Big 4 Discussion - February 28, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Big 4 Discussion - February 28, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - February 28, 2018
- Just finished my first personal project - would any of you be willing to take a look and let me know if you think I am ready to start applying as a junior developer?
- If you’re “bored” at your internship, start being proactive
- Let's jazz up this Wednesday. Get to know a mod: SofaAssassin! Really AMA.
- What is a benchmark to see if you are proficient enough in a language or technology?
- How much python do I need to know to land an entry level job? Unrelated college degree and work history of retail and labor jobs?
- Fall Internships?
- How could I transition from engineering to project management?
- Those of you who have worked at gov contractors, how is your career now?
- is staying until midnight at a startup normal?
- Doing things outside of web development?
- Non CS graduate looking into CS career
- Have any of you moved from the Bay Area to Austin, Texas? Could you share your experience and answer some questions?
- Experience/thoughts on candidate referral platforms i.e. triplebyte, hidimensional.com, or others?
- Getting a night time CS degree while I work full time in implementation.
- Disclosing about my Mental health to upcoming company (but for a reason)?
- In light of a recent post, what constitutes a personal project?
- hiring bar in tech hub cities?
- Fall/Winter/Spring internships as a rising freshman?
- Absolute DREAM job offer is in my hands, but is the cut in pay worth it?
- To ditch the coding camp or not?
- First software developer job, is this normal?
- I want to work remote, please help me
- Double Major
- Getting an ETL - Trainee Job in a good company. Need Help to understand the Job Profile Better.
| Big 4 Discussion - February 28, 2018 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 11:07 PM PST Please use this thread to have discussions about the Big 4 and questions related to the Big 4, such as which one offers the best doggy benefits, or how many companies are in the Big 4 really? Posts focusing solely on Big 4 created outside of this thread will probably be removed. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Sunday and Wednesday at midnight PST. Previous Big 4 Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - February 28, 2018 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 11:08 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 Feb 2018 08:45 AM PST My site is www.noobhub.io and the repo is https://github.com/ollysmall/wikitowns. I have been slowly teaching myself python and django with the aim to start applying for junior roles this year. Do you think I have enough capabilities to start applying and do you think I should have more than one personal project under my belt before I do? For noobhub I am currently using django, bootstrap, Heroku, amazon S3 for media files, amazon api to upload book info and the youtube api to upload video info. I have mainly just built the site for portfolio work, but if you find it useful or have any good resources to recommend, then please do! [link] [comments]  |
| If you’re “bored” at your internship, start being proactive Posted: 28 Feb 2018 01:57 PM PST I'm kinda of sick of seeing posts of people complaining about having "nothing to do" and "browsing reddit all day" at their internship. Bullshit. If you're bored at work, it's because you are not going out of your way to find tasks to work on. It isn't like school were you're assigned labs. Just ask your coworkers and/or superiors if they need something done. And most likely, they'll give you something to do. And stop complaining about doing "small things". Small things matter. A single line of CSS or any type of code can determine whether something is working or not. Even changing/fixing those small things is valuable work. If your startup or company uses Trello or Evernote, use them to see if there are any task no one is currently doing that need to be done. And instead of browsing Reddit all day, study the code base, and debug/test the software out yourself to see if you can find any bugs your coworkers haven't encountered yet or noticed. Let your superiors know if you find something. It's that simple. No one is going to micromanage you; if you want to survive in this industry, you need to learn how to identify and find problems first before solving them. [link] [comments]  |
| Let's jazz up this Wednesday. Get to know a mod: SofaAssassin! Really AMA. Posted: 28 Feb 2018 09:35 AM PST It's been a while since we had a new addition to the mod AMA series, but it's a slow day for me, so it's time for some entertainment. About MeI was born in and grew up around Boston. I got a BS in CS from WPI. I've been in industry in 12 years and just started a role at Facebook as a senior software engineer. Previously, I've worked all around the industry: security, defense contracting, image processing, payment processing, and maybe a couple more. I've been a software developer, a manager, devops, platform and infra architect, and everything in between. I've spent much of my career working with Amazon Web Services, Java, C#, and C++. My favorite languages are Python, Rust (which I sometimes contribute to), Clojure, and C++. My most hated technologies are Solaris, Apache Struts, and any C++ compiler made before 2010. In my free time, I write code, cook, draw, travel, play video games, or just laze around watching reruns of Kitchen Nightmares and The Office. To get really personal, I am currently dating u/himekat, who I met through work years ago. She is mostly to blame for where my life and career has headed in the past 5 years. Wanna know my preferences for tabs vs. spaces (spaces, btw)? My favorite text editor? What my favorite cat breed is? My favorite hash algorithm? Or anything else you really want to pry into? Ask away! edit AMAs are a lot more time consuming than I thought! You guys are really interested in my humble opinion on things. I was expecting more stuff like "what's your porn preference?" or "would you rather fight 1 Steve Ballmer-sized duck or 100 duck-sized Steve Ballmers?", not actual serious questions. I will probably go to sleep at some point tonight, but I promise to answer any and all questions if you all keep asking them. Keep this question train rolling! [link] [comments]  |
