I have a preliminary technical screening interview scheduled at zalando for Frontend Engineer position next week, would this be a leetcode interview or related to Frontend skills?

Hearing so much doom and gloom from Germany , i just want to see if there are entry level junior people who got an offer?

if yes in what domain and what your german level?

I get it. .NET is great. I love working with it. But I'm a bit confused as to why it so totally dominates by local job market for backend/microservices/et. al given that Java has Spring, which is great.

FYI, my market is the UK.

Is there a reason for this? I know that Java is still more popular broadly than C# according to:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Does anyone have data indicating that Europe/UK buck this trend of Java being more popular?

Hello,

I have started my master's studies at a Swiss university and still have the option to choose between Data Science and Computer Science. The coursework will be almost the same since I can select my classes, so it’s mostly a matter of the name on the degree. Even though I will primarily take DS/AI/ML courses, I am tempted to choose Computer Science, as I feel it is a more recognized name and will keep more doors open for me if I decide to switch subfields in the future.

What do you think? Do you think it even matters?

What is the current state of tech market in Ireland. I have a few people telling me that there are comparatively more openings. So, is it worth going for MS there?

Anybody know of any sources that help US Undergrad students do a research/internship opportunity in Europe or Asia during the Summer and or Fall.

There are many study abroad, but those cost a fortune, I'd rather it be a lot cheaper, I don't mind if it's unpaid, as long as thousands of dollars aren't going spent somewhere.

Alright, I'm feeling lost right now and don't know what to do with my future.

If you have any advice, please guide me.

I'm a 20-year-old from North Africa, living in a remote village. I failed university and dropped out because it wasn’t even internationally recognized.

I've been trying for years to move to Europe with a work contract, and I don’t have the money to afford university studies there.

I tried learning cybersecurity, hoping to get a job in a first-world country, but I realized I’m competing with people who already have Master’s and PhD degrees—and they’re already in Europe. I doubt any company would take the risk of relocating someone below average from Africa while ignoring top-tier candidates.

My mother told me to become a barber or an electrician, but I don’t want to do physically demanding or exhausting jobs.

So, I moved to Plan B—which is to avoid skills that require a university degree (like data science or machine learning) and instead focus on a profession that only requires a strong portfolio.

After researching, I found that digital art is one of the few fields where degrees don’t matter much.

So I started learning Character Modeling and VFX, but the problem is that this field requires a very powerful computer, and I'm too poor to afford it.

Now, I’m looking for a skill that only requires a strong portfolio.

Do you have any ideas?

Hey everyone,

I’m exploring the idea of launching a boot camp designed specifically for software developers to turn them into AI engineers specialized in the healthcare industry usecases.

As you know, healthcare is rapidly evolving but still has a huge demand for tech expertise—especially given its unique challenges around security, compliance, and specialized use cases that aren’t easily automated by AI.

What’s the idea?

• Duration: 3–4 weeks

• Commitment: Around 8–12 hours per week of live learning/coding sessions

• Curriculum Highlights:

• Key healthcare AI use cases

• In-depth sessions on healthcare security, encryption, compliance, and guidelines

• Best practices in healthcare UX design

• Walkthroughs of important AI applications in healthcare GitHub repos, with hands-on exercises

• Bonus: We’d also help connect you with recruiters from major healthcare companies at the end of the boot camp.

For those of you who might be interested or have insights into bootcamps pricing, what would you consider a fair price for this kind of service? Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or any questions you might have!

Hello there. I am thinking about moving back to Poland after living in Canada for my whole adult life. I have a Polish-Canadian citizenship, 20 years of programming experience (exclusively Canadian), I speak PL, EN and FR. How would I go about finding a job in Warsaw / Cracow / Gdańsk? Should I look for recruitment agencies? Is it ok if my Polish is slightly rusty? I never actually used Polish programming jargon. How is the Fintech in Poland? Thank you!

On the internet, I've seen a lot of people claiming that programmers should learn C programming language. Their typical reasons are:

• Many modern languages (C++, Java, etc) have syntactic similarities to C, so learning C can make it easier to pick up other languages
• Leaning C helps you to understand how computers work. C compiles to machine code with minimal abstraction, so it forces you to think about CPU registers, stack vs. heap memory, etc.

