Resume Advice Thread - May 01, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - May 01, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - May 01, 2018
- I work very few hours a day. Am I a bad programmer?
- Bootcamp grads: what's your experience been since boot camp?
- Hidden gem cities for developers?
- Can someone review my resignation letter?
- What to do when you know your project isn’t enough to get promoted?
- Bringing music and coding together for a career
- Leaving in a month, team doesn't know and assigning me important long term work.
- Negotiating signing and RSU?
- Internship drug test
- Quitting Internship for another one? Advice please.
- How do I diplomatically tell my boss that I'm bored to tears?
- How could publishing add ons, plugins, or extensions for popular working products impact how employers will view a new CS grad as a job candidate?
- Can I request for my relocation package to be paid out before I move or is that unreasonable?
- What is considered a better work experience? Internship or Tech Support
- New Manager -> Insane Expectations
- Has anybody here actually been turned down for a job because they wore a suit?
- Azure Cloud Computing Job Question
- Am I still being considered for this opportunity for a fortune 100 company according to what my recruiter said?
- Best cities in southern US for tech jobs
- Pros and cons of going back to get CS degree when I already have the job
- Junior engineer lost in the sauce
- Under-qualified for Internships
- I have three potential paths to CS: Locally respected bootcamp (in-person), online post-bacc (oregon state), or get associates at local comm college then get Bachelors (in-person)
- If my summer internship requires that I return to school in fall, can I do a fall internship anyway?
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| Daily Chat Thread - May 01, 2018 Posted: 01 May 2018 12:08 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]  |
| I work very few hours a day. Am I a bad programmer? Posted: 01 May 2018 11:48 AM PDT I get to work from home as often as I like. Usually I code for 2 hours or so. Sometimes I don't code at all. Once in a while my mind gets stuck on a problem I'm interested in and I code for 7 or so hours. I'm always reachable via company chat. I never miss a meeting. I work for a huge cooperation that is far away from me. They don't do anything helpful for the world. They exist to make money. Got there via an acquired company. I honestly don't care about them at all. If i didn't have to work I wouldn't. My management tells me I'm a very productive member of the team. One of the most. I don't believe them because I know how I work. I flat out told my manager and he said he said I still get stuff done. The only way I feel I can get sanely thru this is with the "fuck it" attitude - Keep doing what I'm doing and don't feel bad it, not really caring about the company. Maybe I get more done in 2 hrs then most I do? Maybe it doesn't matter as long as management is OK. Others come to the office for 6 to 8 hrs. Can't say what they do during that time. I've worked like this for 10 years on the previous job and now 2 years on this one. I value my family and my life a billion times more then work. I'll go out with the kids on a weekday during the summer and work later. Am I a shitty programmer? Or am I a good one and should stop worrying and do what I do. Or does it not matter? Should I just enjoy it and enjoy life? Thanks for comments. [link] [comments]  |
| Bootcamp grads: what's your experience been since boot camp? Posted: 01 May 2018 06:33 AM PDT Have you done a bootcamp? Which one? What has your experience been since graduating? Have you found a job? Does it pay well? Do you like it? How long did it take you to find a job? Do you plan to stay at your current job? Do you wish you had done something else? [link] [comments]  |
| Hidden gem cities for developers? Posted: 01 May 2018 02:59 PM PDT I like C# (most of my experience is with MVC-based websites), and I've got about 7 years of experience. I'm decent, but I probably wouldn't survive (let alone qualify for a job) at any of the top tech companies. What city should I consider next to move to that isn't commonly touted as a developer destination? Basically I'm looking to avoid the following areas:
Ideally, looking for the following in a city:
I'm fine with either a city that I simply haven't considered or one of those "Americana" type towns, honestly. (For examples of both, Pittsburgh, PA and Peoria, IL might help give you an idea of the kinds of places I'm looking for.) I would also consider locations in Canada or other countries that are easy to get a work visa for and similar Income:CoL balance [link] [comments]  |
| Can someone review my resignation letter? Posted: 01 May 2018 06:38 AM PDT Hey all, the title pretty much sums it up. I accepted this position as an intern and have been working as a part-time developer for a year. However, as I neared graduation another unexpected offer came in. So I am reneging on the formerly accepted position, shortly before I was supposed to start full-time. The letter is as below: Edit 2:
