Resume Advice Thread - July 21, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - July 21, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - July 21, 2018
- What can a below average CS student do in a year to prepare for a job?
- I feel like my pending offer is going to be my only one. (based on location+experience) Do I have to accept my first (and kinda sketchy) offer?
- If you could start over, before you had any experience in CS, what would you have done differently?
- Embedded to Web, does anyone train on the job anymore?
- Hand & Neck Tattoos as a Customer facing Quality Engineer also looking for progression
- CS major, I do well in school, I seem to have an easier time with DS&A compared to my peers, but I can't for the life of me build stuff
- For SWEs working at the big banks or on Wall Street: what does your year-end bonus look like?
- How do I become a faster programmer?
- How the hell do you prep for internship apps in October when you're working from zero?
- What Languages are the Most Applicable?
- What strategies have you put in place to handle difficult clients and projects?
- Software eng vs computer science degree?
- Skills to Gain (and best resources to do so) for an Incoming Freshman at College to Gain an Internship
- General tips for landing 2019 Summer Internship?
- Having lunch with the CTO of the company I intern at.
- Best all-round city to live in for tech?
- Senior Deciding on Texas A&M or University of Texas at Dallas.
- Are there many jobs that have nothing to do with frontend or web development?
- 21 years world, currently DevOps engineer, worked at FAANGs previously in low roles, will graduate in one year. What to do?
- Tech Job in Bay Area vs San Diego?
- what to study for a codeVue technical assesment?
- why aren't more people trying to start their own company?
- [UK] How valuable is 'non-commercial' experience for already experienced developer?
- Incoming college freshman, what can i do to prepare myself for the future?
- Are datacamp certifications worth adding?
| Resume Advice Thread - July 21, 2018 Posted: 21 Jul 2018 12:07 AM PDT Please use this thread to ask for resume advice and critiques. You should read our Resume FAQ and implement any changes from that before you ask for more advice. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. [link] [comments] |
| Daily Chat Thread - July 21, 2018 Posted: 21 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] |
| What can a below average CS student do in a year to prepare for a job? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 05:36 AM PDT I'm a rising senior majoring in CS. I've never really been great at CS. I've understood the concept parts of things much better than the implementation parts of things. For example, for some of my most difficult classes, I've been getting low grades on the projects but high enough grades on exams and homework to pass the classes, but my record is littered with Cs. I managed to land an internship somewhere, but I was given this opportunity because I've been working as an assistant part time at this small company for two years now, and my bosses were so impressed with how much I turned around in my job as an assistant, they wanted to test out my CS chops. The assistant job is unrelated to programming. I haven't been doing the best job in the internship so far. I've built what they asked for, but two weeks past the original deadline and maybe not as nice as they expected, and I could tell by my manager's voice/words that I went from a potential full time SWE there after I graduate to a "byeeeee." I don't have much confidence in my work. I haven't built enough projects to have that confidence in myself since I've been making it through so many of my classes with poor project grades but high exam grades and the minimal grade needed to advance. Also, I don't even know what it's like in the real world of SWE & Web Dev. I thought this internship would help, but my manager basically put me on one project by myself, when I think there's usually a team IRL. Also, honestly all I do is follow along with various tutorials and read stackoverflow and piece together my own code. I feel like this isn't what real devs do, and it stresses me out so much because I don't know how I'll ever evolve to that level. My GPA is shit. I have no projects built (and I don't know what people mean by "just build something!"). But I really really really want a job lined up before I graduate. Nothing is scarier than graduating with nowhere to go and no money to your name. And it's too late for me to drop out of CS. I'm almost in my senior year and couldn't afford to change majors. I do low key wish I had chosen a different major my freshman year (having no exposure to CS prior). I feel like I don't belong in this major. Other people talk about how they come home and continue to code or keep programming out of schoolwork, and my friends do that, but that brings me so much anxiety about becoming unemployed that I generally end up doing something else. I have until May 2019 until I graduate. I am ready to change my habits & work my ass off until I am qualified enough to get a job somewhere. Please tell me what I should do. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2018 02:11 PM PDT I live in an ultra-rural town an hour out of Cincinnati. I just got my B.S. in CS plus some insignificant IT minors. I did well academically, but I have NO experience. In fact, I've never had a job outside of some minimum wage stuff. Additionally, I have no "life" experience either. While I lived on campus, I had family that worked at my college who would drop off TV dinners and such. I've never driven anywhere on my own yet. In fact, I don't have a car. Basically, what I'm saying is that I have no experience living on my own. Realistically, outside of my academics, I have nothing. However, I did just get an offer for a downtown Cincinnati job for $60k + some pretty good benefits. I feel pressured to take my job since I fear that I'll never get another offer with:
