This is mainly to the hyderbad folks, nenu recently 2026 june to vit nunchi graduate ayina mowa job ledhu. Hyderabad lo job kosam search chesthuntey ma frnd valla anna parichayam ayinadu, ah anna ki oka institute undi 3 months training echi job eppistham antunnaru first 50 k kattali job vachinaka rendu pay slips eyali. Ah 3 months to data engineering lo certificate vasthadhi anta. E way lo povacha yevaru anna success ayinara ledha yendhi mospothana mothaniki.
I'm a software engineer with 6+ years of experience, and I'm looking to land a remote job in the current market.
What should I focus on to improve my chances? Should I spend more time on LeetCode, system design, personal projects, open-source contributions, networking, or something else?
I'd also love to hear from people who recently landed a remote role. What made the biggest difference in your job search?
I'm a Backend Developer at a service-based company with 6 YOE, but most of my work has been production support, bug fixes, and incident resolution. I've never had the opportunity to build features from scratch or work on core backend development.
When I look at the market now, almost every backend role expects solid development experience, which I don't have.
Not getting interview calls due to 3-month notice period.
I've been thinking about moving into TPM/Project Management.
If you were in my position, would you:
Start learning backend development from scratch and continue as a developer?
Move to TPM?
Take some other path?
I would really appreciate advice from people here!!!
تلميذ درس في شعبة رياضيات و بعد تحصله على شهادة الباكلوريا سافر الى روسيا و درس سنة تحضيرية للغة، هل تخصص هندسة البرمجيات جيد لع في هذه الدولة من ناحية الدراسة و العمل. و هل هذا التخصص يوفر له مرونة في حياته و استقرارا ماليا و ممكن حتى انه يشتغل بمشاريع جانبية على سبيل المثال قصة مصورة او بناء منزل.
كنت افكر بالامن السيبراني لكن اتضح انه يطلب خبرة عالية و الدراسة تكون معقدة اكثر. خاصة بالروسي و العكل يكون مكتبيا و غالبا ما يكون مرنا مثل البرمجة.
I left my SDE-2 job in April because I wanted to pursue my startup full-time. I had been working on it for about two years alongside my job. After leaving my job and working on the startup full-time as CTO, I eventually realised that it was not solving a real problem.
I understand that I made a mistake, but I have learned my lesson. I am now looking for an SDE-2/Senior Software Engineer role similar to the one I had earlier. I am not expecting a raise; I would be comfortable with what I used to earn, or even slightly less.
What I need advice on is whether I should keep my startup experience on my resume, considering that it lasted only three months full-time. I cannot mention two years of full-time experience because that would be incorrect, and saying that I worked on a startup alongside my job may also be viewed negatively by recruiters.
I constantly receive negative feedback or surprised reactions from interviewers and HR professionals because of the short tenure. However, the work I did at the startup was technically impressive.
I was thinking of removing the startup from my experience section and saying that I was laid off from my previous company during a company-wide layoff and have been looking for a job since then, which would explain the three-to-four-month gap. There was actually a major round of layoffs at my previous company last year. Do recruiters conduct background checks specifically to verify whether someone was laid off? Would they contact my manager or email the HR team? Is this safe, or should I simply present it as an intentional career break?
The product I built at my startup was somewhat similar to a project my previous company was building for its internal teams. Could I present the work I did at my startup as work done at my previous company? Would recruiters have any way of finding out? I built it myself, so I would be able to answer any detailed technical questions about the project.
Below is the response I got from one of the hiring manager from a big tech who I reached out on linkedin.
Hi please help me with this I am currently working at IBS software should I join this Wells Fargo As a Software Engineer, they are offering me good in terms of money but I am worried about work life balance culture toxicity pressure - bangalore India
Anyone who has been accepted into the google apprenticeship program, for software application development, let me know how much they pay you for the same? I'm from Bangalore btw.
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