Resume Advice Thread - November 28, 2017 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - November 28, 2017
- Daily Chat Thread - November 28, 2017
- Warning to anyone joining a large banking firm: Make sure you know exactly what team you are on and what they do.
- We have all heard about all the unfilled jobs in the CS industry. But with more and more people moving to CS every year, how long until it becomes significantly difficult to find a well paying job?
- Programmers without kids, how's your life?
- What was your hardest CS course in school?
- Feeling invisible at school and with a future career as a developer.
- Who is the best developer you have ever worked with?
- How do you guys make your LinkedIn connections grow?
- If you get rejected from a job, what's the acceptable amount of time to wait before applying again to the same position?
- Thoughts on the massive automation revolution that is predicted
- Keeping work and personal separate.
- Startup offers equity, not sure what this means exactly.
- Looking for a new career and I don't know where to start
- Help on deciding Computer Science pathway?
- Working from home + being okay with social isolation = ?
- Any JobFairs coming up in Califonia?
- I want to bail... but I painted myself into a corner.
- a few questions about an upcoming job offer
- How do you talk about something without the potential employer assuming your lying?
- What are some good intro to AI books that won't break the bank?
- Homework assignments?
- is typo a big deal?
- University of Penn bootcamp
- Practice LeetCode questions in a Terminal
- Junior CS major feeling discouraged and looking for direction
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| Daily Chat Thread - November 28, 2017 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 11:07 PM PST 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]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:28 AM PST Or else you'll end up like me where you are doing production support and reports instead of actual software development. You will be on a "team" that barely talks to each other, no support, no training, and you'll barely have any clue about what you are supposed to be doing or what is going on. You'll have a manager that you rarely see, and only shows up when there is a fire that needs to be put out. I question why I even continue. I've been here 6 months thinking it will get better but it hasn't. End of the year job openings are slim pickings. Anyone else ever get in a situation like this? [link] [comments]  |
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| Programmers without kids, how's your life? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 06:21 PM PST I want to know what it's like to earn 100k+ and not have huge responsibilities. Also, post a pic of your car if you could. [link] [comments]  |
| What was your hardest CS course in school? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 11:01 AM PST What CS course did most people at your school found to be the hardest? I'll start off. UIUC's required CS course known as "CS 374 Algorithms and Models of Computation" has the lowest average GPA in the department of 2.5/4.0. This is despite the UIUC CS students having average ACT Math score of 33.8. [link] [comments]  |
| Feeling invisible at school and with a future career as a developer. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 10:53 AM PST I'm a junior in the last legs of my CS degree, studying at an predominantly white college. Looking around at silicon valley and the dev communities in the cities near me (NY, Boston, DC), I honestly don't feel like I belong in this field. I'm a woman and Pacific Islander, I didn't grow up with a Mozart-like childhood, and only started programming when I took my first CS class freshman year. I didn't have a lot of encouragement or role models before I entered college, (my older sibling went to college for a year, got kicked out, and went back to study a liberal arts field). Despite a bumpy upbringing, I graduated in the top 5% of my high school, and now attend a school in the top 20 for CS. I do fine in my classes, so academically, I'm fine. I haven't met a single Pacific Islander at my school other than my own sister, and women in the CS department are scarce too (something to the tune of <15%). Because I'm Asian as well, I'm frequently lumped with the prodigy-Asian crowd, students who've been programming since they were 16 and are crazy connected. I can't even apply to programs intended for racially underrepresented minorities since those are targeted towards Hispanic and Black students, and Pacific Islander folks are brushed over. Just talking with some of the other women in CS is pretty alienating for me, we don't watch the same TV shows, read the same books, or have common experiences from our backgrounds. I don't have anyone to look up to as a role model, save for maybe Melinda Gates and Sheryl Sandberg, but both those ladies are white. Just taking a scan across my classroom is disheartening, and I feel like me and my struggles are completely invisible. I feel capable as an engineer, but like I will never fully belong the way a white or Asian person will. I don't think I can be happy just ignoring my background and cranking out code at a job when I graduate, yet acknowledging my race and ethnicity is incredibly difficult when there's not a single person out there for me to look to. I've applied to a ton (70+) of internships, and gotten rejected from all, so that probably doesn't help either. I've begun to think that CS just isn't for me, and that I can still make a career out of non-tech roles. That's really not what I want to do though, my dream is to work as a developer when I graduate. I just feel so swept aside and that there really isn't a place I belong. What can I do to look forward instead of down? Is there a community out there that I can reach out to? Any other companies with jobs/internships that cater to minority students? [link] [comments]  |
