Resume Advice Thread - April 17, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - April 17, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - April 17, 2018
- Employers, why send a rejection email 6+ months after the application was sent to you?
- Is it okay to call yourself a "principal" or "lead" developer if you are the --only-- developer?
- Win or lose, what was your first ever salary negotiation experience like?
- What exactly do you code at your job?
- Is it unwise to consider graduate school for a second chance at the new grad job market?
- How do people without a degree in CS get programming jobs?
- It is often mentioned that in Programming/software dev field technology is constantly changing and we have to keep learning them quickly. How often do you actually sit down and learn those new things?
- What’s up with recruiting agency’s?
- 4 years exp, but offered new grad pay at a company with higher pay structure?
- Will my summer internship offer get rescinded for not meeting minimum cumulative GPA requirement?
- How easy is it for you to switch jobs? And would you change jobs in this scenario...
- Long term internship at company, is it worth anything?
- Leaving first job after a few months a red flag?
- Is there any way I can avoid most social media and still network/market myself
- Has anyone ever refused to do a technical assessment and still gotten an offer?
- Can’t handle project manager anymore..
- Any 2nd degree students here quit their college (before completing) after securing a full time position
- How much time do you spend actually writing code?
- UPenn vs UMass for a Master's in CS (AI/ML)
- Got an internship I am underqualified for
- What places are good for comp sci right now?
- Take home assignment: Single Page Application
- When did you know enough to successfully start your startup?
- Will having a "bad" first job effect future job prospects?
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| Daily Chat Thread - April 17, 2018 Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:07 AM PDT 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]  |
| Employers, why send a rejection email 6+ months after the application was sent to you? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 02:11 PM PDT Hi all, I've had this happen a few times and, while I'm sure it's likely automated, it makes no sense. Dropbox just now sent me a rejection email. I applied in August last year. I'm not salty about it, but it does seem pretty rude. I've accepted another offer, had another entire semester go by, and haven't expected to hear from them in, well, half a year. Why do employers do this? People are well aware they weren't selected after much less time goes by. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it okay to call yourself a "principal" or "lead" developer if you are the --only-- developer? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 08:23 AM PDT I work at a non-tech startup, about ~25 employees. I've been here just over a year. I am basically the only developer and have written, by myself, entire systems/applications which are integral to the company. Before this, my only full-time job experience is an 18 month stint at a large enterprise where I was more junior-level. I've taken to calling myself a "lead" or "principal" developer on LinkedIn, and a lot of recruiters have been getting in touch with me. Am I being deceptive by describing myself in this way? I clearly state in my profile that the company is a small, non-tech startup. [link] [comments]  |
| Win or lose, what was your first ever salary negotiation experience like? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 07:21 AM PDT |
| What exactly do you code at your job? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 10:36 AM PDT For software developers (web, desktop, mobile): what exactly does your boss/customers ask you to code? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it unwise to consider graduate school for a second chance at the new grad job market? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 11:12 AM PDT I'm coming up on 4 months of unemployment after graduating with my BS in CS, and after around 500 applications that have gone nowhere I'm starting to think I just don't have the qualifications to land a developer job. I've obviously had a ton of time to sit and think, and an idea that has recently crept into my mind is going back to school and getting a master's degree so I get a second chance at the new graduate job market. My reasons for doing it:
The counterpoints that spring to my mind:
At this point, I'm really leaning towards trying to get into a few different MS programs. If my eventual goal is just to have a good developer job somewhere, am I viewing the tradeoffs completely wrong right now? I feel like I botched my first attempt at landing a new graduate job, and if I can just have a do-over at the same market then I can do it better and start to salvage my career. [link] [comments]  |
| How do people without a degree in CS get programming jobs? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:16 PM PDT I'm currently a student at University but I've always wondered how it's possible to get a job without some sort of college education in programming. All the jobs I apply for online ask for some sort of educational background and I haven't seen any resumes without their formal education either. I just want to hear from the folks that did manage to get programming/IT/development jobs without going to college specifically for CS/CE/EE and how it's working so far with them. Cheers! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2018 05:25 PM PDT Does it take hours or months to learn the new tech or is just a few hours every few months? [link] [comments]  |
| What’s up with recruiting agency’s? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 02:35 PM PDT So I'm on the job hunt and I've had a few recruiters from recruiting agency's contact me via LinkedIn, spoke on the phone, then met them(and their team) in person. After that I don't hear from them at all. I just had another one contact me today and wants to meet tomorrow, claiming he has a position that would be a good fit for me at a company. What's funny is, his address is in the same building as a different recruiter I met! If it matters, I'm in Chicago Are these just a waste of time or has someone here had success finding a job through recruiting companies ?? [link] [comments]  |
