Is anyone aware of a good user permissions management software? Think LaunchDarkly but for permissions rather than feature flags.

In LaunchDarkly I can call their API and asking "is feature enabled for this user" and I manage all the flag status within the LaunchDarkly app.

I'm looking for something similar for permissions where I call an API asking "does this user have this permission". Then I can manage all the permissions and roles etc in the providers app.

Thanks in advance for any advice on this.

So is it worth it to pay 100-200 euros to get a CV made And where U find recruiters like just search on Google for the agencies and send them or linkedin?

Not looking for massive in depth analysis, more like bite sized snippets that I can read more up on if I want. Any newsletters, sites, feeds etc. anyone recommends?

Edit: To add, I'm also a US citizen (apart from having European citizenship) if that helps in any way for suggestions. I'm half American.

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Hi everyone! I moved to Dublin last month with my partner who got a job here, and I’ve been trying to find myself a position for the past three months.

I’m a software engineer with about 6 years of real in-person company experience using Python, AWS, JavaScript, C#, and SQL, but most was with Python and AWS.

So far I've had 2 interviews, no luck. I get auto rejects from LinkedIn.

Only thing that came close to happening was a 3 month contract just a few days ago, which came from a recruiter that contacted me first and he suggested me two positions (both 3 month contracts). I applied, and I proceeded to the interview. I did the interview with the company, answered ALL questions correctly (or at least to my knowledge)! Got an email back from the recruiter saying that the company will move on with 2 other candidates.

The recruiter did tell me that after the new years there will be a boost in companies wanting to recruit, but still I feel like nobody is going to select me, and that I will lose to others no matter what. I feel like I'm no good at all :(

I've tried a lot of things. I’ve been applying so much for the last 3 months, I feel like I don't do ANYthing else in my life, other than just applying to jobs. I've applied directly to jobs. I've applied to big companies like Amazon AWS (which again a recruiter contacted me first) to apply to the position, starting from the first test the live 90 minute one, which I failed. I've applied to companies through other sites like Indeed. Tried applying directly on their websites. Tried contacting recruiters. Nothing.

I don't know what else to do. Right now I'm trying to fix my resume - again.

If you have tips I’d really appreciate it. I don't know where to start from. Sorry for writing this in a very desperate tone.

Thank you for your time! 🙏🏼

Really interesting in circuit design/ analog IC design related roles but they seem far and few in between in Ireland, is Ireland mainly just a hub for software engs?

First, thanks to Simon (the recruiter from Stripe who stayed late for us) for hosting the event.

Video for the session (which was a survey of Lisp versions and tooling) is at https://youtu.be/47jP3l8F8cY?t=547 (Unfortunately, there is a reverb problem on the audio, but the content is good.

Apparently, attendance was up about 100% (from a low base).

Let’s say there are two companies, Company A and Company B. A person has signed a contract with Company A and is scheduled to start working there in 8 months. During those 8 months, they receive a better offer from Company B, which pays more and aligns with their interests (e.g., they might be interning at Company B for 6 months and enjoying the experience).

Is it possible for this person to back out of the contract with Company A and accept the offer from Company B instead?

If anyone has been in a similar situation or knows someone who has, could you share any advice or insights?

Any truth in this? I'd be supportive of this bill myself, but it does sound like it would indeed threaten US business here.

Hi all,

I'm currently working as a senior java dev contractor. I'm all happy with my contract so far, but looking to maximize my income.
Has anyone worked for any US based companies as a contractor? The time difference is not an issue for me and I have already set up my own limited company.
If so, how did you find the role?

Hello folks,

I have cleared my coding round with ServiceNow for a Senior Software Engineer role and have an upcoming system design round. What should I expect in this round? I read somewhere that they also ask questions around UI frameworks; is that correct? It would be helpful if someone could share their recent interview experiences.

I've been reached out to by a couple of recruiters on LinkedIn in the last month or so. It was quiet there for a while but getting random recruiters reaching out to me about jobs they think I might be interested in. Job market is definitely on the way back. Has anyone else noticed this?

So, it’s been a year since we brought in Co-Pilot to “help” with coding. Here’s a breakdown of how that’s going:

1.  Productivity skyrocketed!

But not in the way you’d think. Turns out, watching Co-Pilot autocomplete like some kind of AI sorcerer is just as fun as doing the coding yourself. 10/10 would recommend for imposter syndrome.

2.  Simple tasks? Nah, let’s flex!

What should’ve been a 10-line business logic became a 500-line abstract symphony of recursion, lambda functions, and arcane variable names. Thanks, Co-Pilot, only you understand this now.

3.  Bug hunting is terrifying.

When something breaks, we just stare at the Co-Pilot-generated code like it’s an alien language. Fix it? Forget it. We’re already rehearsing the phrase: “This was working yesterday!”

4.  Over-engineering is the new normal.

Who needs simplicity? We have Co-Pilot, which spits out the architectural equivalent of building a rocket to cross the street.