These reasons seem valid, but I wonder if learning the C programming language alone will get you a job in Europe (especially in EU countries). My reasons are:

1. I just don't see many job posts if I search LinkedIn by using "C programming language" as a keyword
2. I haven't seen any C software engineering jobs that don't require prior coding experience with C. They typically ask for at least a few years of experience. (To be fair, many other software engineering jobs also require prior experience with specific tech stacks, so this isn’t unique to C.)
3. The majority of developer jobs are web, mobile, or enterprise application development. If your job is one of them, you're likely to use higher-level languages (Python, JavaScript, etc) and very unlikely to have to deal with C.

Hence the question - Does learning C programming language get you a job (at least here in Europe)? Why or Why not?

EDIT: For context, I already have 9 yoe as a software engineer. Currently I'm a Node backend developer

I am a masters student applying looking for an internship, but I will have to come back for another year of study after it.
Right now I am in the interview process for a data analyst/engineer internship at Amazon and Citadel. I don't have any other information yet, but I assume that Citadel offers a somewhat higher salary.
After getting my masters, I would like to work either in Tech, at a FAANG or some interesting startup (maybe even try to create something of my own) and I don't see myself in Finance at all. But I still applied at Citadel just because of the prestige of the company itself.
What would you suggest me to do? I'm of course aware that there is but a very little chance for me to get both offers, but I would like to better understand where my priorities should be?
Amazon seems to be the right place for me during an internship, but Citadel would offer a better compensation and I thought that the brand name could look very good on the CV (maybe even better) no matter where I decide to go later on.

I'm a first year Business Informatics (Major IT) masters student (Non-EU). How hard is to land a working student job (in IT / Business Analytics) in Germany (Near Dusseldorf)? I have a couple of projects in Java, SAP-ABAP, HTML/CSS/JScript, Tableau and made an app with a company as well as a part of my university project. Personally, I am currently learning SQL, PowerBI, Python and Data Analytics techniques in my free time. I'm also working on my German skills (learning B1 right now).

I have completed my Bachelors in the same field from Germany as well.

I have been applying for working students jobs left and right, but have not been able to land one yet, not even an interview. Any tips on how to get one in the current market? (Tried customized applications and mass applications both).

With some certifications and published apps on stores to show

We study for 4 years here, help the economy and we have a bit of hope that after we can gain some valuable EU experience as there are many Global tech companies in Budapest, but now? we’re screwed

•Dumbest of all you can’t apply for certain visas with a Hungarian degree (😭😭??) •Student visas expire approx 5 days after graduation •The job seeking visa for students has been scrapped •Taxes are over 35% for foreign U-25s •You can’t work here unless you find a job that pays over 700kHUF monthly (1,710€)(which isn’t easy to come by)

I currently know people who have to go home because they earn less than 700k, it’s a mess and it’s absolutely gut wrenching that i gotta go back home straight after studying we all just wanted a bit of work experience which has always been attainable here

I'm a non-EU student about to graduate in France soon, and I've been living in France for a long time. I'd like to get EU citizenship soon (for stability sake).

I currently have two new grad offers:
- One in France with a TC of around €60k-70k.
- Another in the Netherlands with a TC of around €120k-130k (FAANG-tier company).

The Dutch offer is very tempting due to the significantly higher pay, but there are some trade-offs. If I stay in France, I could get citizenship in about 2-3 years, whereas in the Netherlands, it would take around 5-6 years.

The job in France also feels safer. If I get laid off, I'd have up to a year to find another job, while in the Netherlands, I'd only have about three months. Plus, I don’t speak Dutch, so I'd mostly be limited to international or big tech companies, where the hiring process tends to be much tougher.

But high-paying tech jobs are much harder to find in France. The tech scene there isn’t as strong as in the Netherlands.

While the TC in the Netherlands (and the tech scene) is very tempting, it's also riskier. What would you think?

Hey, so my situation is that I'm 30 years old, I originally started my carreer in engineering and worked for 2 years on the mechanical side of things. I recently finished an engineering PhD which was quite simulation heavy and involved quite a bit of coding. I think largely due to this phd I was hired by a small company in my niche to do software engineering (back end, Java, SQL) and data science and modelling (python). I am actually enjoying the job but I am concerned about the long term viability of this career move and if I should return to my old industry instead. Despite the general advice of staying away from small companies I am not unhappy with the job itself but:

• Is starting at a small company going to make it harder to get jobs at larger companies?
• is not having a CS, software or data science degree going to hinder my career opportunities long term?

