Big 4 Discussion - August 05, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Big 4 Discussion - August 05, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - August 05, 2018
- CS majors with an MBA, I have some questions
- I want a traveling CS job, what do I get into/look for?
- Want to start working on projects, but don't know enough
- One of the new 'big things' seems to be Microservice architecture and containerization with Kubernetes and Docker. How do you gain experience in these kinds of technologies outside of a job?
- How to deal with devs who fear new tech?
- Those of you who work in Embedded/Robotics, do you make less money than the "Purely Software Engineers" at your company?
- New Grad Engineer Not Learning At Current Company
- I want to spend the next year learning how to develop Machine Learning programs but I feel like you have to be a genius to understand what I've seen so far. Do you just have to be great at Math and highly intelligent to succeed at this? Are there resources that geared towards absolute beginner?
- Capital One TDP Salary
- Does anyone do recruiting on the side?
- Returning to software development after MBA + PM Internship
- Forgetting leetcode solutions?
- Is it bad to keep working on the same project in the same company?
- 2 week notice
- Thanks r/cscareerquestions.
- Life as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)?
- How to look for small company jobs?
- When do you guys plan on retiring?
- Minor in Statistics or Finance for working in NYC?
- Need help deciphering software position
- Summer 2018 Interns
- How is working at Improbable?
- Do you love your job?
- Applied for Promotion, But still Uncertain about my Job Though
| Big 4 Discussion - August 05, 2018 Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:07 AM PDT Please use this thread to have discussions about the Big 4 and questions related to the Big 4, such as which one offers the best doggy benefits, or how many companies are in the Big 4 really? Posts focusing solely on Big 4 created outside of this thread will probably be removed. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Sunday and Wednesday at midnight PST. Previous Big 4 Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments] |
| Daily Chat Thread - August 05, 2018 Posted: 05 Aug 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] |
| CS majors with an MBA, I have some questions Posted: 05 Aug 2018 01:43 PM PDT I'm debating getting an MBA after I finish my CS degree to hopefully be able to transfer into more "managerial" tech roles and I'd like some input from people here who have a CS degree and went on to get their MBA. Please feel free to just answer the questions you'd like to answer. I'm just trying to see what kind of experiences other people might have had. Thank you for your time.
Thanks again ahead of time. I appreciate any and every response. If one of the questions doesn't apply you can just N/A it. [link] [comments] |
| I want a traveling CS job, what do I get into/look for? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:33 PM PDT I have two family members/friends One is with citi bank as a project manager in software and goes to london, hong kong etc Another is with cisco and goes to india very often. Maybe not as a junior dev but I eventually want to be able to travel, what should I look for? Any advice. [link] [comments] |
| Want to start working on projects, but don't know enough Posted: 05 Aug 2018 08:36 AM PDT I'm going into my junior year of college for a B.S. in Computer Science. I want to start doing my own projects, not necessarily for a resume, but just so I can be better and know how to develop software. I want to go into software/web development as a career, but I feel like I don't know enough right now. I see everybody suggest working on projects and stuff, but I have no clue how to take what I've learned outside of a console. I found this list of project ideas: tastejs/awesome-app-ideas: List of awesome app ideas I'm seeing a lot of cool things that I would like to do myself, but I don't know how. It's overwhelming because I know I should start teaching myself, but there are so many GUI options. I have no clue how to work with a GUI, let alone choosing one to use. I see a lot of people online who are also CS students and they are making interactive timers, Google Chrome extensions, websites, etc. I am getting bummed because I don't know how to do any of that. I have the foundation and know how to use it, but I don't know how to use it alongside other applications. I don't know how to make APIs or programs that don't run in a console window. I've only compiled C++ in Unix and Visual Studio. I'm clueless, I really want to further myself. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 01:41 AM PDT It feels like learning literally anything about either of these things require a decently large application that you have to deploy. I decided to try to try to contribute to Kubernetes as well..but I don't even know the specifics of the software so contributing is basically impossible. How do you gain experience with these technologies? [link] [comments] |
| How to deal with devs who fear new tech? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:49 PM PDT I'm trying to understand the mindset of one of my teammates. He's been in the field for 7 years and his last job was building software for various manufacturing applications in the meat industry. We now work for a B2B data analytics company on team rebuilding/upgrading a web application for our customers use. It seems whenever something is solution is suggested, that he's not used to, his typical reaction is to claim it is not "tried and tested" like the older techs and we should keep using them since they are "industry standards." The problem however with this opinion-based argument is that many of these technologies have been adopted in by companies in all business sectors and have now become the industry standards. The technologies we've faced major pushback in by this dev is TypeScript vs JavaScript, Auth0 vs Authentication Server, Stateless API + Stateful Client vs Monolith Server, CI/CD vs deployment only on release dates. Have you guys seen this mindset? How do you deal with it? What do you think I should do? Throwaway because my main is known to co-workers. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:56 AM PDT I am looking out for opportunities with both roles and at a company there were two such positions available recently. The Hardware based Software Engineer role was advertised for $20k less than the Software only role. Both were pretty high numbers, but it made me wonder, is this a thing? By stepping into the hardware based career path, am I consistently going to be paid less than software only roles? Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| New Grad Engineer Not Learning At Current Company Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:03 PM PDT I'm going on about five months at my first job out of school. I'm working as a Software Engineer at a very small startup (~20 devs and a handful of sales). We are working with very cutting edge tech (Docker, Kubernetes, Golang, etc.) and we move very fast. I don't have any previous internship experience and this lack of perspective is really setting me back. Furthermore, the company doesn't have any sort of onboarding programs or training for new employees, much less new grads/juniors. My initial manager had a very hands-off approach: I only received guidance and feedback when I asked for it. What's worse is that she never set any expectations for me - even when I asked what they were. Over the past few months I've reached out to other senior engineers on the team for guidance which has been helpful but nowhere near the support I need to kickstart my career. A few weeks ago, one of the founders of the company took over as my manager and has been providing more hands-on guidance and feedback. However, he is unhappy with the speed at which I accomplish tasks and would rather have me pair with another engineer on the team to get it out the door than for me to spend the extra time learning about the feature or tech behind it. I don't feel like I'm learning anything here. Have any of you been in this situation? If so, what did you do? I'm looking to apply for New Grad roles at larger companies as I don't think five months really counts as 'industry experience'. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:14 PM PDT I'm gonna be a senior CS major this coming year and I decided that I just want to pick one area and get really good at it instead of being decent at a few. I picked ML because I find it interesting, it is necessary for some programs I want to build, and it doesn't hurt that ML engineers are in high demand. I've been studying pretty heavy this past week, learning the basics of linear algebra and I've read the first chapter of Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen. The first chapter teaches you how to build a program that can recognize handwritten numbers. I know very little Python so that is definitely part of the problem but it feels like a lot of the code is just impossible to understand without a degree in 3 different mathematics. Are there better learning resources? Have any of you done something similar to what I'm doing? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:27 PM PDT How much is capital one paying tdp's now in different locations? Did they bump up the salary? [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone do recruiting on the side? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:56 PM PDT Im kind of tired of free lancing and am looking for a new side job. It seems like there's a lot of horror stories on this sub about recruiters. I feel like I might make a decent recuiter if I just don't do all the things they typically do (which I wouldn't anyway). How would I go about getting in to this? Does anyone else do it? [link] [comments] |
| Returning to software development after MBA + PM Internship Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:14 AM PDT I'm going into my second year of full-time MBA program and have realized that I want to return to working in software development. I graduated from undergrad in CSE and worked as a software engineer for a couple of years. I joined business school to switch into investment banking for more money and better career opportunities, but realized quickly the combination of work hours and type of work didn't appeal to me. I then switched into recruiting product management because it was it fit well with my background. After finishing up my internship over the summer, I've realized that I'm not a fan of the ambiguity that comes with working as a PM, and would rather work in SWE where things either work or don't and performance is more quantifiable. There are more career choices, equivalent compensation, and better work/life balance for me to enter the workforce as a developer with four years experiences, rather than as an entry level product manager. I feel like since I'm half way done with business school, I may as well finish and hope the MBA comes in handy in the future. I know I need to brush up on my coding skills by doing hackerrank/leetcode practice problems. How do I frame what I've done for the last year as I apply for engineering roles in 2019? Are there any jobs where having an MBA would be helpful for a dev? I'm thinking of maybe applying to more finance-based jobs in NYC. After working for a couple of years in dev again, hopefully I can switch into engineer management. tl;dr: how to return to software development after going to business school? [link] [comments] |
| Forgetting leetcode solutions? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 04:51 PM PDT I'm grinding out leetcode for my job search, but I find myself blanking out on solutions that I convinced myself that I understood 2 weeks ago. Has anyone else faced this? Does anyone have a routine to 'revisit' solved leetcode problems from time to time, to re-inforce them in the mind? [link] [comments] |
| Is it bad to keep working on the same project in the same company? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:52 PM PDT I(27) have been working in the company as a Java developer for 3 years. I only write Java(Kotlin) code at work. I think I'm getting mastered JVM languages. I love my job but it's not challenging at all, implementing new features, running program tests, I'm doing the same things day after day. I play around Python and C# in my spare time but I feel it is hard to know them well if it's not a work, is it better to get a new job to have more experience? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:17 AM PDT I intent to give 2 week notice as a courtesy to my current employer but in case they ask me out the door on the same day when I give resignation letter when is the official end date in that case? Even if they ask me to leave on that same day, it's still considered that I left myself, not fired, correct? Also, are they obligated to pay me in case that happens. Would love to hear your stories. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:47 PM PDT Tomorrow is my first day at work at my first full-time job. A year and a half ago, I was stressing about my future, struggling with my grades, and worried that I'd disappoint my parents. Today, I took my parents to an expensive restaurant in the town I relocated to, knowing I'll have a job and salary, and said goodbye to them as this is the first time I'll be living on my own (my university is in my hometown). After years of lurking on this subreddit, I've learned so many tips about interviewing, programming, and self-improvement. This subreddit has also provided a source of motivation for getting through those difficult and stressful times, through the wonderfully relatable stories that this community tells. I've finally reached a point in my life where I can say I've truly made my parents proud, and that means the world to me. Thank you, r/cscareerquestions for literally changing the course of my life. I guess this is cscareerquestions, so I should probably include a question so this doesn't get removed. I'm currently working in industry at a big 4. How do I progress from that to potentially working at/starting my own company? How are they similar, and how are they different? It's ambitious, but everyone's gotta start somewhere, right? [link] [comments] |
