Resume Advice Thread - February 27, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - February 27, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - February 27, 2018
- How much did working at a top company help you?
- Small PSA: There are companies that don't have broken hiring processes
- Do you guys learn outside of work?
- Are there any places that don't ask a bunch of trivia questions?
- Company wants two references before sending offer, I don't want to use my current manager and other previous managers are from internships years ago?
- If I have 8 years of experience, can I still apply as a junior to companies?
- Are .NET salaries so much less than Java's?
- Software Engineering at Tesla?
- Is being a SDET or QA Engineer as respectable as being a regular SWE? Is that even a stupid question to ask?
- To non-Americans who moved to the USA for work, and moved back to their home countries, why?
- Why this company?
- Drawbacks of taking time off to work on my startup?
- Is 20 hour a week jobs a thing?
- Confused about stress tests
- Does it matter if projects are either irrelevant or needs more work?
- How much input do developers typically have on direction of a company?
- High risk, high reward languages
- Should I not go for a software developer job?
- Summer Take courses vs study leetcode and work on personal project?
- Need Advice on Workplace Situation
- GC sponsorship at the big tech companies
- Have a one on one with someone in my dream job
- What goals should I set for myself as I learn to code?
- So... Did I get rejected or...?
- How much should I be prepping for my internship?
| Resume Advice Thread - February 27, 2018 Posted: 26 Feb 2018 11:07 PM PST Please use this thread to ask for resume advice and critiques. You should read our Resume FAQ and implement any changes from that before you ask for more advice. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. Note on anonomyizing your resume: If you'd like your resume to remain anonymous, make sure you blank out or change all personally identifying information. Also be careful of using your own Google Docs account or DropBox account which can lead back to your personally identifying information. To make absolutely sure you're anonymous, we suggest posting on sites/accounts with no ties to you after thoroughly checking the contents of your resume. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - February 27, 2018 Posted: 26 Feb 2018 11:07 PM PST Please use this thread to chat, have casual discussions, and ask casual questions. Moderation will be light, but don't be a jerk. This thread is posted every day at midnight PST. Previous Daily Chat Threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| How much did working at a top company help you? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 11:08 AM PST For previous Big N and top unicorn interns. Which company did you intern at and which companies did you not get an interview from this year? Which companies were you able to get interviews from this year? And are you applying to new grad positions this year? I'm curious to see how much having brand name on your resume improves your chances of landing an interview. [link] [comments]  |
| Small PSA: There are companies that don't have broken hiring processes Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:28 PM PST I'm sure many of you are aware of this list but I still wanted to share it: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards I think it could be useful for some people that are just tired of whiteboard and trivia. [link] [comments]  |
| Do you guys learn outside of work? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 05:43 PM PST I love learning. Udemy, YouTube, some new framework, I'll study the hell out of it. Now that I have a job, I feel like I skim learn things to code a ticket, then when I get home I take a nyquil and go to bed. Rinse and repeat. I have little desire to continue my learning until the weekend. When I study on the weekend, I have a bit of personal guilt as I feel I should have 2 days to relax.. But being new, I feel there is a lot to learn. What do you do? [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any places that don't ask a bunch of trivia questions? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 10:39 AM PST I just went through the most terrible experience in my life thus far :/ The interviewer invited me onsite, pulled up "ProveIt.com" and sat there and watched me take a test with 45 obscure trivia questions on Java, Spring, and SQL (most of which were poorly worded and asking incorrect things at that) for 1 hour... Luckily, I scored a 74%, he nodded then said, "Cool, we can now do the behavioral interview." Ugh. The company's name is Syniverse btw. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2018 05:41 PM PST As the question states, I don't want to use my current manager because I don't want my company knowing I'm looking until I have an offer on the table. Also they said the refrences must be managers or directors This is my first full time job since graduation and my other managers are from internships 2+years ago so I'm not exactly sure what to do here. Anybody run into this problem before? [link] [comments]  |
| If I have 8 years of experience, can I still apply as a junior to companies? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 12:42 PM PST I will be finishing my 8th year of working as a software developer in March. But I realize my competencies aren't where people expect someone with 8 years would be due to a couple of reasons:
