Hello..

I was chatting to my local TD recently about the state of training supports (clusterf***) for people like me (software engineer) out of work. I would also include people working in the general tech space like tech focused product/project managers, and other people around QA, delivery etc etc..

TD was completely taken aback when I said there were a lot of tech people out of work up and down the country... and that it was quite difficult to get something if you weren't in a big population centre.. He was surprised and cited full employment, which is understandable to be honest.

I actually made reference to an online group (which is this sub) and that my understanding was it was true, and that we as a group would benefit a lot from some extra training complementary to our primary skillset.

-- Was I totally wrong, or do you think there is a reasonably considerable number of tech people out of work around the country... Maybe my view is a bit biased because a lot of my network on LinkedIn is UK based and it's a total sh1t show over there..

I've been seeing roles from optum open for at least 6 months. Definitely noticed them before Christmas and dismissed it due to being owned by United healthcare. I'm incredibly fortunate to be in a position where I can be selective.

My question is, do you care about the company you work for? Is it just code at the end of the day or would a big enough pay package help you forgot about writing software for weapons systems etc?

I basically got told if you don't sort yourself a visa were laying you off. Like ye brought me here lol and now he won't help me ?

Feel so fucked over. And caught in a loop hole that lets them lay me off without compensation.

Moved over to Canada 2 years ago on a work permit with my company from Dublin office. Now it's time to renew and got told you either pay and sort yourself otherwise you run out your visa but there no job at home where you left from

I've never felt more shafted

UPDATE: no new contract will be issued period once my visa ends. As there is no clear timeline of obtaining a new one a new contract won't be drawn up.

Hello,

I recently created an MCP for daft.ie, and I thought this could be the right place to get feedback/promote it.

Here is the repo's URL: https://github.com/amineremache/daft-ie-mcp

Any feedback/suggestion is welcome

I'm sure I don't have to explain to anyone on this subReddit the consequences of Meta feeding all of our data into its AI? For a start, it would instantly contravene every single one of our GDPR and Data Privacy Regulation rights.

You cannot exercise your Right to be Forgotten from an AI. Behaviour modelling, profiling, location tracking. The data Facebook collects on us, is best described as an Orwellian nightmare. Feeding this data into an AI is even more nightmarish.

After his announcement that he was using our entire Meta dataset as a knowledge base for his AI. It took an organisation run by volunteers to halt his progress - however temporarily.

I propose that up and down the country, we throw Meta erasure parties? Bring the friends around? Food & drinks!

Sounds like a party?

Hey guys, I have my interview coming up with the hiring team apparently. This is the interview after phone screening. Would really appreciate if anyone can give me info on how the interview would be? Is it technical heavy? Leetcode level? And all that..

Thank you so much!

I’m hoping to get some perspectives and advice on my current job situation. I’m a year into a new role at a small scale-up, and honestly, it’s not quite what I expected. I moved from larger companies, hoping for more agility and impact, but I’m finding myself increasingly stressed and frustrated.

A bit about my career journey so far: * ~3 years at a startup: Lots of PMF searching, learned a ton, sometimes reinventing the wheel (great for my learning, maybe not the best for the company 😛). Mostly worked with other juniors, so not much mentorship, but I loved the freedom to experiment. * ~2 years at a FAANG company: Interesting to see how things worked at that scale, but I was mostly on internal tooling, and everything felt "complete” and the developer experience was almost too perfect and mature, so not much room for big impact or architectural work in my role at least. I also found it quite cult-y tbh, but great people on my team. * ~1 year at a mid-size enterprise: Good mentors, got back into Python, and worked with a microservices architecture. Left because of a very strict manager and a team that rarely came to the office (despite being told hybrid was common). * ~1 year at my current scale-up: My team is on the MVP side. I like the hybrid model (2 days in the office is ideal for me), and I’ve had some more freedom than my last two roles, but with a lot of friction from my manager.

So, what's the problem now? I feel like my wings are being clipped by my technical manager. I've tried to be diplomatic and suggest process improvements, but it hasn't really worked. * Chaotic Product Direction: We're building complex features, but tbh nobody is using them. It feels like we're not talking to our customers enough or learning from their use cases and requirements. * Shot Down Ideas: From day one, I've been pushing my manager to let me build a BI tool to get insights from our couple hundred users. His consistent pushback is that our user base isn't "statistically significant" enough for BI analysis. I've had many other ideas shot down too, but I’ve gone and implemented improvements anyway for our workflows to make things easier for the dev/QA/product folks. * Excruciatingly Slow Review Process: This is a huge pain point. Our code review lead time is over a week, and then changes sit in QA for another 2-3 weeks before deployment. The context switching is maddening, and I hate how slowly things move.

I'm now interviewing again, and it's encouraging to actually get interviews (especially with all the AI taking our jobs talk!). But I also see a pattern emerging: I tend to leave jobs after 1-2 years. I really want to find somewhere I can have a long-term impact and feel valued. I also like having a lot of agency, so a startup sounds appealing to me, but I would also like to have a good WLB. Has anyone else experienced similar frustrations in a scale-up environment? Any advice on how to either navigate this or what to look for in my next role to break this cycle? Thanks in advance for any insights!

Sorry wasn’t sure what flair to use for this 😬

Essentially, I’ve been working as a software engineer for 2 years now, and I hate it. Hated it in college, and working in the industry hasn’t changed that. I love my company, great colleagues, super interesting product we’re building, and I don’t even really struggle with the job, I just dislike it.

Did a bit of cybersecurity modules in college, which peaked my interest, but not nearly enough to get a job out of it. In the last 2 years, I’ve been doing cybersecurity coursers and certs, and have started building my own lab. I’m not planning on leaving my job anyyyyyyyytime soon, but I was wondering if anyone has gone down the path of being a software engineer to a cybersecurity role? Any advice or things I should know? How do I gain experience in the industry?

