Bonn. The salary and the benefits will be the same in both countries and will be 58K€OTE (47k + 11k bonus which will 100% be reached) and I will work 40h/week. I can speak German and I can speak French. I don't necessarily want to live in the city center of these cities since I know it's really expensive but would still want to live in the city area

I would want to know, where will 58k (€ be more enjoyable and in which country is it actually better to work. I know that taxes are a bit higher in Germany and there are more days off in France, so France seems a bit better but I would like to hear about your opinions to make a wise decision since it's a pretty big move for me.

Thanks,
Since

So I’m a software engineer with 3 years experience. I would say I’m a mid level engineer but the current place I work at doesn’t use similar scales to tech companies ( I work in banking and I’m a senior associate ).

My current base salary is £60,000 and bonus is performance based. My work life balance is pretty good and I’m comfortable where I am. The team is very chill but I’m not comfortable with how much I’m being paid. I wanted to ask if this is a good salary for my years or experience or should I be earning more.

I’m also looking around various subs and people are talking about how hard it is to land a new role in the current market. Can people with similar experience let me know if that is the case for experienced hires or just new grads.

I have been burnt out for so long now, I would say years, but I never had the chance to take a break for longer than 2 weeks. Early in my career I would work 90% of my awake time and thats not an exaggeration unfortunately, due to this I got extreme burnout which just gets worse and worse.

I feel like I have 5% or the productivity I am capable of, while being super tired all the time.

I really don't know what to do. Taking two weeks of break always helps but 2 weeks is not long enough to fix my problem.

Because of my visa I don't even have the option to just save up and live using my savings for a while.

The job market is pretty terrible now as well so I don't want to risk losing my job etc.

I might try to get sick leave via my psychiatrist but I doubt I can get sick leave for that long, and it won't pay me 60% of my salary.

I am really lost and hopeless, any recommendations would be appreciated.

Hello, been working as a java developer for about 3 months in a big insurance company, the problem is that i feel overwhelmed, and i get stuck by each given task, and also what motivates to quit is that they still use EJB , JPA, JSF , old technologies , and i dont want to regret after 2 years , since new technology is in demand

Yesterday I published the report on Salary Trends in Berlin 2024. It focuses on Tech & Startup scene in Berlin with the main goal to increase salary transparency and to help you benchmark where you stand.

You can read the report or try the dashboard.
https://handpickedberlin.com/startup-tech-salary-trends-berlin/

(Disclaimer: data is not statistically relevant!)

I’d love your feedback. We did the analysis in 2 weeks on top of full-time work, so I’m open to your comments and ideas for improvements. Are there additional charts/deep dives or dashboard features you’d find useful? Let us know!

It seems to be on this subreddit.

Most people I know only apply to like 20 jobs.

How would you even apply to 300+? Do you apply to several different areas in different cities and countries? Do you find 300+ jobs interesting?

Hi. Some help. I recently cleared the first round with team lead. And looks like I'll be in the onsite rounds now.

What kind of Salary are we looking for a top hedge fund, working in middle office as a software engineer?

Role is for a Senior Eng

Edit: London

I recently applied for what appears to be an L3/L4 role and passed the first stage but I realised that I have little to no idea on what to expect in terms of salary.
The data I found onlin doesn't seem very convincing to me with huge disproportions sometimes, and so I figured would be better if someone who already works there gives me an idea.
Thanks in advance.

Hello guys, I have been working in Germany for 30 months under German Blue Card, my German level is certified A1. I'm a non-EU citizen and have finished my master CompSci in Germany.
- I recently got laid off and werent be able to find a new job (IT market now sucks). My contract would be terminated by the end of this month. Afterward my Blue Card would still be valid until end of July.
- I wanted to apply for the permanent resident permit since it only requires 27 months with A1 German, but I didnt know that getting the Einbürgerungstest would take so long (4-8 months for both termin+result). By the time I get the result my contract would valid no more, therefore I can't apply for the permanent residence permit using the Blue Card.
- I was invited by my friend a few months ago as a startup co-founder in Munich. We havent incorporated yet so he can't have me as an employee (insufficient funding, need at least 25k for registering and 40k for my Blue Card), and our operation now relies on some seeding grants from incubators. These grants ensure my livelyhood with scholarship (tax free), in exchange I have to commit full time on the startup. My startup is actually a very potential one and we already progress really well with several funding, so I dont want to let it go.
Regarding this context, I would like to know if there is still a way for me to secure the PR? Is converting from Blue Card to freelance visa viable? If it is viable, will my previous contribution from Blue Card transfered over to the freelance visa, or I have to start all over again?

I'm relocating to Poland later this year and considering a career switch to either QA Automation or development (non cs degree). Based on my research on LinkedIn, it seems there are more entry-level openings in QA compared to roles in React or Node. What should focus on learning? My priority is securing a job as soon as I arrive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, for context, I am a recent graduate from Georgia Tech with my BS in Computer Science. My long term goal is to work at a robotics startup, so I am doing my masters in robotics to have more opportunity to research and hopefully gain connections in the robotics industry. Going back to Georgia Tech would be simpler for me, however, I know that I am getting a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to study in another country. ETH Zurich has the best robotics program in Europe, but I am worried that studying in another country may make it impossible for me to return to the USA (which I would like to do eventually). Education wise, I know I can't go wrong with either, but I wanted to ask others to see if anyone had any suggestions or thoughts. Any advice helps:)

Many people go for faang but i feel just as many dont even want to go there or dont even try. Was wondering what this sub in general feels about them. Do you want faang or not?

