Resume Advice Thread - July 10, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - July 10, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - July 10, 2018
- Learn to write maintainable code instead of getting shit done
- Interns, what have you fucked up so far this summer?
- Making Friends vs Working Too Hard at Summer Internship
- Getting hired as a C++ embedded programmer but my main language is Java
- I am finally getting an offer. How I did it without a CS degree (BS in IT):
- Employer Not Paying Me
- Specialist vs Generalist for career growth.
- Has anyone left corporate and gone into education (public or private)?
- Working+college full time. At what point should I start positioning myself for career growth?
- Studied for 4 years to get a degree in Computing, now I'm stuck in a support job because I can't find a development job. What can I do to get out of it?
- Are startup houses like what's shown on Silicon Valley actually a thing?
- Code reviews are too subjective
- If your manager invited you to check out the office, what kinds of things would you ask or be aware of?
- Lead dev to management in 8 months .. what do I need to show?
- Freelance Web Development as supplementary income (a viable side hussle?) ?
- Do recruiters get ghosting commission? [RANT]
- Mature Students and Internships
- Post-bacc student with two years left, full time offer
- Burned out from Studying
- Should I attend a career fair as a freshman specifically to ask recruiters questions?
- The left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing
- Self study vs bootcamp
- TN worker that just moved to Seattle and about to get laid off. Need advice.
- Do you give recruiters references if you are currently employed?
- Comparing different equity offers
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| Daily Chat Thread - July 10, 2018 Posted: 10 Jul 2018 12:07 AM PDT Please use this thread to chat, have casual discussions, and ask casual questions. Moderation will be light, but don't be a jerk. This thread is posted every day at midnight PST. Previous Daily Chat Threads can be found here. [link] [comments] |
| Learn to write maintainable code instead of getting shit done Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:07 AM PDT I had written Managers/CTOs: Writing high quality maintainable code v/s getting shit done? a week ago. It got a lot of attention. Initially I was agreeing with pydry's answer (The most upvoted answer):
But then I came across
I did not agree initially, but then thanks to this expanded version I understood that it is true. A personal incident at work: I wrote a 1 line fix for a regression. I was about to test it manually but then I realized I should have a unit test for this. I
Hence proved. It's much easier on the personal morale to believe that things like TDD, code review, CI/CD, integration tests are overkill and "My company doesn't do it, and they don't even need it. It is for the larger companies". But this is just not true. This is the difference between a junior engineer (or a bad senior engineer) and a good senior engineer, I think everyone should aspire to be the best software engineer they can be. This means learning the tricks of the trade. Once you learn them you'll see its actually faster to write maintainable code, even in the short term. And much much faster in the long term. [link] [comments] |
| Interns, what have you fucked up so far this summer? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:45 PM PDT Last summer I brought down a production server. I really hope I don't top that this year. [link] [comments] |
| Making Friends vs Working Too Hard at Summer Internship Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:08 AM PDT Anyone else feel like they're having a difficult time connecting with people at a summer internship? I am usually a very social and easy to get along with type of person. I'm active in my fraternity and multiple different organizations at my school, have a girlfriend, a steady group of friends, etc. Yet, at my workplace, I'm having trouble connecting with people. Stilted conversation, awkward silences, a feeling that others are making plans without you (as I've spent many a weekend night in Washington, D.C. alone as the few friends I've made often go home for the weekend). Even amongst new grad hires, I feel like somewhat of an outsider. I've never felt this way before albeit a stint of social anxiety in high school... and this feeling is kind of building on itself and I'm feeling those same anxiety traits bubbling up again - something I haven't felt in years. I worry it's because I am *very* focused on moving up in my career to the point that it's a slight obsession (and I know, something I need to work on). Not just that, I am very dead set on working and living in New York City, and this company only awards spots in their (much smaller) NYC office to the top performers in an intern class of around 200. I'm worried that this all comes off as too obvious amongst my peers and makes me seem as if I don't actually care about making friends, which is far from the truth. I don't want to appear arrogant or entitled by any means, I just have a semi-neurotic work ethic. Part of me worries about this, but at the same time part of me can't shake the fact that, well... this is a 10-week internship. If I have no friends for a summer but snag an NYC offer from this company (or an even better company) and move to a basically "preferred new grad" position this employer offers (if I stay here), that's fine with me too. It just gets lonely, as my girlfriend is a consultant flying between NYC and Las Vegas, I go to school in Wisconsin, and grew up in New Jersey - not many people I know in the DC area. [link] [comments] |
