Interview Discussion - January 08, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - January 08, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - January 08, 2018
- My developer estimates don't mean anything.
- First job, feel useless and want to quit
- How to get working again
- I've been programming for a while as a hobby, but I don't have a degree. Looking for some advice on how I should turn my hobby into a career. [Warning: long post]
- Disagreement on a technical decision for a client
- Fall 2018 Internship Recruiting?
- I just got asked to do phone screenings for hiring developers at my job and realized I am not excited about my work at all.
- What should I be getting out of an internship?
- Graduated One year ago, No success in obtaining a job
- What do/did you think of your university's CS program?
- CS careers in government
- What would you say about Software Development at a Career Day?
- Am I burned out? Should I quit? Need some advice on what to do next.
- Internship or full time work over summer.
- How would you tell a company that previously contacted you that now you’re interested in talking?
- Does anyone else's head hurt after 10 - 15 minutes of concentrating on a problem?
- Asking any/all (especially F1/H1 people) for some much needed advice. I'd like your help in planning ahead.
- Single DevOps internship, should I delay graduation for a Software Development internship?
- Questions I have about programming jobs
- Advice on transitioning from data analytics to machine learning Engineer/Data Science role
- Need to quit my job due to depression.
- I'm quitting my job immediately after getting a bonus. Do I need to be worried about anything?
- to those working in Chicago (downtown)
- Contemplating quiting my job
- What do you mean?
| Interview Discussion - January 08, 2018 Posted: 07 Jan 2018 11:08 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 - January 08, 2018 Posted: 07 Jan 2018 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]  |
| My developer estimates don't mean anything. Posted: 08 Jan 2018 10:21 AM PST Hey all, I've noticed a trend at my work. It seems like developer estimates are just made up numbers to make product managers happy, and then completely ignored. I'll give a sample. I was assigned a project and asked for an estimate. I took a hard look at everything and said ~50 hours. In the initial meeting for the project, everyone went bug eyed about my estimate. I sheepishly said that I was new and still needed to work on my estimating. They assigned a more senior developer to help. He estimated ~15 hours, and everyone was happy. The project ended up taking me around 50 hours, just like I expected. And yet nobody batted an eye. My manager even commented that he was happy how quickly I finished. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. Every time I've worked on a project, the estimation given is wildly low. It seems like the developers just give some random small number to make product managers smile and nod, and then from that point onward (spring planning, post project analysis, etc) the initial estimate is just completely ignored. This seems absolutely bonkers to me. Does this align with anyone else's experiences? [link] [comments]  |
| First job, feel useless and want to quit Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:03 PM PST Hi, I'm a recent graduate and I got my first programming job last December. My company uses a combination of c# and VB6 in their same project, I've used both VB.Net and VB6 before in my internship but never C# yet they still gave me the chance to work for them and basically learn the program through my personal time and some plural sight courses. It's been a month now and I feel useless. My job is basically adding functionality, modifying some code and bug fixing. But the project/app is so huge and there's barely (if any) documentation that trying to find something can take hours, and then when I find it I have to try to understand the code (which I usually barely understand it and end up resorting to mess with the code to see what and how my changes affect the app). After many hours or maybe even a days of trying to do a task by myself, I just ask my team leader to help me with my task since sometimes even with his suggestions I get stuck and I end up just being hand holded during my whole assignment. I probably haven't finished a task by myself yet, and being hand holded through the whole process suck, it doesn't give me any personal satisfaction and I personally hate when other co-workers say that I 'finished a task' since I know I was just doing what my team leader told me to do. The job makes me feel depressed since I know I'm underperforming, and compared to the other rookie who started at same time as me and already had some C# experience plus she picks up things super fast while I take too long to learn things, it makes no sense to keep me over her. I'm already looking for another job since I know I might get fired for underperforming sooner than later. I'm starting to question my career choice and I don't know if programming is for me, right now the only other that I like is working with data bases but I haven't been able to find any job in that area. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:01 AM PST This is more of a personal problem, that makes me unable to actually work. I'm working for this company for about a year, last months being a remote job. For the last 3 months since I'm remote, I've been working less and less, to a point where I'm basically doing nothing all day. My project from day one is a legacy app mainterance/feature adding with one co-worker involved right now, he's basically the workhorse. App belongs to our big client's subsidiary company and the project is just a sidekick to a bigger software deal. So in reality this big company pays for our work, and the subsidiary has no motivation for establishing a proper project management since they don't pay anything at all. They will host a call every month or so, but in reality they don't check up on tasks that were assigned to us and don't care if the progress is slow. This situation allowed me to slack off more and after taking many leaves and well, not coding anything - I just can't focus on my job. I've completely broken my work ethic and even trying to catch up isn't possible due to anxiety and stress. I feel burnt out and every day is just closer to somebody actually noticing this. I've got around 30+ feature tasks that aren't even started and it just makes me depressed. What would you do in my place to fix this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:36 PM PST Hey there. I sincerely apologize in advance for this post being way too long. I'd really appreciate some opinions and advice, though. Background info (TLDR): I'm 25 and I'm currently working as a retail manager. I've always loved programming, but I struggled with depression in university and dropped out, so I have no degree. Over the last few months, my mental health has improved dramatically, and I'm ready to try again. Background info (longer version): I started programming 12 years ago as a kid. As a teenager I knew that software development was exactly what I wanted to do, and I went off to university to study CS. Before long I became seriously depressed, dropped out after three semesters, and returned home. There were a number of personal issues contributing to this, but one thing that didn't help was that I was struggling hard with math. I didn't have the best math foundation in high school and after failing college algebra twice, I'd basically written off all prospects of completing a CS degree or doing anything software-related as a career, and I felt completely lost. I spent the next six years or so bouncing between a family business and various retail jobs. I was still depressed and I had no long-term plan or any motivation, but I continued coding as a hobby, and every now and then, for pay. One of my personal projects was an Android app I'd started in high school, which unexpectedly blew up during my freshman year at university. It eventually tapered off and I've long since shut the server down, but it was popular enough that the ad revenue paid for two years of tuition, housing, and a car, so I have no debt and a fair amount in savings, which I thankfully never touched. Several months ago, a major event in my life occurred that had a significant impact on my mental well-being. I gradually began feeling a lot better, and for the first time in six years I felt motivated and positive. After spending a few weeks building an app to automate something for my boss at work, I realized (or remembered, more like) that I really want to write code for a living, and I became determined to make something happen. And so here I am. Over the past couple of months I've been looking into options, while cutting out distractions and trying to focus on learning during my spare time. I'm considering a couple of things. The first is obviously to go back to school and get a degree. I'm still kinda scared of math, but between online resources and tutoring, I don't think it'd be impossible to just hunker down and get it done. Still, the idea of waiting another three years before I'd be able to get a job developing software is... a little hard to swallow, to be honest. But if it looks like the only viable option, I'm prepared to do it, of course. The second is to try to get into the industry without a degree. I've been writing code for a while and I've made a couple good-sized projects, one of which was downloaded a million times and used by a hundred thousand people per day at its peak. That being said, I have no formal training, I've never taken an algorithms class, and I have no experience working on a team with other programmers. My code certainly works, and my Android app (along with its accompanying server software) taught me a bit about writing performant, scalable code. But it's still not what I'd call clean code, and I have limited experience with industry best practices such as writing tests or using design patterns to write more maintainable software. I feel like I might know enough to be a useful junior-level developer somewhere, but my skills probably need to be refined a bit. I also don't know how I'd go about proving that to a prospective employer without a degree. I could show them my old Android app, but I'm not so sure if the code I wrote in my late teens/early twenties would help or hurt my case. My other big project, an ASP.NET MVC webapp for use internally at my family's business, is newer and better in terms of quality, but less ambitious and still not a shining example of amazing C# and Javascript. A friend of my mother's is a software engineer currently working in Chicago, and after talking with him a month ago, he recommended that I look into bootcamps. I've read enough /r/cscareerquestions to know they're not looked upon very highly here, and I was kind of skeptical myself. That said, I did some research into some of the better ones, and it seems like they might not be an awful idea for my case. I'm not looking to learn everything there is to know about programming in 12 weeks; I just want to specialize a bit more and learn best practices, modern frameworks, and what it's like to work on code with other people. One of the schools I was looking into happens to have a Chicago campus, and another software engineer friend who lives there has offered to let me room with him for a while. I'm not expecting the credentials from the bootcamp to be worth anything on a resume, but the curriculum seems like it'd