I find myself unable to compete with those with 3-4 years of "real" experience, let alone people with 8 years. I get plenty of callbacks and interviews due to the 8 years, but do not really perform at that level it seems. I would like to start over from scratch and be a junior, working up a career the proper way. In total, I would sum my 8 years of experience to a total of 6 months to 1 year of "real" experience. I don't want to spoil applying for the Big 4, but would those types of companies facilitate that for me? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Are .NET salaries so much less than Java's? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 05:07 AM PST Or are these people just lowballing? I've gotten 2 "offers" for two .NET roles at 2 different mid-sized companies for "mid-senior developer", one for $55-60k and the other for $72k. I'm a Java developer and earn $95k. After I tell them that information the first didn't even believe me until I showed him my offer letter and the second bumped the $72k to $85k and said that's the best he can do. The first just said "We're already at the max. Take it or leave it" I have about 6 years of experience and these jobs is in Mt. Pleasant, SC area. [link] [comments]  |
| Software Engineering at Tesla? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 11:57 AM PST Im over halfway thru the application process for teslas office in Fremont. Ive heard mixed reviews of the location, base pay, hours etc etc. I dont mind working longer hours or being productive or learning (crazy ik) What i worry about is their teams and how they work together. It seems like there is always a miscommunication of requirements and that upper management has insanely poor leadership. Does work even get done? What are you working on for long hours if theres so much confusion in the office? Can anyone here speak to your experience? Best, Confused human [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST I don't if I made the mistake of getting into SDET 2 years ago because some of my peers think "SDET and QA's for the people who can't code" and while that is 100% false, I don't know what preconceived notions people and recruiters have about this line of work. Also am noticing that it's hard to get back onto the regular SWE path after doing testing for 2 years (I have 3.5 years exp total). [link] [comments]  |
| To non-Americans who moved to the USA for work, and moved back to their home countries, why? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 10:00 AM PST I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts and experiences on working in tech in the USA from an outsider's perspective. I already know countless reasons why someone would want to stay in the US if they come from another country (opportunities, salary, interesting work, etc). So I'm interested in hearing the "other side" of the coin. What made you go back home? Was it pure homesickness? Was it the industry culture? Or may be something else? EDIT: I'm looking for experiences on those left voluntarily, not because their visa expired and were forced to leave the USA. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2018 09:50 AM PST So I'm terrible at "Why this company" questions. Have a phone interview coming up this week for a 3rd party financial merchant, and this is what I intend to say - "I'm impressed with the services that xyz provides - more so after moving to the US, cause back in my country bank transfers were a little different, and I realized you have to incur a considerable amount of surcharge on money transfers in the US. So I think this is a real world problem that I have faced, and xyz has given solutions for this through their Transfer money and Mobile Wallet Services. I want to be a part of this growth area in the industry and I want to be able to contribute my skills to solve real world problems like that." Verdict? Good? Bad? terrible? Too long? Too cheesy? [link] [comments]  |
| Drawbacks of taking time off to work on my startup? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 04:22 PM PST I've been at my first full time developer job out of college for about 7 months. In my free time I've been working on a personal side project that has gained some serious traction. I'm considering waiting til my lease is up in 4 months to quit and then spend a couple months to see if I can get my project generating a liveable income. I want to know what draw backs this might have career wise if my project doesn't work out and I'm forced to find another job? About me:
Currently I'm working as an iOS developer for an Indian based staffing agency, deployed as an onsite contractor at a large American corporation I'm basically the only American citizen out of my fellow contractors who are all from India on H1B visa. I'm still confused how I ended up in this position but I was desperate for a job and it paid more than I expected. Also strange is that my official job title is "Senior Software Engineer" despite being a new grad. Running my own business is what I want long-term and I'm over 50% confident I could start generating a liveable income within 6 months of full time work. I also have enough savings to last me close to a year if I'm frugal. Even if it fails I should have an incredible portfolio piece. I'm still a little cautious because I don't have a cs degree and it took like 4 months to find a position last time. Also I'm pretty limited geographically in the jobs I'd be willing to take. I've looked for part time development work but that seems very hard to get. [link] [comments]  |