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| What to do when you know your project isn’t enough to get promoted? Posted: 01 May 2018 08:09 PM PDT I started full time in January at my company (Fortune 50 in Atlanta, non-technology company) after continuously interning/working part time for about 18 months. I hate to seem full of myself, but I'm one of the better engineers on my team, including the senior and staff folks. I've talked at length with my manager about my ambitions and when I joined, one of my primary questions/issues was how quickly I could be promoted, since I already have quite a bit of experience for an entry level position and I have the engineering chops to move up. I won't be technically up for a promotion until mid-2019, but he said that off-cycle promotions are plausible if deserved. However, for the past four months I have done very little. The entire team has essentially been putting out fires and fixing old, outstanding bugs for four months, myself included. We've delivered one major feature/enhancement. All of the other work is just low hanging fruit that 1) should have been done right in the first place and 2) doesn't have the kind of impact on the organization that says "this guy deserves an off-cycle promotion". We are basically fixing a product that works, but doesn't work well enough. The business impact of our work is really just that our users are less frustrated. They were already using the product, but now they're less unsatisfied and experiencing fewer issues. There are no numbers to report (reduced X, improving Y) because all the numbers are the damn same. I really should have been smarter coming in - I knew most of the exciting and high-impact work was slated for 2019, and in hindsight I should have looked harder for other teams, but when my manager brought up the possibility of other teams before I accepted the FT offer (framed as "I think this team is the best place for you and we don't want to lose you", of course), I was super awkward and just said that I was happy with his team. How do I get promoted in this situation? If the answer is "join another team", how can I gracefully walk back my previous answer to the "are you happy/excited to work on this team" and let my manager know that I'm interested in other opportunities? One of the other major issues is that I'm mostly an iOS engineer (by preference), and my team is the only team I know of doing iOS work at my office... so if I jumped ship, I'd have to switch stacks. [link] [comments]  |
| Bringing music and coding together for a career Posted: 01 May 2018 05:11 AM PDT I know plugins for DAW's is a realistic approach to bringing together a passion for music and CS, but working on those as personal projects seems far too tough for me right now. What could I do to put myself in a good position to find myself in that field (languages to know, classes to take, areas to focus on)? Does anyone actually have experience coding a plug-in, or using code in music in any way and care to share a bit about there work or past? Edit: I appreciate all the feedback! Definitely have some stuff to look into (definitely need to familiarize myself with C++, and digital signal processing). I was looking for steps to take this summer, and all your responses are super helpful, thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Leaving in a month, team doesn't know and assigning me important long term work. Posted: 01 May 2018 05:23 PM PDT I just got a job offer and am planning to put in my resignation in two weeks. However, I just found out last week that my team wants to give me a big important workload with the hopes that I will become the subject matter expert and teach the other team members afterwards. Do I just continue this work and act like everything is normal until I turn in my resignation, or should I be upfront and let them know I am leaving soon. I will of course document everything before I leave, but wanted to know the best steps to take. They won't take it well that I am leaving, so I'd rather wait until the last minute that I have to. Any tips on resigning is also appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 11:02 AM PDT Recently got an offer from a Big N. Base compensation similar to what I've read on the salary sharing threads, but signing bonus is half and RSU is a quarter. I dont have any competing offers, but am currently employed at a well-known tech company. Is there any way I can negotiate the signing bonus and RSU up? Worth noting that total comp of the initial offer is already significantly higher than my current salary (not that I told the recruiter, but they may already have an estimate based on the company) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 09:22 AM PDT I've recently accepted a summer internship offer from a major retail/fortune 500 company, which starts in about a month. I've received information from them about a preemployment background check, but no word on a drug test. Should I anticipate one from such a big company, or would I have been informed about it by now? [link] [comments]  |
