Resume Advice Thread - March 10, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - March 10, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - March 10, 2018
- PSA: TAKE A BREAK FROM CODING AND GO OUTSIDE FOR SUNSHINE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE
- I spend more time debugging environment issues than anything, is this normal?
- how did you make friends after moving cities for a job?
- Is anyone familiar with TIAA?
- Slightly stretching the truth about my GPA?
- People with CS degrees, what do you do at your job on a day to day basis?
- I will soon be graduating with a CS degree with a focus on Java software development and am wondering what are some of the more lucrative fields that require knowledge of Java software development and what additional skills/languages are required to enter these fields.
- Tech executives, what do you do differently?
- Anyone else grinding/studying while working at a unicorn?
- What kind of CS jobs hire electrical engineering majors?
- Remote internship vs. main office vs. germany?
- How have you experienced "bro-culture" in one of your previous jobs?
- I signed up to be a software engineer but all I do is data anaylsis
- How to navigate my career in a loosely-defined position without much mentorship?
- Visual FoxPro in an EDI Specialist position
- Looking into transferring schools again.
- Offer but they're really quiet and slow to respond
- What jobs are you looking for?
- What realistic options do I have after graduating?
- Wondering how to move up
- Best time to look for Airbnb/sublet listings for internships?
- How long to feel out a new job to see if it's for me?
- Recruiter asked for transcript, do I have to give updated?
- Am I the problem?
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| PSA: TAKE A BREAK FROM CODING AND GO OUTSIDE FOR SUNSHINE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:14 AM PST Hi, as a iOS dev that now has autoimmune disease, I want to let you guys know that you NEED to make sure your vitamin D levels aren't low. You need to take breaks from coding to go outside every once in a while to get some sunlight on your skin, or better yet, code outside if your work permits it. You need to take multivitamins. You need to drink your milk. All to make sure you don't have vitamin D deficiency. Smarter people than me have done many studies that correlate vitamin D deficiency with autoimmune disease. Indeed, vitamin D plays an important role in regulating your immune system (specifically, the regulator T cells that affect immunotolerance) and having low levels of it can put you at higher risk for autoimmune disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23238772 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0482-50042010000100007&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/10686624/Vitamin-D-could-it-stop-modern-diseases.html As a software dev, it's very easy to fall into routine where you don't go outside much. You're stuck in a building 8 hours a day. Often times, there's not much natural sunlight that comes in and hits your desk. You work all day, by the time you're done and have free time, it's already night time. Maybe your diet doesn't include a lot of vitamin D in it. Maybe you don't go out much on the weekends except to drink at bars. When I transitioned from my old life as a college student and settled into my new life as a software engineer, this became me. My doctor's told me that I had really low levels of vitamin D. In school, our computer lab was called "the dungeon". People would sometimes make a comment that they felt sicker sitting in there coding all night for programming assignments. I originally thought they were just joking. Now I realize, they were being serious. [link] [comments]  |
| I spend more time debugging environment issues than anything, is this normal? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:16 PM PST I spend minutes writing code and days to weeks debugging environment issues trying to test my one line of code (or so), before I even pass it off to QA. Is this normal? I have been told its fairly normal for any company with a large code base. If so, how does one become better at debugging environment issues? I have been told by senior members it gets better, and you get better at understanding the systems but jesus christ it is disheartening. Maven, Weblogic Server, Docker etc. [link] [comments]  |
| how did you make friends after moving cities for a job? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:34 AM PST hi, I recently graduated and moved to a new city to find a job. None of my college buddies are here. I love going out to bars and clubs but now I don't have anyone to do it with :D do you have any tips for that? my current colleagues are mostly older so not sure if I could go out with them ;D [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:28 PM PST Just recently got an offer for TIAA's Charlotte office. Does anyone have any experience with them/can enlighten me on their office culture, and tech stack? [link] [comments]  |
| Slightly stretching the truth about my GPA? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:40 PM PST I was applying for an internship, and in the description it said "3.0 gpa preferred." Thinking it wasn't a hard requirement, I checked "No" under the question asking if I had a 3.0 or above. Once I completed the application, it denied my submission because I didn't meet all of the requirements (which I know was only the GPA). I have around a 2.8 gpa, is it okay to lie and say I have at least a 3.0? Do they usually try to confirm this with a transcript? [link] [comments]  |
| People with CS degrees, what do you do at your job on a day to day basis? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:48 AM PST I'm currently a freshman studying CS, and all three of my classes so far have been receiving an assignment and writing code to make sure it works. I'm sure it's different at a real job, and I was wondering what you guys do at your job. Like what are the day to day aspects? What does most of your day consist of? Also, what kinds of job opportunities does a CS degree provide aside from "Software engineer?"
