NEED HELP: signs of depression as 1.8 years in Java

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Job Overview

• Role: NEED HELP: signs of depression as 1.8 years in Java
• Company: Reddit
• Location: Worldwide/Remote
• Salary: Competitive / Not Disclosed — confirm during interview
• Listing Source: Reddit (r/IndiaJobs)

Job Description

Background

B.Tech in Information Technology from Tier-3

Batch 2020-2024

\\\[corona brain fogged me\\\]

I am not from Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi so you guys might understand the exposure problem

1.6 years of online education in the university due to corona

\\- late exposure to subjects that actually mattered or needed time

\\- but naturally I focused on getting better at academics only

In the 7th semester, I came to know that

\\- most of the seniors from the batch ending in 2022, 2023, and peers from 2024 were so rich that they were going to fly abroad for further studies which resulted in negligible placements in tech roles. (Now these people have M.Tech at least)

In the 8th semester,

\\- I got ill for a month

\\- There were no internships/job opportunities in Java which resulted in directionless learning.

\\- planned to learn from Udemy and started with Spring Framework (it's hell if not started to learn on correct timeline)

\\- I managed to make a social media project from YouTube

\\- found a course for Spring Framework and started learning it. I regret it a lot as the market is of Spring Boot and Microservices.

Somehow managed to land a job via walk-in interview in August 2024. I had done no proper interview prep, just the things I had made in Java and the basic interview questions. And a morj problem that affected me was traveling back and forth took 2 hours of my day and the low energy and the things I was working upon.

Year - 2024 + starting of 2025

After that for 6 months the job was like some random tasks on angular, old monolithic Spring (not even Boot) applications.

Year - 2025

Then I got the opportunity to work on a project from scratch where I maintained the project standards and use latest tech like Spring Data JPA, Spring Data Redis, Spring Security, but was told to make a Monolithic app. By then most of my time was spent on learning those things and also implemented JWT via Spring Security.

ending of 2025 till now

This AI assisted thing grew within this time due to which the company totally restructured itself and my role was affected after that I was told to put resignation and March 2026 was last month. I am also at a point where I noticed that things on which I was working on doesn't matter now due to these prompts thing for code generation which is not giving me hopes for future. And I am mentally tired that things are getting worse day by day and loosing interest in software engineering.

In Feb to March i was totally depressed as regularly checked online posts in LinkedIn and naukri + did shortlist companies but sadly no opportunities and getting rejected. I also see people who are applying to 100+ but it triggered me that how are they even as I am not seeing opportunities where I fit in.

I am at a point where I need to prepare java interview questions and learn Microservices as well continuing the GAP (almost a month+ now) also there is this pattern where they need AWS or Fullstack thing but from my past experience i am not ready to face things that I have faced.

DSA is not my thing right now and System Design is far away (have some interest on it but mentally not in that condition where I can give it sometime).

Now here in my city there are no good java openings where I can learn microservices and I am not competent enough for Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru market as I saw feel linkedin accounts where their dev + dsa is so good and software engineering to them is totally different...

Please help me decide my further steps as I am not able to decide what to do next if I give up on java right now as I can't handle this much stress and ofc low ball offers...

Salary & Compensation

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• Parental leave and family health coverage

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Work Arrangement

Type: Fully Remote

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