Been working in corporate America for over 10 years and I may have had maybe 1 or 2 good managers.

Quite honestly some of the things people stress over is too trivial like everyone on their team coming in by 8am even tho rest of office arrives between 9-9.30.

But I have this managers who has a reputation of being a bad manager. Being overly Imposing on the team and that shit just weighs the team down.

He has a tendency towards favoritism. He took this senior under his arm and dude trusts him with everything and pushed the senior towards a lead role in another team.

While he has his favorite the rest he just cuts from the clique. And we are just wondering like what the fuck. We just have no one to complain too.

And it's a repeating pattern where he keeps forming a circle of trust and basically leaves the others out in the cold.

I just cant forsee any consequences he faces cause he doesn't change his behavior and why would he, it's openly known how much everyone on the team don't like him. People on other teams openly tell us yeah he's bad. im pretty sure senior managers know as well. I dont feel like anything can be done

One of my friends, in the same company different department, who had a new manager who just wanted to get rid of him put him on a PIP.

He tried to dispute the PIP with paper trail of evidence showing his performance is not worthy of a PIP including consistent performance reviews that shows hes exceeded expectations and meeting notes and recording

HR didnt care. He still went through the PIP and got let go. Fortunately he found a new gig with 2 months.

Like this shit just sucks man. My old manager was solid and was the one who hired me and wanted me to grow as a developer and wanted to push me towards senior roles. Loved that manager. I hate that that manager had to relocate countries. This new guy just sucks. I wish I had my old manager

Previous company had a director who failed upwards to becoming a VP.

It just feels like becoming a manager is a timing issue and not a skill at times.

Hey folks!

A few months ago, I made this post about a big tech company reaching out to me with a job opportunity while I was still an undergraduate.

Well, after a long interview process, I got the job!!

I'm still finishing my degree, so this is a pretty big milestone for me. I'm super excited about what's ahead!

I can't share too many details due to an NDA, but I'm happy to answer any general questions about the interview process, my experience, or how I got here.

Just wanted to share a positive update, especially for other students who might find themselves in a similar situation!

Despite everything you hear about the tech job market, opportunities are definitely still out there!

I immigrated to the U.S. in 2021, completely alone. No family, no friends, no connections. Just hope that if I worked hard enough, I could build a better future.
I received housing assistance through a program and eventually got my green card through a petition filed nearly twenty years ago.Since then, I’ve done everything I was told to do. I went to college, earned a 4.0 GPA, reached out to professionals on LinkedIn, attended events, and pushed myself out of my comfort zone to build connections from absolutely nothing.Yet somehow, it’s never enough.Even when I land interviews, opportunities often seem to go to someone who knows someone. I once reached out to a director asking for a chance, only to be told they had a position saved for their kid’s friend.Everyone says, “It’s all about connections.”But what about those of us who were born without any?What about the low-income, first-generation immigrant who has no family to make introductions, no friends to offer referrals, and no safety net to fall back on?
With an already brutal job market and AI threatening the future of work, it sometimes feels like I’m fighting a battle I was never meant to win.
I’m tired of being told to work hard when that’s all I’ve ever done.I don’t want pity. I don’t want a handout. I just want someone to see my potential before dismissing me because I don’t know the right people.
So, if you’re anyone who’s someone reading this, please take a chance on me. I’m not asking you to give me a career. I’m asking for a chance to earn one.

Hey everyone, I'm a principal software engineer with 15 years of experience. I've worked at FAANG companies and startups, both remote and on-site. There is a lot of negativity on this subreddit, and for years I've talked to people who say "I've applied to hundreds of jobs and can't find anything!"

I've gotten pretty good at finding jobs over the years, and I think some of you might find this useful.

(I dictated this and had AI format it, but it's not AI-gen, hand to god lol. Frankly the formatting still looks weird but I can't be bothered)

1. Don't apply through company websites

Submitting your resume directly through a company website is useless. If it wasn't useless 10 years ago, it certainly is now with the flood of AI-generated applications.

It can actually be worse than useless. Once you're in a company's system, recruiters may not be able to get a referral bonus for you, because you're technically already a lead. You may be removing someone's incentive to place you.

2. Build a big list of target companies

Aggressively list companies that interest you. Narrow by salary, location, remote-friendliness, etc. if you want, but cast as wide a net as possible. More offers mean more negotiating leverage. Use AI to help you build your list. Build a daily AI job that finds and compiles relevant jobs from those companies and similar for you, then take those job listing and shove them under the nose of some recruiters on linkedin with your resume in hand.

