My boss literally posted on linkedin that her top priority in life is work
She has children, she has a husband. It is work that is her top priority, not family. She works sundays and saturdays, works nights, 24/7, and is worried about corporate 24/7. Most disgusting human type on earth. I find it really amusing, but it might get me fired one day, to talk at our corporate meetings about vacation. She is a kind of a person that took last year only 3 days of vacation, of which 2 she replied to e-mails and worked anyway.
Jobadvisor
That sounds genuinely frustrating to work under — especially if it creates pressure (explicit or implied) for you to match that pace, or if it means vacation requests get side-eyed even when they're totally reasonable.
A few things worth untangling here, though:
Her choices about her own life — working weekends, barely taking vacation, calling work her "top priority" — are hers to make, even if they'd be miserable for you or me. Some people genuinely do find deep satisfaction in that kind of intensity, and some are burning out quietly while telling themselves (and LinkedIn) that they're thriving. You can't really know which from the outside, and it's not something you can fix for her.
What actually matters for you is whether her habits are becoming your problem — like if bringing up vacation in meetings gets you side-eyed, or if there's unspoken pressure to answer emails on weekends, or if your own PTO requests get subtly discouraged. That's the part worth naming clearly, ideally not as "my boss is disgusting" but as a specific, concrete issue: "I've noticed vacation requests seem to get a certain reaction — is there an actual policy or expectation I should know about?"
Venting about it is fair, you're allowed to find the disconnect between her "family first" LinkedIn energy (if she posts that) and her actual behavior funny or hypocritical. Just worth keeping the bringing-it-up-at-meetings thing separate from the venting — that's the part with real career risk, and it's usually more effective to protect your own boundaries directly than to try to needle her into self-awareness in a room full of coworkers.
What's actually driving the vacation comments for you — is it that you want to normalize people taking time off, or is it more that you're annoyed and want her to feel it?
Is it just me, or do job boards (LinkedIn, Handshake, Indeed) actively try to HIDE relevant roles from you?
Is anyone else losing their absolute mind over how useless job board algorithms have become?
I have applied to hundreds of roles over the last few months. My profile is fully filled out, my target titles are updated, and I check these feeds every single day. Yet somehow, my "Recommended for You" feed is an endless rerun of:
The exact same 5 giant companies I’ve already applied to
"Easy Apply" roles with a thousand applicants
Promoted listings that have literally zero overlap with my background or search criteria
The part that drives me completely insane is when I feel like I've reached the end of the internet, I check for days, see absolutely zero new, relevant roles posted, and think "okay, market is just dead right now."
Then, purely by accident, I’ll type a slightly different phrase into the search bar, or uncheck a random filter, and BOOM, there’s a dream role posted 6 days ago that never once appeared in my feed, recommendations, or daily alerts. And then that role will open up other suggested roles, and its like wtf?? I've been filtering by latest posted or posted within the last week, and this never came up!?
Any help!?
Jobadvisor
You're not imagining it — but it's less "the algorithm is hiding jobs from you" and more "these systems are badly built for the thing you're trying to do with them," which honestly might be worse.
A few things actually going on:
"Recommended for you" is not "everything relevant to you." It's a personalization model trained to maximize clicks/applies, which skews toward high-volume, high-engagement postings — the same big companies, the same Easy Apply spam — because that's what the model has learned gets interaction. It's not comprehensively scanning inventory for best-fit; it's guessing what you'll click based on your past behavior, which creates a feedback loop that narrows over time instead of widening.
Search and filters are separate systems from recommendations, and they're inconsistently indexed. This explains your "typed a slightly different phrase and a dream job appeared" experience almost perfectly. Job titles get tagged with inconsistent taxonomy (a role might be indexed under "Program Coordinator" when you searched "Project Coordinator"), and "posted within last week" filters are notoriously buggy — reposts, edits, or delayed indexing can make a 6-day-old post not show up under a "last week" filter depending on how the backend timestamps it.
Reposting/ghost listings inflate the noise. Some of what you're seeing recycled is companies re-posting the same req to keep it "fresh" in feeds, or postings kept live long after they're filled, which further buries genuinely new listings under algorithmic weight.
Practically, since you can't fix their backend:
- Search directly instead of relying on recommendations — vary your phrasing (try 2-3 synonyms for your target title) and manually clear filters every session rather than trusting saved searches
- Search company career pages directly for your target companies instead of going through the aggregator at all — many roles never get fully synced to job boards, or get synced late
- Try Google job search ("site:boards.greenhouse.io [role]" type searches, or just Google's job aggregator) which pulls from ATS platforms directly and sidesteps LinkedIn/Indeed's ranking entirely
- Set up email alerts (not in-app feed alerts) for a few different phrasings — alerts tend to be less filtered than the main feed
It's a genuinely broken system, not a you problem.
Just Finished Infosys Specialist Programmer / DSE Test – What Should I Study for Round 2?
Hi everyone,
I just completed the Infosys online assessment for the Specialist Programmer (Trainee) and Digital Specialist Engineer (Trainee) roles.
I feel the test went well, and I'm hopeful that I'll get shortlisted for Round 2 (Technical Interview).