| Who is the best developer you have ever worked with? Posted: 27 Nov 2017 09:47 PM PST |
| How do you guys make your LinkedIn connections grow? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 12:03 PM PST I've kinda been stuck in that department. Does spamming out a bunch of requests work for you guys? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 07:23 PM PST I feel like applying to the same position would feel very awkward even if I've gained enough experience to be able to do much better. [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts on the massive automation revolution that is predicted Posted: 28 Nov 2017 07:20 PM PST I've been reading to much lately and it has me worried. It is expected that millions of workers will be displaced by automation within the next decade. I'm worried just how many of these displaced workers will flood to the IT field and specifically CS. With so many people I feel like wages for your average web / application developer will drop drastically due to a massive increase in competition. I especially feel that some one like myself who has not degree and is extremely young (in a decade, I'll only be 29, I'll still have many years ahead of me.) will be especially hurt. What is everyone else's opinion else? Am I drastically over thinking things? [link] [comments]  |
| Keeping work and personal separate. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:24 AM PST At my company there's a strong culture of people using work equipment for personal use. For example, they give us the latest model iPhone each revision with unlimited everything. Most people use this as their only phone. Another example is work equipment, we're given top of the line hardware (we do VR development so it requires nice setups) and those in my division will frequently use the work computers to play video games in off hours. In the other direction, we use Unity but when we need something for development it's often times bought for our personal accounts rather than work accounts. I'm the only one in my office who has actually gone out of their way to make a work specific account that can be returned to the company if/when I ever leave, and I don't let any of my personal business ever touch work equipment. My reasoning is that I simply want to avoid any issues over who owns what in the future as I also write code for a hobby, and quite frankly I know IT has spyware on our systems and I think it looks unprofessional to have personal calls routed to my phone or a whole bunch of games installed on a work machine. My coworkers think that I'm overly paranoid and am just complicating my life. How do others feel about this? [link] [comments]  |
| Startup offers equity, not sure what this means exactly. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:47 PM PST So I do know what equity is itself, but I'm unsure how it works in my current situation. I was hired by a startup that (obviously) isn't publicly traded yet, and the offer letter says that I have "the right to purchase n shares". I was under the impression this wouldn't really mean anything until the company goes public, but now I'm starting to see stuff indicating I can (and should) purchase these now. How can that even be possible if the company isn't traded publicly? I'm super new to investing, so an ELI5 answer might help. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a new career and I don't know where to start Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:18 PM PST First forgive me if this isn't the right place for this type of question. I didn't know where else to post it. Secondly this is not for me this is for my Mother. Some background as to why I'm doing this. My mother is 47 years old and doesn't know what to do now. She has only ever worked 2 job in her life. The first being when she was 18 to 20 cleaning office space, and the second is from 20 to current at... Walmart... She is currently looking to get out of the Walmart life but neither her or I know where to begin. She has asked me to help make her a cover letter and a resume. (She barely knows how to use her smartphone let alone a computer... Witch is odd because she know how to work the Walmart TC70 and the MC40. If those of you who don't know what that is. It's basically a scan gun with a screen and it tells you how much you have a product. You can order more of a product and find out where it's at inside the store. Things like that) She has worked at Walmart for 27 years and this is all she knows. The highest position she has ever reached is department manager. She has not gone higher because she refuses. She is not happy with her job but just stays there. She has gotten used to being there and she is scared to leave. She feels she can't leave because it's all she knows. A little more then a month ago she had to take a leave of absence due to a medical problem. She took a week and gave the proper documents from her doctor and what not. When she came back she discovered she was no longer the department manager. She received a pay cut and is still expected to do all department manager duty's while they search for a replacement. She has been in this position for about a month now and she is family tired of it. She asked me to help her with looking for another job. I'm going to be honest I don't know where to begin. She is a single mother with me as her only son. She doesn't have any hobbies aside from reading. She loves to help people. Some of the customer she has created friendships with. She always answers with a smile and ask everyone how they are doing. She stops what she is doing to see if she can help the customer with what ever they need. She has a high school diploma and that's it. When I ask her where she wants to work she can't think of a place and neither can I. If it helps we are located in Houston Texas. Any suggestions? TL;DR My mom is looking for a new job. Only real job she has had before is 25+ years at Walmart. She doesn't know where to begin [link] [comments]  |
