Interview Discussion - December 11, 2017 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - December 11, 2017
- Daily Chat Thread - December 11, 2017
- Anyone else wish rejection emails would just be honest?
- Help? Divorcee looking to reenter workforce after lengthy absence...
- Young guy (22) about to take on responsibility of being tech lead for 20 man group...excited but nervous
- Good daily reads to improve your skills?
- I've finished a CS degree and got a job as a software developer ... But I hate it
- Recruiter asked which part of the compensation is most important to me.
- "Member of Technical Staff" - I've seen this title for several highly talented engineers at varied companies. Why does such a nondescript title exist?
- First term at college and failed miserably, 1.6 GPA please advise
- For those of you that used to work for a Big N, do you miss it?
- [Advice] Leaving work after < 6 months
- Do big companies typically hire new grads with 6 months of experience?
- Grace Hopper Coding Bootcamp Grads?
- As a new grad, roughly how many internships and/or side projects should you have to make you a strong candidate in the job scene?
- SF company asked me to provide a salary expectation at end of hiring process. How much to ask and can it be viewed negatively if I ask too much?
- Web Developer Intern salary too low?
- Communication process issues - need advice
- Considering quitting Master's degree. How to reconcile this with pending job offer? [x-post /r/jobs]
- Want to get into CyberSecurity field no idea where to start
- Questions about Expedia
- I graduated in accounting but now I have grass is greener syndrom for CS (help me inside)
- Transfer to a better school and take a year or two longer to graduate or stay at no name school.
- I'm starting a PHP development job with 0 PHP experience. What am I in for?
- Accuracy of Leetcode difficulty levels?
- ~8 Month Gap until my Masters Starts. What to do?
- [Advice] If you are graduating, apply for entry level positions instead of internships.
| Interview Discussion - December 11, 2017 Posted: 10 Dec 2017 11:09 PM PST Please use this thread to have discussions about interviews, interviewing, and interview prep. Posts focusing solely on interviews created outside of this thread will probably be removed. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Monday and Thursday at midnight PST. Previous Interview Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - December 11, 2017 Posted: 10 Dec 2017 11:09 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]  |
| Anyone else wish rejection emails would just be honest? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 03:09 PM PST I understand why they do it, but I am just so sick of reading things along the lines of "Please understand that we think you were great and this was an exceptionally difficult decision, but we decided to move forward with another candidate". Sometimes I know I bombed an interview- it would be refreshing just to get an "It wasn't even close". [link] [comments]  |
| Help? Divorcee looking to reenter workforce after lengthy absence... Posted: 11 Dec 2017 09:05 AM PST Hi. So I'm one of these guys who really enjoys writing software. I just love it! It's what makes life worth living for me. About 10 years ago, during the economic downturn, I lost my programming job (C++, Java, SQL, applications under Unix). Nobody was hiring. My wife, with a superior technical education, was offered a wonderful opportunity at a top (big-4) company with a salary many times my prior one. For the sake of our family, I became Mr. Mom. It was just like in the movie. I was raising the kids, changing diapers, grocery shopping, the whole nine yards. Not a great life, not what I wanted to do, but they needed me and it was what was best for the family. It's now 10 years later. My wife has decided to leave me. It's all very stereotypical, like the successful husband leaving his first wife, just with gender reversal. So I need to reenter the workforce. I haven't done anything in software for 10 years. I used to be quite good. Still am. But my resume is, well, the 10 year gap and the part where I'm in my mid-50s is not helping. I don't have a security clearance. I don't even have a portfolio of recent work. Oh, and I also still need to take care of my kids half the time. And several of them have special needs & medical problems. So some flexibility in the hours would be helpful. Alternatively I'm looking at hiring a nanny, but with my kids special needs & medical conditions that will be a little pricey. So, does anyone have any suggestions? My ex-wife's attorneys seem to feel that I should be able to walk out the door and get a 6 figure job any time I want, and quite possible owe my ex-wife support. Reality is not nearly as encouraging. I'm turned down in less time than it takes me to fill out the job application. I don't even get to the interview stage. Any suggestions? Any suggestions at all as to how I might bootstrap myself back into a CS career? And hey, even if you just want to tell me I'm up Mr. Creek without Mr. Paddle here, that's useful too. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:55 AM PST Does anyone have any tips or the like? I feel extremely excited for this position, and want to hit the ground running but would be grateful for any advice the wise old-heads can give me. [link] [comments]  |
| Good daily reads to improve your skills? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:32 AM PST I find myself having some free time during the day and I want to start doing something productive instead of just messing around. What are some good websites to read from that will help me improve as a programmer? [link] [comments]  |