In reality, I'm not really that pressured to get a job. I have only $5,000 to my name, but only $5,000 in debt. I have $0 in expenses since I live with my parents in their rural trailer at the moment. If I accept the jobI just feel like this job is my ticket to a new life. I could borrow one of my parents' old cars just to drive ~20 minutes to a bus stop and spend the $3.75 (about an hour) each way getting dropped off within a block of my workplace. (FWIW, I actually researched this) Considering my pay, I could save up for a few months while living with my parents (again, $0 expenses each week) until I could afford a really nice apartment (there's an extremely high quality one opening up in mid-October about 35 minutes away from my job). Then, I'd continue riding the bus (even cheaper from there) to my workplace until I can afford a car. In this ideal scenario, I'd be happy, assuming the job doesn't move around much (see below). If I don't accept the jobI feel like no one wants to hire someone with 0 hours work experience. I was a pretty good student on paper, but really I feel like sometimes I just memorized the definition of The Pumping Lemma and got my good grades from there. Honestly, if I did accept the job, I'm not sure if I'm even qualified for... whatever I'm doing. In fact, I don't know much about the jobThis job kinda came out of nowhere. All I had was a single semi-technical phone interview where I recited my resume with in depth examples of my school projects. It was all over the board! From what I understand, I'd be working on assignments for some time and then transferring to another "Cincinnati area" HQ. I'm a bit wary about the job since I know so little about it. Sure, it's a huge company that even my professors have heard of past students having a great time at - I don't think it's a fake job. Reading the legalese of the Employee Agreement shows a pretty lax non-compete agreement, so it's not like some other places who offered me low pay, required paid training, and basically prevented me from touching a computer for 5 years after termination. While the job sounds good, I really have no idea if I'll enjoy it. It's only slightly more descriptive than saying "software engineering" and having a cookie cutter set of bullets. It's descriptive as most job descriptions are, but outside of that page I know nothing about the job. I had to reach out to them to even find out my workplace address, hours, dress code, etc. It wasn't until after the informal offer that I found out it's a "moving" location based on assignments - maybe they mentioned that a few months ago when they last called - I don't remember. Even if the job is fun and easy, I'm really worried what will happen if I have to "change assignments" to another location that can't be reached by bus. I know I need to get some driving experience, but what if I get myself an apartment that's an hour out from the new location? What if the bus doesn't go there? I need to contact the recruiter to see how often the location changes and the general radius. I also wanted to ask them about negotiating my salary since I never got to during the offer - I was so caught off guard that, when asked about salary, I got flustered and basically said "you tell me." Oof. Now I feel too embarrassed to even mention my salary since I have the formal offer in (digital) writing already in my inbox. In fact, salary is the least of my worries right now. What do you all think? Should an inexperienced kid like me try to find something else in Not Silicon Valley? I'm not in a rush to get a job, but this offer expires within a few days - anywhere else I applied probably isn't going to make an offer anyways, right? [link] [comments] |
| If you could start over, before you had any experience in CS, what would you have done differently? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 07:01 PM PDT What would you have done differently to help yourself have a better career, knowing what you know now? [link] [comments] |
| Embedded to Web, does anyone train on the job anymore? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 05:37 PM PDT I've been working in embedded development (C++, VHDL, Linux/Windows, etc) for 5 years. I have no web experience but I've done a few small projects. Really I'm looking for a large quality of life improvement and the ability to shop around for jobs more. I enjoy programming basically anything and I like the work I've done so far in JS and with some front end projects. Ideally, I would like to go completely remote, which I don't ever see happening in the embedded world. The 50-60 hour weeks have also ground me down. I desperately need a change. How do you find jobs that are actually wiling to train? All the jobs I see have specific stack requirements. I could plan to take 5 months and just do some personal projects to get experience, but that's expensive. With my current work load there's no way I could come up to speed on everything without just quitting to study. Any advice from someone who has done this before? [link] [comments] |
| Hand & Neck Tattoos as a Customer facing Quality Engineer also looking for progression Posted: 21 Jul 2018 03:44 PM PDT Disclaimer: This is aimed highly towards CEO's, Managing Directors, Plant Managers, Operation Managers etc. I'm a 25 year old with a half sleeve with further appointments to make it into a full sleeve including the hand. My manager has been informed and see's no issue with it. I will say that my sleeve is and will be a memorial tattoo due to life experiences and events. My biggest concern is that I do also want a tattoo on my neck and the single arm sleeve I will have within the next 3 months will soon be 2 full sleeves (only one hand) but I also wish to make my way up the ladder through management. A) Would you hire someone who had these visible tattoos? (Tasteful and in no way offensive or rude). B) Do you know of anyone high up the management ladder that has the same level of body art? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2018 06:17 PM PDT I'm entering my 3rd year in college as a double major in CS and Applied Mathematics. At the moment I have a 3.8 GPA, I find myself doing pretty well on codewars, leetcode, hackerrank, etc. However, when I tried to actually start building a project on my own I got completely lost. This summer I've been trying to learn the MEAN stack and build this CRUD app but I find it so difficult. First of all, I'm having to learn these framework which to me seems like just memorizing a series of methods and using them without understanding it. The docs usually have just 1 sentence giving a high level overview of what it does. Two days ago, I wrote like 100 lines of code, took a day off, and when I returned to it today, I had no clue on what I did. I forgot everything. There just doesn't seem to be any logic involved in the code and I'm just piecing together a bunch of functions. I'm starting to feel that I might not have it in me to become a developer. Its just not coming to me. [link] [comments] |
