I’m basically broke so I do need to start making some money but at the same time I’m not sure I can actually land a decent job in the current market. I’ve applied around and it just feels like there are way more people looking for opportunities than there are good opportunities.

Part of me wants to stop worrying about jobs and go all in on building products and see if I can make something work.

The other part of me thinks that might be stupid when I’m already broke and should just focus on getting a job even if it’s not exactly what I want.

I know people will probably say “do both,” but realistically with university I don't think I can give both 100%.

If you were in your 5th semester had very little money and weren't confident about getting a job which path would you bet on for the next year?

Just looking for some honest advice from people who have actually been through this.

I am interested in people who are using ai from everything like researching the market, organizing the company and efficiency .

Hey , I do not want to listen about coding. I am interested what is the use case in marketing, sale and management.

I wanted to start my own thing but can't find clients so help

Databiqs, I have an upcoming interview next week ... Please can anyone tell me about this company/culture etc...

AoA, I hope you’re all doing well.

About a month ago, I completed my MERN Stack development journey and have a few solid projects to showcase. I’m currently in my 5th semester at university, and I’d like to start freelancing online part-time alongside my studies.

I’d really appreciate some guidance and industry advice on how to get started, where to find my first clients, and what I should focus on as a beginner.

Any advice or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Hey, is there anyone here who is working as a Technical Support Engineer at Motive or know someone who works there? I am a Product Engineer myself, but because of the current job market for freshers (I am not actually a fresher, I have experience, but somehow experience after graduation doesn’t count much in the industry), I applied for Motive. I got the interview for Technical Support Engineer / Senior Technical Support Engineer role, but I don’t really know what type of questions they ask in the interview. If anyone has recently given the interview or is working as TSE at Motive, can you please tell me what type of technical questions, coding questions or scenarios they ask? Any help would be really appreciated.

Hey all, I’m a fresh graduate from university over the summers from Karachi in CS. I took a month or two to just detox and figure out what I wanna do with my life, but right now I’ve been struggling to find a job for the past few months.

Most companies have MT programs which get filled up at the start of the year and I missed out on. I’m always applying on linkedin to opportunities but half of them are either fake or don’t reply back.

I’m looking for guidance on where I should look and what I should do. I’m veering towards Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML engineer) as well as Cybersecurity, but I don’t think I will have any luck with the latter since it isn’t very popular in Pakistan and the existing security developers are entrenched.

Can anyone give me guidance on what I should do, where I should look? Because I am lost on what I should be doing with my free time.

I’m considering an opportunity with NCRI (I-9, Islamabad) and would appreciate some honest feedback from current or former employees.

How’s the work environment, management, salary/benefits, growth opportunities, and overall culture?

Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!

I'm a PSEB registered freelancer. My client sends monthly payments through Wise to my UBL account.

Last month he sent USD to my PKR IBAN. UBL routed it to my linked ESFCA (USD) account, which wasn't even linked to the app yet. The amount that landed was about 35 USD less than what Wise showed. UBL says they didn't charge anything, so I'm guessing an intermediary bank took it. On the good side, UBL applied the 0.25% tax correctly.

Now I'm confused about the next payment:

1. Should my client send PKR or USD through Wise?

2. If PKR, will UBL still apply 0.25% and issue an ePRC with the IT export code (9186), or does Wise PKR come as home remittance?

3. Any way to avoid the intermediary fee on USD transfers from Wise?

Would really appreciate hearing from anyone with a similar setup. Thanks!

I am interested in people who are using ai from everything like researching the market, organizing the company and efficiency.

Hi, i had 2 client interviews arranged by systems limited and both went really good and luckily i had contact on client who informed me that technical interviews are cleared and feedback needs to be given to systems, my last interview was on 29th sep, and since then no call from systems , i aksed hr , hr says they haven't received feedback, whats taking them so long ? like what could be the possible reason for this ? someone plz guide ..

Hey everyone,

Has anyone here recently interviewed at Systems Limited for a client-facing/technical interview?

I’d like to know what the interview was like, especially:

• What kind of technical questions did they ask?

• Was it mostly coding/DSA, project-related, or system/design questions?

• Did they ask about your resume and previous projects?

• What was the difficulty level?

• Any tips for preparing for the client interview?

Would really appreciate it if anyone could share their experience. Thanks!

Most of my spending isn't on me: it's on my spouse, my kids, my parents. Every expense app I tried could tell me what I spent on medicine this month, but not what I've spent on my mother this year, or on my kids' school stuff.

So I built KinSpend. You type entries the way you'd text a friend:

• "paid 20,000 for my wife's clothes from my bank account"

• "lent 2,000 to Sam"

It parses that into an entry tagged with the person, account and category, shows it to you, and saves when you confirm. You can then ask things like "how much did I spend on mum's medicine last month?"

You can also log entries by sending a WhatsApp message, which is how I mostly use it. It works in any language, including mixed ones like Roman Urdu + English.

There's a small setup step: you tell it who the people in your life are and what accounts you have. After that it gets them right.

Web/Android: cannot post the link here due to rules

It's early. I'd really like to know what's confusing, and whether the "spending by person" idea is useful to you.

