India, April 4 -- A 2025 graduate from a tier-1 IIT has shared frustrations about a role as a software development engineer (SDE) at a large multinational company, describing a job that looks impressive on paper but offers almost no meaningful development work.

In a Reddit post, the techie explained that excitement to dive into technology was "brutally stabbed" almost immediately.

"Feeling stuck and bored as a junior dev at MnC," the caption of the post reads.

According to the post, the techie was initially assigned to a generative AI project, but the work was scrapped before any progress was made.

After discussing it with the manager, the techie was moved to a maintenance-heavy team, only to discover that actual coding and developmen...