| I've finished a CS degree and got a job as a software developer ... But I hate it Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:24 AM PST I really don't know what to do. I've spent so much time trying to become a software developer and now I'm here and I really don't like it. I don't look forward to going to work. I thought I'd be happy knowing I've achieved what I set out to do, but it all seems so ... dull? I never really 'enjoyed' programming, but thought that once I got good at it I'd enjoy it far more because whenever I solved a tough assignment I'd feel so good about it and be proud of what I've done, but this isn't how I feel anymore. I guess my question is: Is there anyone here who's gone on to have a good CS career that doesn't involve programming? [link] [comments]  |
| Recruiter asked which part of the compensation is most important to me. Posted: 11 Dec 2017 04:25 PM PST Two recruiters from different companies asked me if signing bonus, base, or RSUs were more important to me when it came to negotiating compensation. What does that even mean anyways? Obviously a higher base is most important, but that doesnt mean I don't want an increase in the other parts either.... What am I supposed to say in this situation? [link] [comments]  |
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| First term at college and failed miserably, 1.6 GPA please advise Posted: 11 Dec 2017 02:10 PM PST for many years i've wanted to go into CS, and threw high school looked at schools based on one factor being CS. However, my first term at college went horribly. Took 5 classes grades are as follows: Math: C- Physics: D Econ: F Intro CS Class: A Langauge: D I found classes that weren't CS extremly difficult to find the motivation to study and focus in, despite that I made 30+ page study guides for each class yet still did shit in them. I loved my CS class and the professor liked me and i spent much time in their Office hours helping out others and talking with the professor and TAs about advanced CS stuff. However, I can't justify the money if im going to conitnue to fail other classes. What should I do? I want to go into the CS industry. [link] [comments]  |
| For those of you that used to work for a Big N, do you miss it? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:02 AM PST I worked for a "Big N" a few years ago. Looking back on it now, it was one of the most stressful periods of my life, but I enjoyed the people and the amazing tech that I worked with. It was a humbling experience, but in the end, I decided to leave because I was burnt out and found a job that offered more pay elsewhere. I haven't been too happy with the jobs I've had since then, mainly due to what I perceive as just lower standards at these other companies. The tech is more "primitive", the code reviews more lax, less talent, etc. Work-life balance is the only saving grace for me, and I definitely have a lot more free time to live life. For those of you who used to work for a Big N or similar, do you miss it or think about going back? [link] [comments]  |
| [Advice] Leaving work after < 6 months Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:09 AM PST tl;dr Startup culture shock contributed to my poor feature deliveries I recently moved to a startup company less than six months ago (not a fresh graduate). I have been alone in delivering features and bug fixes for the past months. I am unhappy with my current state of manpower versus work load wherein my colleagues and supervisor knows about it but they do not seem keen on hiring a partner to help me. The senior developers who made the projects I am handling have been leaving the past months and this caused another dent in my confidence to stay since there are a ton of complicated obsolete parts of the code base that they have not turned over. The development process is also chaotic. I know that it is a startup company and this should be expected but the volume of prioritized work coming from different sources without sprint planning caused me to burn out. All of these reflected in some poor, faulty and late delivery of features because I was rushing to finish them alone which reflected in my disappointing evaluation. I own up to these due to the goal to deliver but I am not optimistic because I think I would be terminated. My question is it wise to resign now based on my evaluation to not get the termination? And how would I explain this short period of time to interviewers? [link] [comments]  |
| Do big companies typically hire new grads with 6 months of experience? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:48 PM PST Hello everyone! I'm a new grad SWE working for a major tech company, however, due to a reorganization, my position could get eliminated, and because of this, I'm looking to find a new position within or outside of the company. However since I've been working, I'm neither "new grad", nor "with 1+ year of industry experience" (which is also prefered even for internal transfer). I'm not even sure if another major tech company would be interested in hiring someone like me. Do big 4/5 tech companies normally hire new grads with 6 months of experience? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Grace Hopper Coding Bootcamp Grads? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:21 AM PST Is there anyone (preferrably female) that graduated the program? What is the good, bad, and ugly of the program? And also what was the job search like after completing? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2017 02:01 PM PST Not a new grad but I want a general idea so I could start now. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:03 AM PST I finished the interview process for this company (roughly 100 employees) and all went well. They want me to go first and give them a number of how much I want to get paid. Job is in SF, I'm a software engineer with Machine Learning and Computer Vision experience. Have a masters in CS and 1 year of work experience (deployed a robust machine vision project as the solo dev). I'm thinking of asking 130K + 15K sign on bonus but feel like I might be over reaching. Thoughts? Can I be viewed negatively if I ask for "too much"? [link] [comments]  |