| Is 20 hour a week jobs a thing? Posted: 26 Feb 2018 11:36 PM PST I'm at the beginning of my journey with web development. I know HTML/CSS and am learning the MEAN stack (and a little python for fun), have the basics down and have a couple projects done. While the 80k+ a year job goal is extremely temping and something I am definitely considering going for, I would also really consider 20 hour weeks for 40k a year if it were available. Ideally I would do that and then a couple other jobs I enjoy for supplemental income (fitness trainer and tutoring). I talked to a friend of mine who is in the industry who valued more balance and was working 35hr weeks for a slight paycut. I was just wondering if 20hr work weeks is even a thing or is this just wishful thinking? If so what are some of the job titles that might have that? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2018 05:39 PM PST Some companies I go to, it just seems like they're trying to antagonize me during the interview. Like, it's not time pressure, they'll belittle me or be passive-aggressive to the point of being rude. How do I tell the difference between a stress test and a shitty work environment? Or is there no difference? What am I supposed to do during stress tests? [link] [comments]  |
| Does it matter if projects are either irrelevant or needs more work? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:05 AM PST I am graduating from college soon, I am going to out more recent projects on my resume and show them to employers. The projects I am proud of, are generally spread out, as in I don't think I can make a list of projects in my projects section of my resume that will be relevant, but I can for a general resume. So I was thinking I would just leave those projects up on my general resume. But I would prefer to jobs programming in Java, since that was my first language. But the courses using Java were basic and I used different ones as I went through my education and the projects on my resume are in C mostly, as they are far more complex then any Java assignment. The other question is I am putting up my projects on git hub. Many projects I don't plan to show off are there and are kinda misc. I don't care if an employer sees these but could it lower my chance for an interview? One more question now that I think of it. One of the projects I put om my resume, it's not perfect, as in I definitely didn't get a perfect grade. So it could technically still break if they ever run it, should I be worried about that? I just don't understand how because my code was ran with scripts but when I tested it on my own it worked fine... What if my code has some messy things inside, that could be cleaned up? Would they look at my code and be like "wow this code looks like spaghetti code, not gonna hire him" or "this code is confusing how did he run this?" do they actually go in depth? I'd rather use these examples of things I learned and what I can do vs things that I possibly didn't finish or is messy because they were hard to follow. For example, one of these projects required me to implement a shell that takes in signals and run executables in C, but I'm not mentioning what I didn't finish or had a hard time implementing, I'm listing what I did learn and was able to be implement, or at least implement and not be too messy with it. As long as I don't talk about the parts that actually work should I be concerned? One of these I plan to replace at the end of the semester because I have a graduation project I need to do that's taking the entire semester so I plan to swap one with one of these anyways so fixing my code isn't a major priority right now. [link] [comments]  |
| How much input do developers typically have on direction of a company? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 11:55 AM PST At my last job I felt I had some input on the direction the company would take. The CEO would often meet with the developers and explain what he thought needed to be done. Of course, it's his call on what direction we go, and as developers we wouldn't try to change that direction, but we would explain the technical trade-offs that would have to be made. We might say, for example, "we could do that, but if we change this one thing, it will half the amount of work we have to do" and sometimes the CEO would take our suggestions, or other times he might say "no, that one thing is really important and we need it". So be it, if the CEO understands the trade-offs, then it's our job as developers to implement what he wants. At my current job the CEO wont engage in any conversations, he just throws out arbitrary tasks and that's that. When concerns are raised to team leads or other middle managers they often say things like, "I agree those are legitimate concerns, but this is what the CEO wants". Middle management seems to be afraid of the CEO. Has anyone else experienced this difference in culture? Which do you think is more common? [link] [comments]  |
| High risk, high reward languages Posted: 27 Feb 2018 09:42 AM PST Im reading The passionate programmer by Chad Fowler. Chapter two talks about learning safe technologies that pay low and not so safe technologies that may or may not be high paying on the future. My main language at work is javascript, i'm also learning python, but those seem to be very safe languages. What are some bleeding edge tech/languages you would recommend to invest some time? [link] [comments]  |