| Life as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:41 PM PDT Hey! I was wondering if any of you are a SDET or know anyone who is. If so, what is a typical day like? If I were to start off in SDET, can I transition off to a regular Software Engineer? thanks! [link] [comments] |
| How to look for small company jobs? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:29 PM PDT I graduated with an Associates Degree in Software Development about a year and half back. For most of that I was waiting for and applying to places near by me so that I didn't have to move out immediately, but because I live in the middle of nowhere, WI, there was very little available. I tried expanding my applications to listings around the state making peace that i'd probably just have to suck it up and move to where the jobs were. Still no luck. I've been using sites like Indeed and Glassdoor to find a job, but most of the jobs want a Bachelor's and if they even list Associates they usually want 2 - 5 years of experience on top of it and I don't really have any outside my education. Most of the places I applied didn't even email me back. The few that did reply never got to a 2nd interview. I've read around that if you lack Bachelor's and experience that you should apply at smaller places and startups, but I'm not sure exactly where to look. Most of the places on the job board sites seem to be medium to large companies so is there a recommendation of how to find these smaller companies? Even if its something that I could just work at for a short time to save up money to get my Bachelor's would be fine. Not sure if I'd want to go someplace out of state since I haven't really had experience living on my own, but Wisconsin isn't exactly overflowing with tech jobs either so I'll consider it if its recommended strongly enough. [link] [comments] |
| When do you guys plan on retiring? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:05 AM PDT I see a lot of posts on FIRE that have people talking about retiring early. When do you guys plan on retiring? What is the normal age that a software engineer retires? [link] [comments] |
| Minor in Statistics or Finance for working in NYC? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:26 PM PDT I am an upcoming sophomore at a middle tier engineering school and I need to decide on a minor this year. I am fairly certain that I will be working in NYC after I graduate, and I can't decide if I want to minor in statistics or finance. I still haven't really narrowed down what I want to specialize in, but since I plan on NYC I thought knowing a little about finance can give me a better chance of landing a job at somewhere such as a bank, hedge fund, or fintech firm. However, I think a statistics minor would translate to more specializations than finance, as statistics can be applied to basically any field, including finance. The only experience I have with statistics was my statistics class in high school that I did fine in but didn't really enjoy (didn't like the teacher which might have something to do with it). Finance and investing also seems like something I would be interested in. Lastly, I would like to note that I'm honestly in it for the money. I am interested in programming but the main factor in choosing a job when I graduate is going to be compensation. TL;DR: Living in NYC after graduation, would I be better off minoring in statistics or finance in terms of job opportunities and compensation [link] [comments] |
| Need help deciphering software position Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:11 PM PDT Hi everyone, Recently stumbled upon a position that Mailchimp is offering, but couldn't quite understand what the positon would entail. The position is this one. Feels like it would be a DevOps position. I am a Full Stack Django developer with Docker experience, but am not too familiar with all the other tools and I have never been a system admin. Can anyone get a handle of this position might be about and given current experience would I be a bad fit? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2018 07:51 PM PDT I would like to know about your experience as an intern:
Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:35 AM PDT Anyone works/know somebody at Improbable? Company looks very strong from public perspective but what's underlying tech like/who uses and pays for it? How is SWE/SRE viewed? Were there good/bad changes after SoftBank came? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:33 PM PDT The pay is great and all, but aside from the good salary and benefits, do you enjoy your job and what you do? [link] [comments] |
| Applied for Promotion, But still Uncertain about my Job Though Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:30 PM PDT Since my last post, one of my co-workers handed in her notice & they posted her Recreations position internally. It's more hours, higher pay (I think?), more responsibility. Less physical work, less ADLs, but a lot of planning, activities & events, writing proposals for clients. I originally applied for this Recreations position, got rejected, went back to school, & got hired for a hands-on PSW job. I use my 1-year PSW certificate but this new position would make use of my 2-year Recreations diploma. My hard skills are decent, but my soft skills like communication & self-confidence might disqualify me. I guess I'm confused. I've been feeling so negatively about the job recently & felt excited to try going back to school for coding. But now I'm feeling optimistic that if I can get promoted & switch things up it might improve my outlook. I still like the clients, it's just the co-workers that are bringing me down. I don't want to waste my employer's time, but I'm not 100% committed to any path. Am I exploring my options or just making a mess of things? [link] [comments] |
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