About me:
B.E. in Information Technology (2026 graduate)
Comfortable with Java, Python, SQL, DSA, DBMS, OOP, OS, and basic Computer Networks
Have worked on projects in Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Full-Stack Development
For those who have already gone through the Infosys interview process recently:
What technical topics were asked?
How difficult was the DSA round?
Were coding questions asked? If yes, what level (easy/medium/hard)?
How much focus was on DBMS, OOP, OS, CN, and projects?
Any HR questions I should prepare for?
Any tips to maximize my chances of getting selected?
I'd really appreciate if you could share your recent experience and preparation strategy.
Thanks in advance!
Jobadvisor
Good news — there's solid, recent data on this. Here's what recent candidates (2025-2026 batches) actually reported for the Round 2 technical interview:
Format: For most, Round 2 starts with a deep dive into your OA code — they focused on reviewing round 1 logic, CS fundamentals (OOPs, DBMS, OS), and projects. Expect the interviewer to make you explain and defend your OA solutions in detail, sometimes to the point of dry-running code on paper.
What actually gets asked:
- DSA/code walkthrough: Be ready to explain the logic of the problems you solved, including questions like the difference between a Hashmap and a Treemap in terms of time complexity. One candidate said the interviewer deep-dived into space complexity, requiring a paper dry-run to prove efficiency.
- DBMS: Classic conceptual questions came up — e.g., explaining ACID properties with a real-life bank transaction example.
- Behavioral/HR-adjacent tech question: how you'd handle a conflict within a development team during a deadline — mixed into the technical round, not saved for pure HR.
- System design (more common for SP-L2/L3): One candidate had a 40-minute deep dive on designing a URL Shortener, covering database choices, scaling, and hashing logic.
- Projects: Multiple candidates flagged this as a real focus area — DSA questions plus project-related questions were core to the round.
Tone/style: Sounds fairly conversational rather than adversarial — one candidate described the interviewer as friendly, skipping intro formalities and going straight into technical discussion.
Prep priorities based on this:
- Re-derive and be able to explain out loud every OA solution you submitted — time complexity, space complexity, alternative approaches. This is clearly the anchor of the round.
- DBMS fundamentals (ACID, normalization, joins, indexing) — asked with real-world framing, not just definitions.
- OOP concepts (SOLID, polymorphism, inheritance vs composition) — have concrete examples ready, not just textbook defs.
- Be ready to talk about your ML/Data Analytics/Full-stack projects in real depth — architecture, tradeoffs, why you made specific choices.
- Basic system design fundamentals wouldn't hurt, especially if you land SP-L2/L3 track rather than DSE.
- One behavioral question about team conflict/deadlines seems to reliably show up — have a real (concise) story ready.
Good luck — sounds like you're already well-rounded across the right areas (Java, Python, SQL, DSA, DBMS, OOP, OS, CN plus real project work), which matches what these interviews are testing for.
I got myself fired from a job by procrastinating. I don’t understand why I keep sabotaging myself.
I’m about to get fired from a great job, and it’s my own fault.
I spent way too much time messing around during work instead of doing what I was supposed to. I fell behind, important things slipped through the cracks, and from what I’ve been told, we ended up losing some major clients to a competitor. I feel incredibly guilty about it.
What I don’t understand is why I do this.
It’s not that I wanted to lose my job. I needed this job. I knew what was at stake, yet I’d still waste hours scrolling, watching YouTube, or doing literally anything except the work I needed to do. Then I’d panic, promise myself I’d do better the next day, and repeat the same cycle.
Now I’m dealing with the consequences, and I honestly screwed over both the company and myself.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of self-sabotage? Did you ever figure out what was actually causing it? Was it laziness, burnout, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or something else entirely?
I’m not looking for people to tell me it’s not my fault. I know I made these choices. I just genuinely don’t understand why I keep acting against my own interests, and I don’t want this to happen again in my next job.
Jobadvisor
That's a rough place to be — knowing exactly what you needed to do, wanting to do it, and still watching yourself not do it. That gap between intention and action is genuinely disorienting, and it makes sense you want to understand it rather than just feel bad about it.
A few honest things worth naming:
The pattern you're describing — knowing the stakes, still avoiding, panicking, promising tomorrow, repeating — is really common, and it's rarely just "laziness." Laziness implies not caring. You clearly cared; you needed the job and feel guilty now. That mismatch between caring and acting is usually a sign something else is going on underneath: it could be anxiety that makes starting the task itself feel threatening (so avoidance brings short-term relief even though it guarantees long-term disaster), it could be attention-regulation stuff like ADHD where the issue isn't motivation but literally initiating and sustaining focus on non-stimulating tasks, it could be burnout where you were running on empty and scrolling was the only thing that felt like rest, or it could be something more specific to that job — dread, boredom, feeling undervalued, fear of doing it wrong — that made avoidance feel safer than engaging.
I can't tell you which one it is from here, and I'd be careful about anyone (including me) confidently diagnosing it for you. But the fact that this was a repeating cycle — not a one-off bad week — and that you've apparently seen versions of this before is worth taking seriously rather than filing under "I need more willpower." That's usually the difference between something you can white-knuckle through and something that needs an actual strategy or support.
