I have a few remarks: 1. Why are you calling yourself a junior engineer? It's one thing to call yourself that at your first job, but once you've had that role

I have a few remarks: 1. Why are you calling yourself a junior engineer? It's one thing to call yourself that at your first job, but once you've had that role for even just a year, you shouldn't call yourself a junior anymore. Just my opinion. Doesn't even matter if your current title is junior. If it is, I'd just leave the "junior" part out on your resume. 2. You're learning a valuable lesson. Probably wasn't the best idea to accept any job for the same pay you're currently making. Any job you're offered should offer at least something meaningful over your existing pay. When they don't, it's usually a bad bargain. 3. Whether you should quit now depends on many things, but it mainly depends on whether you can mentally put up with it for much longer. If you're losing your sanity or dying slowly inside, you have to consider whether it's better to live with your parents. It might actually be better to live with your parents depending on how much the job sucks. You should also consider that right now we're not in a bull market for tech jobs. They're there, but I probably wouldn't have quit my job with no new one lined up last time if the job market was how it currently is. 4. If you can put up with your job for another ~6 months, a viable option is to mentally check out of your current job. Do just enough work so you don't get fired (if you care), coast on that paycheck, take lots of PTO and sick days, and interview at other companies. Work only as many hours as you feel like you can. If you feel like you have to be there 10 - 12 hours, surf Reddit or stare off into space for those remaining hours. Better yet, fill out job applications during those hours. 5. In future interviews, don't hesitate to bring up that you're "not learning anything from this role since the language is proprietary, [you're] coming home having gotten nothing concrete done." It's an excellent reason for quitting that employers are unlikely to verify and if they try they'll find out you're right. Don't make that the only reason, but it's something worth bringing up.