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| Tech executives, what do you do differently? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:17 AM PST For those of you in tech executive leadership positions:
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| Anyone else grinding/studying while working at a unicorn? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:31 PM PST Just beginning to study and was curious what others' study schedules are like (during the week and on weekends). I'm looking to break into a Big N. For those in similar situations, what do you plan to do if you don't make it in the first go around? At that point are you willing to search elsewhere or will you stay in your current role and wait the required time in between to apply again to Big N? [link] [comments]  |
| What kind of CS jobs hire electrical engineering majors? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:20 PM PST My specialty is in DSP and communications... I'm studying data science and machine learning on the side. I just have a Bachelor's. Any help would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Remote internship vs. main office vs. germany? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:48 PM PST I recently got a paid summer internship offer from a mid-sized company. I'm 18, and I think the age matters in my decision. They offered me three options: Work remotely from my home in Sacramento, work at their main office in SF, or work with some of their devs in Germany. They will cover travel and accommodation costs for both options. Do you think I should stay home considering that it's my last time in Sacramento with my parents? Or should I go to Berlin and experience living on my own in a different country? Or should I go 3 hours away to SF and stay close to home yet live independently? I would love to hear your thoughts because I frankly have zero work experience outside of Sacramento. I've done remote work before, however. I can answer clarifying questions if need be. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| How have you experienced "bro-culture" in one of your previous jobs? Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:18 PM PST I keep hearing about "bro-culture", people tend to mention it next to "Silicon Valley" and "startup". As someone very far removed from this environment I wanted to ask this lovely sub in what kind of location/job you've experienced this, what was it like and how long ago. [link] [comments]  |
| I signed up to be a software engineer but all I do is data anaylsis Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:11 PM PST I work on the backend of a dashboard that provides people with cool numbers, info, tips, etc. about stuff. I'm a junior developer and most of my work has been data analysis. The PM is like "hey it would be cool to let the peeps know about this general idea/number" and I am in charge of doing the analysis to answer the questions:
All that takes 60% of my time and I end up programming only 10% of the time. I expected all those questions to be answered for me as a junior developer but everyone on the team at every level does this if they want to do any programming work. Is it time for me to move on? [link] [comments]  |
| How to navigate my career in a loosely-defined position without much mentorship? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:57 PM PST Hey r/cscareerquestion, I have been a Deployed Engineer in the past two years at a Data Integration company, and at this point I'm pretty confused about my career path/development. Since my work changes frequently based on project / client deadline / deliverable requirements, I have often been staffed wherever I'm needed; as a result, I have found that:
In all, I don't think I've had much focused "vertical" growth since graduating from college, and it doesn't help that we don't really have much mentorship and are instead encouraged to navigate our own career and find our own ways to make impact. Ideally, I'd like to get into more backend dev (either by internal transfer or in new company), but I'm not sure if I should speak up that I wanna try it, or whether I can do the job at all after not having done serious Software Engineer work in the past two years... In this type of situation, what is my best course of action? EDIT: formatting [link] [comments]  |
| Visual FoxPro in an EDI Specialist position Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:56 PM PST So I was reached out and invited to apply for an entry level job at an e-commerce business. The requirements were very vague in regards to experience. I asked what languages would be preferred and the typical pay scale. They responded saying I would be working with Visual Foxpro and the pay would be entry-level. I've never heard of Visual Foxpro, but further inspection leads me to believe it's a very outdated IDE? I also don't quite understand what an EDI Specialist even does. Is this something I should consider as a foot in the door for software development? Would I be wasting my time? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking into transferring schools again. Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:11 PM PST I went to community college for 3 and a half years to finish some core classes and switched to Sam Houston to receive a cs degree. I'm in my first semester there. I have about 2 years left with the layout of my credits. This semester is going fine, but I noticed the program is a little outdated. My girlfriend's mother is moving near texas state at the end of the semester, and looking at their program it's a bit better. She offered to house us virtually rent free until I finish graduating which is a huge boon as she already pays her daughter's half of the bills and helps with mine. This way at least there's less of a burden money-wise on everyone. The issue is, looking at degree plans, I'd pretty much be losing this semester. My question is, is transferring again worth the benefits? [link] [comments]  |
| Offer but they're really quiet and slow to respond Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:00 PM PST I'll try to keep this short I interviewed with a company -- starts with U and rhymes with boober -- in SF When they sent me the offer, they didn't call me, they just emailed me a docusign offer letter, which I signed I emailed my recruiter and the hiring manager saying the start date in the offer was before my grad date (I'm still a student). I didn't get a reply back until 2 weeks later, my h/m said that my recruiter (cc'd in the email) would get back to me on this and change the start date to 2-3 weeks later. This was late January and haven't heard back from them since I don't want to keep emailing them if they're busy, but I also want to make sure they didn't like forget about me or something... The place I interned at last summer reached out to me recently saying they have an opening for me (I'd rather work at U-Boober though). Is there a chance they'll rescind me for no reason or something? If they do, how far in advance would they be required to notify me? I hear a company can rescind "for no reason" if they have budgeting issues or something. I understand I'm being paranoid but I don't want to say no to my last-summer-internship-company until I'm 100% locked in with boober Thanks everyone [link] [comments]  |