| 4 years exp, but offered new grad pay at a company with higher pay structure? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 09:20 AM PDT Let's say your current Company X pays 90k to new grads. After having worked there for 4 years, your salary is now 130k. Then after numerous final rounds you finally landed an offer from Company Y. They're offering you 150k, which is the same as their new grads. Is it a lowball offer? What's a fair number to ask for, considering your 4 years experience at Company X? [link] [comments]  |
| Will my summer internship offer get rescinded for not meeting minimum cumulative GPA requirement? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 04:52 PM PDT Hello everyone! I am a current undergrad cs junior about to finish my Spring semester. So recently I've passed the interview process and was offered an summer internship position at a bank. I've signed the contract and now it is just finishing the semester so my internship can start. The dilemma is that my cumulative GPA of 2.75 as of December 2017 does not meet their minimum cumulative GPA of 3.4 on the offer contract. I've been raising my GPA over the past semesters after doing not so well freshman year (adjusting to college away from home and trouble balancing school workload with clubs/organizations) and it shows on my transcript that my GPA has been increasing. I will be finishing the semester in the next couple of weeks and my marks will be mostly A's and B's but it will not be enough to meet the cumulative GPA on the contract. On the other hand, my major GPA is above a 3.4 GPA and I will need to submit an official transcript after this semester is officially over to the HR person before the start date of the internship. I am really scared HR will rescind their offer. My close friends have told me that my GPA shouldn't be a big deal because I've passed their interview process (1 phone screen interview + 2 on-site interviews) and that the interviewers/recruiters like me enough to make an offer to me. I am starting to panic and don't know what is the best action to take. Should I talk to HR when I submit my official transcript and explain my situation? How else should I go about this? [link] [comments]  |
| How easy is it for you to switch jobs? And would you change jobs in this scenario... Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:26 PM PDT I moved out to the bay area less then a year ago to work at a large tech company (not big N). It is basically all CRUD work. I don't think I like the work - but its not complicated at all. Management has very aggressive deadlines and they often make last minute changes (Like changes 5pm Friday for a release that is "suppose" to go out Monday. But usually the release gets pushed back). It gets to the point where they asks devs to work weekends (unpaid) and extremely late nights (I've started to politely decline). Also, as a direct result of this, code quality suffers. Dealing with project changes from management and code quality are the only real challenging of the project. (Is this normal?) I recently was given the opportunity to work at a Big N in Seattle. It is a large pay increase (not including COL) and I would be working on a ML team supporting its services. On paper the works sounds very exciting. Only cons would be changing jobs and moving so quickly. How many of you would move, if you were in my situation? Is the grass greener on the other side or will it not get better? [link] [comments]  |
| Long term internship at company, is it worth anything? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 03:32 PM PDT Hi, I'm approaching the 6 month mark and I'm scheduled to work through the summer. I was wondering if this was worth anything compared to smaller short-term internships. I just figured it was worth more since I'm working longer at the same company. The company is an large international company and I'm doing some MEAN stack work. Would this internship make me more competitive than 2 different internships? Does it even matter? Is it worse? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Leaving first job after a few months a red flag? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 06:01 PM PDT So I recently graduated and started my first job. When looking for a job during my last semester, I thought I wanted a break from programming and accepted a less-technical business role, turning down two offers as a Software Engineer. At the time this business role sounded really interesting and I thought it would be refreshing to try something new. Three months later and I'm bored out of my mind at work. I've been craving something technical, and every day that goes by I feel like I'm stagnating my career and professional growth more and more. I'd like to start looking for another job but I am concerned that leaving a company this quickly is a red flag. Should I be honest with potential employers when looking for a new job, or should I write these few months off as vacation time/job searching after graduation? Also, would it be worth reaching out to those companies I had declined? Would it be possible for them to "re open" the offer without having to go through the process again, or am I crazy for thinking this is a possibility? I have no vacation time yet so it would be hard to take time off for interviews. [link] [comments]  |