| What is a benchmark to see if you are proficient enough in a language or technology? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 04:27 PM PST In your opinion what sort of knowledge would you need to know before it can be placed on a resume? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2018 08:28 AM PST Hello, TLDR: BS degree in Business. Retail and labor jobs as work history. Learned all the basics of python and some advanced, how much farther do I need to go to get an entry level job. Current company doesn't seem interested. So I work for a very large company in the US that has lots of programming jobs. I currently work in a lower level position doing manual labor for this company. I don't want to go into more detail because this is supposed to be a throw away account for me and you'd be able to guess this company pretty easily if I go into more detail. Anyway, I've spent a few years on-off trying to learn python, spending more time this last year working more on it. Reddit has been giving me advice to learn coding to try to break free from being stuck in lower payed jobs. I looked strongly at programming boot camps and decided I would rather go the "learn it yourself" path. I actually find programming fun and have dabbled with various languages over the years before the whole "everyone should code" thing came about. I recently started posting small projects on github. Most of my projects have been fun things related to raspberry Pi and sharing code with the community anonymously on various projects and are not on my githu. I started just posting stupid but fun projects on my github to try to build up a portfolio to show my programming ability. I've gotten as far in python that most courses that list a long list of basics, I know how to do all of that. Some of the advanced stuff, I still need to learn. Almost all my projects I have to google how do things and write things properly as I can't do it from memory 100% yet. I can sit down and punch out functional code with in a few hours depending on how complex it is, for example making things work with a raspberry pi. I can make small text based games pretty quickly. I recently starting learning django framework and setting up a server. I'm assuming know all the basics of python isn't enough for an entry level job, how far into the advanced realm do I need to go before I'm ready. I not sure if a checklist exists. I tried some code challenges that you might do in a mock interview and completely sucked at them. I know I need to work on my python skills related to that. I've got an unrelated BS degree in Business that I graduated with during the last recession. I haven't been able to move beyond working retail and manual labor jobs since graduating college, which has been a while now. I'm pretty sure this will effect my chances at landing an entry level programming job. I'm also in my early 30's now, I know its a young mans game. I tried applying to some IT positions at my current company that involve working with servers and they preferred that you were familiar with python with the basic requirements for the job being a HS degree, computer experience, etc. I included that I was familiar with python on my resume and was rejected very quickly. I currently work in a manual labor position with this company but they've been very active in recommending we apply to higher level positions internally. My company has a large amount of Software engineer positions that pay very well, but the basic requirements they list are a CS degree and or 4 years equivalent experience and 4 years of programming experience. I didn't really see any entry level positions, or web developer positions, at least in the US. They do have internships listed but they require you to be a current CS student at a university. I am getting the feeling I won't ever be qualified enough for these positions being a self learner and also having an unrelated college degree. I've tried contacting the recruiting department about getting more information about their requirements for programmers and about entry level positions but its been months without a reply from them. Looking at other companies that might be offering entry level python positions, I'm wondering if I stand a chance and how much better my python skills need to be. Even if I am to old or unable to get into a programming job, I'll still keep programming as I find it fun and I love messing with the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and building/soldering/designing circuits and making things. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2018 03:43 PM PST Hi, Im trying to find an internship fall 2018 and am aiming to take a semester off for it since it doesnt affect my graduation date. Does anyone know when/where do apply? Many companies dont seem to offer fall internships. In addition, im worried that I might apply for internships and it could mess up my chances for summer 2019 internships if i get rejected and have to wait a year to reapply. Lastly, I already have an internship at a decent company summer 2018, any advice on how to work this into my resume when applying for fall internships since I assume it will help my chances? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| How could I transition from engineering to project management? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 03:04 PM PST tl;dr PM got fired and I think I want her job wat do? Recently I've been more interested in orchestrating projects than writing code. I've been complaining at home about my PM not making my life easier or solving (non-technical) problems for me for a while, and basically wishing I could do her job for her. Today I learned someone at work must share my position, because she's being let go. I'm considering pitching the idea to management that instead of hiring someone new, I start transitioning into the role and and we see if it's a good fit as we go. I'm a certified Scrum Master, but other than that I have no formal experience or training at all to do with professional project management. I just have the experience of being part of engineering teams and a personal strength for logistics and technical communication. What can I do in the short term (like, within a week) to understand the full requirements of this role, identify the skills I need to bring to the forefront and how to pitch my case to management? As far as I can tell the job of a PM is just to be constantly aware of the current state of the project, team members and executive desires, and enable the team members to do their job however possible, be that being constantly online to answer questions about what management is looking for or what someone else is working on, or to at least know how to find the answer. Sound about right? [link] [comments]  |
