In my current job, I feel like I'm not learning much as it like I'm stuck. I also want to work at Google, which has been a childhood dream of mine. Additionally, my upper management promote on using GPT to write code which I feel like it's not a good thing as a younger professional seems like my development skills is depricated. The worst part is that I'm unable to allocate time to learn new things on my own. I want to leave this job to focus on practicing my development skills through popular open-source projects, and by doing LeetCode and Codeforces. However, I'm afraid to take decision because of the current tech job market.
To all senior developers and engineers, I would appreciate your valuable advice. Please help me as if I were your younger brother!
Any advice appriceated.

Here’s a few things from what I understood from my (still short) career:

- you are delusional about big tech companies, the job is not that interesting, you won’t learn that much there and now they lay off their workforce.

- you learn by doing things by yourself, either in your job or in your free time.

- the help of more senior developers is essential, as they not only know technical stuff better, but are more organised than you are. If your seniors are dismissive with you, you won’t get anything from your current job.

- you lack confidence in yourself. Every problem feels unsolvable at the beginning, but there’s a point in your career you will stop caring about this

- you can look for a job while staying at your current one, companies are used to notice period. However, they will all make empty promises to you. Pick the one where the technical interview feels the most fun. If it’s a take home task, pass.

@mostr4am fuck being CTO, I am headmaster of wizardry and Holly pope of shining lights.

Yeah, don't leave your job. Just .. find a way to practice outside of work. You have to. Or just steal work time if you can. Get some low key projects if you can. * shrug * and just keep practicing leet code or whatever you're into.

You could also save some money and take an education vacation. But you better put that shit to work. Like, program every second you can and make a proper portfolio, etc.. that could help you but risky if you're not disciplined or have too many life distractions.

Don't worry about GPT. It's a tool you can use to teach yourself stuff. It ramps up junior people more quickly. Helps find bugs sometimes. Helps learn a new package. etc. etc.

I've been getting more and more aggressive with what I throw to it and it's been a good thing not bad.

> The worst part is that I'm unable to allocate time to learn new things on my own.

elaborate, what do you mean by unable?

@Hazarth I want to practice my LeetCode skills to crack the initial interviews with big tech companies, and at the same time, I want to improve my development skills.

Lie. Tell them you're using GPT to write code.

@priyanshu-kun but I don’t get it. What do you expect from big tech companies? If that’s for the line on the resume, it’s not useful. If that’s for the swimming pool, know that it’s finished. If that’s for the money, you will loose a bunch living in California, especially if you consider the therapy costs you will need to live in such awful area

i absolutely dislike google from a consumer stand point of view. How do people actually want to work for companies like facebook, google microsoft etc.

Why would anyone ever want to work for Google? Do you hate yourself?

@atheist but that will make them think gpt can write the code people write... False confirmation of bias. They got me gpt account, but I am so wary of using that shit.

@Demolishun 4o model apparently scoring 100-120 IQ now. the other models are about 80-90 iq

most devs are gonna be 120-130

You'll get there if you stick with it. I started maybe a little more than a decade ago, and I still feel like you could fill several oceans with what I still have no clue about. Your self-appraisal kinda reminds me of what it was like at my first couple of jobs, and it can be tough if you're in a less than awesome company that doesn't enable you to grow professionally. On the other hand, I know for my part that I was pretty impatient with my career. Just be open to learning as much as you can, but definitely do not quit your job right now in this market! Even if you're "encouraged" to use GPT at work, if you have time on a weekend, it can be helpful to follow up on things that you used or saw or heard about. Curiosity can end up opening a lot of doors in this field.

@Tounai It's not about money or lifestyle which comes working in google, the thing is I just want to prove myself.

@jestdotty GPT-4 is clearly, clearly better than 4o for coding. No contest. I am curious about the new models they just released though.