| Quitting Internship for another one? Advice please. Posted: 01 May 2018 06:10 PM PDT Greetings. Back in November I accepted an 8 month long internship, starting in january, working as a software developer. I was enrolled in my masters at the time and I was very interested in data science, but accepted the position because I did not have any experience in the CS field. Fast forward to now, I have been with the company for about 3 months and a half, (This is in Washington USA), but I have been offered a data analyst internship not too far away. If you were in my position, would you quit your current internship as a Software Dev (Full stack), and go to Data Analytics? The pay is better, the technology used is closer to my field of interest and its not Full stack, which honestly, I havent been fully engaged with but I have enjoyed learning from my coworkers. The list of technologies as a Data Analyst are: Python, Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, SQL, Hadoop Hive, Power BI, Excel, R, Spotfire. In my free time I have been going to Data Science meetups and it sounds like the technologies being used at the Data Analystics internship are more in line with what is being used in the field of DS. I honestly think it would be a productive career move to get familiar with these technologies as I intend to use them in my future career. What would you do? And how would you go about quitting your current internship? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I diplomatically tell my boss that I'm bored to tears? Posted: 01 May 2018 07:26 AM PDT I have been in my current job for almost a year now. One of the reasons I left my last job was that the work I was doing wasn't that interesting, and the job posting mentioned working extensively with Angular, which I had wanted to learn. Fast forward to now - the team I'm on is not doing actual feature development. We are more of a infrastructure/support team. Writing documentation, training other developers, writing tooling. No sign of the web development that I took the job for, anytime soon. I have a weekly 1 on 1 with my boss and I'm considering telling him this. I love the company, the culture, etc. But I'm just so bored. I have done nothing but write documentation the last 3 weeks. I'm not looking to find another job, but I'm afraid if I tell him how bored I am he'll think that is the case. What is a good way to approach this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 01:47 PM PDT For example Google Docs, Word, Visual Studio, Firefox, etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I request for my relocation package to be paid out before I move or is that unreasonable? Posted: 01 May 2018 01:09 PM PDT Facebook's relocation package includes a $10k budget for things not included in the core package. The core package is flights and 30 day accommodation among other things. Whatever I don't use from the $10k budget will be paid out through payroll to me after being taxed. Is it reasonable to receive this $10k before moving? I need to clear my car loan and sell my car and it the $10k that I'll receive later could be useful now. I'm relocating from the middle east so I'd can't really bring my car with me. [link] [comments]  |
| What is considered a better work experience? Internship or Tech Support Posted: 01 May 2018 04:33 PM PDT I'm about to graduate with a CS degree with ~2 years experience of standard Tech Support Engineer position in a small sized business. I have zero internship experience as I chose to take a gap year from study to work and think about life. However, it seems like the usual pathway as a CS graduate here is to have some summer internships under their belt during their semester breaks. My question is: do students taking part in internships learn more? Have actual 'projects'? Although I don't treat working as a tech support as a waste of time, because I learnt many non-technical aspects of work life. But I do fear that I lack much actual 'technical' experience, and no projects to show off to my future employers (which will be more technical/specialised, now that I have a degree and I want to progeress towards. I'm looking in to area in programming...?) Please could someone tell me that my fears are irrational, or am I truly behind :/ People do say that you actually never become 'specialised' until you start working, but then is 2 year tech support at a small firm a better fundamental then 1-2 few months internship at a decent tech company? TLDR: 3 months internship in a decent tech company vs 1.5 year of tech support in a small company. I do undertsand it all depends what you learn within the two, but in general and as an employer, what would be more desriable? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| New Manager -> Insane Expectations Posted: 01 May 2018 08:18 PM PDT Hi. I've been a developer for 4 years now and recently landed a job that was a huge pay raise in Seattle, WA. (~115k -> ~160k). The job was great, and had good work life balance for the first six months. Than I got a new manager and everything has gone down hill. Prior to getting this new manager, I got a 100% on my first performance review. Everyone I worked with seemed to like working with me. Within a few weeks the new manager says he has analyzed my performance and thinks I am under-performing. Said I have to take on more tasks (outside of my assigned sprint items) or basically he will fire me. Since than, I've tried taking on more work but the manager keeps just piling on EVERYTHING he can. I work until around 