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Public Software development industry questions, pay and benefits, career topics, and experience posts.
Public Software development industry questions, pay and benefits, career topics, and experience posts.
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I'm interested in transitioning into AI engineering and would love some advice on a learning roadmap. There seem to be so many topics right now—LLMs, RAG, AI agents, fine-tuning, vector databases, MCP, evaluation framew…
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Where to start with computer graphics in 2026? With AI‑powered techniques like neural radiance fields and Gaussian splats gaining attention, I'm unsure which fundamentals to learn. Should I still study the classic rende…
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Navigating the H‑1B and green card process as a software engineer I'm currently on an H‑1B visa and starting to think about long‑term residency options. I've heard about EB‑2 NIW and EB‑1 categories, but the process is …
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Pursuing a master's degree vs. staying in industry — what would you do? I'm a software engineer with about five years of experience, and I'm debating whether to get a master's in CS or keep working. Is a graduate degree…
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Balancing coding and investing — how do you manage your finances as a programmer? I'm a mid-career software engineer and I realise I've spent more time honing code than planning money. With retirement accounts, company …
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Considering a career move to fully remote — how is the 2026 job market for experienced devs? I've worked in front‑end/mobile dev for about 10 years at startups and big tech. My partner and I plan to relocate from NYC to…
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What camera and lens would be suitable for beginners?
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Should beginners learn C++ or Java first?
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I worked on a service where the CI build had slowly grown to almost half an hour. Nobody owned it because it was not exactly a product bug, but every small change felt heavier than it should. The first useful step was n…
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Interviewed for a GeForce Now software engineer role. Three rounds: • Round 1: solve merging intervals, OS questions, analyze an Nsight Systems timeline and discuss profiling multiple VMs on a single server. • Round 2: …
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Feature flags are supposed to make releases safer, but I have seen them turn into a second configuration system that nobody really owns. The easy part is adding if enabled then run the new path. The hard part is remembe…
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Interviewed for a software engineering role at TikTok – mainly behavioral and optimization focused: • Discussed workplace challenges and how I resolved them, including debugging and optimizing both CPU and GPU bottlenec…
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Interviewed with Apple's GPU teams (ecosystem, graphics & driver). Topics included: • Ecosystem: shadow mapping, tangent space, normalization, MVP matrix; debugging tasks; compared data structures and OS concepts; parse…
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Interviewed for a GPU software engineer role at Sony. Key points: • Written test on algorithms and C++ fundamentals • Discussed offline rendering vs game engines and low‑level graphics programming • Compared Vulkan & Op…
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Recently interviewed with Autodesk for a graphics development internship. The manager round was casual—we chatted about my background in graphics, why I switched majors, how I communicate in a team and handle disagreeme…
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miHoYo AIGC Algorithm Engineer: 3D Direction Interview Questions
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One thing I keep relearning in backend work is that messy API names cost more later than the original bug. On one project we had three endpoints returning the same customer object with slightly different fields. It work…
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Just had an interview for a rendering intern role at a well-known game company. It started with discussing my graphics projects, then we dived deep into real-time rendering: differences between SSDO and SSAO, how TAA wo…
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Recently interviewed with Autodesk for a graphics intern role. The manager chat focused on fit: • Introduced myself and explained why I switched to computer graphics. • Discussed how to contribute when meetings are crow…
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Interviewed with Nvidia Shanghai for a C++/graphics role – two rounds: • Round 1: Discussed C++ inheritance and why destructors are virtual; lvalues vs rvalues and move semantics; how to compute mipmap levels; Early-Z o…