Not to mention the field is not doing so hot in general at the moment from what you hear. The problem with asking on reddit is that everyone is from different cities, in different countries in different sub-fields and with different CVs so I know no one can say what my job prospects really will be, but do you in general think my worries are justified or overblown?

Hi guys,

as the title says I am being offered an entry level salary of 54k + 10% bonus.
This is at a small (750 employees I think) tech company headquartered in the valley for their Munich office.

I will graduate with a bachelors degree (Business Informatics) and will have worked there for a year, 6 months full time as an intern and 6 months part time as a working student.

It is a technical support/consulting role for their proprietary data management platform they are developing and selling.

I guess this is more of a question about if and how I should negotiate my offer and not about if I should take it given the job market and that I like the company, role and the potential to transition into sales engineering/solution architecture eventually, which I am interested in.

Do you have tips and experiences on how to negotiate up? This is also my only job offer as I didn't really apply in time to get counter offers.

Would be glad to hear back from you :)

I got a 2200€/month summer internship as a high school student (with big SDE experience and many competitions in portfolio) in Austria. Any tips how/where to look to make more druing internships, especially next summer (still in high school) and then in university? I suppose getting a good role in big tech like Google would be easier/higher paying in Germany than Vienna? Thanks for the advice!

I'm currently living in a rather rural part of the country but I want to move to Vienna to study.

Hey everyone,

I’m a backend developer with over five years of experience, and I’m considering a career switch. I have two paths in mind: Cloud (DevOps/SRE) or Data Analytics, but I’d love some advice on which might be a better fit.

A bit about me:

• I recently completed a Master’s in Data Science (though I didn’t study as attentively as I should have).
• I’m not strong in DSA and have average math skills.
• I’m willing to complete a certification (Google, AWS, IBM, etc.) to strengthen my skills in either field.
• I’ll be relocating soon, so I’m also interested in knowing which countries have strong opportunities in these domains.

For those who’ve been in either field:

• What do you enjoy about your work?
• What are the biggest challenges?
• Would one of these options be a better fit given my background?
• Are there specific locations where demand is higher for these roles?

Looking forward to your recommendations—thanks in advance!

Hi, if you have any suggestions, websites or sources to find IT jobs in Germany after completing Bachelor's from out of Germany, please do tell.

Hey all

So after a career mainly spent in networking in NOCs I have hopped around different teams of which some are more routing and switching heavy on Cisco and exchange equipment where some have been application focused, DNS servers, internet filtering, load balancing etc.

After a stint here i went into solution architecture but there was not enough time spent in the cli and getting the dopamine hit of fixing things so i went back to become an engineer again, this time working for an SD-WAN company troubleshooting.

After this i took a move to amazon working as a systems engineer, time mostly spent on ec2 and ensuring we have instances available for launch, few python scripts here and there along with bash, go, javascript and typescript for pipelines. Spent time troubleshooting and log diving amazon linux and worked for S3 for a short while.

Im looking to leave and find a new role elsewhere but im struggling for where my skillset would be appreciated whilst also fitting what i enjoy.

Id love to find somewhere with the same amount of troubleshooting as a NOC as well as some free time to develop code to solve problems or develop wiki pages for resources for engineers and dashboards. But id prefer it to be more weighted to troubleshooting as i would class myself still a beginner programmer who leans a bit on AI. It would have to pay around the £75k mark in the UK. Also if you can suggest any companies with a good WLB for suggested roles would be so helpful.

My feelings right now:

1. Scared
2. Doubtful
3. Hopelessness

As the title says my 9th month of unemployment has started. I am an introvert with 5 years of experience in Node.js. I am very bad at articulating concepts. This has hurt me bad.

My interviews so far

3 interviews rejected after first round. 1 interview I rejected because the contract was like I had to work overtime a lot including holidays and weekends (my health and my family isn't in a good condition to take up this) 1 Interview went to the final round although it was in Golang. I blanked out in the onsite interview. They said my assignment task was very advanced and they liked it. But in the end they rejected me.

I am on unemployment benefits, which will get over in 3 months. I am not a German, so I am not sure what to do if I don't get job after 3 months.

Having questions like:

1. Should I go back to my home country where I won't have the problem of house rent, but still I will be jobless
2. Or stay here in Germany do some physical delivery jobs until I get a tech job

I am so confused. I am scared even if I get the interviews, how would I convince the 8 months + gap to them.