| For SWEs working at the big banks or on Wall Street: what does your year-end bonus look like? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 11:40 AM PDT Ballpark figures? Are they generally consistent / do they usually go up from year to year? [link] [comments] |
| How do I become a faster programmer? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 12:53 PM PDT So I have Slow Cognitive Tempo, which means my brain is a little slow. It's kind of like ADHD in that I also get distracted and am not able to focus that well. I manage fine mostly. I'm not on adhd meds; my doctor doesn't think I should be on them. So I've worked on myself, with the help of a therapist. But one thing I'm not able to figure out (and my therapist is of no help because she isn't a programmer), is, how do I be a faster coder? What are your tips and tricks for getting work done faster? [link] [comments] |
| How the hell do you prep for internship apps in October when you're working from zero? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 07:55 PM PDT I have literally NOTHING to put on my resume and I'm scrambling to whip garbage together for the bulk of companies hiring in October at the latest. Nada. Not a single project. I'm a junior, too. I don't even have class projects since those come around during Winter for me. My resume is completely and utterly blank. At this rate, should I spend a an extra quarter so I can apply for internships as a continuing student, senior year? [link] [comments] |
| What Languages are the Most Applicable? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 07:27 PM PDT Hello, I'm a second year cs student and i'd like to learn a language that is commonly used in industry. What are some common languages and applications? Any book recommendations? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| What strategies have you put in place to handle difficult clients and projects? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 07:22 AM PDT I'm looking to get some insight into what strategies my fellow IT/software consultants have put in place to handle difficult clients and manage their customer's expectations? I've personally found managing expectations to be a challenging aspect of this game, especially as it ties directly with invoicing at the end. Is anyone using any software or systems, custom or otherwise, to help with this problem? What have you found that really helps? [link] [comments] |
| Software eng vs computer science degree? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 06:41 PM PDT Hey . I'm curious as to whether or not I should do software engineering or computer science degree? My goal is to work in the finance industry writing code I'm already enrolled in software engineering current. Well it's actually just a normal engineering degree and then you specialise in software in later years so you still have to do engineering units like thermodynamics, motion , physics and 2 heavy math units (I have to do 4 math units , 2 are bridging units ) . It just seems pointless to do these if I want to become a programmer. What do you guys think ? should I switch to computer science? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2018 06:40 PM PDT I'm entering college in September, and was just wondering what were the best online courses/skills for me to take that would aid me in the internship application process. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| General tips for landing 2019 Summer Internship? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 06:13 PM PDT Hi guys, I got a cali internship offer for the upcoming Fall term. During this internship period, I want to start preparing for my 2019 Summer internship. Any tips on how to start networking and preparing? For this term, I have only gotten interviews from Google and didn't receive any interviews from other big tech companies. By any chance, can anyone have a look at my resume and give me suggestions? This will be my last coop opportunity as I'm graduating soon. I really want to intern at one of the big tech companies and see what it is like. [link] [comments] |
| Having lunch with the CTO of the company I intern at. Posted: 21 Jul 2018 09:04 AM PDT Im currently interning at a tech company as a software developer. I have a lunch meeting with the CTO of the company next week. I am a little nervous about the whole experience and would love to have some input about what topics may be good to discuss (or avoid) during this lunch. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Best all-round city to live in for tech? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 05:15 PM PDT San Francisco Bay Area Los Angeles New York City Seattle Austin RTP (Raleigh) Dallas Houston Other? Out of all of these cities, which one of the above has the best package (Tech Presence + Startup/Entrepreneurship Presence + Film/Music/Liveliness Presence + Cost of Living Presence)? [link] [comments] |