3. Work LinkedIn systematically

• Maintain a LinkedIn account. You don't have to post, but add all your professional and school contacts. Connections are what let you message recruiters and employees for referrals.
• Referrals and recruiters are how your resume actually gets seen.
• Use AI to find a couple of recruiters at each target company, plus a couple of 1st-, 2nd-, or 3rd-degree connections who work there.
• Add and message all of them. Ask for referrals or opportunities. Every one of them now has a financial incentive to help you land a role. If that doesn't work, ask on Blind (I know, it's a depressing cesspool).

4. Check out Wellfound (startups)

Startups are booming in 2026. AI gives them a real shot at competing with big players, who are mostly rent-seeking, not innovating, and laying people off. Startups are also how you stay current with the fast-changing AI landscape, since big companies move slowly.

• Aim for a solid salary: roughly $100K–$300K depending on your level.
• Ask for some equity as a lottery ticket. Try to negotiate up to 1%.
• Many startups are remote-friendly, so you can cast a wide net.

That's how I found my latest role.

5. Interviewing

Honestly, I don't know what interviewing looks like in 2026 with all the AI craziness. Do your best.

6. If you can't find a job, especially as a new grad, etc., apply to contracting companies

Contracting companies are in every major city and hire people like crazy - anyone they think they can place at a temporary contract at another company, because they scrape some of your money off the top. But it is a job, money, security, and frankly you will get exposed to and learn all sorts of technologies, make tons of professional contacts, and often get a full-time offer from the company you're placed at.

7. If you STILL can't find a job, especially as a pre-grad, new grad, etc., apply to internships

Some of you haven't even considered applying for internships. Guess, what, internships are for SOMEONE, and that someone is people with no experience like you. Swallow your pride, work a summer internship for 3 months, get paid, get better at working, and you may literally be handed a full-time job after that. If not, you will at least have professional references, contacts, and experience, which will give you a significantly higher chance of getting a full-time job.

8. Always negotiate

No matter what offer you get, negotiate upward. It costs you nothing and could be the easiest money you ever make.

• Don't commit to anything on the phone. Say you need to discuss it with your family.
• Then go ask Claude how to negotiate your way up.
• I prefer to do all my negotiating over email.

Good luck!

I've been employed at a publicly traded tech company in Ontario for approximately 13 months in a non-technical role. I'm in my late 20s, earning a six-figure base salary. Location: Ontario, Canada

This week, HR presented me with two options: enter a 30-day Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) or accept a mutual separation package.

Separation offer:

• 7 weeks of base salary
• No bonus (annual bonus scheduled for early next year)
• No unvested equity (next vesting date is approaching)
• No benefits continuation
• No additional vacation payout mentioned

HR has also stated that they will not provide a written separation agreement until I explicitly choose the separation option over the PIP. If I don't choose separation, the PIP begins automatically.

Additional context:

• My role has changed significantly since I was hired, including the introduction of sales targets that were not originally part of my responsibilities.
• I have documentation of shifting performance expectations during my coaching plan, unequal portfolio distribution compared to peers, and positive performance reviews throughout my employment.
• The company conducted layoffs earlier this year, and I've heard that affected employees received more generous packages, although this is unverified.

Employment agreement:

My contract contains a termination clause limiting my entitlements to the minimum requirements under Ontario's Employment Standards Act (ESA), including a waiver of common-law reasonable notice.

My questions:

1. Is 7 weeks a reasonable separation package for someone with 13 months of service, or is there a basis to negotiate more?
2. How enforceable are ESA-only termination clauses in Ontario, particularly those explicitly waiving common-law reasonable notice?
3. Does HR's characterization of this as a "mutual separation" affect my legal rights or potential EI eligibility?
4. Is it standard practice for HR to require me to choose separation before providing the written agreement?
5. Would the documented changes to my role and performance expectations have any relevance to negotiating a better package?

I plan to consult an employment lawyer before signing anything, but would appreciate any perspectives from this community.

A little question that I've had for years.

Let's say that you're Google and employ 60k software engineers. Every one of those engineers has access to your monorepo with all of its code, and little to no guardrails on copying whatever code they may want to. You have employees from dozens of countries and backgrounds, each with varied motivations. Any of them could bring their work laptop home on a random tuesday, download the code for any million/ billion dollar product and copy/ move it to another device, if they really wanted to.

