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What software engineers in India should know before going online
Software engineers in India are not licensed, so trust comes from evidence and from how you handle your employer’s confidentiality. Service company contracts usually bar naming clients or sharing code, so describe the domain and architecture instead. Recruiters source through Naukri, LinkedIn, employee referrals and coding assessment platforms, and product companies often look at a candidate’s own code and write-ups before the first round. Notice periods of 60 to 90 days are common and matter to hiring managers, so state yours. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Noida and Gurugram dominate hiring, but remote roles have widened the field, which makes a clear online profile more useful for engineers in Kochi, Indore or Jaipur.
Common website mistakes software engineers make
- Naming clients and projects covered by NDAs. Describe the domain, scale and your technical decisions without identifiable client names or code.
- A skills list of thirty technologies with star ratings. Group by what you use daily versus have used before, and link each main skill to real work.
- Describing team output as your own. Say clearly what you designed, what you implemented and what the wider team did; interviewers probe this.
- Dead links to old side projects. Check that repositories and demos still work, or mark archived projects clearly so they do not look abandoned.
- An elaborate custom site that is never updated. A simple page with current role and recent work is more useful than an impressive design from three jobs ago.