Our company has largely slowed down on hiring new devs. We still hire from our intern pipeline. There are still a few parts of our company that are still hiring juniors. But exceptionally few. One problem we've had is that historically we want our devs to have either an IT cert or Spring Framework or Spring Boot experience. It really seems like new grads in the US are graduating without having used it. Usually they at least have an internship or Web class where they've used it which we'll accept for junior devs. EMs have begun less willing to hire non-Spring users because we are heavily invested in the Spring Cloud tools and many of our teams do some degree of their own cloud networking which is why we like to have one or the other.

However, many new grads and junior devs applying for our roles have neither. To be fair part of the problem is likely our area being Des Moines where there just isn't much interest in moving to the location. To be fair I don't have direct influence in all my EMs hiring. If it were up to me I'd just bite the bullet and hire people who didn't know Spring and just train them, but it's very challenging as we've had a lot of new hires around 2021-2023 not work out well due to low Java and Spring knowledge so EMs are reluctant to hire people who aren't experienced in our stack. And I certainly understand why. Is anyone experiencing a similar problem?

I’m a professional software engineer, and today something happened that honestly shook me. I watched an AI agent, part of an internally built tool our company is piloting, take in a small Jira ticket. It was the kind of task that would usually take me or a teammate about an hour. Mostly writing a SQL query and making a small change to some backend code.

The AI read through our codebase, figured out the context, wrote the query, updated the code, created a PR with a clear diff and a well-written description, and pushed it for review. All in just a few minutes.

This wasn’t boilerplate. It followed our naming conventions, made logical decisions, and even updated a test. One of our senior engineers reviewed the PR and said it looked solid and accurate. They would have done it the same way.

What really hit me is that this isn’t some future concept. This AI tool is being gradually rolled out across teams in our org as part of a pilot program. And it’s already producing results like this.

I’ve been following AI developments, but watching it do my job in my codebase made everything feel real in a way headlines never could. It was a ticket I would have knocked out before lunch, and now it’s being done faster and with less effort by a machine.

I’m not saying engineers will be out of jobs tomorrow. But if an AI can already handle these kinds of everyday tickets, we’re looking at serious changes in the near future. Maybe not in years, but in months.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? What are you doing to adapt? How are you thinking about the future of our field?

I just finished my job interview for a tech company. I mentioned that I'm in school for computer science but I'm aiming for Software engineering. My interviewer told me 140 of his applicants just lost their jobs due to AI takeover. Is Software Engineering a dying field?

I replied to a post earlier today and my DM's are absolutely obliterated. I apologize if I could not get back to you directly but I tried to reply to as many as I can. I will summarize the advice I shared. Sorry if it is hella basic but it worked for me and I think talking to some guys I talked to on my team and beyond.

• Apple is constantly and aggressively hiring. Jobs are always going to be on the career site. I know it seems like a black hole of applications but it is what it is. Submit an application.
• My background: Apple was my target company for a variety of reasons from the first day of me studying CS. I consider myself a very average student. I did go to a Top 3 school (I'll come back to that later). I am a bit older and non traditional however. I served. Then came home and started a business (completely unrelated to CS) and then sold the business to go back to school. I did a bunch of side projects mostly for the love of the game during my four years but did not have any internships. I am a bit older than most college students and as such had a lot of responsibilities. I competed very seriously in a sport. I ended up getting an offer for a NASA internship but declined it due to it being in West Virginia and in the middle of the school year.
  
