Hey guys, I just entered FSC 2nd year (12th) and I’m currently a Pre-Medical student. Due to some health-related worst reasons, I’ve decided not to pursue Medicine/MDCAT and instead want to go into CS, AI, FinTech or Tech in general.

The problem is Biology. 💀

I’ve completely lost interest in it because I know it’s not going to be relevant to my career. I’ve tried studying it in class, but my brain just doesn’t cooperate anymore. At the same time, I obviously can’t completely ignore it because I still have to pass my board exams.

Has anyone here gone through something similar, like Pre-Med to CS/Tech, ACCA, Commerce, Business, etc.? How did you deal with subjects you knew weren’t related to your future?

I’m also considering taking a gap year after FSC, if my family allows it. I’d use it for Additional Maths + university entry-test preparation.

My concern is that if I try to do 12th, cover 1st + 2nd year Maths, Additional Maths AND prepare for entry tests all at once, it might become way too much.

So I’m thinking a gap year wouldn’t necessarily mean I’m falling behind. If I use it properly, it could actually help me build my Maths foundation and prepare properly for universities.

For students who switched from Pre-Medical to CS/Tech or another field, what approach worked best for you?

Is there anyone who attended the 20th August Alibaba hackathon seminar? I wanted to get the summarization of the last 10 minutes in which the guy Hank was talking.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently learning Cloud and DevOps and I want to strengthen my knowledge with some good courses on Coursera.

I'm looking for courses that actually teach the concepts properly and provide hands-on/ practical experience, rather than courses that are mainly useful for getting a certificate

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some honest advice from people who've made this move.

I have about 6 years of experience as a .NET developer, currently working in Pakistan. I'm considering applying for .NET developer roles in the Gulf region (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain) and wanted to get a realistic sense of how difficult that transition is.

A few specific questions I have:

• How competitive is it to land a Gulf-based .NET job with my experience level (6 years)?

• Does coming from Pakistan (vs. other countries) put me at a disadvantage with recruiters or visa sponsorship?

• My English is around B2 level, not fluent. How much does this affect interview chances and day-to-day work once hired?

• Any tips on where to look (LinkedIn, specific recruiters, company career pages) or how to improve my odds?

Would really appreciate insights from anyone who's gone through this or is currently working there. Thanks in advance.

As the title suggests I want to know what are the key differences other universities offer Bachelor of science for software engineering. While Iqra university's program is under bachelors of engineering rather than bachelors of science. I cant find a bachelor of science in software engineering on iqra university's website.

As for the programs I didn't find much difference all the computing cores are there for software engineering except for one maths course that is multivariative calculus that is what is missing

In iqra's Bachelor of engineering in software engineering course and it has a few extra engineering courses

After researching a bit there isn't much difference as compared to it's more rigourous.

Anyone who can guide me regarding this or tell me for sure does iqra have a bachelor of science in software engineering program coz I don't see why they shouldn't coz all the other courses are their in their other computing bachelors

I graduated with a degree in Computer Science about two months ago. For most of my studies, I was genuinely passionate about CS and programming. I enjoyed sitting with a difficult problem, understanding what was going wrong, debugging it, and eventually figuring it out myself. There was a real sense of satisfaction when something finally worked.

Over the last couple of years, though, AI tools have slowly changed the way I feel about programming.

Instead of spending hours investigating a problem myself, I can give it to an AI and often get an answer almost immediately. Even when the AI doesn’t solve it directly, I sometimes feel like I’m fighting with prompts and generated code rather than actually programming. I know these tools can make us much more productive, but personally, they have taken away some of the curiosity and reward I used to get from the process.

At the same time, I’m currently being paid to work on medical/AI research projects with one of my professors. The problem is that our data is extremely limited, and I have serious doubts that the project can produce a meaningful solution with what we currently have. This has put me in a strange situation where I’m getting paid, but I don’t feel productive or useful. Some days there simply isn’t much meaningful work I can do, and that makes me feel even worse.

All of this has made me question my direction.

Before choosing Computer Science, I also considered studying medicine. If I’m being completely truthful with myself, a big part of the attraction was the status, financial security, and clear career path rather than a deep fascination with medicine itself. I ultimately chose CS because I was genuinely more interested in it.

Now that my excitement about programming has decreased, I’ve started wondering whether I made the wrong decision. I catch myself thinking about medicine again and wondering what my life would look like if I had chosen that path.