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Hello Everyone,

I think that traditional data science roles started to lose their shine. For example, in past feature engineering or traditional machine learning models were in trend however nowadays i see that mostly LLM models are the ones who are under spot lights. I feel that data scientist role is changing and employment of traditional one is rapidly decreasing in data teams. What do you think?

Hey everyone!

Here is my situation, i am a recent graduate and have been applying for roles in London for the past 4 months. I have managed to get about 10 first-stage and 2 second-stage interviews and these have helped me learn a lot about the interview process. All of these have been for data analyst/data engineer roles. I'd like to say I have the skills necessary for these roles but I am failing to get any offers, probably because of my lack of experience in the sector (I only have 3 months experience from a summer internship as data analyst.

My current tech stack is Python,SQL and PowerBI but I am considering starting to learn C# in order to make a switch to software developer. While I have coding experience in Python, C# is completely new to me.

As I am failing miserably to land a job, I would like to know if anyone has been in a similar situation and/or may have some valuable advice.

Thanks in advance!

For context, i'm an international student and i dont have any work exp in CS. I know thats pretty bad especially in the current job market.

I have an offer from UCL in the UK, and University of Rochester in the US and i'm trying to decide between the two. The cost is about the same, and while UCL is a higher ranking uni, I like the program at URochester more.

How important are referrals in the UK? I have quite a few friends working in big tech companies in the US, and a relatively smaller network in the UK. Should that be an important factor for deciding?

I also had kind of a related question about referrals. Is it possible for my contacts in the US to give me a referral so I can interview with that company in the UK? Not very sure how this process works.

I could use any any feedback on the 2 unis, the referral process, and the current/next year job market. Really appreciate it!

People often discuss about getting downleveled when joining a big tech from a small company while they get much higher pay. However, how common is it to get downleveled going from a big tech to a startup while pay is more or less same? You might want to join that startup because they work on cool stuff.

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Hi guys,

I'm from Germany. I have restructured my resume since I have discovered the LaTeX resume on overleaf.. I have got more than 30+ rejections just by email and had only 2 interviews since 1 month. One rejection after the interview and now I am waiting for the response of the second company.I had listed 9 projects in my previous resume and overall, the descriptions of job experience and also projects were not really good. However I hope to hear some feedback so I can send further applications hopefully after having a good resume now.

Thanks in advance..

here is my CV

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Hi, so I got a bachelors degree in computer science in the end of 2022. Then I got a full-time job in a different field. This job now allows me to have about 80 hours a month left to do something.

So I was thinking I would do some programming on the side since I studied computer science and I am interested which field and technologies should I learn so that I could get a part-time or freelance job? I have about 1 year of internship experience combined (4 months backend Go, 4 months Blazor, 2 months PLC programming, little of PHP 5.4 and JS, ...) and of course knowledge from college. I was thinking to focus on backend, but I don't know if this is the right choice. Should I try something different like embedded, DevOps, mobile, blockchain ...?

I would like to focus on specific field and technologies because now I feel like I know a little bit of everything but nothing in detail. Which field and technology should I choose?

As the title says, I'm a machine learning consultant who has my own business with 10k € to spend on conferences. The money has to be spent on conferences specifically. On the conferences, I can network with people. I would say I'm decent at this; I'm new to networking for my business specifically, but I don't have any fears of talking to strangers and things of that nature.
I was thinking of spending most of the money on business conferences (not machine learning / artificial intelligence conferences) as I can then talk to CEOs or project managers and offer them my services. Machine learning conferences could be good for me to network with people who do the same thing I do, but I think that for landing new projects this is a better strategy.
So my plan would be to spend most, if not all, of the 10k € on attending business conferences and connecting with CEOs and project managers and offering them my services. I'm open-minded to other suggestions, however. If you were me, how would you spend that money? My goal is to land projects with me as a machine learning consultant.

P.S. X-posted on /r/entrepreneur

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Hello folks hope you're doing well , recently i made this website using React js in the front-end and i am using Contentful CMS in the backend to get the data that you see on my website

Can you please guide me through what all improvements i can make to make it better?

when i search for the website it appears last , also it has no description like you see in a website when you search for it in chrome or any browser.

here please take a look and guide me , thank you !

https://www.stacksaway.tech/

Hello All, I am a AI and DS team lead working for a startup based in Ireland. I am currently pursuing my MBA from France and am looking for opportunities in the same space. I have made a CV and am looking for suggestions and improvements to it from the community. Please do let me know all feedback. PS: As I can’t upload my cv here, I will share mine with you over the email or chat if possible.
Here is the CV

M27, 3YoE in consulting (Financial services - Credit Risk) looking for a job either in UK or in The Netherlands. Which platform/website do you recommend ??

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I have been living in Germany for about one and half years. I came as a CS master student.

Before coming here I had about 3 years worth of experience, mostly in Flutter. But after arriving here I realized that it's not required here, especially for someone is looking to work with big companies.

After that realization I have started to learn somethings that are required here, and I'm interested in. so I learned Django. every week for the past one and half years I have applied to jobs in all fields of cs.

I'm starting to lose hope of finding job.

can you give me advice. I'm willing to learn everything needed. or even work for free at the beginning just so I enter the market.

I was asked in my company if I am interested in relocating to Barcelona. I would like to know if it is better to move there compared to Hyderabad and if yes, how much salary should I expect and ask? I’m 27M(Single) and have 7 years of experience and I’ll get around 50 LPA here in India.