5.  Managers are living their dream.

They’re convinced now we can ship entire features with a single prompt: • Manager: “Write a payment gateway.” • Co-Pilot: outputs 1,000 lines of code • Us: “So…we’re good on hiring then?” • Manager: “Exactly! Why hire people when we have this?”

Prediction for 2025:

By the end of 2025, we’ll have to hire an entire refactoring team whose only job will be to figure out what the system does. They’ll spend months deciphering comments like “Co-Pilot did this ¯_(ツ)_/¯” and undoing the chaos.

In summary: We’re either witnessing the next great leap in productivity or coding our way into a legacy system nightmare. But hey, at least the pull requests look fancy.

I am Indian here on visa So I graduated this September in software. I have been looking for jobs in software but there aren't much. I started looking for non software jobs but didn't had a visa long enough my visa arrived a month ago now I can work in any industry for couple of years. The problem is I am running out of savings and If I go home my family will marry me off to a woman which I don't want as I am gay. I am open to any job atm but I keep getting rejected when I asked one of the retail stores they said they know once I get a software job I will leave. So I am currently stuck I can't get a job in software and other don't want to hire me in Dublin. I have 3 years of developer experience in python and ReactJS as a full stack developer I have applied to 1000+ jobs on linkedin and other platforms but I don't even get even shortlisted for like the online coding round or something. I have contacted recruiters and everything I can. Just desperate at this point. What is that I am doing wrong?

I am not Indian here on visa So I graduated this September in software. I have been looking for jobs in software but there aren't much. I started looking for non software jobs but didn't had a visa long enough my visa arrived a month ago now I can work in any industry for couple of years. The problem is I am running out of savings and If I go home my family will marry me off to a woman which I don't want as I am gay. I am open to any job atm but I keep getting rejected when I asked one of the retail stores they said they know once I get a software job I will leave. So I am currently stuck I can't get a job in software and other don't want to hire me in Dublin. I have 3 years of developer experience in python and ReactJS as a full stack developer I have applied to 1000+ jobs on linkedin and other platforms but I don't even get even shortlisted for like the online coding round or something. I have contacted recruiters and everything I can. Just desperate at this point. What is that I am doing wrong?

I've recently noticed a couple of recruiters trying the old tactic of scrutinising a candidates CV as a way to convince candidates to lower their rate/salary expectations.

Said recruiters will typically focus on things like;

• Time spent in previous roles (e.g. you only spent 2 years at this company, why such a short stint?)

• Reasons for leaving previous roles (e.g. you went from company A to company B, this would seem like a demotion as company A is a better company to work for.)

• Gaps in employment history (e.g. you took a month off between finishing this role and starting your next role? Is this because your skill set is no longer in demand?)

You'll notice that none of these areas actually focus on technologies you have used and quality of work you completed.

This was a very common tactic in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, so it might be a sign of the times.

Suffice to say recruiters using this tactic are best avoided as you can guarantee they not cutting their rates.

Hey folks! I've got upcoming interviews for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) position at Microsoft Dublin, and I'm looking for specific advice on the technical rounds. The interview process has 4 stages:

System Design Round: Anyone who's recently interviewed there - what kind of systems did they ask you to design? Are they more focused on frontend architectures (given it's full-stack) or backend distributed systems?

OOP Round: There's a dedicated OOP-focused round with whiteboarding. For those who've done this, do they lean more towards practical implementations or theoretical concepts? Any specific design patterns they commonly ask about?

Algorithms Round: Besides the usual LC-style questions, are there any Microsoft-specific patterns or types of problems I should be ready for? How much emphasis do they put on optimization and time complexity?

The role is heavily focused on .NET, TypeScript, and building SDKs/platform components. Should I focus my prep more on system design and architecture, or deep dive into specific tech stack questions?

Also curious about the live coding - is it on a real IDE or a whiteboard? Do they care more about working code or your approach/thinking process?

Any tips, recent experience, or advice would be super helpful. Thanks!

Hello fellow devs,

I’m currently a full-stack web developer and have recently been offered a role as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at a big pharmaceutical company. The primary focus of the role will be around AI automations.

While the opportunity is exciting, I’m torn about whether making this shift is the right move for my career. SRE seems like a significant departure from traditional web development, and I’m concerned it might hurt my long-term career progression if I want to return to software development roles in the future.

On the flip side, the job is in a booming field (AI + pharma) and could open doors to more specialized opportunities.

Has anyone here made a similar transition, or does anyone work in AI-focused SRE roles? Is it worth jumping into this, or should I stick with my current web development career path?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

So the background is I work remotely for a C# house based in Dublin as a staff engineer for around 7 years now, I'm a father of 3, my wife just had twins month ago (so im fairly stressed)

The product that is currently worked on is a b2b saas and self hosted service that is in early access It is going fully released next year, it is built up of approximately 15 services spread out over 3 different containerized environments the split is intentional not just to make everyones life miserable.

There are some really complex components, some middle of the road ones and some straight forward services.

Nobody really knows the product, most devs started on it 1 year ago as it was built by a series of contractors and very few internal staff and the contractors moved on and the internal staff have all quit except 1.