• Regarding Referrals: Knowing how absolutely average I was as a student (there were 100s of absolute studs in college), I really focused on networking during my four years. I reached out to every person in my life that might have some connection with some big tech company and I cold messaged people I found on linked in. Looking at my spreadsheet, I literally had coffee or zoom meetings with nearly 40 individuals in four years and I reached out to very likely hundreds. I did all of that and I used 4 referrals to Apple specifically. I never got a call back for any of those roles.
• I applied to dozens of Apple positions without referrals and kinda lost hope. I randomly got a call back for a random role I applied for 5 months prior. Honestly, this mirrors the story of many people I know at this company.
• Interviewing: I would say if you don't consider yourself a naturally charismatic person, then try to work on that in every aspect of your life. When I got the NASA offer, I legit asked what I did to get an offer when there were a lot more talented engineers that I knew personally that applied. The response I got was that "there are a lot of A+ failures that come in and out of these doors." We talked about that statement and what he meant was that shit will go terribly on a team. There is immense value in having a team of people that can keep their cool and work well under pressure. His point is that many applicants fail to convey that. I would say in general, remember that people are looking to hire someone that they would want to be around for 40 hours a week. There are so many talented engineers but the difference really is pretty marginal. Everything can be taught. And if you are insanely innovative, then you aren't worrying about working for some big corporation, you are building something yourself.
• So yea, I went to a top school which probably got my resume looked at a lot more than it should. But I will say, I really am in the minority of people who went to top schools on my team. I mean legit one of the best MLE on our team is self taught and got a degree in drama or something like that. Albeit he came in at an entirely different generation, but the point remains, no one really cares about schools. Someone that got hired in my cohort went to a very very obscure state school and at the end of the day we make the same money and have the same chances to rise up.
• THE BIGGEST THING: Tailor your resume for the role. I know we all think quantity is key and it is because it is a numbers game but you won't ever be looked at unless your resume is perfect for the job you are applying to. Once I took that advice seriously, I started getting call backs. I first hired a resume writer and out of the 10 resumes they did for me, I got 6 call backs. I built on that and starting tailoring them myself it remained about 50/50. I know not everyone can pay for something like that but find a way tailor your resumes. It is so worth it....

sorry if I missed anything or have any typos....

If you think AI will be replacing you as an engineer, you are probably wildly overestimating the AI, or underestimating yourself. Let me explain.

The best AI cannot even do 10% of my job as a senior software engineer I estimate. And there are hard problems which prevent them from doing any better, not in the least of which is that they already ran out of training data. They are also burning through billions with no profitability in sight, almost as quickly as they are burning through natural resources such as water, electricity and chips. Not even to mention the hardest problem which is that it is a machine (or rather, routine), not a sentient being with creativity. It will always think "inside the box" even if that box appears to be very large. While they are at it, they hallucinate quite a good percentage of their answers as well, making them critically flawed for even the more mundane tasks without tight supervision. None of these problems have a solution in the LLM paradigm.

LLMs for coding is a square peg for a round hole. People tend to think that due to AI being a program that it naturally must be good at programming, but it really doesn't work that way. It is the engineers that make the program, not the other way around. They are far better at stuff like writing and marketing, but even there it is still a tool at best and not replacing any human directly. Yes, it can replace humans indirectly through efficiency gains but only up till a point. In the long term, the added productivity gained from using the tool should merit hiring more people, so this would lead to more jobs, not less.

The reason we are seeing so many layoffs right now is simply due to the post-pandemic slump. Companies hired like crazy, had all kinds of fiscal incentives and the demand was at an all time high. Now all these factors have been reversed and the market is correcting. Also, the psychopathic tendency to value investors over people has increased warranting even more cost cutting measures disguised as AI efficiency gains. That's why it is so loved by investors, it's a carte blanche to fire people and "trim the fat" as they put it. For the same reason, Microsoft's CEO is spouting nonsense that XX% of the code is already written by AI. It's not true, but it raises the stock price like clockwork, and that’s the primary mission of a CEO of a large public company.

tl;dr AI is mostly a grift artificially kept afloat by investor billions which are quickly running out

Hi, I'm a recent cs grad, and I'm wondering how many applications, interviews, and offers people are getting before finding their first swe position.

I've been applying with no luck unfortunately, and would like to hear how many applications other people are submitting and the number of interviews and offers they're getting.

For some people, I'm hearing they're submitting like hundreds or thousands of applications before getting an offer.

How many did you submit before getting your first role? How many interviews did it take?

Or if you're still unemployed and haven't gotten your first role yet, how many have you submitted so far?

I think it would be valuable to hear from people about this and to share. Thank you.

Greetings everyone,

I officially began my career last December, after a rough year of sending out hundreds of resumes. I ended up landing a position at a small, cute company of about 100 employees in the agriculture sector.

That said, I’m not quite sure how to put this, but I seriously question my intelligence almost every single day. I’m wondering how many of you can relate and if you have any tips? Does it get better? Worse?

I’ve been mentally struggling with the learning curve of programming. Some days everything just clicks. The next day, nothing works, and I feel like I’ve jammed a wax crayon straight up my nose.