help fill a lot of the gaps in my skill-set. Alternatively, I could just try to teach myself this stuff on my own. Between things like Freecodecamp, Leetcode/Codewars/Hackerrank, and MOOCs on sites like Udemy, the resources certainly seem to be there. Still, I think I'd benefit from the additional structure something like a bootcamp would provide. Money is not much of an issue; I have enough in savings to cover living expenses for at least a year, including the tuition. Chicago also seems like it'd be a much better place to actually start my career than down in South Florida, where I've not been able to find many companies hiring for web-dev, especially at the junior level. I've applied and been admitted to Fullstack Academy in Chicago, but I still haven't committed fully to it. I've done the same for my local community college. I'd have to wait until the summer term to take a full 16-week course, but there are 8-week mini-term courses as well that would start sooner. I'm leaning more towards the bootcamp, since I'm in a circumstance where money is less important to me than time. But if the bootcamp would be a waste of four months and unlikely to improve my prospects, then clearly I'd be better off reconsidering. If you've made it this far, then thanks. I'd appreciate your advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Disagreement on a technical decision for a client Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:14 PM PST Hey, so I'm a consultant on a web project for a start up. We're using Laravel and PHP for anybody familiar. Basically I disagree with a technical decision on how to implement a feature. It's a one man team and so he has a vision on how to implement, but needs extra help to get them to the finish line. He wants me to use Spark, which is basically this magic framework feature thing to do stuff. The way he wants me to use it is pretty hacky, and not really it's intended use. It's also got a terrible API with hardly any documentation. While I think it can be useful in the future for them, I dont think it's what they need right now. I'm suggesting simply creating a new table and a foreign key relation on an existing model using an ORM. I think my way is just better and easier. So today, after attempting his way for a bit and not getting anywhere good, I just implemented it in a way I know I can get the job done. I basically accomplished what he wanted and started including test cases (which there were none of in the project). However, I'm worried that he might not like that I didn't do it the way he had envisioned. Do I just go in tomorrow and tell him "hey I couldn't get your way to work, so I just did it this way and it works with tests". I'm thinking that I can also suggest to pair with him on his way too to see if he can help. I'm pretty confident that my way is a better solution, but I'm bad at communicating why some technical decisions are better. I'm worried about potential conflict, so I'm wondering how would you handle this? For what it's worth I have 2-3 years professional experience, just looking for some advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Fall 2018 Internship Recruiting? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 11:41 AM PST Hey Guys, I'm just wondering if anyone knew what the timeline was for recruiting for Fall 2018 Internships? When does it typically begin and when does it end? I'm talking about Big4 and any other tech company pretty much. Thanks guys! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:53 AM PST Today I started reviewing training material so that I could do interviews. One of the points they make is to that it is very important to make the candidate excited for the opportunity. I thought back to when I was being the one interviewed, and how excited I was for all the cool, innovative things I would be doing at this job. Fast forward 2 years, and there is nothing I am excited about. I work with ancient code written 20 years ago, trying to migrate it to web. I struggle every day trying to use a web framework that is currently being developed at the same time with no documentation and bugs that you have no power to fix because you don't own the framework. My projects are incredibly boring and are just redesigning existing ancient applications so users can input data insurance data. I was promised exciting opportunities with machine learning, genome mapping, etc by my phone screener, but of course none of that happened. I have a very good salary however, which actually makes finding a job more difficult because all the job offers I get cannot come close to the salary I have, and it just doesn't make sense to take a lower salary elsewhere. I currently have 2 years of professional software development experience and make 102K in a smallish city, so living costs are not high at all. Should I hold out a couple more years and try to land a management position at another company? Do you guys think I would be able to find a job with a similar salary? [link] [comments]  |
| What should I be getting out of an internship? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 06:06 PM PST Basically, what I can learn technically from this position has plateaued, and I find myself constantly looking for work while waiting for code review since the project I'm on is relatively low priority. I've looked at the other posts about doing nothing at an internship and the general consensus is that it's what I should do, but it's very tiring and demotivating to feel like nobody cares what I'm doing. I could read documentation to learn things, but I can also read documentation at home. Since I'm not getting much more out of it technically, are there more productive ways to spend my time? [link] [comments]  |
