Job search resources for developers

A six-stage path into paid remote AI data work, with a version for data annotation and one for AI trainers. It covers why models need people, the honest picture of pay, project gaps and scams, the guideline and quality skills platforms test, getting accepted, getting paid and keeping records, and moving up into reviewer, evals, data or ML roles. It suits students and graduates who want flexible remote income and read instructions carefully.

• Career
• AI
• Remote work
• Job search

A seven-stage path for relocating for a tech job in the Gulf, Germany and the EU, the UK and Ireland, or East Asia: deciding if and where, work visas from official pages, degree attestation, a profile recruiters abroad shortlist, finding employers that sponsor, comparing offers and your first 90 days. It suits students, graduates and engineers who want a real plan instead of group-chat advice. Every stage is open on the public page, and adding it costs no credits.

• Career
• Job search
• Personal branding
• Remote work

A seven-stage plan for looking for a software job on purpose instead of mass applying: choose a target role, level and tiered company list, build a one-page resume and proof of work, apply through referrals and short messages with a tracked weekly rhythm, get ready for the technical and behavioural rounds, and compare and negotiate offers. It suits final-year students, graduates hearing nothing back and experienced engineers changing company. At the end you have a search you can measure and a researched number when the offer arrives.

• Career
• Job search
• Personal branding

The free Slack workspace of the Write the Docs community, where documentation people ask questions, share work and post jobs. Channels include career advice and a jobs-only channel. A short signup form keeps spam out.

• Career
• Remote work
• Job search

A free, full-length book by freeCodeCamp's founder, written for people learning to code on their own, often while working another job. It treats getting hired as three parallel efforts: skills, a network and a reputation, which is exactly the shape a career switch needs.

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• Job search

The Linux Foundation's platform for paid, structured mentorships on open source projects, including the cloud native projects run by CNCF. You apply to a specific project, complete any tasks the mentors set, and if selected you work on real issues with an experienced maintainer for a fixed term. It suits students and early career developers who want open source experience with guidance instead of guessing alone.

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• Job search
• Cloud

Paid, remote three-month internships in open source and open science for people who face underrepresentation, systemic bias or discrimination in the technology industry of their country. Interns receive a $7,000 USD stipend. There are two cohorts a year, May to August and December to March, each with a short application window followed by a contribution period where applicants work on real project tasks with mentors.

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• Job search

A yearly Google programme that pairs people new to open source with mentoring organisations for a paid, remote coding project. Contributors work for 12 weeks or more with a mentor and receive a stipend based on project size and country. Organisations are announced early in the year and the application window is short, so the real work is choosing a project and engaging with its community well before proposals open.

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• Job search

The free, open companion to the Grokking the System Design Interview course, published as a GitHub repository. It teaches a pattern-first approach: learn building blocks such as caching, sharding, replication and queues well enough that any design question becomes a matter of combining them. It includes a seven-step interview framework, 30 patterns, 59 question walkthroughs, company guides, cheat sheets and study roadmaps, all readable in the browser without an account.

• System design
• Job search

A revision reference for every step of a software job search, in 8 chapters and 55 concepts: target role and level, resume and keyword mirroring, proof of work, referrals and reply rate, what technical and behavioural rounds look for, the parts of an offer (total compensation, RSUs, options, vesting and cliff) and polite negotiation. It suits anyone in an active search and follows the Sefism Job search roadmap chapter by chapter. Use it to revise after each stage and to read an offer properly before you reply.

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• Job search

A link aggregator for technology and startup news, run by Y Combinator, where the comments are often more valuable than the article, sometimes including people who built the thing being discussed. It also hosts monthly "Who is hiring?" threads, a genuinely good source of engineering roles, many of them remote. Use it in bounded doses: it is excellent signal mixed with a lot of confident argument.

• Career
• Job search

One-to-one coaching with the author of the best-selling Grokking courses, a tech lead whose background spans Meta, Microsoft and Hulu, where he built and scaled distributed systems and data storage infrastructure. Sessions cover system design, data structures and algorithms, interview strategy and career direction. It suits engineers who have prepared seriously and want an expert read on what is still holding them back.

