Software Engineering

Is anyone else nervous about getting pushed out of tech as you age? I love software engineering and can’t imagine doing anything else, but I worry the industry won't love me back in ten or fifteen yea...

I just graduated with my bachelor's in computer science at 26. I had a good GPA, but it took me a few extra years to get through the program for various personal reasons. My main concern right now is ...

In my ten years as a software engineer, I’ve discovered a bizarre trend that smooth projects often get less recognition than chaotic ones. It may be due to a perception that it must have been an easy ...

My current full-time job is a total dead end and I'm miserable, but it's stable. A recruiter reached out about a contract-to-hire position that's exactly what I want to be doing, but I'm wondering if ...

What’s your take on oversized Pull Requests? Knowing that it’s the norm of AI assisted development, automation hasn’t still caught up with humans reviewing the changes.. I would and still reject overl...

With all the layoffs and general anxiety about what's next, I’m seriously overworking myself. I’m scared that if I don’t, I’ll get let go and never find anything else in this field. If you recently we...

Ageism sucks. And I see older folks constantly subjected to it. But let's be clear, ageism isn't *just* towards older people. A common occurance is older people trying to pull rank on younger develope...

Is anyone noticing more bugs across the web and in software in general? Our team’s been seeing bugs across cloudflare, GitHub UI (we’ve been seeing the pink unicorn a lot), VS Code randomly breaking. ...

Final-year Software Engineering student based in Perth, WA, actively applying for internships. Would love any advice from engineers on what companies look for in junior/intern candidates — especially ...

​I previously worked at a credit union where software developer salaries were way under market ($50k–$60k), prompting me to leave and triple my income. ​I later discovered that the chief of technology...

What’s the “worst” codebase you’ve ever worked in? I oversee a handful of legacy of inherited services and am finding incremental ways to deprecate/sunset what I can. It has a ton of dead code but it ...

Am I overreacting or is this a completely reasonable thing to be anxious about? My company has been doing surprise layoffs with no heads-up whatsoever. You'll notice someone is just gone from Slack on...

Sprint planning as a new grad is a foreign language. Is it normal to feel so confused? Every time we do sprint planning, I feel completely out of the loop. The senior devs speak entirely in acronyms a...

I keep blowing past my own estimates, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to get more accurate. Every time I think I've scoped something out, the actual work takes way longer than I planned....

My manager wants me to mentor our new hire next month. I’m a little stressed about it because I still feel like I’m still just winging it most days, even after a year. Is it normal to feel underqualif...

What are some of the trends in reference to programming language usage in the industry now? I'm currently an IT Service Desk analyst with a degree in Computer Science, and I want to get back into soft...

I am going into a second round interview for PNC Bank as Software Engineer (Java) role. I'm feeling nervous but good nonetheless. Are there any tips or anything you would be willing to share with me?

My manager keeps pressuring me to go for a promotion, but the payoff is terrible. I was passed over last year, so now I feel good about my decision to resist. It's basically endless paperwork and corp...

I'm unsure how much it actually helps to list personal software projects when looking for a job. I've been a lead several times and did not receive any resume' with a link to a github/gitlab project. ...

How do you handle a PM who won't stop creeping the scope after sign-off? Seriously, every single sprint it’s the same story. We agree on the goals, lock it in, and then a few days later it's "just one...