| Should I not go for a software developer job? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:47 PM PST I'm only willing to work 5-6 hours, or 3-4 days out of the week. [link] [comments]  |
| Summer Take courses vs study leetcode and work on personal project? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:32 PM PST Hey guys, I'm a sophomore going into my junior year. What do you suggest I do for this upcoming summer? 1) Take summer courses to ease up my upcoming Fall/Spring semester (If I take summer courses I'll have more time in the Fall to focus on interviewing practice). I'll prob do a few leetcode practices here and there. 2) Not take summer courses and pour all my energy into practicing with leetcode, work on a personal project in preparation for Fall recruiting. Also this take the time to just relax and enjoy the break. [link] [comments]  |
| Need Advice on Workplace Situation Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:21 PM PST Greetings, I'm in a bit of a corner with my current job with very few people to turn to for help so I figured I'd make a throwaway account and ask for some advice here. Here it goes: So basically I graduated from college last semester and accepted a full time position at the place I've interned at for the past two years. I would say about 4-5 months of that internship consisted of "bottom of the barrel" stuff that nobody else wanted to do, but the rest of the internship was spent doing professional-level work. By that I mean I was expected to be producing code at the same quality and pace as a full-time employee. The vast majority of the internship was a positive experience. I gained a lot of experience, made a decent salary, and generally enjoyed most of the varied work I was doing. However, this past Fall things started to go downhill. Basically, the company is rapidly expanding and picking up more customers and every department aside from IT is growing. What this means is that an overwhelming amount of work is being piled up on my plate with unrealistic, decided on the fly, deadlines. This has started to negatively impact me by inducing loads of stress and a constant loathing of having to go into work. Basically, this is the kind of environment I deal with:
I want to leave as these past few months have been leaving me increasingly miserable and fed up with work. But being a recent college grad, my concern is that leaving this early despite having interned here for two years will leave a bad taste on my resume. And on top of that, I plan on moving within 2-3 years which translates to another shortish stay if I were to switch companies. Am I being unrealistic with my expectations or should I start looking elsewhere? [link] [comments]  |
| GC sponsorship at the big tech companies Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:17 PM PST Ideally, this question belongs to the Big 4 thread, but the previous one is already dead and the next one hasn't yet started. My question is about the GC sponsorship for the employees under eb1(b) category by the big-n companies. Do they all have some restriction on the number of years you need to work before they start the process? [link] [comments]  |
| Have a one on one with someone in my dream job Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:12 PM PST Hello I'm a cs student and I've managed through connections to get to talk to someone that works in my dream company to work for. Now that the date of the talk is coming closer and closer I'm worried that I won't make the right impression. Of course I'll have my resume, however I also want to know if asking people to be my mentor is too much. If it is how can I make sure to keep contact? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| What goals should I set for myself as I learn to code? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 10:24 AM PST I've been teaching myself to code here and there over the past few years and I want to take it more seriously. I'm familiar with HTML, CSS, and I'm currently learning JavaScript through CodeAcademy. I'm not too sure what I want to end up doing, but I know that I love coding, I think about it all the time, and solving problems with code is a frustrating challenge I enjoy working through. At the moment, I'm thinking of becoming a C# developer because it seems to be a useful and versatile code, but given my lack of experience in the CS field I think it would be best to gain more experience on the way to becoming a C# developer. My question is this. What things should I learn to do to make my way into the programming industry? One of my friends who is a senior level programmer said I should aim to become a junior level developer first. How do I get there? Which languages should I focus on and aside from building websites, what should I learn to do? I know that this will take time and hard work. I'm in for that. I'm trying to set goal posts for myself to keep me on track and to help me feel like I'm moving forward. [link] [comments]  |
| So... Did I get rejected or...? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:07 PM PST |
| How much should I be prepping for my internship? Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:05 PM PST Also should I reach out to my manager to ask what I should be familiar with before hand? [link] [comments]  |
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