| Getting hired as a C++ embedded programmer but my main language is Java Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT I haven't really used C++ in a year or so since my school projects. I mainly program in Java and have been learning and using Spring Boot and other frameworks within the Java ecosystem. I have used scripting languages as well. I'm at the entry level. I'm sort of nervous for this position because of this. How can I step up my C++ and embedded skills asap? I know that there is way more to worry about that I typically didn't have to worry about in Java/backend. [link] [comments] |
| I am finally getting an offer. How I did it without a CS degree (BS in IT): Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:49 PM PDT I have a lengthier version with my entire life history in a google doc but I feel like that would be more for a book one day (If I ever become that important) so I will sum this up fast: A lot of people make these posts in this sub. It is sometimes helpful, sometimes more of a humble brag, sometimes nothing worth reading. I hope this specifically helps those that are from a non-traditional background: I am 30 years old. Two degrees, one BA in Psychology, one BS in IT. I won't bore you with the trials and tribulations of my life, but I've done a lot of shit and obviously nothing worked out yet. Graduated in May of 2018 with a 3.74 from the University of Massachusetts : Lowell. Not exactly a top school, but not too terrible. I took all programming courses for my 30 credit requirement (continuation degree). Those courses consisted of almost all the Java courses, C# course, a few web dev courses, and a required Information Systems course. Between all these courses I did tons of self study via Udemy and reading. I try to read some sort of programming book every single day. For instance "Hmm I don't know enough about Generics or Collections. I know how to use them but..." boom start reading Java Generics and Collections form O'Reilly. I did and continue to do personal projects. I was part of the "Grow with Google" scholarship program for udacity, which was basically the first part of their Android dev. Nano degree. I didn't make it to the second part as I didn't finish the first part. I had to finish my last semester at school. Had to prioritize my time. While doing Udacity, I met a few fellow students in Colorado that were working on a project. I joined that project. Since joining, a lot of them ran out of time for it because of the second half of the program, so I have essentially built an entire Android application myself, using Firebase for a lot of the key components. I built some crud apps using Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySql. Most importantly, I tutored via Wyzant in Java. This has basically made the entire difference between me and the next guy. Through tutoring, I actually was reinforcing ideas in my head. I was sometimes learning new things. I choose to tutor for this very purpose. I could make money, while reinforcing programming concepts. Double whammy. If he can teach it, he can do it (supposedly). My resume was worked on for months. Only when I started A/B testing it did I see even more results. I listened to advice on this sub and removed some things and it made all the difference. I took off my prior degree, only listed my last three jobs, and removed the quote at the top. Suddenly I started getting a lot of interest. If I could say anything about myself, it is that I know how to talk to people. I am not a shy guy in the corner. I come from the hospitality industry. I am good on the phone, better in person. I've worked sales jobs. I've managed a restaurant. Use these skills to your advantage if you have them. A lot of times, people just want to work with people they can get along with. If you know enough, the other technical skills can be taught on the job, but being a decent person to be around can not be. TLDR: How I found the job:
I do practice algorithms on Leetcode, I've read some of CTCI, etc. All of these things are good and should be done, but not all jobs are going to ask you to traverse a binary tree. I sucked at algorithms but I've gotten so much better just by repetition. Practice and keep practicing. I am only doing "easy" questions, but the other day I logged in and solved a problem in ten minutes. Two months ago I would have gave up in two hours. I don't know if this is of any help to anyone, but I know that for me, I liked to read about what other people were doing. Especially those without CS degrees. I've seen those posts asking if someone with an IT degree can land a software engineering job. I've even made them. Now I, and you, have that answer. Good luck everyone and keep powering through. Everyone will find a job eventually. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:48 AM PDT So I graduated in May and agreed to spend the summer working in a professor's lab on campus. I took a class with him, and the whole "hiring" process was just him meeting with me a couple times. He told me in late May that the pay would be between $10 and $15 an hour. He said instead of paying me through the University, he would pay me through a startup he ran (though the startup was unrelated to what I was doing). He said he had to talk to an accountant to get the exact rate and the requisite paper work, but that I should get started on a web application he wanted me to build. He said he would pay me my back wages when the paper work came through. So I built the application he wanted (it took about a month and a half) working with one of his grad students to make sure it met their needs. All the while he kept saying things like, "Somethings come up, but I should have the paper work and be able to start paying you by the start of next week." Which... never happened. We now have a minimal viable product, it's (I think) bug free, and he's happy with it. However he wants all sorts of enhancements, and continues to promise that he's just days away from paying me. I'm pretty broke at this point, and I just feel like I no longer should be working if he's not only not going to pay me. I find it especially annoying that it appears that he's more or less just lying about his intent or ability to pay. On the other hand I'm looking for a full time job, and I wonder if it would look better to be currently "employed" even if I'm not getting payed for my work. Things I'm considering: 1) Politely telling him I will not continue work until he begins paying me and pays me for the time I already worked. I can focus on my job hunt, and I also have a personal project I'd be able to finish up with the increased free time. 2) Sticking with it working ~20 hours a week for no pay. Either way I'm going to have to work some odd (paying) jobs on the side in order to stay afloat financially. I really don't like the second option. Any thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Specialist vs Generalist for career growth. Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:54 PM PDT (background) I have been working as a software engineer for the past 5 years. Over my first 4 years I was mostly specialised in JavaScript development; my projects included huge SPAs (think complex visualisations, tables, a visual dynamic query language etc.) in Backbone.js and later React/Redux. This was very fulfilling in the beginning but as I wasn't really involved in much else professionally apart from the occasional configuration of builds for the CI/CD, I wanted a change to broaden my skills. As of last year, I joined one of the largest financial companies in the world and now I am leading one of the core products (live and in production). The team skills (and mine) are centered around DevOps**;** this means handling infrastructure, frontend, backend, monitoring, logging, on-call support, service reliability etc. This allowed me to get exposure on a breadth of technologies and given me a much better overall knowledge on how to ran and scale a service from nothing to hundreds of thousands of users. This is also great but the downside is that there is no much depth in the programming aspect. This has the effect of making me feel more like a "technology utility-player" (generalist) rather than an actual developer. I feel that this may hinder my career growth in some areas; i.e. I want to become a lead or architect on another project in a different company but I may lack the in-depth knowledge in certain areas although my breadth of knowledge may make me more ideal as a product manager. What are your thoughts on these two extremes Specialist vs Generalist and how it can impact one's growth? [link] [comments] |
| Has anyone left corporate and gone into education (public or private)? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:43 PM PDT I really have no taste for this corporate nonsense anymore. I don't care about taking a 50% pay cut. At this point, I'd be happy to be paid well (middle-class salary) for a job I can do well where I'm not dealing with bullshit. Yes, I know that teachers have to deal with assistant principals and parents... but I'd rather that than suffer through another dumbass status meeting or "roadmap session" with a bunch of self-important tools. Has anyone left the corporate grind and gone into education? How did it work out? [link] [comments] |