| Those of you who have worked at gov contractors, how is your career now? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST I've currently been working my first job at an aerospace gov. contractor (LM) for a couple months and have this lingering anxiety that if I stay here for longer than a year, it would be difficult for me to transition to the private sector. This feeling stems from the slow culture here and how everyone is too lenient/relaxed about everything (but that may be because I'm an uncleared junior developer.) Also, is obtaining a TS/SCI w/ poly even worth it for my career if that means staying until I'm cleared? Was it difficult for you to transition into the private sector, (or) how is your career as you continued to work in the defense industry? Will having LM hold any weight on my resume moving forward? I have this thought that other companies will look at LM and immediately dismiss me. [link] [comments]  |
| is staying until midnight at a startup normal? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 01:35 PM PST We're a team of 10 people (6 engineers 2 executives, 2 other) with a successful iOS app. Maybe once or twice a month we have to stay late (until midnight) to fix last minute bugs and get a release candidate built and shipped to apple. What always ends up happening is the execs push for hard deadlines and we work late to make sure we reach them. We don't like doing this very much because we always feel rushed, are worried we're creating last minute bugs that we'll have to deal with later, and it's also sometimes stressful powering through "release" days like this. When we bring it up with the execs they say this is pretty normal for a startup and that it's to be expected and that sometimes they work late/hard too. I was wondering if you guys think this is normal and that we (the engineers) are the ones being unreasonable about not wanting to operate like this, or if you think it's fair for us to try and push back and demand a stricter adherence to office hour release schedules regardless of deadlines. [link] [comments]  |
| Doing things outside of web development? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 06:11 PM PST I'm currently a junior in college interning at a start up doing primarily web development. I want to get some more practice doing some work outside of web development, but I feel like with everything being so concentrated on the web all of my personal project ideas are being concentrated on the web. What can I do to not get pigeon holed into solely web development? I feel like a lot of the other "hot" tech industries (AR/VR, ML, AI, computer vision, etc) require a PhD and there's a big gap between what can be practiced as a jr developer/student and an industry professional. Could anyone offer any suggestions/smack some sense into me? [link] [comments]  |
| Non CS graduate looking into CS career Posted: 28 Feb 2018 04:23 PM PST Hello everyone, I recently got a bachelor's degree in business administration but I realized lately that I would like to get into a tech field. I have been looking into software development, computer systems analyst, and computer hardware engineer. My question to you all is, as a husband and man hoping to support his family soon, what do you all think would be the fastest and cheapest route into this field? I have looked at Oregon State's post-bacc CS degree but it would take at the very least a year and $28,000. And a year would only work if I wasn't working at all either. Would a coding boot camp be a better idea? I took a Java course in college so I know some Java but I'd really have to have a refresher. Also, I was wondering what the best languages/direction would be to learn as far as Java/C## or SQL or Android development or what. I've been feeling so lost and wondering what to do so I'm reaching out to the fine people of the interwebs to give me some advice. Hopefully from people who know what they're talking about. Lol. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:20 PM PST Hi everyone! Background: I'm an 18 year old really interested in computer science. I'm going to start college next fall and have been living in the Bay Area for most of my life. I really love the weather and atmosphere, but it's no secret that the cost of living has skyrocketed over the past few decades. Given that I want to own my own house, I started looking for cities with lower costs of living. I want to be able to buy a modern single family house that was built after 2000. I'm guessing this won't be possible for the foreseeable future in the Bay Area as an entry level software engineer or data analyst. Austin, Texas looks extremely attractive to me because of the housing market and the booming tech industry. I can actually afford to buy a new house there from what I'm seeing from the median income and median house prices near the major tech companies in Austin. Questions:
I really want to plan this out and I appreciate your help! Thanks so much for reading this and helping me out. [link] [comments]  |