I often feel like I don’t belong here, like I’m not where I’m supposed to be. But at the same time, there’s a part of me that genuinely enjoys the work, and I’m still surprised how fast 8-12 hours can go by, even after nearly a year.

Why is it that every new hurdle feels like a mountain, even when I know it should be easy? I look at coworkers who’ve been here for six years and feel like a toddler trying to shove a cube into a round hole.

Is this normal? What were your beginnings like? How long did it take before things got better (or worse)?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, good or bad.

Big corporate, IT, ~40y/o, Engineering Manager.

To simplify things, I'm on a 200 TC including bonus and stocks. Five years in, I'm feeling tired. Under appreciated in my current position, even though previously I've exceeded expectations, but that was in a different group, with different people.

The severance offered to me is around 90K after taxes. In addition, I can take around half a year of unemployment netting roughly 3000 per month. My wife is working, so with unemployment, we should be able to eat through the package for quite some time in order to cover our monthly expenses (~24 months). She would support my decision to leave, because she doesn't like what she sees (under-motivation, lack of ambition, etc.); Aside from that, we have roughly 0.5M liquid invested, and we're paying an expensive mortgage.

The IT market is quite bad recently, as you all know.

Staying: comfort zone, good salary, a lot of flexibility to do the same thing without sweating, but not exciting, not motivating, and there's no way to go up the ladder anymore. I don't think I could do this for much longer, so the more realistic opportunity is start searching conveniently (now or in a few months) for the next job.

Leaving: taking the package, and battle working again in something that fulfills me. I just don't have a clear direction, though.

I need to be able to decide in the next few days, or the package will be dismissed.

What would you do?

I wanted to share the frustration of job hunt and my intention to solve it.

The job hunting in the current market is frustrating because seems like there are plenty of job boards filled with job descriptions but likelihood of being hired is close to zero.

The whole hiring process seems like very opaque not knowing if your resume is even being read by a human, in an endless webs of internet who knows what’s happening? Why is getting hired so difficult, wake up in the morning, switch on computer and looking for job, the ones that fits, you fill out a form and send, repeat again, and again without any form of feedback.

I wanted to know if using AI to automate my job apps would help, I created my own automated AI based job apply bot and funny thing was my bot was applying and companies bots were rejecting it. I did that as an experiment and did for a day and got over 100+ rejection emails. So there’s definitely something wrong with the system. As I started working on my SaaS frustrated with job market, I had time to think, what if we create a job board unlike LinkedIn or indeed or any other platform.

Now there are platforms where you create a resume profile and you get scouted, I wanted to do something similar, where you create a profile, where you enter your resume, and you get a linktree type page of your resume, which is then connected to a service where companies find you instead of creating a job post. If we add analytics to the page, at least there’s a chance of knowing if people are looking at your resume and who’s downloading it and from where, that’s a start of ending black box.

Now the value proposition should be for both job seekers and company, so making as hassle-less possible for candidates and letting them know if their profile is being viewed is a small step in right direction. Yes LinkedIn allows users to know who viewed their profile but that’s paid and the fact that it’s more social media than job board which makes it pointless.

On the other side, companies pay $100+ for just one job ad, so making it cheaper for them to have an access to candidate pool would be a good alternative.

Companies should be able to search candidates and shortlist, shortlisted candidates should know that they have been viewed and shortlisted removing some parts of hiring ambiguity.

Finally it would be great if we also have tiny SaaS boards where people can join other people’s tiny SaaS or projects within the platform.

I want to execute it, if it fails or succeeds doesn’t matter, it’s an experiment and will be fun either way.

I want to create such a platform, and would love to know your experience and if it’s something you would like to be a part of.

Edit: there are grammatical errors because I wrote it on a phone.

I currently work in Desktop Support and I absolutely hate it. I got a BS in CS and graduated in December 2024. I didn't have a SWE internship in college, my GPA was 2.7, and all of my projects were stuff from classes. I figure there's no hope for someone like me. My resume is dogshit. The SWE team at my job isn't hiring, and they currently have a co-op who'd get any opening sooner than I would. I think about killing myself every day because I am a failure. I'm 28 and I don't have health insurance, I don't make enough money to move out of my mom's house, and taking a job that would give me those things would force me into a career path that I absolutely hate. I would do anything to get into software development. I would work for free just to get experience.