| Graduated One year ago, No success in obtaining a job Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:53 PM PST As described above, I've been graduated coming up on a year now. I've sent out hundreds of resumes throughout the year. I have been tweaking, and updating my resume as the year progresses. I've had a handful of interviews that are over the phone, and some in result in onsite interviews. But so far, I haven't had the bite. I practice mock interviews. I work a full-time job in retail, and can't quit due to financial necessities I've been grinding HackerRank. I've been taking classes through my local community college to update my skills in something I haven't learned before. I don't program as much as I wish I could, so personal projects are slow to churn out. As I approach the year mark of being graduated, I'm extremely concerned that the lack of related experience is going to deter employers. I have considered graduate school, but getting in with a 2.98 gpa seems to be an anamoly of success. Frankly, I'm at a loss as to what I should do. I think I have enough introspection to realize that it's got to be something on my side that I'm lacking. But I'm hoping someone with an outside perspective may shed some light on my situation. Thank you all in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| What do/did you think of your university's CS program? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:23 PM PST I was looking through posts on this subreddit and found a really interesting one by u/t8329f from a while ago. I feel like many of those currently looking for good CS colleges could benefit from your guys' opinion on what you liked/disliked about the school you attend(ed). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:28 PM PST Hi, I am looking to pursue a CS career in government related agencies. I am wondering if anyone with related experiences can share their thoughts? I am specifically looking for answers to the following questions:
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| What would you say about Software Development at a Career Day? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 06:44 AM PST I've been asked by my wife's old high school to speak at Career Day as a software developer. I have some ideas as to points I want to make, but I would welcome other suggestions. I'm recently retired after 33 years of development so I hope to bring some long view suggestions as well as shorter views. The high schoolers have had some programming classes over the years, and I think there are several people speaking at the same time so the ones coming to listen to me have an interest. I'll put some points I want to make in the comments. What would you add to a presentation for this? [link] [comments]  |
| Am I burned out? Should I quit? Need some advice on what to do next. Posted: 08 Jan 2018 06:32 PM PST TL;DR: My government section has gotten attention within the organization by luckily hiring (smart) intern developers that are now quitting and leaving inexperienced, overworked interns/juniors like myself to keep up with the demand due to the success. Managers think the team will just figure it out like we have been up to this point and aren't making a concerted effort hiring Senior Developers / outside firms. What can I do? I (23) work for a government organization that's been building web apps/services (somewhat amateurishly) in-house for a few years. The team grew from a few inexperienced interns into a 'development' section run pretty much by interns of different ages/skill levels. Those first few interns would transition to full-time staff and assume a more important role. I joined as an intern about a year or so ago (fresh college grad) with little experience building web apps / web services. Everything I've learned about software engineering in the real world so far has been through osmosis, looking at previous codebases/examples, and general research in my own time with no formal training or guidance from a seasoned Senior staff member. Over the first few months of my internship we rushed to build some web apps given the tools and people we had. It was a bit stressful, but the team was talented enough to pull it off and the organization responded pretty well. We automated as much as we could but there wasn't really ever any senior management to guide us (just the first interns with more knowledge). We formed a decent stack and workflow (albeit somewhat dated) around one of the first intern's knowledge (who learned everything on the job as well). I was lucky enough to get promoted to a permanent position about half way through this because the managers noticed how much I was doing. Right now they have me doing everything from business analytics, designing interfaces, developing front-end work, and deploying the apps to servers (full-stackish). Unfortunately the first interns (now permanent employees) realized how immature the processes were and how they couldn't move forward in their career. And so these 'Senior' staff (which never held the position just the knowledge relative to the new interns) have begun leaving the company and letting interns and juniors (like myself) run the development section. Instead of hiring full-time employees, my company opts to bring on a round of interns each summer to keep up with the demand and trusting they'll learn in the same way we did because it worked so far. Because of the success we've had from the first interns, demand has grown but our workforce (and overall technical skill) has dramatically shrunk. In the last few weeks I've been stressed beyond my mind (to the point where it's impacting my health) as I've inherited a lot of the responsibility, apps, and future 'Senior' level design work as a junior. I feel like the expectation is that I'll just take over the technical knowledge of the previous person even