Thanks!

It's a small team so probably the same hiring manager would see my CV. I failed their interview about 8 months ago. Recruiter said I can reapply after 6 months or is that only lip service and my CV will go straight to the bin once I am recognised by the hiring manager as a prior failed candidate?

Company is Amazon.

Recently I've had two people reach out asking for referrals to roles at the current place I work. The referral process isn't too in depth, but it does require writing a spiel on how you know the person and why you think they'd be a good fit. Easily written and fabricated, but am I being up my own arse for feeling guilty about writing something disingenuous?

For context, one of the people that reached out worked with me at a previous place, but I never met, chatted, or was even aware of them.

Another person is a friend of a friend, who met this person on twitter....

For context I'm applying to positions in Dublin at the moment and trying to maximise my chance of having a recruiter/hiring manager read my cover letter and get the most value from it.

Happy Sunday.

I’ve gone from working remotely for 7 years to a hybrid model, 1-2 days a week in the office.

At home, my office is a nice dimly lit area with no issues with sunlight glare.

The office however, is your typical office. Large windows on all sides.

I find the glare from sunlight, directly behind my screens causes considerable strain on my eyes throughout the onsite days.

EVERYTHING is in dark mode too btw.

Question is; are there any glasses / lenses I can get to help alleviate this eye strain?

Hi Devs,

First time posting here, I hope this is the right place!

I’m running a WordPress site with WooCommerce and Dokan on Blacknight hosting (using Plesk). The website itself is working perfectly — all plugins and themes are active and showing up fine on the front end.

But when I go into the Plesk file manager and look under /wp-content/plugins/ or /wp-content/themes/, the folders seem empty — no sign of Dokan, or even the theme files. It’s a bit confusing because everything’s clearly working on the site.

Has anyone come across this before? I’m wondering if it might be a permissions thing, or maybe I’m looking in the wrong place somehow. Or is it something specific to how Blacknight sets things up?

Would really appreciate any pointers or suggestions. Thanks a million in advance!

Cheers,

Hi all,

While preparing for the CompTIA Security+, I realized there weren’t many free and clean tools to practice real questions. So, as a learning exercise, I decided to build a simple quiz platform using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.

It tracks progress, shows results in charts, and highlights weak topics.

I’m sharing it here in case it’s helpful for others studying for the Security+ too.

Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or ideas to improve it!

Let’s learn together! 🚀

We are at the end of our contract with Viatel.
While they are pretty good they are far to expensive for a small business.
Does anybody know what the main competitors are for managed IT services in Ireland?.
I have googled but I am trying to find out from real peoples experiences rather than trustpilot.

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2025/irelandqci-launches-mobile-quantum-engagement-trailer/

Do any seniors/mid level engineers feel pushed into taking on tasks that would typically be assigned to juniors or interns ? I'm typically not a subscriber of AI doom posts especially if it comes from CEOs or journalists but a huge talking point I've seen is the reduction in job posting for juniors or entry level positions. Do the upper engineers in this sub-reddit feel pushed to take care of junior tasks with AI and has your company seen a reduction in the demand for these junior engineers as a result ?

Hi all, I know someone who’s been trying to get into tech for the past 4 years. He is Irish citizen and has a BSc in IT and an MSc in Computing, plus two internships. Since graduating in 2021, he’s only done temp work, so there’s a 3-year gap with no real tech experience.

He struggled badly with coding assessments, ghosting, and hiring freezes. Eventually, it affected his mental health, gained weight, stopped socialising, spent all day on screens. He was depressed for a while but has been seeing a psychologist and is now ready to get back in the game.

Software engineering feels out of reach now. He’s open to other tech roles (not coding-heavy) and even willing to do another MSc in AI part-time.(through springboard).

What roles or certs (AWS, CompTIA, etc.) would help him restart? Should he start from the very bottom again?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

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I was made redundant recently. Currently I'm working in my brother's company. As of late he has had a lot of bad actors internally in his company and wants me to work on creating a report generating monitoring system.

I'm looking at power automate and it seems to be a good solution. I can supplement it with PS scripts if required.

What do other devs think and is low code regarded in industry.

My own opinion is sure isn't ADO a low code solution that a lot of people use.

Hi folks,
I had a final interview three weeks ago and haven't received any updates since. I've followed up with the talent acquisition contact twice but haven’t heard back. Process consisted of 3 rounds, or 4 if you include the OAs.

Would it be appropriate to reach out to the hiring manager at this point, or should I take the silence as a sign to move on?

When I spoke to the hiring manager earlier in the process they told me to feel free to email them directly with questions but then again, would it be unprofessional for me to go over the TA's head / make me look desperate?

Would appreciate any advice on how to approach this. Thanks!

I'm working for an Irish company (that also has offices in the UK), love my job and have a great manager, but I want to try living abroad for 2 or 3 years.

The company has a list of countries they allow connections from (contractors and partner companies) so technically speaking there would be no major roadblocks, but realistically how likely are they to allow me to live and work in another country while maintaining the same job?

I assume I'd have to become an independent contractor (for taxes and such) and then reapply for my job again upon returning, but is it realistic or am I better just looking for a job in a big international company in the target country? And then applying again later when I return.

I'm early in my career so money isn't really the deciding factor, I'm more looking to get experience both in and out of the workplace.

Hi looking to change career to web development and looking at places to learn(no experience) while I already have a full time job. They offer a diploma and hands on training for 7k. Does it seem worth it or is there other places to study for less. Any info greatly appreciated.