8pm every night now and I also work every weekend. Also, the manager keeps assigning me tasks outside of my skillset and expecting them done at amazing speed. I've been a NodeJS developer until the manager came, now I get assigned to Java build tool stuff and CI work and than the manager will say something like "you didn't get that in fast enough for your level in the company, I expected better of a level x (right below senior) engineer". He doesn't even understand the differences between languages and frameworks I think, I don't think hes coded in a decade. I've tried to talk to the manager, but about 75% of every email I've sent or slack message has been ignored. So I am working crazy hours, constantly getting told I'm not good enough and can't even communicate with this manager. I want to leave, but am afraid that a) I won't find an similar paying job. and b) it will look really bad leaving the company so early. What are my options? [link] [comments]  |
| Has anybody here actually been turned down for a job because they wore a suit? Posted: 01 May 2018 02:03 PM PDT I have my first in-person interview tomorrow and purchased a suit for such occasions. I understand the idea of being a "cultural fit", but has anybody actually experienced this in their job search? I mean, it's an interview, and suits DO look good. It seems weird that this is one of the only fields where dressing nice, even just once, might cost me a chance to get employed... [link] [comments]  |
| Azure Cloud Computing Job Question Posted: 01 May 2018 08:00 PM PDT For those who are SWE in Microsoft Azure division, do you work on DevOps-y type work? I've seen Azure emphasize Kubernetes and Helm a lot. Is it true that all SWE in Azure get pidgenholed into DevOps? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 03:59 PM PDT I got contacted by a third party recruiter for a junior programming position for a fortune 100 company beginning of last week (Tues). The process went INSANELY fast.
After the initial phone screen, the recruiter scheduled a video chat interview the for the next day (last Wednesday). The video chat interview was basically just asking about my background and also explaining the position to me. After this video interview, the recruiter called me back telling me that their client fortune 100 company would like to schedule a technical phone interview with me on Friday. I did the technical phone interview and thought it was fine and was pretty confident with how it went. The only concern I have is, the interviewer was extremely robotic. He displayed no emotions and sounded apathetic about everything I said. So I really cannot tell if he liked me which kind of worries me because he is the lead of the team I would be working under...
After this technical phone interview on the same day a couple hours later, my recruiter called me up to follow up and ask how the interview went. I told my recruiter I was pretty confident and comfortable with how it went. Then the recruiter told me I would hear back from her hopefully by the end of the day (last Friday the same day of the technical phone interview) and hear back from the company and see if they want to schedule the final onsite interview. Recruiter told me if not later that day, then I would hear back next Monday which was (yesterday).
Yesterday, I did not want to appear too eager about the opportunity so I gave it some time remembering she said I would hear back on that day. It turned to afternoon, and I still didn't hear back from her so I became really anxious and worried thinking maybe that she deaded me like a lot of recruiters do. As a result, I emailed her yesterday politely telling her that I recalled her telling me I would hear back by Monday and also told her I had to hear back from her soon because I have to make a decision on another offer by the end of the week. She called me an hour after I sent this email and told me that she is still waiting on hearing back from the Fortune 100 company and that I would hear back by Tuesday (today). I didn't hear anything back all day. First she told me I would hear back Friday, then Monday, then Tuesday. I didn't hear back from her Tuesday (today). I understand she does not make the decision and it's ultimately the higher ups of the fortune 100 company that make the decision on whether they want to schedule the final onsite interview with me but why couldn't she have told me in the first place that it would take a week or so? Am I still being considered for this opportunity? She also told me that I was the only candidate that they decided to continue forward with after the Skype interview. I'm not sure if she was being truthful. Can recruiters even lie and say this to a candidate? I'm so anxious and am aware that I am probably overthinking a lot of things but its honestly because I really want this opportunity. [link] [comments]  |