if I don't have the capacity or interest in the work. Not to mention I'm also a designer and business analyst (in my job description and daily duties). Every time we ask to improve our workflow or take some time to train others, we get hit with more deadlines and more projects because of our early success. Managers think we just need to 'manage our resources better' but don't understand how difficult it is to work on multiple projects at once and how much risk letting interns manage volumes of production apps is (even if they're low impact). Overall I feel burned out (do I sound like it?), I feel overused, but I'm to afraid to quit. I feel like my skillset working here is a mile wide and an inch deep because they had me working on so many different things. That and a lack of overall confidence in my technical skills makes me feel I would struggle in looking for another job. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Internship or full time work over summer. Posted: 08 Jan 2018 06:25 PM PST I have only gotten one response so far on my internship search. It only pays $10 an hour for a software engineer, max 25 hours a week. I also could go back to my job over the summer, which is $15 an hour and full time. This job is construction, so no relation to my major. Would it be better to take the financial hit on the internship, in order to get a better internship next year (I am a sophomore), or continue on the higher paying job and try again next year. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| How would you tell a company that previously contacted you that now you’re interested in talking? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 02:13 PM PST I might have been too picky. So I want to talk to some companies I wasnt interested in before. What's a good way to explain why I changed my mind? [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone else's head hurt after 10 - 15 minutes of concentrating on a problem? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:36 AM PST I can't focus after 10 - 15 minutes of coding or looking for things to fix and typically I like to do things slow, but correctly, but you know how it is, managers sometimes ask us to clear tickets like a madman and I can't handle going at it for 4-5 hours straight. Usually go home with headache most days. Leetcode too. I can solve leetcode problems, correctly and well on the first try, but I can't do it in 1 sitting, you know? Even easys. I'd have to take an hour or two to do it because sitting down and concentrating just leaves me making more errors than not. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 05:23 PM PST Context:
Options at hand (sorted by best to worst case):
To be frank, I'm really just looking for someone to share their story. How did you get through it? What were your options? Which one did you choose? Would you suggest one I haven't mentioned? Disclaimer: I too read the thread on entitlement and realize you don't need to care. Please soften the blow for today, though. Director at client side informed me that the departments' budget is being cut and Friday will be my last day at work. Will return to consulting firm next week to attend more interviews find another gig. Didn't want to complain to anyone else, so here I am Reddit. [link] [comments]  |
| Single DevOps internship, should I delay graduation for a Software Development internship? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:22 PM PST I have an upcoming summer DevOps internship at MSFT and will be graduating the year after. This will be my only internship before graduating. Is it worth delaying graduation a year so I can pick up another software development/engineering internship during the Fall/Winter following the MSFT internship? Long term, I would like to do Software Development full time but I'm not sure how a single DevOps internship would look when applying for full time positions. I appreciate any insight or advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Questions I have about programming jobs Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:16 PM PST I wish to be a programmer, and I want to ask some questions in regard to programming jobs. I am not asking to have all of them answered, this is just a pile of questions I have. Feel free to answer as much (or as few) as you want: Is it a comfortable work enviroment? How profitable is it? Is it hard? There are multiple branches of programming jobs. What do different branches (like Software Developer or Engineer) offer and is any of them superior to others? Where to look for a job? What to avoid when looking for a job? Which language should I learn? I'm looking at C# Are there notoriously good/bad companies out there? Which ones? I am currently in Germany and I hear there might not be good programming pays here. What countries are good for programming jobs? I know German and English. Thanks for any help. [link] [comments]  |
| Advice on transitioning from data analytics to machine learning Engineer/Data Science role Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:15 PM PST Hi there, What advice do you have for me to make a mid-career switch? Thoughts on pursuing additional formal education? [link] [comments]  |