| Web Developer Intern salary too low? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 03:26 PM PST Hi guys, I recently received a job offer as a full stack web developer intern at a place around 20 miles away from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They offered me $13 an hour, but the salary they offer is much lesser than what I currently earn as a software developer intern at a smaller company. I have decent amount of experience in web development. I am a senior year student majoring in computer science and have been worked as a web developer at my university as well as taken classes related to web development. In my current internship, I have also been working on with some web development, like ASP.Net MVC. Is the pay offered to low? [link] [comments]  |
| Communication process issues - need advice Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:48 PM PST I am a mid-level SDE and have been on a <10 person backend team at ~500 people software company for about a year. The manager acts as the single source of incoming work for the team's stories. This in itself isn't the problem but I have been frustrated by the: 1) Lack of context for incoming tasks We are asked for new features to support customer facing changes but the front end feature is not relayed to the engineers. I end up implementing API's, shipping them, and never knowing how they are used. 2) Premature solution decisions made by my manager My manager will decide that problem X should be solved by Y and then create a story to implement Y. When I get assigned Y and it smells like a bad solution, pushing back is difficult because I lack information on X. 3) Absence of engineer to engineer communication The SDE's do not speak to each other except at scrum. The communication patterns leave me feeling under-utilized and detached from the work. The compensation is, surprisingly, very competitive but I'm not capable of churning out code in a vacuum. At my previous (Big N) job, every SDE was effectively their own TPM which I didn't find healthy either. I've asked to be invited to the managerial-level weekly meetings in which new features are discussed and been yes'd multiple times without an invite. I've also tried to describe the sentiment of this post at 1v1s but no concrete changes were made. My gut is telling me I should seek other opportunities but not before trying to fix the issues bothering me. What are your recommendations? [link] [comments]  |
| Considering quitting Master's degree. How to reconcile this with pending job offer? [x-post /r/jobs] Posted: 11 Dec 2017 05:43 PM PST note: I'm not really looking for advice right now on whether or not I should finish my Master's degree, except where it's relevant to my specific question about a prospective employer. I understand the benefits of a Master's degree and am taking the decision seriously. I'm currently in a Master's program in CS (it's actually a 5-year Bachelor + optional Master's program, but I already have the Bachelor's degree). I have been planning to graduate in February, and based on my future plans, this is a fairly hard deadline--I don't think I will easily be able to finish my degree if I don't complete it by then. My classwork is effectively complete, but my thesis is coming along extremely slowly--and honestly, I'm not sure I have it in me to finish it. I'm really unmotivated and unexcited about working on it, and I'm experiencing a lot of guilt about it; if I could choose again, I would not have attempted the master's program at this point. Currently, I have an effectively-finalized job offer from a 'big-N' tech company. (Effectively-finalized means that I have made it past the technical screen and hiring committee and just need approval from the location where I will work; this approval almost always happens). This company knows that I am working on my Master's degree, and presumably(?) is expecting me to finish it. However, my undergraduate GPA and experiences are pretty good and I think I would have been able to get a job offer if I hadn't chosen to pursue the Master's degree. My question is then: how should I handle the possibility of not finishing my thesis/Master's degree in communication with my potential/future employer? Should I even consider this as a possibility, or is this such a red flag that I essentially need to finish? Should I communicate this possibility with my recruiting contact now, or wait (until after I have a signed offer letter, or until I'm more confident if I can/can't finish my degree)? Is there any danger in talking to my employer about this preemptively--might I suffer negative consequences based on just asking them about my options? All help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Want to get into CyberSecurity field no idea where to start Posted: 11 Dec 2017 05:41 PM PST Hi so I want to get into the Cyber security field but I am not sure where to start. I heard that bootcamps are good and are an expedited process & can land me a job (potentially). I have very little experience in coding. I prefer coding in Python. So my question is should I go to college & get a degree? Or should I get a certificate? I need guidance to which way is the most effective and not too hard on my wallet. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful. [link] [comments]  |