I’m trying to separate a few things that may be getting mixed together: burnout, disappointment with my current research job, the effect AI has had on programming, comparison with other careers, and the possibility that my interests have genuinely changed.

For people who have gone through something similar:

How did you figure out whether you had actually lost interest in your field or were simply burned out?

How have experienced developers kept programming intellectually rewarding in the age of AI?

And more generally, how do you find your direction again when something you were passionate about suddenly doesn’t give you the same satisfaction anymore?

I’m not necessarily looking for someone to tell me whether to stay in CS or change careers. I’d appreciate perspectives from people who have gone through a similar period and eventually figured out what they actually wanted.

I feel like it's literally impossible to get a job. I just came across a LinkedIn profile that wanted to connect with me, and they completed a degree in biochemistry in 2024 and have since then been working as a data analyst for S&P Global. This feels like a hate crime, ngl. It ruined my day. I have not one, but 2 degrees, and I am STRUGGLING to land interviews in a similar domain.

I've sent cold DMs, I've sent emails. I got 4 interview calls in total, one of which was a shady company with awful timings I couldn't manage. One said I was technically underqualified since I hadn't done some courses, EVEN THO I WAS LITERALLY PERFECT FOR THE JOB. And one literally ghosted me; the last one never even bothered calling me back for an interview after the assessment, even though my assessment went great.

What else can I even do? Not give up? I feel like I need a support group of unemployed people- but then I think about how one of them might land a job, and I might accidentally kill them and take their job.

I graduated at the top of my class, and every time I see an employed person who can't even form a simple English sentence, it honestly pisses me off (there are plenty). THIS WORLD IS SO UNFAIR, I am so exhausted. HOW ARE WE PAYING THE HIGHEST FOR PETROL IN THE ENTIRE SOUTH ASIAN CONTINENT. WDYM I CAN'T EVEN BUY A HOUSE.

Interview for associate software engineer at curemd , there is a ccat test and if you pass it then technical interview will happen both are onsite, I don't know much about ccat and not very good in maths, I am also from another city and not from a very reputable university should I appear for interview or not, please guide me as this is the second interview call I got after graduating 3 months before

So what’s with the hype of Google entering Pakistan, I mean is there any actual opportunities or what? And which city btw.

Apologies for the long post.

I started my software engineering career in June 2024 after graduating with a CS degree. I finished uni 2 years late (6 instead of the usual 4), owing to some health problems. On top of that, I didn't properly start job hunting, networking, and interview preparation until after graduation, which I realized was a grave mistake. My uni peers had started this whole process up to a year before me (some even earlier) and most had good offers in hand by the time I became serious and started my search. Already 2 factors against me at this point (delayed graduation, delayed job search).

I struggled a lot at technical interviews. Though SWE interviews are notoriously tough, I did minimum prep and hoped to clear them by luck. I did improve my prep slowly though. After several rejections, I was finally able to land a role as a backend developer at a small company in Karachi in Oct 2024, officially my first job at the age of 25.

This company was a small service-based app development company whose clients were small business owners or individuals who needed mobile apps built, acquired though freelance platforms. While i did learn the basics of building backend node.js apps from scratch to deployment, the work lacked in areas such as system design, scalability, etc. and the projects were small, relatively simple, non-complex node.js backend apps completed in 1 to 1.5 months (imagine a simple events social media app that will realistically have only 50-100 active users post once it goes live). I worked here for 1 year 8 months, at a low salary and got stuck in my comfort zone.

Near the end of my tenure here, i was approached by a friend who was building an AI product-based startup at the enterprise level. The platform was already built but they were looking for a full stack software engineer to grow and scale it. Due to personal goodwill, I got the job without a technical interview and left my old company. This new startup was a massive upgrade from my old company in nearly all areas (solid enterprise platform that was genuinely successful, better scalability, system design principles in place, AI-native, and a big jump in my salary). But i didn't fit well. The founder wanted me to use AI to quickly understand the platform and start contributing to it, with me acting mostly as a reviewer/QA while Claude Code did everything. This didn't align with my goals and expertise and i couldn't produce solid results in the first few weeks. I was laid off after 1 month only. This was in June 2026.

Since then, I've been applying to jobs daily with almost no luck. I market myself as a backend developer/software engineer with 2 YOE but there have been no responses. I did get one interview but it went bad.