Any advice would give me some hope. I am not able to self motivate although I say stay strong and keep going, the negative thoughts are overwhelming.

Edit: Thanks for all the responses I understood what I need to do in the coming months like : work more on my communication skills following some techniques, present myself confidently, fear not to fail and practice these points as much as I can. Regarding my wife, yes I understand your concerns that she should help, but personally she is not in a state right now because of her health issues and being on medication and that's the reason I do not want to force her into a job and let her just assist me in looking after the house. I will revisit and update this post again if I am successful in getting a job or I decide to move back. Thank you again for everyone for valuable advice.

For context, I have 3 YoE and because I got my first job without a degree and then I also changed it after a year, right now I work full time and study part time to get Bachelor's Degree in CS. I've done 1,5 years of my Bachelor's so I am halfway done. Honestly, I know that Master's is 1-2 years long and I could force myself to do it after finishing Bachelor's, but I really do not feel like it. I will have 5 YoE by the time when I will get my Bachelor's Degree.

In your experience and based on your knowledge, is it beneficial to have Master's Degree on your resume after you already have like 3-5 YoE, will not having it hold me back, especially if I decide to move between countries in Europe? Is it worth it to force myself to get Master's or is Bachelor's enough?

I recently got offer from Barclays as a fresher for a role of BA4. But, I have a doubt regarding my salary distribution. There is a field for variable benefit plan which in included in my AGS (Annual Gross Salary). What I want to know is do we even get the complete amount of this benefit plan or is it just some fake thing to just show that the ctc is high.

Please help reddit community.

Hi, We’re US citizens, we are considering moving out of the US sooner than later. Both my spouse and I have over 15 yrs of experience each in the industry. I was wondering what kind of visa sponsorships are typically needed and since there are more ND people in our industry, I also wanted to get an opinion on which countries are safer for autistic kids. Thank you.

Hi,

Looking for some advice and maybe some considerations in moving back to the EU after 20 years in Australasia.

• 40 years of age
• EU passport holder
• 4 years Cyber Security experience - SOC/Incident Response
• Private and Government job experience
• Hold a security clearance in my current role

I would like to move to a country in Europe where there is good quality of life and I can earn a good wage, live quite simply and have an opportunity to still travel around Europe on weekends / days off. If I can manage a hybrid / remote role even better.

Anyone working in the field / have any recommendations or love what they do and where they live. I would love to hear from you :) and it would help me make a decision as to where I want to go.

I'm currently in my 3rd semester of a Bachelor's in Data Science and AI and need to choose two advanced (9 CP) courses from the following list:

1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Machine Learning
3. Image Processing and Computer Vision
4. Automated Reasoning
5. Database Systems
6. Neural Networks: Theory and Implementation

I want to invest in subjects that will be highly relevant in the future and worth diving deep into. My goal is to build strong expertise that will help with research, job opportunities, and future advancements in AI.

Which two would you recommend and why? Any insights on career impact, industry trends, or difficulty level would be appreciated!

I have a work sample as a additional attachment is more complicate than many working system.

Cv, CoverLetter , WorkSample what can I offer more ? I modify my cv and cover letter for the position most of the time for making the match is 100%

I try to use a humble language in the cv and cover letter , I don't know but is this cause rejection ?

Hey all,

I am a masters student from a reputed university in NRW and about to finish my masters in Elektrotechnik with a major in statistical learning. I was offered a PhD position in the domain of data but was revoked at the last stage due to the funding not received citing the financial condition of the government. I have been applying to a lot of companies lately and I am finding it hard to convert these applications into interviews. Kindly review my CV and help me out. Thanks in advance.

The link to my cv: https://imgur.com/a/aex81GH

Hello everyone. I'm 29 years old and I'm moving to Italy for six to eight months (with the possibility of staying longer). I have my citizenship but I'm not planning to go to other countries because I'm traveling with a friend, and we plan to live together to make it cheaper.

I'm a senior software developer (six years of experience), my stack is mostly .NET and Angular (but I have also worked a lot with Python). I'm Argentinian and I barely speak Italian. Can someone guide me on the current IT situation there (I'm moving to Turin) and what the average salary is for someone with my experience? Is there a possibility to work remotely for another country?

Since my Italian is really bad, I'm scared I might not find a job with an Italian company. Thanks, and have a nice day.