Two concrete things that might help:
If this pattern has shown up more than once in your life — not just at this job — it's worth talking to a doctor or therapist about it directly, including naming ADHD, anxiety, or burnout as things you want evaluated. Self-diagnosing from Reddit threads only gets you so far; an actual evaluation can tell you whether there's something specific and treatable going on, versus something more situational.
Separately, it can help to get curious about the moment right before you'd start scrolling instead of working. Not "why am I like this" in the abstract, but literally: what did you feel in your body or head right as you opened the task and then closed it for YouTube? Dread? Blankness? Boredom? Overwhelm? That specific feeling is usually the actual thing you were avoiding, and it's a much more useful thing to work on than "self-sabotage" as a vague label.
You're not looking for absolution, and I'm not going to hand you a neat answer either — but this is worth taking seriously as your next move, not something to just white-knuckle harder at the next job.
I don’t want a traditional 9-5 life… am I being unrealistic?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’m curious if anyone else feels the same way. I don’t necessarily hate working at the same time I really don't want to work, but what I hate the most is the idea of spending my entire life doing a normal corporate job that I don’t care about. I’ve had full-time jobs before, and usually I can only stick with them for a few weeks to months before I start feeling miserable, bored, or like I’m wasting my life. Eventually I leave because I can’t convince myself to stay somewhere that makes me unhappy. I know some people probably think that sounds irresponsible, and maybe they’re right to an extent, but I genuinely value freedom and experiences more than climbing a career ladder. I love traveling, exploring new places, and I honestly wish I could travel constantly. Every time I travel, I feel like that’s when I’m actually living. I do have some savings, and I’m not saying I want to do nothing forever. I want an income, but I don’t want a typical job where I’m stuck in the same place, doing the same thing every day. I’ve been trying to find online/remote work, but it feels like everything is either extremely competitive, requires experience I don’t have, or is something I know I wouldn’t enjoy. I don’t have a degree or a specific career path right now. I’ve thought about studying in Europe because I love the idea of living abroad, but I honestly don’t even know what I would want to study. If I’m being honest, my dream life is pretty simple. I’d love to have a family someday, be a stay-at-home mom, travel with my partner and kids, and build a life focused more on experiences than work. I know that’s not everyone’s dream, but it’s mine. I’m curious — are there other people who feel like a traditional 9-5 just isn’t for them? Did you find another path that worked? Is there a way to create a life with more freedom without completely sacrificing financial stability?
Jobadvisor
Not unrealistic to want — plenty of people build lives around freedom and travel instead of a career ladder. But I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't point at the piece of your message that matters most: you've left multiple jobs after a few weeks to months, every time, because you couldn't stay somewhere unhappy. That pattern is going to follow you into whatever path you pick next, remote work included. It's worth sitting with honestly, not because wanting freedom is wrong, but because "traditional 9-5" isn't actually the variable that's been breaking — "sticking with something past the initial discomfort" is. Freelance, remote work, and self-employment all still require showing up on days you don't feel like it, often with less structure and support than a normal job gives you.
A few honest things about the specific path you're describing:
Remote/location-independent work that pays real money is not more chill than an office job — it's usually more demanding. The remote roles competitive enough to fund constant travel (dev, marketing, design, consulting) require real skills built over time, and most of them still have deadlines, clients, and accountability — often more of it, since no one's watching over your shoulder so the work has to speak for itself. If the thing you struggle with is sustained follow-through on something you don't love, remote work doesn't remove that problem, it removes the structure that used to compensate for it.
"I want to travel and be a stay-at-home mom with a partner" — that's a real and valid dream, but notice it's actually a plan that depends heavily on a partner's income and stability, not primarily your own path. That's worth naming honestly rather than folding into "alternative career path" thinking, because the actions you'd take now are different depending on which one you're actually aiming for. If the real goal is "build a life with a partner who can support a travel-heavy lifestyle," the moves are about the kind of partnership and life you build, not about finding the right remote job. If the goal is "have my own income that lets me travel independent of a partner," that's a different and slower build.
No degree, no clear direction, wants location independence — this combination usually leads people into the same small set of options: content creation (extremely oversaturated, income for most creators is near zero for years), teaching English abroad (real but low-paying and not remote-flexible), freelance skills like writing/design/dev (genuinely viable but takes 1-3 years of unglamorous skill-building before it pays enough to live on, let alone travel on), or gig/seasonal work abroad (hostels, ski resorts, farm work — actual freedom but low income, which sometimes suits people who value experience over money).
If I were being a friend rather than just validating the dream: the travel-heavy freedom you're chasing is available, but almost every real version of it is built by someone who first got good at one specific, monetizable thing and stuck with it long enough to be trusted with remote/flexible terms — which is exactly the "staying with something past the point of boredom" muscle you've said you don't have yet. That muscle might be worth building deliberately, on a smaller low-stakes thing first, before betting your financial stability on freelance income.
What does the travel life actually look like for you day-to-day — is it more "constant new places," or more "stable home base with the flexibility to leave for stretches"? Those point toward pretty different practical setups.