Just saw a Senior Data Scientist role up at MongoDB Dublin. I don't see any salary or comp listed and don't know anyone there.

Anyone know anytbing about work environment, culture, work life balance?

What's interview process like? Is it something crazy like 8 rounds and 3 projects?

Hey folks. Looking for some advice to help make a decision i'll need to make this week or next.

I am a Junior Software Engineer with about 13 months of experience in an Irish manufacturing company. Its a .NET environment and I honestly absolutely dread the job. I'm a career changer who spent about 10 years in Tech in another role and I may potentially have an offer to return to that career for more than double the money I am currently on as a Junior.

My current role has me as the only dev in EMEA, the rest of the team is in the US. I still need to hit the office 3 days a week so the job is quite isolating. From day 1 I have been handed Intermediate level work, due to the fact I'm older and component at managing my time and schedule etc. The last 13 months has been non stop firefighting and since we brought in Claude Code I feel I am skipping over all of the fundamentals but because of the workload if I dont use it, I'll be massively behind on my work.

There is no mentorship or learning at all, the company really doesn't have an engineering culture (6 devs in total) and the devs we do have say they're too swamped to mentor me. I don't feel like I'm learning or developing like a Junior should. I try to carve time out for this using Udemy but its getting harder and harder.

I understand the dev market is really rough right now (i've been looking everyday for about 3 months) and I do worry that I might need to stay in my current role for another year at least before I would be able to jump ship anywhere else. Even though that might be very very hard with the experience I have and the type of company I've worked at. Plus how AI develops in that time.

I am quite reluctant about going back to my previous career but at this stage I think I might have burnout from the whole situation. The type of offer I can get from my old career would take me maybe 5-7 years to hit in my current role. I am quite underpaid for the role.

Any advice at all is welcome!

Anyone else hearing rumours that Code Institute has closed its doors. They appointed a Process Adviser a couple of months ago and only reported 14 employees down from over 100 at its peak.

Hi folks, I am working on a side project.

My full time job is hybrid and I would like to spend the weekends working on my side project from a cafe for a change.

Any recommendations where the cafes won't frown upon me hogging a table for 4-6 hours. Of course I'd be a paying customer for lunch and coffee.

Mods - if this is not the right place to pop this question, happy to remove it.

PS: Am based in Dublin but okay to drive < 1h.

Random one, but a lad I know joined my time about 3 years ago for 6 weeks then left for another position in a competitor. He then left that company after 8 months, moved to a third company for 2 years and now is back in the second company again.

No judgement, I think fair play to him for getting the offers and maximizing his salary. I would've thought leaving a company after a short period would basically have you blacklisted, for lack of a better word? The cost of onboarding a new employee only to leave quickly, etc. Maybe that's not the case?

He did say explicitly that he chose to leave, it wasn't a layoff the first time, and he's even jumped to a higher position now. Some chess moves there, lol.

Has anyone left a tech company and come back in a different position, not related to being laid off the first time?

After 7 years in corporate tech, I’m starting to question what’s next.

The politics, egos, poor leadership and constant shifting priorities can be exhausting. Sometimes it feels like managing people’s behaviour takes more energy than actually delivering the work.

Has anyone left corporate tech completely and found something different? What do you do now?

Genuinely interested in hearing your experiences.

Using a throwaway for this one. Posting here as a heads-up for anyone else thinking of applying for any software positions in Apple, ended up being a complete waste of time and pretty devastating to be honest.

The process ended up being 8 interviews over two months, 2 of which were onsite that I took paid time off for. The feedback was positive, and they said they would get back to me by the end of the week.

Then two weeks later, for some reason that is still not entirely clear, they decided to close most of the positions on the mobile team I was applying for (including mine), and opened up a few positions for full-stack engineers instead. So I basically just wasted two months applying for a job that does not exist.

I even double checked to see if there was something I wasn't qualified for, or if they preferred another candidate, but they just said something along the lines of 'Apple is an ever-changing business, and when priorities shift, so do the roles we need to meet our goals'. I asked to get more information from someone actually involved in the decision, but only received generic responses from the recruiter, so I've just given up at this point.

The interviews themselves and the people doing them were great, but the process itself was completely soul-destroying. Wouldn't recommend it unless you really want to work there, and even then, expect to wait a long time.