| Is there any way I can avoid most social media and still network/market myself Posted: 17 Apr 2018 09:59 AM PDT Hello All , Hope you are all well and thanks for helping us noobs here. I was going to post on r/jobs but my focus is on computer science and there are probably different requirements etc for those looking to get developing positions or contract work in this field so I thought it would be more appropriate to post here. If not pls let me know and I will delete. I really don't like many social media platforms but anything I read says to join facebook , twitter , instagram etc. I know I need to have an online presence but would Github and Linkedin (on top of creating a website) suffice, or would you recommend that I join as many social media platform as possible? I understand that this depends on my goals and other factors which you would need psychic powers to determine. I guess what I am asking is how you rate the importance of being as visible as possible? What platforms are you part of an what do you recommend? My main goal is to just network and make something of (I hate this phrase with a passion) a "personal brand" Any insight , advice or input would be much appreciated. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Has anyone ever refused to do a technical assessment and still gotten an offer? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:25 PM PDT Kind of a silly question, but I've always wondered. If after building a strong reputation, work history, and portfolio of serious software engineering, could you potentially refuse to do a technical assessment and still get a job offer? I don't mean refuse to demonstrate deep technical knowledge during the entire interview process, but I do mean refusing to write (or whiteboard) code in real time or do a take home coding challenge, offering to instead discuss your process designing and implementing things in your CV, especially work with live demos and open source code. I know it seems like a long shot, but if you were a famous developer with a proven track record, I don't see why a company wouldn't want to give you an offer. [link] [comments]  |
| Can’t handle project manager anymore.. Posted: 17 Apr 2018 07:03 PM PDT I work in consulting for a company that I really like but a project that is driving me fucking nutty. My project manager joined our team about 4 months ago. He is a remote worker literally on the other side of the world. From the very beginning there were problems with him out the gate. He's very bad at giving people tasks to work on. We don't have any actual sprints. Everything is a major priority and needs to be tackled at that moment. I've been pinged at Saturday 1am from him before about some bullshit and told it's a priority for the morning and after we did it, he said the client changed their mind. He's one of those PM's that thinks you should just add an "if statement here" and it will work even though he's not a Developer at all. Also he believes if you double resources, you'll have faster output which has resulted in him bringing on two additional devs only for them to be removed a month later because the client saw how much burn rate they had accumulated. This means I have to onboard people and direct them and when they're in a groove they get pulled off the project and I have to do their work which I lack context in. I am on multiple projects too and I was told that I have to work 50-50, 50% on his project, 50% on two other projects, not to mention I'm trying to standardize some technologies in our department. Today I lost it on him via slack. I like to plan out my weeks. I tell him today I'm gonna work on another project because I've been putting it off to focus on his project. He starts saying shit that made me feel like a code monkey such as "no. We told you you're on this project and it's top priority, if anybody needs you tell them to come to me." as if he wants me to play middleman between PM's which has been a waste of time and puts me in a weird spot because it's not my job to direct communication between two PM's. So anyways he makes me feel pretty shitty by saying I need to work on his project. So I ask him what he needs. He says there is this bug that needs to be fixed and it's due tomorrow. I look at the bug and it literally was created 3 weeks ago. So I told him: "can we stop with these last minute criticals? This ticket was created three weeks ago but it's all of a sudden due now? This type of planning is not helping anybody. Please do a better effort planning going forward." I was definitely pissed off. With the 1am phone calls, constant back and forth. Putting devs on the team that I have to train only for them to get removed. Everything being a priority, I felt like I had to get firm. I don't want to be a pushover anymore, but I also feel like I might be complaining too much. I know my manager would have my back and so would my technical director. I'm cool with them, and that's what's keeping me sane is that the people that are higherup like me and dislike this guy. Also I really like the company that I work for, but I don't want this to be their problem. They have enough bullshit to worry about as it is. I want to better the team but I'm very close to demanding that either I get taken off the project or he does, but that's definitely not professional. I know you're not gonna like everybody you work with, but this guy literally makes my job almost impossible. I just want to do work without all the bullshit and this lack of planning is making it impossible and my morale is extremely low. Edit: Also I forgot the best part. He scheduled a sprint retro so we could talk about the problems. It was HIS meeting and everyone went except for him. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2018 06:50 PM PDT As a second degree student, I've been working part time at a start up for about a year now. Today my boss told me that he wants me working full time and was hoping that I'd either 1) put my education on hold or 2) quit completely. The salary package is competitive and I'm honestly not a fan of school and studying for exams. However, I only have 2 more semester and was thinking if sticking with the degree would be beneficial in the long run. My first degree was in Finance and I worked as a credit analyst for a few years. At this point, I don't know what to do... Would a Finance degree + CS degree + Software dev experience be any different from a Finance degree + Software dev experience [link] [comments]  |
