Business Development Manager (chemicals)

A tale of Toxic Indian Workspace

I have been working for a finance client as a Full stack Dev. The SOW which our company has signed doesn't have provision for functional testing. And we have written the unit tests which are covering around 85 %. But the client is forcing us to re-write the unit tests to behave like Integration tests. Our management is not speaking about it. For which we have to do a lot of rework and unnecessarily stretch our working times from 8 in the morning till 11 in the night. This has been happening since the day of my joining in this project. They are forcing the RTO, not providing cabs stating it's a general shift project. The manager doesn't respond to calls, texts or even emails. Earlier they were providing job security now they are no longer providing that one. I know I should make a switch. I had left my previous org in 6 months, that's why I am continuing here even if I don't have 1 % interest in staying here. Please suggest what to do. I had been in my prv orgs for an average of 2 years. Last org 6 months and this one 8 months.

How much coding do LLMs actually replace on your team? (junior vs mid vs senior)

Genuine question for teams shipping real products: If you had to estimate, what % of coding work is currently being replaced/accelerated by LLMs for each level? - Junior-level tasks (%): - Mid-level tasks (%): - Senior-level tasks (%): For context, by "replace" I mean work that would have taken a human significantly longer but is now mostly handled by AI + review. Would love concrete examples: - What tasks got fastest improvement? - What still needs strong human ownership? - Where does AI output create rework/bugs? My impression so far: - Junior tasks: high replacement/acceleration - Mid-level: moderate - Senior-level architecture/product judgment: still mostly human Curious how close (or wrong) this is across teams.

How to Wreck Your Career: A Cautionary Tale from a 31-Year-Old UX Designer

I’m 31, married, and living in Bangalore. I’ve been working as a UX designer for nearly 6 years, with a year in 3D modeling before that. I joined TCS straight out of a Tier-1 design school with an 11.5 LPA package. After over 5 years at TCS—4 A bands, 1 promotion—my salary stands at 19 LPA. Recently, I received an offer from a WITCH company for 27.5 LPA. Sounds like progress? It’s not. The interviews I went through were a brutal wake-up call. They made it painfully clear how far behind I am. I don’t know the basics of application design. I have no grasp of Material Design or HIG, no clue about UI micro-interactions or UX processes. My soft skills? Don’t ask. I’ve spent years working hard—nights, weekends, you name it—but not smart. I said yes to everything. I chased appreciation instead of growth. I stuck to NDA rules so hard that I now have nothing to show in my portfolio. Two of my six years were spent on the bench or on unshowcaseable projects. In the remaining four, I worked on 15+ projects but treated them like tasks, not opportunities to learn or grow. I ignored upskilling. I chose the comfort zone over challenge. And I paid the price. When I finally got feedback on the one case study I reworked 10+ times, I realized it wasn’t worth showing. Not because I didn’t work—but because I didn’t work right. I worked for others, not for myself. The clients I bent over backwards for dropped me with a Teams message. This isn’t a sob story. I’m not fishing for sympathy. In fact, my family is tired of hearing this. My so-called friends would probably be happy to see me fall. But here’s why I’m writing this: Let me be your cautionary tale. Don’t waste your potential. Don’t stay stuck in the comfort of “busy work.” Don’t avoid feedback. Don’t assume a Tier-1 degree will carry you forward. It won’t. It’s now just a laminated piece of plastic I can’t even wipe my ass with. If you want to grow, you have to get uncomfortable. You have to take risks. You have to work smart. Otherwise, you’ll end up like me—realizing too late that you’ve spent years building nothing for yourself. I am the architect of my own downfall. I built my failure with my own hands.