| Help on deciding Computer Science pathway? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:05 PM PST Hey everyone, I was wondering: are low-level computer engineering (C, Assembly, architecture, parallel comp. etc) still prevalent in today's society? I would love to work with these types of applications, whilst studying algorithms, data structures, the theory behind Computer Science, etc. My life has revolves around Computer Science, and I want to learn as much as I can. I really aspire to work with things like microprocessors, supercomputers with low-level optimization and the works. However, I also want to work in the "upper" levels of programming (such as Java, Python, C++). So, I suppose my question is this: are my aspirations ridiculous, and if they are, what should I do? A sub question would be, what books are good for low-level computing topics? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Working from home + being okay with social isolation = ? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:47 AM PST I know it is bad, unhealthy, stupid but I'm kind of okay with it. Nope, I don't want to go outside. Nope, not gonna work out. Yup, I'm gonna eat that and that. There is nobody and nothing except potentially some shocking life experience to get me out of this, like me turning 40 years old and being like oh shite. Can you to see the reason when you don't want to? Is there like a magic pill you know of? [link] [comments]  |
| Any JobFairs coming up in Califonia? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 12:22 PM PST Anyone know about some good upcoming Job Fairs (not college job fairs) for new-grad software engineers? [link] [comments]  |
| I want to bail... but I painted myself into a corner. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 04:03 PM PST I am at my first job out of college. Been here since April. I was immediately put on this project that is way too complicated for a junior dev and I have had no supervision and very little collaboration. I have done my best on it, having to learn a DB system I had never used (Mongo) and starting out with little understanding of what I was supposed to do. I have been on an island most the time. Now I have been stress testing the system I built for the last two months. It's not looking good. Every time I overcome a bottleneck, another one arises. I am pretty sure this system is poorly designed and a big steaming pile of shit... and I built it following what little direction they gave me. I feel like it was an accomplishment just to build this thing and make it do what they wanted, by myself, as a junior dev, even if the performance sucks. I mean this thing is tens of levels deep in complexity and I don't see any way to do what they want in a more simple way, which makes me question their initial idea from the start. When I began, I wouldn't have know any better but now I see how this solution sucks ( I basically had to make a mongo system act like sql)... I hate it. Anyway, I find myself not even believing that this thing is going to work, and yet I am under pressure to make it work. Needless to say I am thinking about jumping ship, but I just bought a house and all the jobs are 1 or 1.5 hours away. If I stick it out, I doubt I will get a raise that justifies the lack of mentorship and havong to lead out on a project way above my pay grade. If I leave, I would have to pick up and move and the logistics of it gives me nightmares. Thoughts, advice? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| a few questions about an upcoming job offer Posted: 28 Nov 2017 12:39 PM PST I have been going back and forth with this company for over a month doing interview after interview, code challenges, personality test, credit check, etc.. It's a really great job and excellent career opportunity, and I'm not upset at all about the process. Finally got the email from the VP yesterday that they have come up with an offer and that I'll be receiving an official letter from HR "shortly." Haven't heard anything yet. Question 1 - whats the time frame on this? Seems like I should have heard from them. haven't felt like I need to email the VP yet, it's obviously out of his hands. but what's the holdup? Question 2- I'm in a unique situation when it comes to negotiation, They know that I have turned down other offers for this one, and I know that they don't have any other candidates that are even being considered. What kind of leverage to negotiate do I have here? Question 3 - This job requires relocation. Nothing about a relocation package (or sign on bonus) has been discussed to this point. What is the best way to approach this if it isn't initially offered in the letter? Also, if it comes to it, is it uncommon to ask for, instead of additional funds for relocation, some of the money to be given up front to cover moving expenses, etc..? Any insight would be great. You guys are the best. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you talk about something without the potential employer assuming your lying? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:32 PM PST So I'm interning at a rather large company that doesn't do software at all. Most of the software people (and there aren't many) here are much older and the idea of 'new ideas' probably left during the 80's. Because of that it was kind of easy for me to see something wrong with how we're doing something pretty major and that it could be pretty easily automated with a scripting language and some simple simulation (and we had a shitload of data that's collected on how our products run so it was just replicating what I saw on that) and pushing it over (hardware that communicates between our software and our product). So instead of having to do physical testing for every build of the software we put on the product we could simulate testing it instead of having to send each build off to the testing plant. This might seem weird but I'm trying to be really really vague because it would be easy to find the company I'm working for. Anyway I automated a large part of our physical testing during the course of this internship and have a couple people working 'under' (no real way to phrase it, but it's my project and I know bets how it works even if the code is shit) me now to finish this. How do I even begin putting this on a resume? "As an intern I streamlined an entire plant's testing procedure for new revisions of mounted software on (our product) so that each revision could be simulated through scripts and lead a full team to complete my design while learning about our proprietary drivers/hardware." Nobody is going to believe that. So how do I say exactly what I did without it sounding like bull shit when I'm applying to new places? If anyone wants me to give more explanation I can but I'm just trying to be relatively vague... [link] [comments]  |
| What are some good intro to AI books that won't break the bank? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 09:24 AM PST I'm a college junior majoring in CS, hoping to get my foot into the waters of AI. With no background in probability, and little expendable funds, I'm looking for an appropriate starting place within my budget - <$100. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 09:14 AM PST So I'm in a hiring process now of a small and promising start up. I passed the first round of interviews and got a home assignment. There's zero doubt in my mind I can write it and have it working but the feature list looks a bit excessive to me. I got 3 days for the assignment and it looks to me like a 12 hours work to nail all the stuff I was requested. Now, I am not a fresh grad and have a nice GitHub with lots of code (working at Open Source company). I also have a full time and demanding day job and a 1 year old infant running around. I just don't think I can allocate the resources to get this assignment on time. Any tips how I get this message across them without sounding like an old fart? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:53 PM PST I was sending an email to a recruiter at a top company. In the end, I said "I'm very excited and hope have a great week" instead of "I'm very excited and hope you have a great week." (was missing the "you") I know I might be over-thinking this. But does everyone make typoes in emails all the time or is it just me? Has a typo cost someone something before? Should I send another email apologizing for the typo? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:52 PM PST I was looking into this bootcamp that they recently had in the Philly business journal. Does anyone think having the Ivy league name on the certification would have weight even though it's a bootcamp? I'm trying to do some research into the idea of doing one of these to get my foot in the door somewhere and then work on my Bachelors degree. This would only be about 40 minutes from me compared the others I've seen in NY/ATL. I wasn't sure if this should go here or into the learnprogramming subreddit. [link] [comments]  |
| Practice LeetCode questions in a Terminal Posted: 27 Nov 2017 08:42 PM PST I like Terminal, so I wrote a UNIX-style CLI for LeetCode: https://github.com/chenpengcheng/cli It keeps track of progress among sessions, can view problems by tags or search by keywords, such as palindrome and google (needs subscription). It can also generate HTML reports with code highlighting. Also, it allows people to view the best solutions if they get stuck on a problem (just type "cheat <N>" to show top N solutions). With this tool, I am doing 30-50 questions per week. Would you like to give it a try? Let me know what you like/dislike about it:) [link] [comments]  |
| Junior CS major feeling discouraged and looking for direction Posted: 28 Nov 2017 05:36 PM PST I'm currently a junior CS major at a decent state school. This is my third year but I switched into CS last year so I am currently in my third semester as a CS major. I've only recently realized the matter of trying to get a SWE internship this summer and how important experience like that could look on a resume for my future career. From what I can gather as of now when trying to develop a resume is that I'm not sure if I have remotely enough to even warrant trying for an internship. I have one decent project that I'm almost done with as part of a class and a good gpa but I'm not sure if that's enough. I'm also really only comfortable using Java. Not really sure what I'm going for with this post mostly just looking for direction on where to proceed. Should I focus on developing my skills by learning a new language or work on a project in Java. There's also the matter of learning about the types of technical questions friends have been asked in interviews and most of those seem very hard and I could also just focus on studying for those. At the same time as doing this I could shoot my shot and try and apply for summer internships but I don't think I would have much success. My immediate concern here is how much time I have left until most companies have completed their hiring and my odds are even lower. Sorry for the long post mostly just pouring my thoughts out to get some advice. [link] [comments]  |
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