Why don't we ever see this happen? Obviously, it's illegal, but people have broken the law for less. It wouldn't be hard for an individual to copy/ paste an entire million/ billion dollar product and sell it to an undercover buyer secretly for personal gain. It also would not be hard for a foreign government to insert an employee from their country to steal IP and copy those products in its own for economic/ political gain.

I there something that I'm missing here? It seems way too easy to steal literal million/ billion dollar products and also difficult/ impossible to trace if someone had done so smartly. I would expect companies to silo and lock down their products more to prevent things like this from happening.

Aka the ceos of big tech

Msft will have potentially 27% of the workforce laid off

Ai has shifted work that can be accomplished in months or years to just days now.

The value of labor comes down with it, and h1bs are the preferred over Americans. H1b are complicit and easily exploited, and will flood the supply to drive wages down further. Worker leverage goes even more down as big tech imports flood the market.

Reddit tried to cope with their dunning Kruger take that swe would rebound but it’s become increasingly clear that Americans are the biggest operating cost for companies, most tasks are going to be heavily automated, and Americans are going to keep being shelved for more h1b imports.

Does anyone here work on one dedicated large scale project in their SWE role? I juggle a few projects and it’s cool to see different aspects of the business, but I wish that I could “lock in” entirely on one project and learn it in and out.

I have one guy on my team who has one dedicated project that he works on, but i’m curious to see what the norm is.

I worked at a single firm for a decade as a software engineer and was recently laid off about a month ago. Started off working at the firm as a frontend engineer straight out of college on a team using ember.js, and got moved around in the firm over the decade learning new skills and frameworks (mainly React.js, Spring Boot and API/backend, and AWS), and taking up more responsibilities (deployments, training new hires, etc).

By the time I was laid off, I primarily worked across the stack building APIs (from SQL -> UI presentation) and doing cross team collaboration, and I had been doing that for the later half of the decade.

I've been applying for senior software engineer positions with more rejections emails than I count, but I have gotten some interviews (some of which I was told I got the job, all of which lead to no offers).

I'm curious if I should take the leap and apply for staff/principal engineer positions, and looking for guidance from the community. To be honest, I read the job descriptions for some of these positions and think there's no way I'm cut out for them. They tend to ask for leading infrastructure design, meeting and organizing changes across the whole org, and making decisions that I quite frankly haven't had the opportunity to gain experience in my YOE.

On one hand, I think I'm just suffering from imposter syndrome, because I know I can learn and do just about anything (if I can't do it today, given enough time I will be able to). On the other hand, I think there's real legitimacy to my concern, and that I'd actually be making a fool out of myself applying for these roles.

Hey everyone, looking for some outside perspective on an issue I'm facing with work.

I’ve been at my company for about 5 years, working in C# .NET and Angular, with some Azure sprinkled in mostly for logging purposes.

A few months ago, management informed us that our product will be rebuilt in Power Platforms with a target go live date this time of year in 2027. We will all be starting training in the next few months.

I’m pretty stressed about my marketability. From what I gather, Power Platform is heavily low-code/no-code, and with AI already shifting how software is built, I’m worried that spending the next couple of years in a drag and drop system is going to tank my resume. Sure, having a CS background helps build cleaner and more scalable solutions within the tool, but does anyone actually respect Power Platform experience for a traditional software engineering role?

Is this a massive career detour, or am I overreacting? Angular is already dated and I've heard nothing but complaints and annoyances about Power BI, so that doesn't instill confidence in this announcement.

I would love to hear from anyone who has made a similar shift or hires devs with this background.

I know I want to specialize in Ai. what is the best way to do this via roadmap? Please help. Can't find solid answers.

I've been getting spammed by LinkedIn recruiters on the daily, most of them reaching out about founding engineer roles at AI startups in NYC.

I have 4YOE, at a no-name startup, and had joined as eng #3. I've worked across the platform, having joined as a frontend eng but eventually transitioning to being a full stack engineer. My profile is not remarkable.

