Resume Advice Thread - January 09, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - January 09, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - January 09, 2018
- Whats with all the "one-upping" in cs/it?
- Spotify Software Internship
- Subreddit 'I'd pick this over that' resource website
- For those who have been involved in the hiring process or are very familiar with it, how do extremely niche and / or senior jobs get filled?
- How to introduce unit testing in my company?
- Capital One TDP vs Goldman Sachs Engineering
- Being the only young person on an older, delivery focused team
- CS major who graduated in 2016. No internships, bad GPA, only professional experience in sales, but I have personal projects. Feel like I'm in between a rock and a hard place. HELP!
- Resigning to go to possible competitor. Help!
- Can any recent grads step me through what you do in a daily basis to find and apply for jobs?
- What was your first cs internship like?
- I'm a transfer student. First semester as a CS student went south. I passed everything but still got the worse grades imaginable. Is a summer internship out of the question?
- Game programmer but no offers, should I start elsewhere?
- YouTube vs G
- Remote coworkers?
- Tripadvisor Recent Grad
- Should I be concerned learning UWP?
- How can i progress as much as possible as a junior developer this year
- My University has an internship course (after the actual internship) that can add "SIP" onto my degree parchment. How much does this matter in the real world?
- Any recommendations about more "math-oriented" programming jobs?
- Allstate Java Developer entry level full time position
- Switching jobs, manager keeps hounding me over new employer. How should I respond?
- Where would you want to live ? Bay Area (San Jose/San Francisco?), Portland, Colorado, Arizona, Seattle?
- Degree advice
- Math+CS or straight CS Degree to accompany my Stats Degree?
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| Whats with all the "one-upping" in cs/it? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 04:32 PM PST This seems to be extremely common in computer/tech career. When you say you know some thing, someone else then say "oh yeah, well i know that AND x" Like wtf? I dont think theres this much of ego fight in other career fields [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 11:16 AM PST Has anyone heard back yet from Spotify regarding any of their software related internships (backend, webdev, android ...) Edit: Has anyone heard back after submitting the next steps form [link] [comments]  |
| Subreddit 'I'd pick this over that' resource website Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:59 AM PST Sometime in the past year or two, someone made a website that the members of the sub populated with x vs y company decisions, and you could see what companies people favored (by popularity) in a nice format. Anyone remember the website name? Edit: Link thanks to /u/thrownthrownawayzz Edit: Other link found by me. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 04:34 PM PST A bit of background, I work in a small city where the selection of jobs in the field are limited. Many of the jobs are tied to certain industries and pulling up a job search for the area brings some interesting results. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/534197662 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/562425146 If you look at these jobs, you'll notice they work with extremely niche technologies and also tend be more of senior positions. I see positions like this constantly posted and it's had me curious, how do they manage to fill this job. It seems like it would be possible albeit still hard to find these type of people in a large diverse city, but I can't even go about imaging how any of these positions end up getting filled [link] [comments]  |
| How to introduce unit testing in my company? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 11:09 AM PST Everyone probably understand the value of testing, so does my company. We have integration tests in place that run every night, but running them locally is painful to say the least. I won't go into what's wrong with it, the main problem is that it takes ages to fully run. For this reason I'd like to have unit tests in place as well, but so far we have none. I think the main concern my boss and coworkers have is that they don't know how to implement this in our codebase, as parts of it are 40 years old plain C. Newer code is in C++ and Java though, but it's filled with global static calls. Many developers have also never worked anywhere else, so they lack the experience. So my main questions are, how do I convince my boss that it's worth a shot? Is it actually worth it, or should I try to make it work with the tests we already have? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Finally, given that I'm just a junior employee with limited experience, is it a good idea to start pushing for something like this? [link] [comments]  |
