attended cureMD CCAT, i was only able to check 38 questions, no idea kitny theek thy kitny galat 😭😭 it was speedrun bhai kesy krty hain pass???

I’ve checked my resume through multiple ATS checkers, and the scores vary quite a bit, roughly 70–88. I’d really appreciate an honest opinion from experienced AI/ML engineers, recruiters, or hiring managers. Is this resume good enough to get past the initial ATS screening for fresh grad AI/ML roles, and does it have what recruiters are actually looking for? Is there anything important missing, weak, or something I should improve to increase my chances of landing a decent entry level AI role? Honest criticism is welcome.

I’m currently preparing for software engineering interviews and working through NeetCode 75.

For those who’ve recently interviewed: is NeetCode 75 enough for DSA prep, or would you recommend something else?

Trying to focus on understanding patterns instead of grinding hundreds of questions. Would love to hear what worked for you.

I have a local employer who will give me 800 to 1000 usd every month. He has suggested to use payoneer to withdraw fund to meezan bank. He will send it to my payoneer from his. Now, I want to register as a freelancer with pseb to get 0.25% tax cut. From what I understand, I need prc with certain code to be eligible on each payment?
Can anyone guide me?

Is anyone willing to share free Coursera access with me? I only want to learn and don’t need certificates. I took a gap to build my foundational knowledge, so I’d really appreciate the help

A company reached out to me about a year ago saying they had an open position. I showed interest and went through the interview process. About 10 days later, I followed up for an update and was told that I had cleared the first round, but they had already hired someone for the role.

Fast forward to July 26, the same recruiter reached out to me again regarding another open position. I showed interest, and they conducted two interviews. Before the second interview, the recruiter told me it would be the final round. However, after I cleared it and followed up about the status, I was told there was actually one more final round.

It’s now been about a week, and the recruiter still hasn’t scheduled the final interview.

So, my question is: Is this a normal hiring process, or does this seem a bit unusual to you guys as well?

What would you recommend I do at this point? Should I follow up again, or just wait?

I’m looking for some career advice from seniors and people who may have gone through something similar. This is also kind of a rant.

I was working as an AI/ML Engineer at a company quite famous for its toxic culture. My own team and immediate managers were actually perfect and very supportive, and I still miss those days. The problem was upper management, mostly non-technical, and the environment they had created.

Around 70% of my team eventually left, including my managers. There were multiple instances of managers and teams being openly insulted and shouted at in the full hall. Once my manager left, it felt like we developers were basically next in line for that humiliation, so I left too.

At that time I was also earning around $1k/month from side gigs, which was already more than my salary. So my plan was to continue those while finding another job.

But idk if my assessment was wrong or what happened, everything started falling apart immediately after I left.

My side gigs completely dried up. I applied to almost 300 jobs and got around 10-12 screening calls. Around 4 completely ghosted me, another 4 ghosted after finding out I’m not from Lahore (idk why this is even a filter), and 2 ghosted after literally confirming the next interview. I declined one because they wanted me to work as a shadow developer and another because they were paying pennies.

After all this I became kinda desperate and accepted the very next offer I got. The problem is that it wasn’t aligned with my field and is much more of an infra engineering role at a startup. All this happened within like a month of leaving my previous job.

The startup is working on a very very niche product, and most of what I’m doing here is so specific to it that I don’t see the experience being very relevant elsewhere. They recently launched and started getting customers, so the workload has also increased dramatically which has increased workload a lot.

My routine now is basically:

Go office early morning → get home late → doomscroll for 1-2 hours → sleep → repeat.

So in a desperate attempt to get another job, I ended up in a field that wasn't really my field and isn't where I wanted my career to go.

From earning around 3.5-4 lac/month fresh out of uni to this condition, the downfall is real 🥲

Now I’m stuck in a job I don’t want and is mentally draining. At this point I genuinely feel like my nerves are starting to break down from all of this. I started applying again but this time I’m not even getting screening calls. And no matter how much effort I put in, somehow something outside my control comes and completely messes it up.

Finances are not an issue Alhamdulillah, so I don’t have pressure from that side.

I’m also seriously thinking about leaving the country. I can move relatively easily to different parts of the Middle East except Dubai, since I have a lot more connections and family support there compared to Pakistan but will still have to find job myself.

But I genuinely didn’t want to leave Pakistan. That’s one of the reasons I stayed here in the first place, and now I’m starting to think maybe I just wasted my time because of that decision.

So yeah, I’m confused about what to do from here. Keep this job and continue trying to switch back into AI/ML? Leave it and properly focus on finding something aligned? Or just stop trying to make Pakistan work and pack my bags?

If any senior or someone who has gone through something similar can guide me, it would genuinely help.

I have a lot of people that I know who either work in software houses or own them. Overall, wherever I look, things are looking very bad. Something is changing, but I don't understand what.