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• Job search
• System design

Coding and system design coaching with Rafay Abbasi, a co-founder of the platform and former senior development lead at Microsoft (Azure Storage) and software engineer lead at Meta, where he built large-scale systems. Sessions focus on distributed systems, scalable architecture, data structures and algorithms, and interview strategy. It suits senior engineers who keep reaching onsite rounds without converting them, or whose designs stay at the level of boxes and arrows.

• Career
• Job search
• System design

A roster of interview coaches with backgrounds at companies such as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Snap, Cloudflare and Goldman Sachs, each bookable for coding, system design or broader interview and career coaching. You choose your coach from their profile rather than being assigned one. It suits candidates who want a coach matched to a specific company, level or weakness before a real interview loop.

• Career
• Job search

Live 60-minute mock interviews with engineers from large tech companies, covering system design, coding, behavioural rounds or a target company's format, with a verbal debrief and a prioritised list of fixes and drills. System design mocks are listed from $159, or $215 with an interviewer from your target company. It suits candidates with a real interview coming up who have never rehearsed under realistic, observed conditions.

• Career
• Job search
• System design

A free, step-by-step readiness guide with three tracks: coding (revise data structures, learn patterns, practise the right problems, simulate real conditions, take mocks), system design (understand the interview, learn the building blocks, study real walkthroughs, take mocks) and behavioural. Each step links to the relevant reading, course or mock interview. It suits anyone about to start preparing who wants a clear order of work before buying or booking anything.

• Career
• Job search

Free one-to-one sessions with Tauseef Fayyaz for approved Sefism members, booked from the Sefism dashboard: a 45-minute mentorship call, a 30-minute session for final-year students and new graduates, hour-long sessions on career guidance and personal branding, and a 45-minute LinkedIn optimisation session. It suits engineers stuck on a decision (which offer, whether to switch, what to learn next) and students planning their first job.

• Career
• Job search

A mentorship platform where experienced professionals in engineering, design, product, data and marketing offer one-to-one online sessions. ADPList says it has more than 36,000 mentors and 400,000 members across 160+ countries. Getting started now includes one free session. It suits students and early-career engineers who have never had a mentor and want an outside view on a career decision, a portfolio or job search.

• Career
• Job search

A practical course on negotiating compensation in tech, from preparing and building a strategy to specific tactics, the full package beyond base salary, handling multiple offers and asking for a raise. It has tailored sections for fresh graduates and experienced engineers. It suits anyone with an offer coming, and anyone who has ever accepted the first number out of discomfort.

• Career
• Job search

A sequenced path of six text-based courses for the engineering manager interview loop, combining coding, system design, microservices patterns, people management scenarios and senior leadership questions. It suits engineers moving into management and managers changing companies, who need to prepare for both the technical and the leadership rounds without piecing a plan together themselves.

• Career
• Leadership
• Job search

A course on the full engineering manager interview loop, from recruiter screen to on-site, covering behavioural, people leadership, situational and project retrospective questions with 27 complete example answers. It explains what the role involves and how to structure responses. It suits engineers stepping into management, managers interviewing elsewhere, and tech leads deciding whether the role is for them.

• Career
• Leadership
• Job search

A text-based course for senior engineering leadership interviews, aimed at directors, VPs and senior managers. It covers organisational scenarios, technical leadership decisions, business leadership, handling exceptional situations, leadership styles, emotional intelligence, decision making and inclusion. It suits leaders whose interviews focus on organisations and outcomes rather than on running a single team.

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• Leadership
• Job search

A paid, human review of your resume by experienced engineers and hiring managers from large technology companies, returned in three to five business days with line-by-line suggestions, proposed rewrites of bullet points and applicant tracking system advice. It suits engineers whose resume is already reasonably solid and who want detailed feedback from people who screen engineering resumes for a living before a job search.

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• Job search

A compensation site built from self-reported and verified salaries by company, level and location, with level mappings that let you compare titles across employers. It covers tech and a growing set of other industries, plus internships and US visa salary data. Free to browse; paid negotiation coaching is also offered. Walking into a negotiation without this kind of data means negotiating blind.

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• Job search