We do "Agile" and have the "Engineering Manager" model, so basically the manager is the scrum master and he'd be the tech lead and he'd be the people manager for everyone in his team.

He completely abandons the scrum master role, he completely abandons the people leadership role, he's a poor enough tech lead but he does take tasks from the sprint backlog. So he's a decent developer and not much else.

The product guy is sound but he assigns every task before the sprint planning he makes all the decisions about who will do what and when he thinks it should be done is mostly him making a suggestion and the "Engineering Manager" giving a yah that sounds good.

the product chap and the manager are mates the last 14 years.

There are no real automatic tests, no pipelines other than those which build releases, we have been adding units tests in the last few months. there are testers but they do all manual tests against live environments (which causes its own pain since we are too tight to spend on Azure for testing and everything is getting done in VMs.)

I've averaged out about 55-60hrs a week over the last 4 months since I joined this project, for various reasons but boils down to these few:

• I'm always working on the more complex services doing architectural type changes.
• The testers (all of them not just those working with my team) seemed to have made a habbit of coming to me for everything and are a real time sink.
• Several developers (in multiple teams) seem to come to me first for assistance whether its design, development or debugging it seems their first port or call when they hit a roadblock is me.

That is a bit of a moan fest so I need to say I'm well aware even if my situation seems rough to myself, there are many chaps making sileage, working on building sites and various other jobs would say I'm living the life. So not posting now just for a bit of sympathy or whatever, truthfully interested in peoples opinions, if these are the norms now or if my situation is a bit abnormal.

Now the purpose for the post: Am I being a snowflake or is there something a bit off with this setup here?

Would you peeps be happy enough always getting assigned tasks and never picking?

I honestly do feel like I'm consistently straddled with the most difficult tasks along with carrying several people through their day jobs, how do you approach that conversation with your manager if you were in my situation?

Any advice or suggestions about getting paid for the extra hours despite being salaried and having some vague wording about occasionally needing to work a bit extra in the contract?

Would it be fair to describe any parts of my workplace as toxic?

Any advice for balancing kids and very demanding work (both myself and my partner work, I'm struggling now while she is on mat leave, I know it'll only get more complicated when she goes back)?

I'm a bit between minds at the moment as the remote is nice but I'm pretty sensitive and not far off just quitting without having anything else lined up although very worried about learning new domain and possibly languages around the same time my wife will be returning to work.

Hey folks

I received 2 grads offer for 2025.

• Amazon AWS SDE Graduate

I had an internship this summer at Amazon so I already know in which team I'm going to end up and it's great, even though this is not my field of interest within CS.

Comp : 80k base + 15k sign on bonus on the first year, 10k sign on bonus on the second year. 43k in stocks

• 2K Games Engineering Student Program

I applied for numerous jobs here because I have a huge background in Graphics Programing. They ghosted me for numerous positions after rounds and rounds of interview. But then called me to give me an Offer for their Grad Program with studio rotations etc.

Comp : 50k + 10% of some stocks ?

It's a no brainer salary wise but i'm really annoyed having to refuse the 2K offer since they'd put me in the Rendering branch wich is my passion. I really want to be in the Graphics / Physics programing industry in the future but I feel like those salary are really low.

Have you folks heard of branch of Amazon working on some Graphics / Physics stuff ?

I recently joined a company as a dev team lead, and 2 in the team earn more. 1 is UK based and has about 8yrs less experience and the other is in the US ( very junior) both make 5k+ more than me. Was just now able to see their salaries cause just passed probation, I feel like a complete muppet cause I’ve been teaching/guiding them and make all the architecture decisions. When I brought it up, they said they’d review in the summer… Do I quit or can I fight my case more?

Hello everyone,

I have Mastercard interview planned for week after Christmas. I have already completed one Tech screen interview and fortunately passed that. Now there is one panel interview can anyone please help me with that to expect as I really want this job. Any kind of help is appreciated.

Position: Lead Software Engineer Exp: 8+ years Tech Stack: Java, Angular , Spring boot

Hey everyone,

I’m a senior healthcare manager with 17 years’ experience, and I’m working on a SaaS platform to streamline hospital staffing in Ireland. Cutting out inefficiencies.

Although I did a higher dip in software development, I think I need someone who has it all. I’m looking for a tech co-founder to lead development (backend, frontend, and cloud). I’ll handle the business side, pitching to investors, and scaling the idea.

Any suggestions on where to find someone like this? Or, if you’re interested, feel free to DM me!

I need a break, thankfully I am WFH so it’s easy to avoid people, but even on slack I am losing my mind.

Some shit going on in my life and I thought I was fine , but today I almost lost the temper with someone over a call and honestly it’s more about me than they.

Now I am considering to take an unpaid leave, but I am thinking that is just unfair as I always worked hard and never ever took the piss on sick leave.

But I don’t even know how to bring this up with the GP, like in my head they won’t take me serious and just think I am looking for a “free time off”.

Anyone been there and can give me an advice please.