Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Serious]

There are absolutely folks with CS degrees that can't code competently enough to ship any code to production. They might know how to use a language or two but they can't actively think of test cases, apply business logic, debug their own own code. So I'd say that article isn't completely invalid especially with the sheer number of students using vibe coding to get their through their degree programs.

There’s principal engineers in my company that don’t know sql or python.

I submit my code for production and they’re amazed at all the different shyt I got going on.

 

[cyndaquil]

The older I get the more I kinda resent how companies take advantage of junior devs naivety to get them to perform 10-12 hour days. Most of them are young, no kids, sometimes no significant other and so they are ok filling their excess time with extra work and burning themselves out. Most more experienced devs know better than to give the company all our time when we don't have to but the juniors still dont know how to say no and even if you tell them to chill they'll keep going to kiss management's ass in hopes they dont lay them off. Yet more experienced devs know the layoffs don't even really come from management unless it's performance based otherwise the higher ups just give them a number to get rid of and tell them to pick. It's lowkey fukked up

 

[Serious]

The older I get the more I kinda resent how companies take advantage of junior devs naivety to get them to perform 10-12 hour days. Most of them are young, no kids, sometimes no significant other and so they are ok filling their excess time with extra work and burning themselves out. Most more experienced devs know better than to give the company all our time when we don't have to but the juniors still dont know how to say no and even if you tell them to chill they'll keep going to kiss management's ass in hopes they dont lay them off. Yet more experienced devs know the layoffs don't even really come from management unless it's performance based otherwise the higher ups just give them a number to get rid of and tell them to pick. It's lowkey fukked up

I may be guilty of this to a degree….


I don’t put in 10-12 hour days, but in the 3-5 hours I work in a day, I’m very efficient and make a fukk ton of connections when I’m working.

Work is kind of fun. With that said, I could slack off a bit more. My curiosity keeps me in the game at times.

 

[dontreadthis]

Does anyone have any System Design interview prep insight. I have two "Platform Engineer" interviews coming up and although I have my AWS Certified Developer I am murky on where to focus on exactly to prepare.

For example, one company's platform could (I'm guessing) feature real-time message ingestion of biometrics info from wearable tech. So I am working through Alex Wu's System Design content, specifically the "DESIGN A NOTIFICATION SYSTEM" part and this Github Primer.

Interviewing recently, I've been exposed to coding quiz apps with state in React or using DbFiddle to navigate a schema in interviews, so this kind of studying is newer to me.

 

[bnew]

Just keep coding

https://reddthat.com/post/49043545

Programmer Humor@programming.dev

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/9eb5f1b1-1091-4e1e-80a5-6c4335c44da6.jpeg

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Posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2025 at 10:34:53 PM GMT-04:00

 

[Secure Da Bag]

The world owes Russia a thank you. Markov chains, the math runs the world.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Work-life balance is the gutter, brehs . Aint had a goodnight sleep in months. Oncall rotation and the thought of being "managed out" for not keeping up is whooping my ass

 

[Water]

Work-life balance is the gutter, brehs . Aint had a goodnight sleep in months. Oncall rotation and the thought of being "managed out" for not keeping up is whooping my ass

Left my last job because of this. After a certain point the money wasn't worth it to me.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Work-life balance is the gutter, brehs . Aint had a goodnight sleep in months. Oncall rotation and the thought of being "managed out" for not keeping up is whooping my ass

What the hell does the job consist of? Writing/debugging code?

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

What the hell does the job consist of? Writing/debugging code?

Ain't trying to dox myself on here so not happy to go into details.

But I'm in "big tech" aka F-word...and I'm part of a team with a public facing service. Meaning you gotta put out fires every week in between the gazillion ad-hoc projects that suddenly pop up every month. Worst part is I ain't even making crazy paper like that but the name recognition is the investment

 

[Flight]

Been delving into front end development. Any courses or camps you guys would recommend to improve at Java and CSS?

 

[Renkz]

Been delving into front end development. Any courses or camps you guys would recommend to improve at Java and CSS?

I'm not sure on java.
But I have used freecodecamp.com to work on css and flex box

 

[Ish Gibor]

Been delving into front end development. Any courses or camps you guys would recommend to improve at Java and CSS?

Any AI Chatbots I use ChatGPT, but any other does the job. There are minor differences in the training approach.

 

[Flight]

Appreciate y’all

 

[null]

Been delving into front end development. Any courses or camps you guys would recommend to improve at Java and CSS?

java for front end? swing?

maybe javascript?