I get inMail like:

• "first engineer at a pre-seed NYC startup building an AI back-office (bookkeeping, AP/AR, payroll) for SMBs. $150-200K + up to 2% equity, in person in Manhattan. Fancy hearing more?"
• "The role: AI Product Engineer on a 7-person pod. Full stack, features owned end to end, on customer calls yourself. Unlimited AI tooling budget, meals in office, monthly team dinners at Michelin-starred spots. $200K to $300K base, top-of-market equity, Hudson Yards 4x/week"
• "Not only will you get to work with some of the brightest minds in the space (ex Ramp, Google, Clay, Poolside), but you’ll have the opportunity to own features end-to-end, bring structure to ambiguous problems, work directly with customers and iterate on their feedback, make strong technical decisions, and ship high-quality code. Cash up to 300k + significantly above market equity".

Most of these sound interesting but as someone with limited experience, how do I spot a good one from the rest, and why am I suddenly receiving so many of these when my experience is not really commensurate with the roles they're trying to fill? What skills should I have in order to be a good fit for these, and how do you generally interview prep at one of these places?

Thanks!

Good news. After being ghosted for a couple weeks I decided to send a follow up email and they finally set up second interview me for a senior software engineer role at a small-to-midsize company near me. It's hybrid, over Zoom.

So, sending a follow up sometimes works.

If anyone has recent experience doing these, please post any tips you have.

Otherwise, wish me luck. 🤞

Embedded software development requires a different skill set from typical web or mobile development. Hardware limitations, memory management, firmware reliability, and real time requirements can all affect how a product performs.

I'm interested in what separates a capable embedded engineer from someone who has only worked on basic projects. Experience with C or C++, debugging hardware, understanding microcontrollers, and working with real time operating systems can all be valuable, depending on the role.

Companies such as Beetroot, Luxoft, and Capgemini Engineering operate in engineering and technology services, where embedded projects may require different combinations of these skills.

For embedded engineers and hiring managers, which technical skills or practical project experiences best demonstrate that someone is ready to work on a real embedded product?

Context: US Citizen, California-based role

"Holy cow", is all I can say.

I have never really interviewed at a big tech company in the past. Usually I do not apply to these because the rigorous interview loop is hard to justify a 150k salary and 40+ hours of work a week. But I am tired of my current job. It is fully remote and really chill, but I feel like I am not learning enough. I would consider myself a solid engineer in practice, so I felt like it was going to be easier than I thought. I also get paid less than I would like to at 3 YOE.

I decided to apply to a big tech SWE role asking for 4 years of experience. I do not understand how I even got interviewed in the first place, but the recruiter asked about my experience and I answered honestly. He emailed back an hour later mentioning that the hiring team would consider my candidacy.

So knowing full-well that I basically was underqualified, was probably going to get grilled at a level higher than my expertise, and was probably going to fail most of the interview, I decided to prep for everything.

I spend two weeks preparing for LeetCode interviews. I solved about 10 problems a day, and revisited problems that I have done in the past. I personally despise LeetCode, but I gave it a shot anyways. My brain was fried by the end of the day, and I felt sick sometimes. Kudos to those who can actually do this grind. I also prepared for system design heavily, and this was the one I was least worried about. I practiced behavioral problems so that I would know how to answer them properly.

The Interviews:

Technical Screen - LeetCode and Theoretical Questions

For the first technical screen, I was asked technical questions for about 20 minutes then given a LC problem that I have not seen before (not surprised). However, I was able to implement a brute force solution very quickly in about 5 minutes after discussing my approach. After I was asked to optimize, I actually recognized the optimal pattern through my practicing. I implemented the optimal approach in about 10 minutes. I discussed time complexity, tradeoffs, etc. The guy was young around my age and we chatted up a bit after. This is probably the best I have ever done in a LC round (and under 20 minutes, too). One hour after this interview, the recruiter emails me to state that I am moving up to a full panel.

First Round - LeetCode

The interviewer was a few minutes late, and introductions ate up about 10 mins of the time. I was again asked a problem that I have never seen before, but I quickly recognized the brute force approach. However, the interviewer's connection was laggy and was a little hard to understand, and I feel I heard her say that the approach is inefficient (which it was). So I was like, okay, well I am not sure how to optimize this approach, but after thinking it through, I was actually able to provide a sub-optimal approach. Zero hints so far. This one was good enough to implement and she gave me the go-ahead. I wrote the solution in about 5 minutes using binary search. She mentioned that this approach was better than brute forcing, but asked if there were a better way to optimize this. I told her that I couldn't really think of anything right now, but I kept dry running test cases to see if I can find a pattern - I couldn't. She gave hints but after a while, she mentioned the optimal approach but asked me not to implement it. I guess that was probably it for her. I give this round a Lean Hire with a best case Hire rating. Not too bad, but I am not the best at Leetcode puzzles.