| Capital One TDP vs Goldman Sachs Engineering Posted: 09 Jan 2018 04:38 PM PST Hello, I am in between 2 offers right now. Capital One and GS. Which one is more reputable and has better chance of having a great career? The Salary is about the same and locations for both are great. Any opinions would be appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Being the only young person on an older, delivery focused team Posted: 09 Jan 2018 09:15 AM PST Currently working at a team where the next youngest person has a son who is younger than me by 1 year. Get the occasional entitled millennial joke and my interactions at work are pretty much my human interaction for the day due to not being familiar in the area. I feel like I am becoming increasingly lonely and wanting of a peer my age to help motivate and push me. Is this a bad mindset? Would it be better to pursue a younger company or would it be best to just suck it up and learn from the older, probably more experienced devs? Right now everyone is hyper delivery focused so its become difficult to get a good connection with someone and establish mentorship. Thoughts appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:52 PM PST I was laid off from my sales job (that I was starting to hate anyways) back in September. I was wanting to get back into development anyways, and during this time I've been unemployed retaught myself algorithms and started working on personal projects. I'm pretty frustrated because I have no technical network (didn't network at all in university), since I graduated so long ago new grad positions are out of my reach and my résumé is getting my no hits. I don't know what to do. I'm starting to think about going back to a coding bootcamp or even taking a position through Revature. I've heard "the problem is your résumé" when you can't get interviews on this subreddit so many times I want to vomit. I've redone my resume plenty of times, and even have had a technical hiring manager revise it. At this point I have no idea what to do. After nearly 4 months of self development and applying to jobs I'm losing hope. Any words of encouragement, people in my situation, or any help at all is really appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Resigning to go to possible competitor. Help! Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:39 PM PST I work for a large enterprise company and this is my first job out of college. I've been working here for X years. I got a job at a smaller company that's in the same industry. I plan on giving my two weeks on Friday. My last day is also the day my current company's 401k contributions vest. SO, I'm trying my best to finish my two weeks in order to cash out. I'm worried when I give my notice, my manager will ask me where I'm going. I plan on saying I'm taking some personal time, but I'm worried about the counter offers or begging me to stay longer. I literally cannot and will be firm. What I'm ultimately worried about is the legalities of the fact I've signed an offer letter. If he asks me, do I have to disclose that? What happens if they find out? Sometimes I check my personal email on my work machine, and some emails from my he job were in my inbox. Would they look for that information? Am I too paranoid? I only have a non poaching clause, no non compete clause that I can tell from my offer letter with my current company. Help! [link] [comments]  |
| Can any recent grads step me through what you do in a daily basis to find and apply for jobs? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 03:51 PM PST It would be great to see what some of you do and how to go about selecting ideal listings for a recent grad.
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| What was your first cs internship like? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:59 PM PST I am currently taking the second quarter of the two intro cs courses that my school has. I have the opportunity to start interning at a small software development company by my school. I really love to code and pick it up very easily, but I'm worried I don't know enough yet to start interning. I'm wondering how much you had to know for your first internship? what was the Job like? Should I jump on this opportunity now or wait until the end of the quarter? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 06:01 AM PST As of today, my GPA is 1.238. I got a C- in my first computer science class, D+ in Algebra, D- in Precalc and a D in Discrete Mathematics. 2017 was my worst year to date. I have never contemplated suicide so much before. Diagnosed with chronic depression. Took medication that had a bad come down and made me want to die even more. Lost my job and are now legitimately poor. It's been a really rough year and I don't want to have 2018 follow suit. I've found some really promising leads on the places I'd like to work during the summer... This is a new direction I've decided to take my career in and I still have loads to learn. I plan on using my time unemployed(while living off unemployment insurance for however long that last) wisely so I may focus on gaining and perfecting my skills. Give it to me straight. Should I continue to go hard on my job search or use my new free time to study? I plan to make this semester great despite my new situation but I fear for my GPA. Do you think I'll be capable of getting an internship for the summer or should I spend the year getting my shit together and try again next year? Tl;dr: I messed up. I'm messed up. Still wanna chug along to get an internship. My future is at stake. Please help make decision. [link] [comments]  |