| Best cities in southern US for tech jobs Posted: 01 May 2018 07:44 PM PDT I'm currently a CS major at a school in AR and should finish either in the fall or next spring at the latest. I was wondering what are some cities in the south that are good places for tech jobs? I've been in AR most of my life and am wanting to move somewhere new. It's also not that good a place for tech jobs, unless you're connected somehow. It's a relatively small market in central AR, and there is Walmart and JB Hunt in NWA along with a number of startups, but for the most part there are better places. AR is a good place to retire to, but I feel that there are better places for young-ish tech people, or those who aspire to be tech guys. (Feel free to change my mind about AR as well if you wish). What are some places that have decent markets for tech jobs? Aside from job market, my criteria includes the following:
Bonus:
I apologize in advance if this was a little long-winded. Let me know what places y'all have in mind. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Pros and cons of going back to get CS degree when I already have the job Posted: 01 May 2018 07:33 PM PDT I've been working in web development for a year or so and I am pretty happy with the job. However, I would be quite interested in exploring opportunities outside of web development but within computer science. I am only two and a half years out of getting my degree in finance, but I feel so much more at home when I'm programming. My problem is that I am just struggling to justify paying to go back to school when I am already getting paid to do something I enjoy, but I really want to go back anyway. What are some good reasons to do it and good reasons not to? [link] [comments]  |
| Junior engineer lost in the sauce Posted: 01 May 2018 07:27 PM PDT Background: I'm coming up on the 2-month mark at my first ever software engineering job right out of college. No internship experience prior. I work for a very small, early-stage startup that is well funded. My company is about 20 people total and split up (roughly) evenly into a backend, frontend, and qa team. I am on the backend team. Everyone in the company is an engineer. The CEO sits next to me and contributes to the codebase every day. I'm beginning to feel more and more lost in the sauce. The goal of this post is to lay down some of my early experiences/main points and get some of your guys' advice as I do not have any perspective on working as a software engineer, startups, or the industry as a whole since this is my very first experience. I want to make sure I'm doing everything I can do contribute to the growth of the company, and, more importantly (and more realistically), grow my career.
Basically, I feel like a lot of problems here are size-related. What should I do to be more productive/have a better experience? Should I ask more questions? Move to a bigger company altogether? Are there red flags here? Recently I've been feeling like I would be much more successful at a larger, 'big-N' type where teams and products are much more structured and lateral mobility is possible Thanks in advance for all of your help! [link] [comments]  |
| Under-qualified for Internships Posted: 01 May 2018 07:22 PM PDT Hello. I am a Computer Science student who is finishing his sophomore year, and has been casually looking at internships this semester. It seems like most internships in CS require way more experience than I could have reasonably developed so far, even considering that I am still in college. I have experience with C++, Python, Labview, HTML, JavaScript, and Matlab, but it seems like that isn't enough for a lot of employers, even for a sophomore. What resources should I use to develop employable skills outside of college? I'm concerned at this point that my options for employment after graduation will be limited if I don't find an opportunity for work experience before graduation. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 07:24 AM PDT I work a full-time job, making 30k a year, in a call center. I have been playing around with Python in my free time (Still on the very very basic stuff), and am considering pursuing CS. I have a bachelor's degree in Psych/Neuroscience (3.6 GPA), and in theory think it would be cool to potentially pivot to deep learning- but that's neither here nor there, need to walk before I run, etc. I can go to a locally respected bootcamp in person for 13k, 8 hours a day/5 days a week. I would need to leave my current job, and pick up work in food and beverage or something of the sort. (6 month program) I could take out private loans and get my online post-bacc at oregon state for 30k over 2'ish years Or I could take out federal loans for my associates, in person, at my local community college (probably would need to leave my current job to do it in a timely fashion) then pursue my Bachelor's if the associates isn't enough to land a job. Thoughts from experience? [link] [comments]  |
| If my summer internship requires that I return to school in fall, can I do a fall internship anyway? Posted: 01 May 2018 07:19 PM PDT As part of onboarding, my summer internship required that I provide proof of being enrolled in classes for Fall 2018. After looking at my school's schedule, I think I'd rather intern again in Fall. My onboarding's finished, enrollment verified, I'm set to fly out in a couple weeks... can I just drop the classes and accept a fall internship? They can't sue me for not being at school in the fall, right? If it matters I'm not in a co-op program and can't earn credit for interning. [link] [comments]  |
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