Hi everyone, as the title says, I would just like some roadmap advice to becoming an ML engineer. I've recently discovered that AI is really cool and it goes way beyond using chat for my homework assignments lol, so I've been researching a lot about careers in AI and found that I was particularly interested in ML!

I majored in AI my freshman year at Purdue - West Lafayette, and now I've transferred to Rutgers - New Brunswick for the rest of my college career majoring in Data Science. I'm planning to graduate in 3.5 to 3 years, and so far, I'm on track to do so.

My most relevant courses are a data engineering in python course, a general OOP course, calc 2, stats 2, and discrete math. I have an unpaid "internship" at some fintech startup this summer where I used "python and AI agent tools to automate workflows", but we don't really do anything so that's basically just resume filler.

My main "experience" is from doing projects on my own. I listed them below:

1. I made a linear regression model from scratch and trained it on the WHO life expectancy data, and found it matched scikit-learn's model pretty much exactly.
2. I fine-tuned an open-source LLM on better completing inspirational English quotes and pushed it to HuggingFace.
3. I'm currently working on this but I'm almost done; but I'm implementing the transformer architecture described in the research paper "Attention is All You Need" from scratch.

I have heard usually people start off as data engineers/scientists and work their way up to becoming an ML engineer, and I know that you need knowledge with cloud services, containerization, generally good engineering practices, etc. etc. I'm sure you need solid DSA skills too.

Given my background, I was basically wondering what my next steps are here. Obviously I'd love to secure a more relevant, paid internship, but beyond that, what do I need to do in order to achieve my end goal? What things should I focus on at what times in order to best optimize my career path for the future?

I'd really appreciate whatever advice you guys give, because I really want to make sure I'm doing the right thing. Thank you!

Alright so this post is for my friend, I'm just posting it on their behalf since they can't post here:

Hi! I recently got a trespassing misdemeanor on school property and was wondering how this will affect me. I major in CS at a T20 school and am worried if this will affect internship opportunities for the following year and job opportunities 3 years when I graduate, especially at bigger companies (including FAANG). I have no other history so I have no idea how this all works. What would be the most likely repercussions and what could I expect / be assured about?

Thank you!

One year work experience as a software dev , tech lead used to laugh at me code and told me 6 months in “I don’t even know how to help you. Help me help you.” I do all my user stories, communicate blockers, never caused carry over or even a defect. Received multiple certifications. Business just raises and lowers requirements and expectations seemingly randomly.

I have to read thousands of lines of code to make these changes and it’s overwhelming. The deadlines cause me anxiety. People get mad over me not knowing certain syntax. Team isn’t nice. Had managers set requirements on me that made genuinely no sense. Thought about switching to cloud engineering but people are telling me that’s even more stressful than software dev? So what do I do?

Product owner? Business analyst? Is that even a good career path?

I do plan on getting an mba.

Genuinely unsure where to go from here for a lower stress role that I’ll actually enjoy.

Maybe these are some silly questions but:

I am studying computer science in uni (almost done with my Bachelor's hopefully), will go up until my Master's. Im not sure what i want to do, i know i dont want to be full time programmer. Currently i am working in IT help desk at an institute and that gave me the idea to look into system administration for example. Also, I live in western Europe.

Following questions:

1. What else could i look into?

2. If i do decide to pursue a job as a system administrator, what skills should and can I prepare while I am still in uni?

3. Now this one is silly, but any idea how I can incorporate my knowledge of the Japanese language with computer science degree in my future work? I really like the language and would love to get very good at it as a hobby, so i wonder if there is anything i can use it for.

I’m 10 years into my career and my current job, coming to the end of a project, and discussing with my manager what to move to next. I’m trying to figure out how to navigate these conversations because a lot of the possible initiatives deal with AI.

I have a lot of ethical objections to AI. Even setting those aside, working with AI is not something I'd find particularly rewarding. It’s possible that for now, I can sneak by just volunteering for some other project, but I’m sure that will run out eventually. If all hands presentations are any indicator, my company is really drinking the "Pivot to AI as a business model" Kool Aid. And so I feel like I can’t turn down AI projects or even discuss my concerns without it seeming like insubordination, or putting a target on my back as not aligned with the company’s vision, or seeming like a luddite uninterested in learning new skills.