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Any info is appreciated, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| I graduated in accounting but now I have grass is greener syndrom for CS (help me inside) Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:41 AM PST Hello all, I graduated in 2015 with a bachelor degree in accounting (not CPA) and I've been working in acounting department in industry since than. Most jobs i had are very boring, long, not fun, and draining my energy, and I am dreading going to work...(don't know if its the accounting or if its just me adjusting to the actualy working adult life) anyway Now I am thinking of learning how to program and try to get into CS. I hesistate between accounting vs CS as a degree and finally decided on accounting because I told myself that I wouldn't need to relearn everything every few years as technologies change (while accounting, once you know it, you know it, core concept don't rly change) Anyone did the same transition? Any advise, anyone despise having to relearn programming? (i am a pretty lazy person who would love to work like 35h/week or a bit remote, and I often surf reddit at work) what do you guys NOT like about CS? do you think going back into programming is worth it or working is working and I will dread going to work CS or accounting , work is work ?! btw I actually don't know how to program yet (only some bot, game script with AHK, AutoIt, so far) [link] [comments]  |
| Transfer to a better school and take a year or two longer to graduate or stay at no name school. Posted: 11 Dec 2017 01:51 PM PST I am currently a sophomore at a no-name state school(Old Dominion University). The courses in the CS major here are really quite easy and rarely have any programming assignments that take me longer than an hour or two. Also, very little theory is being taught. I'm not particularly happy or unhappy here, but I'm really concerned with whether this program will actually prepare me for grad school/the workforce. My college GPA is good(around a 3.5, 3.7 in major), and my old standardized test scores are superb(national merit scholar, 9 4s and 5s on AP tests, 1570/1600 SAT). However, my high school transcript is a bit of a trainwreck, especially senior year(I failed a couple classes), and I had to withdraw from courses my first semester of college due to extenuating circumstances. I think I can transfer to the University of Maryland College Park, which is a target school, but it would take a year or so longer for me to graduate. I am also looking at transferring to William and Mary, which is not particularly a target, but which is much better than ODU. I have also applied to some unis in the UK, and gotten into Edinburgh and UCL(still waiting on Imperial College London). I can aim higher for these, as they do not look at high school transcripts at all. At UCL, I would start at the beginning of a 4 year undergraduate masters program, so it would take about the same amount of time to a masters as it would if I stayed here. I do not intend to work in the UK after graduation(US CS salaries are much higher), so I wonder how the UK degrees would be viewed by US companies. Is it better to graduate later with a much stronger background in CS, or should I stay where I am and try to study on my own? [link] [comments]  |
| I'm starting a PHP development job with 0 PHP experience. What am I in for? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:20 PM PST I'm a mid level backend / embedded developer who mostly worked with Java, C, C#. Switched jobs, accepted a role as a developer where a lot of PHP is involved. I obviously want to be good at the job, what good resources can I read on PHP? Any pointers transitioning to PHP? [link] [comments]  |
| Accuracy of Leetcode difficulty levels? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 08:58 AM PST So I have been doing some leetcode problems and they are great. But I feel like the classification of difficulty for problems is not accurate. I have done some easy problems the feel like mediums and some mediums that feel like easys. Anyone else have the same thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| ~8 Month Gap until my Masters Starts. What to do? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 01:16 PM PST Hi, I am going to get my bachelors at the end of November next year and my Masters will start in September. What is the best thing to do during that time in order to gain some valuable experience / income? Should I work on a project or will companies hire for just 8 months? And if so, won't it look bad on my CV if a leave a company so quickly? What would you do in my position? [link] [comments]  |
| [Advice] If you are graduating, apply for entry level positions instead of internships. Posted: 11 Dec 2017 02:48 PM PST I noticed a couple of posts where new graduates are trying to find internships, but can't seem to land a position. Here is the reason why (self-quote): "Interns are an investment by companies to get students to become full-time employees. Interns are also usually hired at a loss (The total cost of interns is usually greater than the short term benefit they provide to the company). If you are already a graduate, they don't want you as an intern, they want you as a full-time hire." It seems that the reason why new graduates seem to be applying for internships is a lack of confidence in there own ability, even though they were able to graduate with a C.S. degree. They also see internships as a "way of getting their foot in the door" (Which is true for someone still in college, but companies have different expectations for people that are still in college and those that have already graduated). For new graduates that are having trouble finding entry level positions, I would recommend using their university contacts (friends/people they studied with/career advisers/etc.), as well as apply to companies that target students at their college. If anyone else has more to add, or a new grad would like to add some information about their own experiences looking for a job, please feel free to add a comment! Here are a couple more threads on the topic, but there are probably plenty more on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6vch89/why_dont_companies_take_recent_grads_as_interns/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6jtz4h/internship_after_graduating/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7ivbpl/is_it_worth_finding_an_internship_after_college/ [link] [comments]  |
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