| Working+college full time. At what point should I start positioning myself for career growth? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:41 PM PDT I'm currently working full-time for a major consulting firm at a remote site, providing very niche IT support in an industrial/engineering environment. I'm also enrolled full time working on a BS in Software Development (~2 years away from completion). Right now, there is little to no overlap between my degree and current work. At what point should I consider changing career/positions? Should I wait until I complete my degree to avoid a pay cut going from a (relatively) skilled position to an entry level position at a software firm? Or is the hypothetical additional work experience valuable enough to eat the pay cut for a couple years? I sincerely appreciate any advice! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 12:56 PM PDT Hi all, needed somewhere to maybe get some answers to questions that have been bugging me recently. (also get shit off my chest, throwaway as my main account is known to people i work with.) Out of Sixth Form (UK, Age 18) I worked for a year as an apprentice with a school doing tech support, after the year was up I needed to get away from the role and the toxic workplace. I found I enjoyed application development, so I thought i would make a career out of it. I was told that I'd need a degree so off to university I went. While there I found I had a knack for most languages, could pick up new skills fast but I also found out I didn't mesh well with web development and I had trouble coming up with project ideas. After four years I graduated with a 2:2 from uni, and divided in to finding a development job, but got nowhere fast. I applied for jobs, internships, anything i could that would help me get into development. I got a few interviews, I was even offered a role at a company; but I found out from researching them that they where notorious for getting graduates to pay to get meaningless qualifications, then work for below minimum wage and not get credit for the code they wrote. I decided I wasn't willing to work for shitholes like them, so I went back to searching. But funds dried up after 7 months of searching and I widened my search and got a job as technically support for a shitty company, but it pays the bills. I got a job at a company that seamed nice, turns out they are not but a job is a job. Now I have worked at This company 9 months and am getting sick of working tech support again. I wan't to get back into the job hunt but my experiences have left me feeling lost as to what I can do to find a job. So CSCareerQuestions, how can I get my foot in the door with a company that isn't going to fuck me over at the first opportunity? [link] [comments] |
| Are startup houses like what's shown on Silicon Valley actually a thing? Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:57 PM PDT I'm a dev on the east coast (DC) working on a startup idea on the side and I was wondering if finding a place to stay on the west coast while developing my idea was actually a possibility. I think being located either in the Bay Area or Seattle would be much more advantageous in terms of finding fitting cofounders and making valuable connections. [link] [comments] |
| Code reviews are too subjective Posted: 10 Jul 2018 09:52 AM PDT I'm a middle Python developer and 4 months back I switched jobs. I started working in team A. They prefer complex OOP structures and many layers of abstractions, but the pressure was too high and I started doing a lot of functions (they require less upfront planning) — got criticised at the code review and had to rewrite most of my code (which worked fine and was readable, it just didn't utilise OOP much. Due to ever increasing pressure from the management I asked for a transfer to a more lax team B and I am actually one of two backend developers here. All is fine, but the senior dev hates OOP and abstractions, he's absolutely sure no one ever gets them right and we gotta write code with minimum OOP (functions, builtins, etc). So when I do things right (in my view) I get scorned for using too much abstractions and complicating my code, although I'm just trying to make it DRY. The question is, how can we just write code and not care about justifying ourselves at code reviews? I used this example because it's most obvious, but I encounter situations like this a lot. It's 20% about good code and 80% about personal preferences of people doing the code review, but they are usually convinced I'm doing it all wrong. How to deal with this aside from switching projects? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:19 AM PDT Hi everyone. I'm starting my job next week, and my soon to be manager just invited me to check the office before I start coming in. I feel like I'm just gonna walk in, get a tour, ask some basic questions, and then be like, "welp, that was fun. cya next week." in under 30 minutes And that might be fine, but is there anything else I should do or look out for when I arrive? [link] [comments] |
| Lead dev to management in 8 months .. what do I need to show? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:04 PM PDT I've been a sr/lead dev (small companies, so the teams were small) for some 10 years and it's about time to start pushing towards management VP/Dir of Eng. (CTO?), etc. My current position is ending at the end of the year. So, in that time, what do I need to learn/show on my resume that will make me attractive for such positions? [link] [comments] |