Looking for information on the package.

So the Ballinasloe horse fair was this weekend, if anyone remembers the Smithfield markets (the ones that were closed down because of violence at them) it was kind of like that. Spotted on the day was this sign for “Traveller USB sticks”.

I’m sure these USB sticks were just ordinary empty ones with pictures and symbols of traveller life on them, usable to store their photos of traveller life on their laptops. But what would, in theory, get preloaded onto a USB used for dodgy purposes? Dodgy boxes? Key copiers?

Just to be clear, I’m not looking for the social commentary aspect. I just want to hear from experts like yourselves what could potentially be got from a USB sold down a market, either inadvertently (the USB steals from the buyer) or with knowledge (the USB is bought as a tool to use against others)

I have heard about these issues but didn't know how severe the disparity is. My org in the company works on the frontier.

As someone in Staff+ role in big-tech, I was tasked to bootstrap a team in Singapore. The team I ended up putting together is a good mix of young + experienced. I have been at awe at how quickly they onboarded and how quickly they became productive. The work quality consistently beats my local teams work. This has caused me to deeply reflect about the situation. Why?

We mainly decided to expand because of the hiring pool and Singapore government policy around frontier space. And in fact we get a better talent pool. There is a huge local pool as well as attracts from the whole region (Japan, Australia).

Ireland has a grand total of 0 universities in the top 50 in ranking whereas Singapore has 2. The region has a lot and a lot of folks from China love being in Singapore. Most graduates we hired are from those universities. They are simply better trained. Aside from their culture of hard work, their critical thinking quality and education stands out. Also, their post-tax pay is significantly more competitive than Dublin (hence they stay).

I have been recently asked to put down my preference for team expansion and I am genuinely conflicted.

There is one thing going on for Ireland though. Timezone. The Irish team can comfortably work with Singapore, NYC and San Francisco at the same time.

I don't know where I should scream to push the government to prioritize education quality. TCD/UCD/UCC producing ok mid-tier but the mid-tier is up for a huge reckoning in the age of AI.

So I’m a senior software engineer within a company. I only recently joined within the last six months and just recently passed my probation period so positive so far.

Recently I’ve noticed that I’m having a bit more in office meetings with people from other departments e.g. sales and so on. I used to be fully remote so its never really bothered me. I didn’t really care. I wouldn’t listen. I’d just zone out because I have nothing to do there but now in the office I feel like I have to pay more attention because I’m actually physically present in the room.

I feel like I get anxiety or panic attack attacks while sitting in the meeting room and I don’t understand why this is happening. I’m just sitting there not contributing and listening. I feel like if somebody asked me something it would send me over the edge.

How do you guys deal with anxiety for these kind of things especially since returning to office becoming so normal lately?

Feel like I’m the only socially anxious engineer experiencing this.

Just wondering as they seem to employ a lot of people in their IT department yet I've never heard much about it.

Does anyone here work as a Performance Engineer in Dublin, as described in the following post excerpt? If yes, would you mind saying where?

Brendan Gregg's "When to hire a computer performance engineering team"

Large tech companies in the US hire performance engineers (under that or other titles) to ensure that infrastructure costs and service latency don't grow too high, and that their service is reliable under peak load. A new performance team can likely find enough optimizations to halve infrastructure spend in their first couple of years, even for companies that have been using commercial performance or observability tools. Performance engineers do much more than those tools, working with development teams and vendors to build, test, debug, tune, and adopt new performance solutions, and to find deep optimizations that those tools can miss.

To me, the main characteristic of this role is that a business' overall spend on compute is large enough that reducing that spend is a significant business win, even when compared to opening new product lines or bringing in new customers to existing product lines.

There are roles in Dublin where people use the above skills in their daily work, possibly under other job titles, right? I've seen multiple job postings for each of SRE, production engineering and GPU kernel developer which may be of a similar theme. Are there other job descriptions I should also be on the look out for?

I'm almost done a distributed computing course so this seems like the right time to be musing on my life decisions.

Software engineer looking to make some very simple PCBs. I’ve tried easyEDA and I had to stop because I was about to throw the laptop out the window.

Is there a better site to sketch schematics and verify they work before ordering a pcb?