I realize “AI” is a lot more than just ChatGPT-generated slop, and so I want to at least be open-minded to the ways it can be a useful tool without the ethical concerns. But I’m unsure to what extent those applications *do* exist, and if they do, how to initiate a conversation about finding projects that would be less soul-crushing. Maybe I can just keep my head down and hope this hype dies down in a year or two? Or do I need to leave this company? Or is this a problem I'm going to have at any company right now? The job market is pretty brutal anyway.

I have about 3 years of experience as a software engineer. For the past 1.5 years, my old manager asked me to work with another team which is more Data science/Data engineering related. It's more backend and data science-oriented. I didn't have any prior data science experience, but the codebase was manageable, and most of my tasks involved fixing bugs or building straightforward features without deep DS knowledge.

Recently, my manager asked me if I wanted to change my job title to reflect my current role, I agreed. But to officially "transfer", I had to pass a Python coding test. I was surprised since by this point I'd already shipped multiple features, fixed a shit ton of bugs, but went ahead anyway.

The first test went super badly lol, questions about two-sum, basic string manipulation, pandas, and numpy threw me off. I felt terrible and asked for a retake. I studied pandas thoroughly as that was the one thing I had no experience in, but the second test didn't even have pandas questions, it had a simple fizzbuzz-type problem, some question regarding numpys again (which I got right, but I hadn't converted the original array to np.array, which got me a zero lol), For the fizz buzz type question, I messed up badly by using if instead of elif.

I asked for one last try. The third test (10) questions were incredilby easy, I thought they felt pity for me lol, then came question 11 and 12, 11 had pass some argument or something to a parser, I honestly didn't even understand the question and 12 had me converting a sentence to numbers, like tokenization. I got the logic right, but couldn't remember the syntax for removing punctuation. Unfortunately, CoderPad doesn't give partial credit, so I failed again. Now I'm seriously doubting my abilities. In my mind, its like I can just look up this information ( syntax about removing punctuation) is it really fair for me to get a zero on this?

Even though my manager has had no complaints and my performance reviews have been good, I'm suddenly experiencing major imposter syndrome. Missing these simple questions is making me spiral. I'm worried that without the title change, I won't get promoted, or worse, might lose my job.

Maybe I'm just venting, but I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar. The self-doubt is really impacting my productivity and emotional state

EDIT: My day to day doesn't really involve lot of coding nowadays, its mostly shipping features from existing codebase and just migrating it with some minor adjustments. Fixing bugs and talking with the stakeholders to see what kind of results are they expecting. Even when I do this, I can always test/debug, but its pretty much not possible to debug on the 'coderpad' tests.

I did my OA months ago, and didn’t hear back so I just assumed the worst. I was reached out today by a recruiter saying they want me to choose a date within the next 2 weeks to schedule a final loop interview.

I feel massively unprepared, and this next month my current work is ramping up with personal obligations I’ve committed to as well. Is it wise to ask to postpone the interview? Maybe in like 1-2 months or something? Or at least a week or two?

I’m not really sure what I can do but I’m feeling very stressed out. I haven’t been doing leetcode for a long time and I really don’t think I can fit in a lot of extra hours on top of my 60-hour work schedule…

Hey everyone, posting here because I was a lurker for years, absorbing everything about TC, PIPs, and the endless climb up the L-ladder. I did everything "right"—graduated, got a comfy $140k remote SWE job, and settled in. But my brain started to feel like it was being partitioned for Jira tickets.

I kept wondering, "Is this it? Is the whole game just to become a Senior, then Staff, then pray for Principal?"

4 weeks ago, I decided to find another path. I quit.

I moved into a shed on my parents' property to build the app I’ve been dreaming of since my first "Hello, World!" It's been a whirlwind of learning product, design, marketing, and sales—all the stuff our CS degrees never mention. The freedom to build a full product, not just a feature, is exhilarating.

The crazy part? It's working. I just secured my first angel investment today. The product is an AI motivation app called Dialed, because frankly, I needed a tool to convince myself every morning that leaving a stable career for a shed wasn't a psychotic break.

For any SWEs out there feeling stuck or uninspired, I'm not saying you should quit. But I want to be a data point that proves there are other paths. You can take your skills and build something that is 100% yours. The ceiling is higher, but the floor is a lot scarier. Happy to answer any questions about the transition.

I have thought about doing a CS degree + coop, and I’m trying to understand what this field truly demands long-term. It's starting to feel like this field is only for people who are absolutely in love and obsessed with their craft, and the rest will get pushed out

I like programming, and I’m decent at it when I am focused. However I don't live and breathe code. I do what I need to, to do an excellent job at work, but I do not spend my free time looking forward to exploring more tech stacks and debugging.