| Game programmer but no offers, should I start elsewhere? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 12:40 PM PST I'm a senior in a CS / Games major, and my dream is to work in games. However, I'm not even getting called back for interviews, and I'm worried about graduating without any job. I am however getting offers from barely related fields such as IT, email software, QA, social media, etc. Should I start working in these other fields and try to hope to enter the game industry later? Should I keep applying and trying for anything game related? I'm not sure which is more relevant, managing social media of a game company, or working as IT of a healthcare company. I really do want to enter games eventually. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 08:08 PM PST Hi guys, What is the difference between working at YouTube vs G? My recruiter is considering me for one or the other, and I have to decide soon. Any experiences welcome. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 11:09 AM PST Been at my new job for a couple of months learning a new system but my 3 coworkers are all remote. I am literally the only one from my team in the office. This wasn't brought up during the interview process. This is my third programming job, feel like the learning process is so slow to learn the system. Longer than my last jobs. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:53 PM PST I have an onsite on their Canadian offices. I have found little to no info about it, except for a couple of comments in Glassdoor. Does anyone know more about the questions they ask? Is it a good company? [link] [comments]  |
| Should I be concerned learning UWP? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:51 PM PST I'm a mid-career SWE at a company working in a position for about a month now creating a universal windows platform app. The team is lean which allows me to make a decent impact and full of cool people, but I'm concerned about how much time/effort I need to put into learning UWP. I have more experience doing backend when it comes to mobile apps and have most experience as a full stack web dev in general. I've worked in both Java/Spring MVC and C#/ASP.NET MVC stacks (I prefer Java). Basically I'm conflicted with wanting to leave this team (even tho I've only been here a month) or choosing to stay for at least 6 months to a year to make some sort of impact. Will working as a UWP developer hurt my career outlook as a Java backend/full stack web dev? Any thoughts? TLDR - Current 1 month UWP dev doesn't know if he should stay 6 months to a year before attempting to leave for a Java backend/full stack web dev position. [link] [comments]  |
| How can i progress as much as possible as a junior developer this year Posted: 09 Jan 2018 01:46 PM PST I am a Junior Developer working in a remote team and i am here in seek of advice on how i can progress and move away from "Junior" as much as i can this year. I don't have a computer science degree, i learned as much as i could by myself then completed a coding boot camp so Im really starting from the bottom. I've been in my first junior developer position for 2 months and I know Im not expected to know everything immediately but i don't feel as if i'm doing enough. I get quite bad anxiety when tasks take a lot longer than they would take the seniors, which is all the time. My team are great and always quickly respond to my messaged when im stuck but i still feel as if im bothering them (as they are working on tasks also). I want to be one of these guys who knows exactly what he is doing when building something. So i guess what im asking is what steps can i take to quickly and effectively learn as much as possible this year to become extremely valuable to my team? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:40 PM PST So right now I am stuck between a choice of either taking a course in something that is potentially extremely relevant in software such as web scraping, information retrieval, among other topics. (I will list the topics covered at the bottom of this opening post!) Or taking this internship course that I will be doing after my internship. The primary reason I'd take this is so that my degree parchment has the "SIP" designation on it. Where "SIP" stands for "Science Internship Program". I have 16 months of work experience no matter what. I did the job. I am requesting my letters of recommendation and have had 4 different people I worked with during my internship agree they would provide me one. I was also hired during this time with a title similar to "Software engineer I", not "Student Intern" or "Intern" or anything else like that. How much does this SIP specification matter? Is this a make / break for my career? Is this course something that people would consider more valuable than these topics? -Boolean retrieval -Ranked retrieval -Index construction -Evaluating search effectiveness -Relevance feedback -Probabilistic IR and Retrieval with Language Models -Text clustering and classification -Web search You guys are the experts and I sure as heck cannot make this judgement call. I don't know if this designation is looked for by recruiters and / or HR when looking at potential new hires out of university or not. Also not sure how prevalent this is. But due to financial, course and time restraints I cannot take both of these courses within reasonable expectation. Thanks all in advance! Bless! [link] [comments]  |