| Freelance Web Development as supplementary income (a viable side hussle?) ? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:15 PM PDT (tldr = last paragraph) Ok, so for a while now i've been thinking about learning a marketable, useful, skill set that can hopefully turn into a decent, fulfilling career and source of income. Web Development, UI, UX, and Design - i've gravitated towards those because they seem to fit the bill and do seem interesting. Unfortunately, I'd be starting from ground level, though i do have an associates in Graphic design. [link] [comments] |
| Do recruiters get ghosting commission? [RANT] Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:42 PM PDT Background: I graduated with a B.S. in CSE this May and have been looking for full time positions since last fall. I'm on a student visa and applied for an OPT which started this week, and I have two months to find work. Needless to say, I am on a time crunch immigration-wise AND financially. I'd like to take a break from sending out applications and grinding Leetcode to share some of my experiences with terrible recruiters and hopefully hear some of yours too. In a nutshell, I have not had a single pleasant experience with recruiters where I thought, "Wow! This person is actually competent and not entirely wasting my time!" Our interactions (or lack thereof) usually go as follows:
This is so frustrating to me because they don't even pretend to care about my time and needs. They are either purposefully screening me or legitimately forgot about me, and I don't know which makes me more upset. Do I really need to follow you around and phone/email/text/message you every other day for you to get something done? I'm sorry, but are you a functioning adult or a fussy toddler? Another pet peeve of mine is when they refuse to put even the slightest bit of effort into their work. I had a TCS recruiter get in touch with me when I was in a meeting with my research advisor and her lab group (this was before I was aware of their malpractices). I was desperate to find a job so I responded right away with my phone number and a time for him to call me the next day (I had classes all day that day). This fucker calls me within 6 minutes of that message, because I know his walnut sized brain just read my phone number and nothing else. I didn't answer because I was in the meeting, and I tell him politely, "As I said in my last message, I am available between this and this hour tomorrow." He then asks me for my immigration status, which is clearly laid out in my LinkedIn bio, which would be the first thing he would see if he had actually seen my profile and not just lied about it, but I tell him anyway. BAM! Nothing. Radio Silence. I messaged him every two days for the next week. Absolutely NOTHING. Not even a "Sorry, but we abused the H1B lottery process beyond recognition". Nothing. Another recruiter reached out to me regarding a graduate technical training program hosted by a big FinTech company that would fly you out to their NYC HQ and train your for a month, after which you would come back and work in at their local office. This sounded very exciting! 1 month in NYC! Big tech company! Getting to work in the same city and not having to move! Yes yes yes! No? He sent me a few applications to fill about my background and other stuff. I immediately filled them and sent them back. It was a all a bit last minute (I was supposed to fly out next week) so I rushed. Guess what happened after that? 3 emails and 3 LinkedIn messages later, still nothing. Someone has to be really sick to get someone's hopes up like this and then not even take the time to say "no". There are a lot of recruiters in my LinkedIn network and they seem to find the time to host 5 professional growth or some other BS seminars a week but I can't even get a message back. They love to sit on their high horse and talk write lengthy posts (Yeah, I see the irony here) about the importance of communication and networking but severely lack it in themselves. Sometimes I really feel like going through all messages in which I have been ghosted and reporting that recruiter to the company, to feel a sense of petty justice (don't worry, I won't). To any recruiter who is guilty of this: you are a terrible person and very unprofessional. You are feeding off of new grads' desperation and you deserve to be let go. To all the recruiters who take the time to work with candidates: You do you, we need more folks like you. I would love to hear about your experiences (positive or negative) with tech recruiters. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments] |