Second Round - System Design

The interviewer was very nice. Cracked a few jokes and laughed. I could not really understand him too well, but he seemed genuinely interested in my experience for a few minutes. We then go to the whiteboard and he gives me a prompt that literally describes to architect my current position's system architecture. Needless to say, I felt this round went amazing. We also chatted a little bit after the round. I would give this round a Strong Hire. I have never done better than this in a SD round.

Third Round - Engineering Manager

This interviewer was also very nice. We did not do introductions but she basically grilled me to the core on my database and architecture concepts - when to handle things like replication, caching, running migrations on production data, etc. We also discussed my previous projects and work experiences. I was asked how I used AI, and I answered in a very good way. But then she got deeper, and I was starting to fear that my lack of experience was starting to show. Either way, I think I answered correctly, but I might've missed more higher level concepts that I have not necessarily touched in my SWE career. I give this round a Hire rating, maybe small chance of a Strong Hire.

Fourth Round - HLD/LLD??

My recruiter mentioned that this round would consist of "application architecture". I immediately jumped to thinking that this round would be more OOP and LLD, so when I went into the interview, I had my assumptions all wrong. This was just another System Design round, and I did not realize that until he asked "How do we scale this?" and I felt like I was thrown a curveball 15 minutes in. I thought this was LLD since I was asked to design a parking lot system - one of the examples ubiquitously asked when doing LLD interviews. The good news was that when I do LLD I always break down the problem into Functional and Nonfunctional requirements, come up with entities, data structure, and algorithm before I start coding. I was SOMEHOW already half of the way there to design this system without even knowing I was needing to design a high level system. The problem was that I already spent a long time going into the low levels of the system that it made it sound like I was going too deep into low level by that point. I immediately abstracted my details from things like algorithms, low-level dependencies, and data structure to mentioning things like horizontal scaling, API endpoints, and components. I then decided to draw up my HLD and by this point I did not have much time left but the system was super easy, so I talked through my design decisions etc. I think this one was a Lean Hire just because of how much time was burnt going through LLD halfway. Probably the worst out of the 4 interviews.

Retrospective

I have not heard back yet as I have just finished my panel yesterday, but I do not anticipate an offer. I do not think I did good enough overall, especially on that last round. I did feel like I did exceptionally well in the technical screen/system design/EM round, but hey, negative marks drag you down much more than positive marks.

Needless to say that I think I am going to stay at my company a little longer. I never realized how bad you would have to go through the gauntlet to get into these positions, and hopefully have someone to not critique you massively on your negative marks. I will probably only target regular tech roles without the prestige or rigor of joining a big tech company. The experience was great nonethless, and I learned a lot

My company's moving toward 100% AI automated development pipelines. While it looks great in theory and executives are saying "no token caps!", since none of these AI behemoths are actually making money the prices are going to have to go up eventually.
And when that happens the pipelines will degrade in quality, no?

I want to offer my skills in sql server, but need some tips on how to find clients

Alright, so I graduated in May with a bachelor’s in Computer Science, a concentration in Cybersecurity, and a minor in Project Management.

During my junior year, I interned in product development within investment management. After graduation, I completed another internship in IT product development at a logistics company. Now, I’m working as a Business Analyst at a defense contractor.

I’ve been in my current role for almost two months, and I’m honestly not too excited about the work. Most of what I do involves analyzing data, creating dashboards, managing projects, and basically helping the program manager with whatever needs to get done.

The salary is pretty good, especially for being fresh out of college, so I can’t really complain about that. However, I don’t see myself doing this long term. I went to school for CS because I genuinely enjoy technology, and I feel like I’m slowly moving away from that field.

I’m not necessarily looking to become a software engineer or spend all day coding, but I do want a career that’s more technical or at least more closely connected to technology. I guess my question is, what should I be doing right now to position myself for a more technical role in the future? Are there certain skills, certifications, or career paths I should be looking into?
I know I’ve only been at my current job for two months, so I’m not necessarily trying to jump ship immediately. I just don’t want to get too comfortable and end up stuck in a career path that I don’t really enjoy.

What I'm not really getting by many devs is the decision they have made themselves not wanting to be hands on anymore.