| How much time do you spend actually writing code? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 11:06 AM PDT I've read through a bunch of "what's your day like" threads and they've been quite helpful, but I have a slightly more detailed question. I'm trying to gauge how much time professional programmers, especially newer programmers, spend writing code vs. thinking about code + being a general employee (meetings, distractions, on-the-job learning/research). How much of your day is actually writing code into an editor? Pressing keystrokes and writing, deleting, and editing code? What I'm getting at is, how much time do you spend thinking about what you're going to write? Do you spend an hour writing and editing and testing and trying, or do you spend more time thinking about the best way to solve the problem while you read and research or play ping pong, then knock out a few lines of code that solve your issue in a few minutes after spending more time in private mental or group deliberation? Maybe your just banging code out all day and revising as you go along? Does this question make sense? There may be many answers to this, obviously. Is it a style thing? An experience thing? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| UPenn vs UMass for a Master's in CS (AI/ML) Posted: 17 Apr 2018 01:38 PM PDT I just got accepted to UPenn and UMass Amherst for a Master's in CS, and I was wondering which school I should pick if I want to start working right after the 2 year program. I want to focus my studies on Machine Learning. UMass is ranked slightly higher on most sites, UPenn has that Ivy league tag on it, which makes me wonder if it is easier to get a job with just that. If money is not an issue, what school would be better for me? Thanks :) EDIT: I forgot to mention, I am getting a full ride at UMass and a work assistantship as well, whereas at UPenn I have to pay for everything. Also, I attended UMass for my undergrad so I am already familiar with the place, CS department, etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Got an internship I am underqualified for Posted: 17 Apr 2018 06:29 PM PDT I have been offered a paid internship at a small company that I am underqualified for. It demands C++ and data structure experience. However, I have only taken Java and object oriented classes (and almost half of our classes were cancelled). I applied to the company and the VP ended up knowing my dad and I believe that's the only reason I got it. Even then, it seemed like they VERY hesitant to give me a shot. I have to rebuild a payroll system. I just don't feel good about it. I'm essentially going in there blind having been offered the chance on what feels like nepotism and a lack of confidence in me on their part. If it goes poorly, I could get a bad reference and waste a bunch of people's time. Additionally, they like to keep their interns, and despite telling them that I would likely not consider employment as I am relocating within the next two years, they offered me the gig anyway. It basically feels like there is no point in me being there. So, I am likely going to rescind the offer. Should I? [link] [comments]  |
| What places are good for comp sci right now? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 06:24 PM PDT Hey guys, just wanted some general advice from the community on places to go for new job opportunities. I currently reside in New Jersey and would like to avoid NYC. Basically I'm curious where else in the country is a good place to move to. I understand the job market is pretty broad, but I'd like to change up the scenery since I've lived in New Jersey basically my entire life. Currently in my 4th year as a developer: Mostly Java web services and all kind of front end technologies. Current Salary : Around 88k a year as a contractor. My plan is end of year to basically pick up and move to a new location to change things up. Just looking for a consensus for exciting opportunities and cool places to live. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Take home assignment: Single Page Application Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:14 PM PDT I had a phone interview for a full-time web developer position (I'd be entry-level) at a fairly large and reputable company near me and the interviewer decided to progress me through the interview process. I was asked to do a take-home coding assignment which is to create a single page application (implement the front end with a modern framework like React or AngularJS and the backend with Node - there are several specifications for what it needs to do) over the next couple days. I'm set to graduate soon but I still have classes and I work full-time but I want to secure a nice job before I'm out of school. I've taken the next couple of days off work to do this (not to mention putting off my schoolwork which is - personally - anxiety-inducing) but it seems like a considerable amount of work to do for something that I'm not sure will even end with a job offer as it was explained to me that I will still have to come in for a full day interview on-site afterward. I place a high value on my time as it's my most scarce resource so I wanted to get some input from others - when doing take home coding assignments, what kind of work do people typically ask for and how much time is too much time to invest in it? [link] [comments]  |
| When did you know enough to successfully start your startup? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:12 PM PDT Flair- I am in intern, so I am pretty sure I do not know anything. My perception is I still won't know anything until I get a few years of standard corporate experience before I finally know enough to branch out and start my own company. I might be aware of the full stack tech-wise. But I know nothing of the full stack company-wise. Legally, financially, employment, or just what to do on a day to day basis. I am attracted to risk, so I would much rather form my own company than just work for someone else, but I am not so attracted to risk that I can go into doing something blind and ignorant. When were you finally able to say, "Alright, I'm not an idiot anymore, I can probably try it now." And what were some general steps you took to get to that point? [link] [comments]  |
| Will having a "bad" first job effect future job prospects? Posted: 17 Apr 2018 06:44 AM PDT I was struggling for almost a year to get my first job and ended up finally getting one, but it was a government contracting company. The work here is very slow and easy, all legacy code. Being here, I am definitely not getting better as a developer, but thankfully there is a lot of down time which I can use to research and improve my front end skills. This is my only real position I've had so far, I just have this, free lance work, and personal projects on my resume now. How do companies view an easy position or bad company on a resume? [link] [comments]  |
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