| Mature Students and Internships Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:15 PM PDT I'm a Mechanical Engineering grad who went back to school for Computer Science. I know some people might disagree with my decision to go back to school instead of learning on my own and moving into that area through engineering but it is a decision with many factors which I have put a lot of thought into. As it stands I have 20 credits which will transfer from my original degree to my CS degree, and I have completed 3 additional credits this summer. Unfortunately my school has a policy that you must have a certain number of courses remaining before you begin co-op (presumably to aid in scheduling school terms with co-op terms.) Unfortunately if I choose to do co-op I can only take 4 more courses total during the fall and winter terms in order to be eligible to enter the co-op program. As I am a mature (27) student with previous STEM training I'm leaning towards not doing co-op and focusing on doing well in my courses and finishing school. I will also work on some side projects and try to land my own internship during a summer term (probably a tough feat). Is this an advisable approach? I don't want to extend my time in school longer than necessary. [link] [comments] |
| Post-bacc student with two years left, full time offer Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:46 PM PDT Hey everyone. Long time lurker here. I am a post-bacc student, 25, first degree in music education. As a full time student, I would have 4 semesters of course work left at my local university. $30000 student loans from my first degree (I know, I was young and naive), but I am paying for this one out of pocket. I got a great internship, and they are going to offer me a full time position. Not sure if its worth it to spend the time and money on the degree at this point. I started the post-bacc so I could get a job like this, so now that I may have that job, is it worth it to continue? Maybe I should take online classes from another university? Maybe I should try to get a master's degree? I'm not the type of person to stop learning, so I feel like some more education is definitely in my future, but I feel like I may be wasting my time and money on the second undergrad. Any thoughts? Has anyone been through this kind of scenario before? Thanks for any insight or advice! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:38 PM PDT Been Studying for one of the big 4. Burned out. 2+ hours every weekday afterwork. 5+ hours on the weekend. I'm a slow learner, so this probably isn't even intense/necessary for most fo you. Interview is in a few days. Just hopped on Leet Code to solve a problem (medium) 15 minutes later...nothing. No idea on how to solve the problem. I'm freaking out! I've spent the past 3 weeks studying data structures, soft-skills, and a little bit of algo programming. I think I goofed, and should have switched to algo's a about two weeks ago. I'm seriously thinking about cancelling my interview because my confidence is not super high that I'll even get past the phone-screen. Would you all cancel your phone screen if your confidence level was below 75%? Does there exists an actual study guide for this stuff, or is just cram,cram,cram? I've been reading Cracking the Coding Interview, Pragmatic Programmer, the CSLR book, and some OOO book. I can tell I'm a better developer for it, so at the very least I'm learning something. Do you all think that working at the big 4 actually makes you better developer/engineer? And lastly, if you were to cancel your interview, do you think you'd try again later? FWIW, I have a CS degree, but I've been out of school for a few years now. And even when I was in school, I don't remember learning about vectors, or graphs. Additionally, working 8 hours a day on code, to study 2+ hours a night m-f and then more hours on the weekend is BRUTAL. Cheers to those of you that can manage that workload. [link] [comments] |
| Should I attend a career fair as a freshman specifically to ask recruiters questions? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:33 PM PDT I don't have much to offer recruiters at my schools cs career fair but I do want to ask them their opinions on specific things (Should I consider getting certified while in school? Should I get my Masters if I can do so in 5 years?etc.) so that I can let that information guide me. Would I come off as annoying to them? Would it leave a bad impression? [link] [comments] |
| The left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:24 PM PDT I've been cruising this sub for a long time and a little while ago I managed to secure a pretty awesome gig at a big N company. The interview felt like the stars aligned or something. Minutes before in my last-ditch effort to study I reviewed a problem and you can imagine how I felt when they gave me that exact one to whiteboard. I screwed up the follow-up question, but showed enough knowledge to get a round 3. I thought all was lost but a recruiter called me back immediately with an offer (which he exaggerated based on my exaggerated resume, but they didn't negotiate) The past week I more or less didn't do anything - fair enough, onboarding onto such a MASSIVE project takes some time, and besides, everyone took the opportunity to vacation around Jul 4. Here's the thing though... There are so many teams spread across so many features it's almost impossible to do (or learn about) the simplest things - it's kind of ridiculous. Most of the work I would barely call maintenance because in my spare time, I have a reasonably successful ecomm site; I'm taking a break to write this right now from what will be a reasonably successful SaaS. The comp at this job is so good I feel guilty just sitting around reading their wiki and bullshitting about nothing. I know I shouldn't complain but it feels like I just walk back and forth between the office and the vending machine and then when I get home it's like a non-stop frenzy of really complex and advanced software development: everything needs to be considered, engineered, simplified, refactored, people need to be dealt with unilaterally - you get the picture. Hopefully this gives you some context for these questions:
These might sound silly, especially if you're reading this and struggling but these are fair questions once the initial shock of the new place wears off. I'd love to hear everyone's opinions. PS: If you're struggling, don't quit 3 feet before gold. If I made it here, you can certainly make it here, even if you don't have any arms. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:49 AM PDT Hi all, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I've been working at a tech company (no coding apart from writing the occasional script) for the past year and a half, and I've gotten pretty sick of my current role. After spending some free time programming for the past several months, I'm pretty set on going into software engineering. After doing some research, it seems like the main routes for me are:
I would say that ideally, I would like to go with whatever option would allow me to switch the fastest. My main concerns with the self teaching route are 1) I probably wouldn't be able to learn as much as quickly as bootcamp, 2) I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to building a super practical curriculum, and 3) Job prospects (would employers even care if all I have is a few personal projects, and have no proof that I've had proper instruction lately?) Does it seem realistic that I would be able to switch by just self teaching 70+ hrs/week for 3-4 months? I'm comfortable with CS 101 level stuff and a bit of data structures/algos. I'm leaning towards doing a bootcamp that would cost like 20k but I'd be able to increase my salary by a lot. Does that seem totally excessive? Any help or insight would be hugely appreciated! Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| TN worker that just moved to Seattle and about to get laid off. Need advice. Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:51 PM PDT Hello, I just moved to Seattle 2 months ago as a contractor (software engineer) and I just found out that the project I was working on is going to be cancelled. I was wondering what are my options and how long do I have before I get kicked out of the US (a quick google search says I have 2 months but not too sure about exceptions)? This is especially frustrating considering I just got my affairs of moving down here in order, so I would like to not have all that effort of both time and money go to waste. I am currently applying for other positions at other companies but I was wondering if there are other TN workers who have faced a similar situation who can give some pointers and tips moving forward. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Do you give recruiters references if you are currently employed? Posted: 10 Jul 2018 05:39 AM PDT I'm on my second software engineering job. I have been with my current company for 4 1/2 years. I've just started looking for positions elsewhere because I'm not happy with the amount of hours I've had to put in lately. I've started applying to a few positions and speaking with some recruiters. I was just asked by a recruiter for an updated resume and 3 professional technical references. The problem is that the only people that qualify to refer me are the people I currently work with. I do not want my current employer to know I am on a job search - which I assume is a desire many people have while searching for new opportunities? Does anybody else feel like this is kind of an unfair ask? I suppose I could reach out to my previous employer for a reference but frankly they won't be able to speak to my current qualifications and recent achievements whatsoever so I think it would be kind of pointless. EDIT: recruiter is 3rd party. [link] [comments] |
| Comparing different equity offers Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:50 PM PDT I have a question about how to compare differing equity offers. Very specifically, a larger (1.5%) percentage offer vs a smaller (.25%) offer. I suspect that the company that's extending the .25% offer is evaluating better, but I also suspect that they are not evaluating 6x than the 1.5% company. I know that equity is all a gamble, but I'd like to have some idea of how these two offers compare. I have the ability to ask questions about the financials. I can compare the different salary offers, but I don't have a feel for the equity. What should I be asking to be able to compare apples to apples? [link] [comments] |
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