| What jobs are you looking for? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:44 PM PST What are some of the best jobs you get out of college in this field right now? I majored in computer engineering, but I am more interested in creating software than designing circuit diagrams. To find a job, do you typically search for "software engineer" on Indeed or your school's career center? Or are there other hot positions that are more lucrative than "software engineer" but still related to the major? [link] [comments]  |
| What realistic options do I have after graduating? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:43 AM PST Going to cut to the chase real quick: -Not going to mention GPA in resumes. -I'm trying to massively build my network right now. I'll have this taken care of by the time I graduate (1 year). -I like software development, but I just like business more. But is there any way I can realistically start @ 60k and in five years, like CS, elevate to $100k? Or is the software engineer for two years then convert to product manager route still the most realistic? I mean I would have a CS degree, would that make any difference? I might still prefer software development after graduation just because I do... like it, but right now I would like to consider my options. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:40 PM PST Hello fellow software engineers! I've been fairly successful as an individual contributor but I'm wondering how to move up a bit. I have a feeling the answer is, "Go work at a more established company and work your way up," but I was hoping to hear others' experiences. Some background: I've worked at about five different startups from three to thirty people. I've held some leadership roles but nothing too exciting -- most startups go nowhere. I also find myself wondering where software engineers over forty go? Maybe it's just because I've been in startups but they don't seem to exist. [link] [comments]  |
| Best time to look for Airbnb/sublet listings for internships? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:18 AM PST I am interning in a mid-sized city over the summer, and was wondering when is the best time to look for summer housing? The local university housing page on facebook seems to mostly have listings for immediate move in. And the Airbnb options seem expensive for the time being, although I expect more will open up as college students move out for the summer. [link] [comments]  |
| How long to feel out a new job to see if it's for me? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:26 PM PST I recently got a job ~2 months ago. First FT job out of Uni. I did about 5 internships during uni and decided to get a MS in CS as well. I'm really not feeling like this company is a super good fit for me, but it's also filled with some of the best devs I've ever worked with, so I see that as an opportunity. The pay is also super high. Just wondering how long I should suffer if I don't end up shifting my mindset into something more positive and leave/get new job. Current cons on my Mind:
Current pros on my mind:
My biggest thing is my mental health is falling exponentially and trying hard to shift that by hanging out with friends more, exercising, reading, etc. So still willing to give it some more time. [link] [comments]  |
| Recruiter asked for transcript, do I have to give updated? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:09 PM PST Big-N recruiter asked me for my transcript / resume, but my school recently changed transcript formats to chronological order while I think the other reverse chronological order is more suited for me (did much better in recent terms). I got a copy before they migrated, but it's January 15. The actual data is the exact same as today, March 10, but it's almost 2 months old. It says date generated at the top. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:21 AM PST I'm sorry for a long text, but I really don't have anyone else to ask am I doing something wrong and I need an opinion from people who can look from senior/medior perspective, since I'm a junior software dev and probably can't see something. This is my first job and I've been working for 6 months now and everything was fine until recently. I admit I'm not a fast learner, but I was put on a new project with senior with whom I barely worked. Frontend of the project is angular which I never did before, so I'm learning while doing user stories. Initially, plan was to put two seniors on it, but due to lack of people (probably because company doesn't want to pay what potential employees ask, since there was like 10+ interviews in the last 2 months or so) I ended up as a "senior". Problem started suddenly when I get stuck somewhere in angular/js and spend a couple hours looking for a solution and don't find anything. So naturally, I ask a senior for hint or a tip, but I barely get anything from him, meanwhile since we are in the sprint, he constantly reminds me that task has to be done for example today, even that a bit more than a half is done. I used to talk with him nicely, but now, I barely talk, except when he asks me how much is left and I answer seriously what I'm doing currently. There was a meeting with director, him, another senior and me, to talk about what I don't understand, but from functional point, not technical. It ended with a conclusion that I don't break user stories in smaller tasks, but I start doing them straight away. That is true, I used to do that, but starting from this project, I tend to separate them on smaller ones. Senior concluded that I don't understand what project has to do. It culminated yesterday, while I was reworking US because the client changed something on their side. He told me to do something, I said ok, but asked how he wants me to do it and gave two examples. He looked me disappointed and just said "you don't understand this at all, do you?", on which I replied a bit louder "well, I do, but I can't read your mind" and other colleagues looked at me strangely. I guess I reacted impulsively, but I really had enough. Reason why I asked him is simply because I don't want to come to the situation where I do it on my own, he looks at it and says why did you do it that way, it's not good, which happened numerous times with another junior he worked with before me. That same junior tried to calm me down saying that he (and the company) probably still tests me, because that's what he did with him and this is for my own good. Junior used to do on his own, his checks, says it's not good, junior does it the other way, he doesn't like it and says to return initial solution. After a couple times like that, junior said he wanted a meeting and complained about it, but he didn't tell me how it ended up and at that moment I was too pissed off to ask him. So is there anything that I don't see currently, because my only observation is this senior just like to piss me off? [link] [comments]  |
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