What r/cscareerquestions is talking about this week

Seeing some of the advice on here. I unfortunately have a 18 month career gap from tech, last job was May 2025. I have 5 years of experience mostly doing Product Engineering for well known non...

About 7 months ago my whole team got laid off from the startup I helped build from the ground up. we barely used any AI coding tools at the time. I had a baby shortly after and so wasn’t really...

Amazon recently released a memo in which they ask engineers to use thoughtfulness when using AI. \ Amazon also discouraged staffers from using AI when it doesn’t make sense for a given task. \ “If...

Its finally happening, my company merged and issued 100% ai development mandates a year later the code is too complex for the ai coding agents and no one understands the code. Even with opus 5.5...

After 4 years of hard work getting my degree and 1 year searching I’ve finally gotten a job… as a geek squad…

Don't get me wrong, what i mean is - If your team uses AI as an assistant for boilerplate, reviews, suggestions and whatnot, you ship 20% faster but your team undestands the code perfectly - If...

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/google-extends-voluntary-buyout-offers-employees-several-countries-2026-11-04/?utm\source=reddit.com

Seems like now everything has fully shifted to "We don't write code anymore". People are cancelling their IDE subs and many other dev tools because of this. It seems to be we are rapidly shifting...

Manager told me I have been too long at the company (4.7 years) without any promotion, he said although I am excuting at my expected level with an average performance, staying too long in the same...

For me it was watching executives spend two months debating a slide deck while our production big data cluster was held together by duct tape and one exhausted senior engineer. Once you see that...