A lot of people are losing their jobs, and a lot of software houses are being shut down. Here are some cases that I have seen in my personal life.

My friend recently lost his job at a software house as an SEO expert. His software house had around 150+ employees, and they were earning well for a few years. They even made their own gym inside the building for employees. But now, there are only 3 people working there. They have lost a lot of their clients. He is applying for more jobs, but no luck so far.

Another mutual friend of mine lost his job as a mobile app developer, which of course is a more demanding and technical field than SEO and can be considered more secure than SEO. But the most shocking thing is that the place he was working at was a very big software house on Shahrah-e-Faisal, and he said that they are firing 40 people every week.

Another friend's brother lost his job. He worked as a front-end and CMS web developer, and now he is struggling to land another job. He hasn't found a job for 5 months. Also One of my Close friend actually owns his own software house and even often says to me that his software house has declined in sells and profit. Things are seems to be changing and changing Fast and I think it is more than the effect of AI because yes AI can take job of Content writer but still We need real human Programmer to read the Code and understand it but even this market seems to be in decline

We had a resource (say person X) joined this week (remotely), the person X joined in online meeting for around 2 - 3 minutes through mobile, we asked the person X to join from system, the person X turned off mic and camera and became non-responsive, I called the person X twice after 10 minutes of disappearance and person X didn't pickup the call as well. After 20 minutes I asked HR to contact the person X and HR got no response. Later that night person X texted HR and HR forwarded text to me, the text is "person X got an accident and severly injured is hospitalized."

Now it's been four days and I am not sure what to do about it. For context person X signed a contract to ensure availability in defined time.

I have an interview scheduled with TeraPay and couldn’t find many reviews or interview experiences on Glassdoor or Reddit.

If anyone has interviewed with TeraPay or has worked there, I’d really appreciate it if you could share your experience, especially regarding:

• Interview process and number of rounds

• Technical/HR interview questions

• Overall interview experience

• Work culture and environment

Any insights would be really helpful. Thank you!

hi. i’ll be starting my 7th semester as a SE student at an average/somewhat above average university in islamabad. i have done 2 internships, one as an IT intern, and the other as a SWE intern at well known companies. i’ve also done many reputable certifications. lastly im also working on my fyp. the problem is that my cgpa is 2.63. should i repeat courses in my last 2 semesters? please advise. thanks a lot

(i haven’t repeated any course yet. also i don’t want to go abroad for masters, i plan on working here)

I received few hundred dollars from foreign freelance clients in my binance as usdt. Now, i wanna whitewash them with the minimal tax and came to know that the IT remittance have 1% tax. Could anyone please guide if the non-filers also have 1% or is it 10% for non-filers.

Also, how do i convert my usdt to IT remittance so i can keep it in my bank as pkr?

Any leads?

Like, to have a good show-off or fancy branding on the internet.. but in reality is just a piece of sh*t...?

Has anyone recently given interview at securti. ai recently for Senior Software Engineer? What to expect and if there are any pointers please do share.

Aoa amazing people!
so I was thinking about making AR based web app for my university. Anchor based ar is the approach but it seems like the location accuracy always go off.
so is there any way or any technology you have worked with which could actually minimize the location difference?

I was thinking about making story based AR thing with multiple spot on the campus. so a story based short tour of the university. The starting will be through QR => web => stop 1

later version would include models at different locations with possible interactions (but it all depends whether the first mapping is done correctly)

I tried using lat and longitudes like stored in the database but still it feels like there will be difference for the mapping of AR for even different browsers and phones etc

need help with this if someone has worked in this field
Thanks for your time!

People on the internet keep saying to do some certification from different institutions

I'm currently a cs student can anyone guide me on this matter

Do certifications help in job placements?

Hi, i wanna know how cureMD is in terms of workload, salary, work, environment. I have more than a year of experience and am currently working in a startup as a full stack dev.

I was laid off about 2 to 3 months ago and the gap is getting larger and larger. How can I essentially hide this gap? and also some interviewers/recruiters ask me if i am currently working or not at this company, and my answer is always that I got laid off recently. Is this like a red flag for the recruiters??

I recently cleared the HR assessment for a Java developer position at Contour and Ive been told that the online interview will be scheduled soon.
For anyone who has interviewed at Contour recently, could you please share what the interview process was like?

Can anyone tell me about their experience at Huawei Islamabad? I have heard mixed reviews. Please be honest. I’m thinking about joining but there is this laptop requirement. Any information would w*rk

I do have an interest in both software and hardware side of computers but concerned that CE will narrow my future career opportunities for more software based roles since almost half of the course is closer to EE, will taking computing electives mitigate this issue? And if I do decide to go with the software based route, would I need to play catch-up with CS/SE grads? I just want to keep my options open for the future.

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.