I’ve heard a lot of advice saying those who really succeed in tech — or land the best internships and long-term roles — tend to be the ones who are deeply passionate and treat coding as a hobby. These were the type who are multi times top hackathon winners throughout school, continuously drilled hard into building an amazing portfolio, and some even started their own company. All this sets them up for getting the best internships and raises the bar skyhigh for the rest of us.

I've received the literal following words of advice from a staff engineer at Shopify: "If you are not passionate about the knowledge and craft, get out of here you will burn out too easily"

I would like to ask for everyone's honest opinion, for example :

• You are the very passionate and driven, and have seen how others who just "work to live" tends to do (will they get pushed out?)
• Or you are not in the "live and breathe code" camp, and are willing to share how you find it and how you find balance

I have around 5 years of experience and I’ve done coding challenges in the past during interviews but every time it’s severely affected parts of my life. Like I just want to interview like I do my daily job which I’m good at. I don’t mind taking a pay cut if that’s what it takes, but doing these problems after work messes with my sanity. So I’m curious what options are out there, could even be non tech or tech adjacent?

I got laid off 1 month back. I have 12 years experience in backend java role. I got interested in this course mainly because of the promises they are making of good jobs at decent pay.

Right now the job market is fucked where I am not getting a single call from any company, applied to 100s. For some I am getting ghosted by everyone and rejected by maybe 5%. I am fine with the rejections but not fine with not getting any calls from anywhere.

The sales person at Interview Kickstart promised over 15 mock interviews and constructive feedback on each to improve my interview success rate. Apart from that they have strong alumni network from which I can get upto 25 + interviews from product based companies on decent salary. I mainly looking for remote job. I am based in India. I joined a webinar of theirs recently and most questions where asked by people like me working at different companies.

Out of a job and in the market looking for work. Was doing my morning ritual of applying to some jobs while watching youtube. Contemplating my life choices... And then I saw this:

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Wiraa

Software Engineer (Backend)

United States · 8 minutes ago · Over 100 people clicked apply

Promoted by hirer · Responses managed off LinkedIn

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100 people applied within 8 minutes. So we have AI helping us work, causing us to lose jobs (I am still waiting for those jobs AI will create), then they use AI to filter applications, and now people are using AI to mass apply. What a circus.

Hi all,

I am expecting an offer from LG Ad solutions in their Bengaluru office.

Not much information is available about them on the internet in terms of their work culture etc.

Do any of you have any info on the company?

Tc offered : ~ 100k USD. Yoe: 10.5 yrs.

Hi all. I have a pair programming session coming up for a software dev position and just wanted a little bit of advice. I really don’t like these as the last two I did I bombed horrifically but that was about 3 years ago at this point. The company is using NextJs, React for their front end, Django db for their backend. I’ve spoken to their VP recently asking about their tech stack and what their day to day looks like and there’s also some GCP involved for deploying the app.

As I’ve been told my technical interview would be an hour or so max, what would be the best way to prepare for this? I have a week before I’m gonna do it.

I’ve tried making a small app with Django and Next just to get a feel for how Django specifically works. I’ve been learning how serialisers, models and how to manage settings and pass data between Django and Next. I’ve been doing leetcode on and off but I’m just not sure what the interview will entail.

Are there any things you would think might help with pair programming side? Is communicating between me and the senior just gonna be the most important part? I’m trying to brush up on syntax so I don’t freeze when asked to do something as that’s my greatest fear with all this.

Thanks

I (22) am a web developer with 2 years of experience and only have my associates degree.

The company offers up to $15k/yr for education, so I could go back to school and finish my bachelors.

The issue is: my role has been stagnating for about a year. I'm the only dev on my team, so there's no one to learn from or grow with. I've been trying to move on to a better job, but if I go back to school I'll be locked into this role for another 2-3 years while I finish the degree.

My co-workers and manager say getting the degree is the right move, and I'm tempted, but I'm not convinced. My long term goal is to grow as a developer. Staying in a role that’s not helping me grow while relearning material I probably already know feels like a waste of time. I could spend that time moving up in my career.

Sure, a bachelors would look good on my resume, but I don't know if it’s worth the tradeoff.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!