| Any recommendations about more "math-oriented" programming jobs? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 07:04 PM PST I have an entry level software development job right now. I enjoy it enough, but I feel like my "true calling" is more closely related to math/statistics. It's what I always enjoyed in grade school and I thought computer science would have more math in it (when I was applying for college). Should I be looking into things like Hadoop, R, SAS? What advice is there for someone looking to transition from CRUD software development to something a little bit more analytical or math based? [link] [comments]  |
| Allstate Java Developer entry level full time position Posted: 09 Jan 2018 12:56 PM PST I did a phone interview (with a machine) like a long time ago. I think it was back in December, though I don't really remember the exact time and date. But I still haven't heard anything back from them. No email, no calls, nothing. Did anybody hear anything back from them yet? [link] [comments]  |
| Switching jobs, manager keeps hounding me over new employer. How should I respond? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 02:49 PM PST I'm quitting my first job out of college to switch to a competitor, and have recently given my two weeks notice to my manager. He got angry - which surprised me, since I thought we were on good terms - and he has been difficult to deal with during my notice period so far. When he asked me where I was going, I replied with "I just received an opportunity abroad, and I'd prefer to keep it a personal matter for now, if that's OK." That only escalated his behavior and he started to guess the name of my new employer (since our field is pretty niche), asking questions like "Well is it Company X?" "Is it Company Y?" and adding passive aggressive comments like "Well I sure hope it's not a direct competitor." I live in California, and I'm pretty sure non-competes aren't a thing here. I was pretty dumbfounded and wasn't really sure how to respond to the company-guessing-game other than "I'd rather keep that personal for now"..... I've never changed jobs before, so I'm not sure how what the proper etiquette is during the transition period. Is it standard to not reveal your new employer to your boss? I keep getting conflicting advice ranging from "You're being too secretive for no reason" to "You shouldn't reveal your new employer until the transition is finished". What should I do, and how should I respond to my boss, especially if I sense that there's a bit of resentment and vindictiveness? :-( [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 06:30 PM PST My personal goals Purchase a decent townhome (2 bedrooms or more) Not drive more than 30 minutes to work Still be able to save, unfortunately in the bay area none of those are possible in the current economy. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2018 06:15 PM PST This might be a weird question but am looking for any input I can get. I want to move into the CS field and am not sure what the best way is. I have a biology degree and nearly zero experience in the field. However, I did get accepted into a bioinformatics masters program but am thinking that getting a second bachelors in CS would be better. Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm at a loss. I'm only considering the masters degree because it would be shorter and cheaper than a second bachelors and I would qualify for financial aid. [link] [comments]  |
| Math+CS or straight CS Degree to accompany my Stats Degree? Posted: 09 Jan 2018 06:14 PM PST I'm in my second year of undergrad as a statistics major at uni right now, though after taking some CS classes I want to pursue a career in Computer Science, probably as a software engineer/developer. I want to double major in CS but I don't know if I should pursue a BS in Computer Science or a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, in addition to Statistics. Both options will take me the same amount of time in school to complete. How will this affect how employers see me. Is a straight CS degree seen as better than a Math+CS degree, or the other way around? Will they see me as unfocused or think I dont enough CS because I was also doing Stats and Math(if I go with Math+CS)? I've been trying to decide this for awhile and have decided that employ-ability is the biggest factor for me in choosing one over the other. Thank you for your help. Edit: To clarify, Math+CS is one major at my school with a similar amount of classes as the CS major, but replaces some of the CS technical electives with more math courses. The difference in the end would be one degree that says "Mathematics and Computer Science" vs a degree that just says "Computer Science". [link] [comments]  |
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