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A lot of my seniors say that if you don't do competitive programming on Codeforces, you won't clear the online assessments for FAANG companies.

But I look at some people who only did Leetcode and still cracked great product-based companies. Does CP actually give an unfair advantage, or is standard DSA enough?less

Just got the rejection mail after the final managerial round. I cleared all 3 technical rounds, answered everything perfectly, and still didn't make the cut.

It stings so much because I spent 6 months preparing just for this specific company. Taking a break for a few days before I look at code again.less

Redux, Zustand, Jotai, Recoil, Context API...

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how many ways there are to manage state in React? I usually just stick to Zustand now because it has zero boilerplate, but I'm curious what you guys use for medium-sized projects.less

I want to start freelancing on Upwork to make some side income. But it seems impossible to get your first client without any reviews. Any tips on landing that first gig?less

Code works perfectly on my local setup. Deployed it to Vercel and the API routes are completely broken due to a CORS issue.

Why does CORS exist to torment us? Spend 5 hours coding the feature, spend 5 hours fixing CORS headers.less

Redux, Zustand, Jotai, Recoil, Context API...

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how many ways there are to manage state in React? I usually just stick to Zustand now because it has zero boilerplate, but I'm curious what you guys use for medium-sized projects.less

Is anyone targeting Google Summer of Code this year? I've been contributing to an organization for a month, but there's a lot of competition.

How do you make your proposal stand out? Should I focus on solving more issues, or start drafting the proposal immediately?less

Do you actually need to be good at Math to be a software engineer?

I'm decent at logic and building web apps, but I struggled with Calculus and Linear Algebra in college. Will this hold me back if I don't want to go into Machine Learning/Data Science?less

I used to solve every layout problem by nesting flexboxes inside flexboxes until the code looked like a pyramid.

Finally sat down and learned CSS Grid properly this weekend. It is so much cleaner for macro-layouts! If you're avoiding Grid, you're doing yourself a disservice.less

Applied to literally 150+ internships in the last month. Got maybe 3 automated OAs, and then absolute silence.

I have a decent MERN stack portfolio and an active GitHub. Is the market really this bad right now for freshers, or is there something fundamentally wrong with my resume?less