| Need to quit my job due to depression. Posted: 08 Jan 2018 10:13 AM PST Hi everyone... I have been depressed over several years now and now it has definitely got too much. I can see how spend hours at work and home ruminating about things. I have bursts of productivity which has kept me from not getting fired or noticed. I am not depressed because of work but I was depressed since long ago even before my job. A few months ago I decided to quit my job and even told a few colleagues at work (bad idea!). My dad at home was very saddened by this decision (he knows about my condition but feels terrible at each of such big real effects of it on my life). He started avoiding me when I started staying with my him and my mom, and he would go to work early in the morning and come back late at night and even work on weekends... This made me a bit horrified about staying home with my parents after leaving my job - even my elderly dad can go to work while I have to sit at home and having to disgust my dad? I would even miss the folks at work who would be forced to talk to me because I'm in their team (muhahaha). So I ended up canceling my plan of leaving my job. I have been doing extra hours at work just be able to keep while I waste most of the time thinking about crappy stuff. My psychiatrist has told me I need to get on meds for a long time but the meds are horrible to take... I've tried them thrice before and given up each time. I think the only way out is to quit my job and deal with the side effects of the meds. My company doesn't give me extended leave especially without a valid reason. I don't know what to tell my company. Especially with me already telling them once and then cancelling my resignation, they already think I'm high risk and they said they hoped I'll not leave again soon. Now I don't know how to tell them again. It's not like I have weak bones and need treatment... My mind is crippled and that is definitely not something I would want people to know. I wouldn't wish my illness on anyone and I at least hope I can keep only my close family knowing about it.. I can't not tell them because I'm going to sound shady for constantly trying to leave. I can't tell them because it's private. What do I do? What effects would this have on my future job opportunities? tl;dr very depressed. had earlier given letters of leaving job citing other reasons but cancelled it myself. they don't see me as "loyal" and "enthusiastic" now. need to stick around to not be a jerk, because i said i would. but depression is too much. how to quit? what are the effects of quitting like this on my future career? [link] [comments]  |
| I'm quitting my job immediately after getting a bonus. Do I need to be worried about anything? Posted: 08 Jan 2018 10:59 AM PST I'm quitting my job soon, but I want to wait until I get my bonus to do so. What I'd like to do is to just hand in my resignation on the same day that I get my bonus. What I'm worried about is that my company might be able to stop payment on the bonus or something. I imagine that I'm probably fine either way, but does it make sense to wait a couple of days to make sure that the payment settles or something? The bonus will be through a normal direct deposit. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| to those working in Chicago (downtown) Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:32 PM PST How do you like it? I'm curious as to how those of you working downtown like it? What neighborhoods do you live in (Wrigleyville, Lincoln park, Logan Square, River North, etc), and what's the commute like? If you could, would you work somewhere else? Is the pay enough? Are you able to work from home a lot when it's freezing out? I know there's a ton to do in the summer, but do you find yourself having enough fun things to do in the winter living downtown? I really appreciate any responses. Thanks! Background: I actually grew up in the suburbs of Chicago so I know a decent amount about the city, but I went to school down in FL and work here now. I stay in touch with a few people but most of them don't work in the loop so I'm limited on info. I'm going to have a good time to pivot somewhere else come June. I've told a few of my buddies that I'm thinking about moving back, but they tell me I'm insane because they hate the cold. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:28 PM PST Basically I've been working at this company for about 6 months now, and I've grown to lowkey hate my job. It's not the work or my boss or my HOD that's making me hate the job. It's my supervisor who is probably the most aggressive, bitchy colossal cuntasaurus with a really nasty mouth. And tbh besides her, everything is good with the job. It's only HER. She seems to be only harsh on me, and other new staff and it's really beginning to take its toll on me. She throws last minute MAJOR assignments on me and always goads me to quit, telling me if I'm not satisfied with her or my job, I should just tell my boss or quit. I've been holding back for so long after dealing with so much of her shit and feel like I can't hold it back any longer. I swear despite the other nice staff and upper management, due to the fact that I have to work close with her, it's doing my head in. What used to be joy and passion for the job has just turned into indifference and legit cba about my job anymore. Thing is do I quit and risk the job market and face unemployment or just try put my head to the ground and tough it out? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:42 PM PST I just started a new job several months ago and everyone on my team has had their performance review. I was told I was having one as well (I am a consultant) and every time I'm scheduled to have a review my boss changes the time to the following week. Even though there's clearly time to talk. My assignment is also over soon despite being told I'll continue on and hearing the history of the company they generally keep people. However I'm concerned because my review keeps getting pushed off and my contract isn't officially extended. At this point I'm not sure what to do if my meeting is rescheduled again for the third time or why they would keep putting this off. Again, if I'm not going to stay or be converted they could just communicate that as well. Help! [link] [comments]  |
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