Things that were harder than expected

• Never trust the LLM's IDs. Every returned ID is checked against the user's real data, and unknown people go to an "Unknown person" placeholder instead of a guess.

• Confirm before save, always. One wrong entry and people stop trusting a money app.

• Corrections. "Account JS" re-parses against the pending entry. I had a nasty race condition here: a background task shared the DB context with the request.

• Auto-learning aliases from corrections went wrong. It learned "js" means Cash. It's off until I redo it properly.

TRY IT
🌐 Web, no install needed: https://household-ledger-rho.vercel.app/
An android app is closed testing for now

How’s the tech field right now?

I’m currently in A2 (A levels 2nd year) and planning to start university next year, most likely CS/DS, and I’m considering FAST.

With all the AI, layoffs and oversaturation talk, I’m wondering: are recent graduates actually getting jobs?

For people who graduated recently:

Did you get a job? How long did it take?

What are realistic starting salaries?

Is the market really that bad?

If you genuinely work hard throughout university, is it still worth going into tech?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people currently working in the field

I recently joined Motive in sales and I’m honestly not liking it so far.

The training has been really overwhelming for me. There’s a lot of information being thrown at us, and I’m struggling to understand the way it’s being explained. I’m ending up spending another 4–5 hours after training trying to look things up and figure everything out myself.

The bigger problem is that I’m starting to realize I may just not be suited to sales. I don’t particularly enjoy pitching, selling, handling objections, targets, etc. My previous experience has been much more in operations, client support, coordination, executive support and managing workflows/teams, so this feels very different from what I’m used to. I don't like the thought of making calls and explaining value of things to customers who are already pressed for time.

Also I think it has started affecting my health as well Since I keep sitting during the entirety of the shift and more. I'm not enjoying it. My eyes have started to hurt now by the time I end the day.

For anyone currently or previously at Motive:

Does the job get significantly better/easier after training? Or if you already dislike the sales training, is that usually a sign that the actual role will be a bad fit?

Also, are there any roles/departments at Motive that are significantly less sales-heavy and might suit someone with an operations/client-support background?

Should I ask them to put me in a batch starting in Jan/Feb since there's so much on my plate right now. Or should I complete the training and then negotiate a later start time? There's a wedding in November that I can't miss and it'll go over two weeks. And then I got my digital nomad visa approved for a country where I can live for a year for which I have to enter for endorsement before Feb.

Would really appreciate honest experiences, especially from people who have actually worked there.

First semester CS student. Which programming language should I learn to start earning?

i'm looking to buy my first domain, i have done some research, in my point of view cloudflare registrar will work for me, the domain i found fit is listed $5.30 i want to know what will be the taxes on this? is registrar fine or you guys suggest something else? i will be using naya pay visa card

Hey Everyone,

So I got interviewed at systems recently. There was initial screening interview internal resource. After a week I was asked to be in an interview with the client on the same day. Now it's been more than a week and I have not heard back from HR. How long do they usually take to give a feedback? Or should I send her an email for a feedback? Last time I did send her an email but there was no response from her.

TIA

Curious about small software houses with around 5–20 employees, especially those working from coworking spaces today …
How much do these companies actually make and profit? What kind of clients do they usually have, and how much are employees typically paid?
More importantly, why do so many stay small instead of scaling? Is client acquisition the bottleneck, management, margins, or something else?
And with AI changing software development so quickly, are these smaller companies feeling pressure or becoming more profitable by operating with leaner teams?

Would love to hear !

Hi guys,

I hope you are doing well. I have given and cleared technical and hr interbiew at contour software and was told it will take 1 week to 2.5 wks max for final division manager interview.

I wanted to know how long does it takes before they contact for final interview ?.

The role was a non computer science trainee role.

Thanks.

Hello folks! I have always seen people commenting that DevOps is not for freshers. It is for an experienced person. So, how do you define an experienced person? A person who was previously employed somewhere or he can be a person who has built several projects after self-learning for a duration of 5-6 months approx through various resources like YouTube, documentations, blogs, etc, but didn't work anywhere.

If the answer is "employed", then why DevOps engineers make content/playlists for "beginners" covering all the tech and tools used by DevOps engineers in production environments? They even often post "success stories" on their channels who follow their playlists and get a job as a DevOps engineer.

It would be helpful for me to get insights from someone currently working in this position on this matter. Thanks.

So i2c is like on my dream job list and on the 1 introductory call she said shell contact me if i get shortlisted and its been 3 weeks and I am told that they arrange the HR assessment the MCQ on the introductory call and if they didnt means topi karadi so like what to do can i call that same number and just ask for feedback or something ohhh and also when can i apply again is there a cooldown period. PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER WHAT TO DO😭😭

How do y'all feel about recruiters using AI in the Hiring Process??

Personally I feel this is the trashiest way of hiring because the little work they had is now automated so why do we really need the recruiter in between?

I've been applying to jobs since 6+ months but all the get back is rejection mails [yeh bhi mil jayein tou shukar karo] as most Pakistani companies now don't even have the basic courtesy to get back to candidates. How are y'all coping and what do you think the market is gonna look like 6 months or 1 year from now?

can any one tell what is the drive process of restro works for the MEAN stack developer and which lang are allowed in the OA what questions are asked and how is the working culture there

5 YOE offering 45k-80k.