| Experience/thoughts on candidate referral platforms i.e. triplebyte, hidimensional.com, or others? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 03:21 PM PST I've used both and found triplebyte's questions to be too focused on computer systems and design. The programming questions were reasonable but I did not gain any job leads from them. I just tried hidimensional.com which starts you off with an interview with senior engineer and co-founder Pradeep Muthukrishnan who then offers individualized advice and suggests mock interviews with very senior technical people at tech companies. Please share your thoughts on how to make the most of these platforms/services and any experience you've had with them. [link] [comments]  |
| Getting a night time CS degree while I work full time in implementation. Posted: 28 Feb 2018 03:56 PM PST Hi everyone, I have a BA in Business Administration and have recently accepted a role as a business analyst for a software firm (40 employees). I am coming off of 2.5 years experience as a business analyst for a software start up. I have done one full project in Python and have taken some SQL courses. I want to get more technical and know how to code. I am considering taking night time courses to get my CS degree while I work but wanted to consider alternatives (there is a large state University near by). Is something like a certification in JavaScript acceptable for someone with my experience level? The goal is to be able to cut it as a full time coder, with goals to be a project manager. I feel as though I need to really understand coding and have some work experience there before getting into full on project management. Please let me know your thoughts! ──────── Tl;Dr : Does getting a night time CS degree make sense for someone with my experience as a business analyst? [link] [comments]  |
| Disclosing about my Mental health to upcoming company (but for a reason)? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 06:34 AM PST I have seen this post somewhere here before, but want to re-ask as my situation is a bit different: For my upcoming internship, I'm given free housing at the location I'm working at. However, I will have to stay in with someone and because of my anxiety, it will be a stressful thing for me. To be eligible to stay in a single room, I would have to provide some form of Medical documentation. Sadly, I have read that this is a bad move (disclosing your mental health), as companies can terminate your employment at anytime, for any reason. However, the one I'm working at has amazing culture, and I'm trying my best to sound as humble as possible, but it is a rather large and well-known company, which makes me wonder if they would be more "open-minded" about these kind of stuffs? (mental health, LGBT, yada yada..) Of course, if this is a bad idea, I could ask some to give me a stipend instead so that I could rent out a place by myself. (I'm not sure if 5500$ for 3 months is enough for the Bay area coz I've never been there myself.) Thank you for any suggestions. [link] [comments]  |
| In light of a recent post, what constitutes a personal project? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 05:46 PM PST On mobile and don't know how to link it, but I believe the URL was www.noobhub.io What level of involvement takes something from some code I wrote, to the personal project that needs to be on my resume? I have 2 or 3 projects I'm proud of because I enjoyed working on them, and they were useful to me for various reasons. I spent a good amount of time on each, but not like a year or anything like that. I have them on my resume, but should I? Is the post I'm referring to a personal project that would be above and beyond? I suppose showing that you do something on your own is better than nothing in the long run, but what's the strong level of involvement employers look for? [link] [comments]  |
| hiring bar in tech hub cities? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 10:26 AM PST Hi I'm about to graduate soon. I wasn't able to get many interviews, and the ones I did get I didn't manage to secure any offers (made it to onsites for a few, failed coding challenges for some, ghosted by many) in the season (September - December). I'm interested in the start up space so I applied mainly to emerging unicorns and unicorns (also because I thought their interviewers would be easier because they are smaller than the big 4, I was wrong) That being said. It showed a lot to me: 1) I'm not really cut out for the algorithm style interviews. I'm an introverted, deep thinker. I can't come up with this shit on the spot. Some interviewers are good and I can make headway on the problem with their hints. Others are completely silent or just say "ok" to everything. 2) Are all interviews in these areas/companies like this? I was surprised that some of these unheard of companies ask DP problems. I found it strange that an emerging unicorn wouldn't be worried about skill set instead? For now my current plan is to expand my search outside of tech hub cities. Maybe I'll work on the algorithm stuff and apply again when I get some more confidence from my first job. Just wanted to hear some others perspectives on this. [link] [comments]  |
| Fall/Winter/Spring internships as a rising freshman? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 08:01 PM PST Is it possible to apply for any Fall/Winter/Spring internships as a rising freshman? [link] [comments]  |
| Absolute DREAM job offer is in my hands, but is the cut in pay worth it? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:51 PM PST I have a childhood dream opportunity to move overseas to work as a senior developer at a legendary VFX company. Working at this company has been a dream of mine for 20 years and I'm absolutely blown away that I have passed all the interviews and have an offer. The job itself would be incredible for me. I've been a filmmaker and a post production guy through my whole software dev career. The movies and shows I would have credits on are my damn passions in life. Compared to my current job, which I like but don't love, and which has me on my 15th consecutive month of insane crunch and 24x7 on-call, it's no contest. The offer is surprisingly generous for the VFX industry. I am so honored ... but according to Numbeo.com, our relative purchasing power at the rate they're offering is going to be a significant step down. My wife and I are going to have to contribute to our retirement a LOT less aggressively and really tighten our belts. This is worrisome. It's easy to say that job satisfaction is the primary concern, but I spent years making a fraction of my market value at work I loved. I have to admit that for me, getting paid a lot of money to do what I like is way better than getting a little money to do what I love. In fact, if it wasn't for this never ending goddamn crunch I never would've gone looking. Add to that the fact that I have vested ownership in my current company and there will be no such ability at this new company, and this becomes an even more depressing decision. I can't find any articles that vet websites like Numbeo.com. Maybe it's not entirely accurate? Maybe the situation is better, or worse, than what Numbeo paints? Are there any other sites that you recommend where I can get some second opinions about cost of living vs tax vs exchange, etc? [link] [comments]  |
| To ditch the coding camp or not? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 04:02 PM PST Can I still get a job if I self teach myself. We finished our python stack and find it to be monotonous, slow, and un-enriched. There are a lot of add on's I would like to learn. Id like to save my money on the second half of the coding camp (java stack) and self learn it online. [link] [comments]  |
| First software developer job, is this normal? Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:34 PM PST I am currently a senior majoring in CS expected to graduate this Summer. I had an interview with a local startup and they hired me as a part time Software Developer. I am getting paid 10 dollars an hour (I know...But I needed something on my resume). The thing is they are not very good at communicating and keep delaying the start date. I was suppose to start earlier this month but now they changed it to mid March. I am not very good at programming and even though the pay sucks I thought it would be a good way to get hands on experience. I don't know what to do,any advice? Thank you.. [link] [comments]  |
| I want to work remote, please help me Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:21 PM PST Throwaway account for anonymity I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science, I have just under 2 years experience with 2 internships, 2 junior developer positions. I'm a junior developer at a small non-tech company for a few months now. This is my first position after getting my degree. Over 1.5 years previous experience, I've worked a mix of full-time, part-time, at the company office, and remotely all at the same company. During my time at my current position, I found out very quickly that I do not like the 8-5 commute lifestyle, and I want to work remotely very bad. I have good days, but mostly bad. Today was especially bad, because I managed to barely get any work done within my 8 hours of work time. The lifestyle of being in an office is draining me mentally. I think back to my time working remotely, and I know that working remotely will 100% without a doubt be a better lifestyle choice for me, and allow me to be in my zone and be able to focus and get work done. I've been told to give it time and I'll get adjusted, but I don't believe I'm in that category of people who will get adjusted to working in an office. I've tried to do a number of different things to help my mentality (working out 3 days a week instead of 5 for extra sleep, get to work and leave work 30 minutes earlier to reduce commute time, try to appreciate everything around me and realize how lucky I am to at least have a job) but none of it is helping. The way I see it, I have two options: 1. Request to work remotely with my current employer 2. Find a new position that is already remote Option 2 might come with side bonuses: - Better pay. I currently make 50-60k range (I don't want to provide specifics for anonymity). - Explore different sub-fields within Computer Science, such as DevOps, Data Science, or SRE, etc. - Work for a tech company. I want to have colleagues that are actually in the tech industry, because this way I can learn from numerous people instead of just one single mentor (as its always been for me). If I go with option 2, I would justify my reason for leaving my company after such a short period because it wasn't a good culture fit. Obviously, I am leaning towards option 2, even though I am junior level, I would need to find a junior remote position most likely. Does anyone have advice for me on: 1. Which option do you think I should go for? 2. Which websites/companies you recommend for remote positions (Weworkremotely seems to suck, stackoverflow seems a bit better, those are only two sites I've started to check out) 3. Anything else you may think your advice can help Thank you for reading this and any advice, I may not get the chance to respond to everyone who may respond but I am reading all comments and appreciate you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:20 PM PST Rapidly approaching major decision time as a sophomore college student. Cannot decide between Management Information Systems or a double major in Management & Computer Science. I do not want to be an 8-5 programmer but would not mind doing it here and there. Which should I do and can you give me some insight? All tips are appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Getting an ETL - Trainee Job in a good company. Need Help to understand the Job Profile Better. Posted: 28 Feb 2018 07:18 PM PST I am a fresher and have only done a 4-month Internship as a Software Developer in Web Applications which I really enjoyed. A few Days back I applied for an ETL Trainee Job since I am Job Hunting mostly because some of my skills matched and the company was a fortune 500 company. The Interview turned out to be very positive but I have been told by the HR that maybe I would find the Job a bit boring and mundane to my liking as it doesn't involve any sort of development. I am a bit confused, could anyone working in ETL tell me what you guys work on a day to day basis. Any advice would be immensely helpful. [link] [comments]  |
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