Having AI assisting being more efficient, delegating tasks, helping providing tests etc. is so much more useful for software than just prompting the final output and how to validate it. Why are you all trying to be so efficient by compromising in quality with quantity. And I'm not trying to say that the LLM code is bad. That belongs to the eye of the beholder to decide but you could get the best of both worlds.

And companies forcing you to be more productive has always been an issue in the industry. We always had to make compromises in having not enough tests. Creating less optimal code to release a feature faster etc.

Why are you not pushing for a more hybrid approach in your workplace? You are basically pushing yourself to become ordinary. Just as good as the next person that knows the terminology to prompt an LLM to give it enough context that it results in somewhat useful code that is not complete garbage.

So I got the grok bot subscription plan, and I’m trying to set it up to efficiently look up and apply for jobs. I got 5 separate bots:

- To fetch jobs based on a criteria I give it
- To draft and revise resumes based on said job and a master resume I gave it listing all of my accomplishments
- To apply for jobs with the actual resume
- To track applications and what resumes I use for each posting.
- To find people who I can reach out too, if that is worth while.

I am wondering if people here have had any success with this or a somewhat similar setup? I am new to using Grok Bots in general.

If you're looking for a position then get the fuck off this sub. It's full of insanely toxic people who hardly give any useful advice. They're so certain on the future of technology by saying that AI is completely wiping out the job market but for some reason are still apart of a sub that exists to help people start or continue their careers in CS.

It's my final semester of uni and I have so many friends at school who've had multiple internships and co-ops and are hopeful of their future. I myself just accepted an offer that starts in January. The job market is shitty, the economy is fucking awful and companies are obviously using AI as an easy excuse for their mass layoffs. If you're truly that convinced this career is dead then do yourself a favor and figuring out how to use that to your advantage or shift your goals. Do literally anything other than reading Reddit comments.

Hey all,

I'm a principal level dev (10 YOE) at Microsoft and was recently offered the buyout. My area of expertise is in building internal supply chain tools within Microsoft for our datacenters etc.

I still get 2-3 messages a day from recruiters in my Linkedin with offers at the senior/staff level, but I haven't interviewed in 10 years.

How brutal is the job market right now? I was offered 39 weeks pay which is pretty enticing but my job is super easy and low stress as is right now. Genuinely don't think I'll accept the offer, but I'm curious how difficult it is to find a similar paying role right now.

Open to moving to NYC/SF etc

Thanks!

I work at a big tech company on the west coast.

My first role at the company was with a small internal tool team, it got my foot in the door and I landed a couple promotions, but got bored and eventually transferred teams after 4.5 years. I did well and received great reviews every year.

My new team/org is a well-known public product that serves ~3 billions users/day. A product that anyone would recognize. I thought the opportunity was really good to learn and expand my scope, but what I learned quickly was up-time is extremely important, more important that pushing features, and now I am making very few changes and struggling to make impact. My specific team is also technically set for deprecation in 5-7 years, but it’s absolutely critical until then. So our job is to keep things moving, not to say there isn’t a lot of work to do, but this is the reality of the long term situation. I’d probably just be absorbed into a partner team if I stuck around for 5+ years.

I got my first ever sub-par annual review and it stung. Not a PIP, but not great. So instead of pushing for promotion, I feel like I’m fighting for my job. I am now almost 1.5 years into the new role.

A friend in the company reached out to me this week and mentioned he’s starting a new team in another division at the same company, building a new AI product. He wants me to join him. It sounds intriguing, but I feel like maybe I’m leaving my current team too soon?

Would leaving push my promotion timeline back even further? Or would joining a new team mean more impact and more leverage?

Same company, so same TC / title / etc.

8 YOE
mid-level SWE

Title.

Ai writes 95% of our code now, and does it in 1/100th the time.

I'm at 75 reviews in queue, only 5 of them are less than 1000 lines. It's been like this for two weeks.

What do you guys do?

Hey all,

So I created a web app from backend to frontend for an organization as my undergrad course ending project. I then sold this web app to an organization and it's now working.

I am also currently applying for CS related roles as my first job in the field, but I have been unsuccessful so far. A common feedback has been "This app is a really strong point in your CV but since we can't see any of it it doesn't convince us." I'm also actively developing some other projects to strengthen my portfolio and this knowledge would be welcome

So what is the professional, industry-standard way of doing this? I don't want to get into any trouble by making the code public, but at the same time I need a way to "show it off".

Thank you so much!