u/Effective-Outcome222 — reddlx

I never thought I would post something like this on Reddit, but I wanted to share my real experience without judgment. Please hear me out.

I have been applying for junior software engineer roles since February (Full Stack: Node, React, TypeScript). I have knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL, have completed an internship, and worked remotely on a few collaborative projects a few months ago.

Right now, I am actively searching for a full-time full-stack role, either onsite or remote. I’ve been giving interviews, and some of them have gone well, but they end up choosing someone else and I understand that, but I’ve been supporting myself since I was seventeen. I came to Kathmandu without family support, lived in hostels, and now in rent and did multiple jobs just to fund my education and living expenses. I managed home tuition and other work while learning skills at the same time.

But honestly, I am tired of this rat race.

For the past two months, due to financial stress, my mental health has gotten worse. In this job market, where I’m not able to secure anything, it’s becoming really difficult. I can’t switch to a full-time non-tech job because I won’t have enough time to keep improving my skills, and I genuinely want to build my career as a developer.

I’ve tried everything cold emails, contacting HRs, asking for referrals, applying everywhere I can but nothing seems to be working. Maybe it’s just a tough phase, and i know most of you may have similar experiences to this market as well.

I never wanted to express this, but I am struggling both mentally and financially. I don’t even have enough savings to cover my rent and bills for next month, and managing college expenses is another challenge. I’m about to complete my college soon (hopefully by Mangsir - Poush), but I can’t afford to wait that long to find a job.

At this point, I am ready to work even for a lower salary if it can cover basic living expenses here in Kathmandu. My only request is: if you know of any opportunities, please reach out to me. I am willing to work full-time and go beyond working hours to deliver results on time.

I know this is just a phase. It may seem easy to read, but living it every single day is really hard.

If possible, please share this with others. I truly hope to land a role soon. Please reach out to me if you have any opportunities for Jr full-stack role.

I've worked as a intern in Codeyard as a MERN stack intern recently and i kid you not i've not received my salary till now, its been more than 2 months. i am not here to say all the bad things they do to their interns and employees, that you can already see in reddit itself.

it really that difficult to pay interns on time?

how shit of them to hire freshers build an entire applications for them to ship worldwide without them even helping in guilding and treating employees and interns like a shit.

Salary range: 8k to interns, 12 k after six month, 15k and never above that

Here, is the reason you see hiring of that company every now and then f**k that hiring they don't even own a f***ing HR in their team, please don't go to that company at all cost I beg you all to stay safe and heres why:

here

employee leave that shitty company within few months of joining.
their timing is 10-6pm, but you will work most of the time till 6:50-7:45 till 8pm 90% of the time, that goes unnoticed.
salary delayed by 1.5 months to 2 as i said i still have not got it.
no food, forget it even to get tea coffee consistently is a big deal for them, oh god the audacity of BINISH that CTO of that company to get different coffee exp one for himself, and the cheapest one for workers, no sugar sometime, no milk, no coffee this goes on loop and hiding tissue paper saying employee used them and threatening the cook didi to get tissue paper and coffee in his home from office, that insane mf.
they deduct salary like crazy even when you reach a lil bit late however long working hours with extra time even on home get unnoticed and unappreciated. even to work on saturdays and scheculing meeting at Sunday to make workers work all day all night 24/7 without having to have a life outside
they will treat employee shittiest and feel worthless, i worked as a developer a "solo developer", did everything by myself, but that PRINCE KUSWAHA (it team so called wanna be manager but is not a) that makes you feel worthless, and questions shitty dumbass things, takes standups for more than 2 hrs, make sure to make us feel bad every now and then how much i've cried at home and in washroom and got anxiety while sleeping is insane because of them torturing me and my fellow interns.
mental health will be f****d up if you stay there.

be unemployed and happy than being associated with such cheap companies.