| Senior Deciding on Texas A&M or University of Texas at Dallas. Posted: 21 Jul 2018 05:12 PM PDT Hello Everybody, As the title says, I would like to hear what you guys think of the two. I'm only talking about the two in terms of job placement, opportunity, and reputation for CS degrees. What are yalls thoughts? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Are there many jobs that have nothing to do with frontend or web development? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 04:56 PM PDT Is it possible to completely avoid any sort of front end or web development? 80% of the positions I'm looking at, even at the top 4, involve front end or doing server side stuff with node, django, etc. How hard is it to find software develoer positions where I'm just writing plain Java or C++ without having to do anything with the web? I did one internship at one of the top 4 companies but mostly ended up doing web related stuff and hated it. I did another ml internship which I loved. And now I want to find a simple software dev one where I'm not working with anything web, app, or hardware/OS related. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2018 04:46 PM PDT Hey there! I graduate in one year from WGU - Western Governor's University. I am 21 years old, to not identify myself, I won't name companies. I'm on my fifth job in IT. Went like this - Support > More Support > Sysadmin > Sr Systems Engineer > DevOps Engineer. That timeline starts about a year into college. The first two were at FAANGs, third and fourth are massive corps and the place I'm currently a DevOps engineer at is small - $200M revenue. Already decent at writing python but not building complex full stack applications, there was no way I was going to convince a company to hire me to program for them at 18 years old. So I did the track above while going to school and it's paid off. I get to spend 60%< of my day in DevOps programming, that's awesome! I can't believe I get to write code for a living. Here's the thing - I make $84k, a downgrade from the $94k role I had previously. I consider myself to be a terrible programmer and so no way could I actually get a development role at the FAANGs. Rather I could reasonably get a software development internship. Problem with that is I have a year left before I graduate and consequently become ineligible for development internships. I like my current role but I just a few months ago and due to my short stints above, I don't want to leave without putting in one year at least. If I apply, it looks like I'm Mr. Job Hopper 2000, if I don't apply I may not get the chance to work in one of those engineering depts later in life. My question to you experienced software engineers and managers: Do you acknowledge the difference in difficulty I'm perceiving between applying as an intern before I graduate vs a year or two after graduation? Or am I wrong? My interest in developing at the FAANGs is about two things, scale and culture of engineering. My other question is about salary - my assumption is these internships/new grad roles typically pay $130k-$175k total compensation and thus a big step up from where I am, is that right? Thank you for reading. Note - Rereading my post sounds like I'm a child and vastly inexperienced. I am inexperienced but I have put in work. One company I automated the crap out of their public cloud and trained their sr ops engineers in AWS basics. I interview candidates 1-1 quite a bit, am right below the director and have had productive meetings with VPs at the last two companies. So I promise, I am not a child. [link] [comments] |
| Tech Job in Bay Area vs San Diego? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 04:42 PM PDT Hi everyone! I am a new grad (finished my masters) that has gotten a job in Mountain View (120k) and in San Diego (110k). I am thinking about the long term situation, such as career opportunities, family, and buying a house. I would like to buy a house that is between 500k to 700k. I know the Bay Area is notoriously expensive so I was wondering if San Diego makes more sense in terms of settling down and getting a house. I would love to hear your experiences and your budget situations. TL:DR: Job in Mountain View (120K), job in San Diego (110k). Which is better for long term: career, family, and house? [link] [comments] |
| what to study for a codeVue technical assesment? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 12:04 PM PDT I have an assesment on tuesday for a software engineering position at a bank. I am an intern in software engineering and have to take the assessment for the fulltime hiring process. I have never taken a CSE class nor am I CSE. My abckground is technical (engineering) non CSE . I have done some python programming, java, and a little bit of C (arduino). I know the basics of OOP, encapsulation inheritance, unit tetsing, etc but have no formal experience. I have been focusing on youtubing/googling DS and doing hackerrank problems. Is there anything specific I should be doing for codeVue? [link] [comments] |
| why aren't more people trying to start their own company? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 03:47 PM PDT 1) technology costs are insanely cheap right now. I.E AWS lambda costs 20 cents per million requests 2) you can learn just about anything online these days. 3) job security in tech isn't as good in your 40s and 50s compared to some other professions. Yeah ive heard the "if you continue to keep learning, you won't be let go", but i saw 10% cuts in my last company the large majority of those older than 50. [link] [comments] |
| [UK] How valuable is 'non-commercial' experience for already experienced developer? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 03:25 PM PDT Hello, since I've got my first job as a web developer I'm wondering how employers value skills you learn on your own, by courses, more specifically - not in your job. For example, in my current job we work mainly with vanilla JavaScript, but I also did some work in React, just for fun, because I really like it. Will employer ignore such experience if I apply for job titled 'React Developer' in some future? The same goes for Full Stack, I'd like to learn Node, but will I have any chance in applying for Full Stack role with such non-commercial experience? I'm mosty interested in voices from UK job market, but I guess it's quite similar around the world. [link] [comments] |
| Incoming college freshman, what can i do to prepare myself for the future? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 03:10 PM PDT I guess the title is kinda vague but, what kinds of things should I practice from the get go in terms of interview? [link] [comments] |
| Are datacamp certifications worth adding? Posted: 21 Jul 2018 11:19 AM PDT I have a couple datacamp certifications from their online courses. I wanted to ask if I should put these on my linkedin or my resume or neither. [link] [comments] |
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