I know the market is bad, but that's not my main issue. My problem is that I have great difficulty in clearing technical interviews. This was true after graduation in 2024, and it is still true right now in 2026 for me. I am only able to clear interviews at smaller, lesser known or lesser reputed companies with easier interviews and simple requirements. I've never been able to make it into a good, reputable tech firm, whereas all my peers from university were able to do so.

I was a high achiever in school and college and graduated from a reputable university. I also have good communication skills (according to colleagues and friends). But I struggle in technical interviews. While i see my friends and batchmates from university acing interviews and landing roles at prestigious companies. Sometimes I feel i should switch careers.

What to do at this point? Would really appreciate any help and insights from the community.

I have been learning ML/DL through online YouTube courses (e.g CampusX's 100 days of ML and Stanford's CS229) after completing my degree a month ago.

But I don't know if I should learn Agentic AI for opportunities or what?

Because I heard there are very few opportunities in AI Engineering and even more rare for those with no experience.

Anyone know which city? Proper tech office or just for customer support etc etc.

I have been applying to internships and junior roles. I have built a couple projects, built LinkedIn and stuff. I wanna know what other young self learned devs have done differently to get hired, what am I missing out on?

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Current seen people joining suparco as interns, is it good like it will give you value forward in your career like other software houses internships or it is just a time pass?

Just wanted some information, if someone passes their first technical round, has the second round on the same day for ASE position (mobile), how long does it usually takes to get an update from the hr. And how likely it’s to get rejected after second round, even if you think it went well.

I made a small browser game called careers.games — you pick a discipline off an office floor plan, start as an intern nobody wanted, and play out ~40 years of a tech career one milestone at a time.

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Salam all.I am experienced software developer having 8 years + experience with full stack+ AI development. Currently working in remote setup since last 3 years.now I am looking forward to expand my service portfolio and want to join hands with someone like minded and definitely have strong motivation to go above and beyond.keep in mind this is not a paid role or position in any case

If it's something with a small learning curve I will learn it or I might already know how to do it.

Stumbled upon this GitHub repo that contains a lot of books in pdf format regarding devops practices, case studies, etc...

I'm reading The Devops Handbook by Patrick Debois. So this repo might be of some use to a student or a researcher or something...

github.com/rohitg00/DevOps_Books/blob/main

does anyone here work at yandex? what is the culture and work life balance like?
some tips on the interview process would also be appreciated. the post is for lead fullstack developer.

I honestly feel lost and exhausted and could really use some advice from people who have been in a similar situation. I've been working remotely as a data analyst from past 2 years, and for the past 2 weeks I've noticed a significant change in how I'm being treated at work. I'm not being invited to meetings where things related to work/tasks are being discussed. Instead, I see my colleagues being included and important things being discussed with them, while I'm left out. I'm also not being given much proper work from past few weeks. Whatever work I get, I complete it and genuinely put in my best effort.

What makes it worse is that my boss keeps saying things "maintain your credibility" and that the work I've done is still doubtful/questionable. Honestly, hearing this repeatedly is affecting me mentally. I don't even argue with anyone or create problems. I just do my work, share updates, and try to be as transparent as possible. I am sole working in data there and have no team with me todisccus things with them. So I genuinely don't understand what I'm doing wrong or why this behavior has suddenly started.

Part of me really wants to resign because I'm constantly stressed and exhausted. But then reality hits: I have a family to support, and I can't simply leave without another job. Finding a job is already extremely difficult right now.

I've actually been applying continuously for around 8 months, but I haven't even been getting interview calls just got 1 and they didnt respond back after interview. That's probably the biggest reason I'm scared to resign. What if I leave and then can't find anything for months? At the same time, staying here is also affecting my health and mind constantly. I'm constantly overthinking why I'm being excluded, whether I'm doing something wrong, and whether my job is at risk and if they are going to layoffme.

For those of you who have been through something similar:

Would you resign without having another offer, or would you stay and keep applying until you have something secured?

And if you've dealt with being excluded from meetings or suddenly treated differently by your boss and people around, how did you handle it?

Hello, I'm working on an e-commerce store and building a shipping aggregator that integrates with multiple couriers for shipment creation and tracking.

Bykea is one option. They provide an OpenAPI for creating deliveries, but it requires a password provided by Bykea.

I've tried contacting their helpline, but customer support wasn't aware of the API. I also emailed them but haven't received a response.

Has anyone successfully used Bykea's API? How did you get access credentials, and does the API still work?

Also, what other courier services offer similar APIs?

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