Big 4 Discussion - June 27, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Big 4 Discussion - June 27, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - June 27, 2018
- How long do you keep answering questions from your former employer?
- Tip: "fake it til you make it" refers to emotions, not skills/knowledge
- How should I display work experience in the porn industry?
- Is it worth paying for a LeetCode membership while looking for a new job?
- Not sure the industry is for me, I like programming just not for 8hrs/day in near silence
- I need to vent: I'm in my late 20s, I'm absolutely terrible at my job and I feel inferior and that I wasted 10 years of my life
- Fired from first job in Chicago
- Help getting into Data Analysis.
- Few days into new job and want to leave
- Too old? Time/financial constraints...options?
- How much value do you put on intangibles at a job
- MODSERVATION: How to quit when you cannot stand the people you work with
- Job change frequency in this field. Gotta do what ya gotta do, or hurting in the long run? Does it matter?
- Job Offer Revoked
- What are the SW engineer levels at chip-houses like Nvidia, amd, intel in comparison to known companies here?
- Is GWT experience relevant in today's job market?
- How you break out of a bad career?
- How to explain my employment gap when I can't even get a callback?
- Will a ColdFusion developer position limit me in the future?
- How can I explain rather extended breaks between jobs?
- Is it bad to keep my projects closed source?
- I feel like I'm not progressing on my internship and I'm stressing
- What direction do I take?
- To Move Companies Or Not
- Cooldown for Internships
| Big 4 Discussion - June 27, 2018 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:07 AM PDT Please use this thread to have discussions about the Big 4 and questions related to the Big 4, such as which one offers the best doggy benefits, or how many companies are in the Big 4 really? Posts focusing solely on Big 4 created outside of this thread will probably be removed. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Sunday and Wednesday at midnight PST. Previous Big 4 Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - June 27, 2018 Posted: 27 Jun 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]  |
| How long do you keep answering questions from your former employer? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:32 AM PDT So I started a new job about 6 weeks ago. I gave my 2 weeks notice with my old job and had meetings with my coworkers to pass my in-progress projects along. However, I'm still getting questions about my projects. A couple weeks ago, I was asked to call and help troubleshoot an app I'd done some some work on. Yesterday, In was informed that my former coworkers can't find my code (that I know I had in source control) and they are setting up a Skype meeting with me today to help find it. I don't want to be a jerk, but, to be honest, I left that job because they were starting to expect me to always be available (sometimes cancelling long-standing vacation plans to get something finished) and I need time away from work to stay sane. Honestly, I'm stressed the fuck out by the meeting today and if they still don't see the source code, I have no idea what I'll be expected to do about it. I really like my new job and I just want to leave my old job behind me. Anyway, at what point can I stop answering these questions? I don't want this to reflect badly on my as an employee *UPDATE: I told my previous employer that I would not be able to attend the meeting since I am at work. I texted them where I branched my projects to (should have been obvious, but oh well) and the branch naming convention I use. I also informed them that I am willing to jump on meetings and assist, but would be billing $200/hr with a one hour minimum (to account for task switching). After all that, they were magically able to find all the source code. Thanks everyone for your advice! This is my first time in this situation and wasn't sure if this was expected behavior or how to handle it 🙃 [link] [comments]  |
| Tip: "fake it til you make it" refers to emotions, not skills/knowledge Posted: 27 Jun 2018 07:29 PM PDT I occasionally see the advice "fake it 'til you make it" brought up in the context of being a junior developer and in relation to impostor syndrome. It has always bothered me for couple reasons: 1) If someone is worried about being an impostor, telling them to 'fake it' seems to be just adding to that pretty directly -- the very definition of an impostor is someone who fakes something. 2) In healthy environments, it is rather hard to fake skill or knowledge for very long. You'll run into problems delivering and ultimately end up in a conversation about performance. However, I've recently realized the conditions under which that phrase make sense: When the 'it' you faking is your emotional state. So for example, if you walk into an interview and inside you are feeling nervous but you use confident body language, that will make you feel more confident. That 'faking it' actually caused a change in the real situation. In contrast, if you are working on a problem involving debugging some container setup and you try to "fake it" and act confidently in your knowledge and ability to solve the problem without help...that won't actually tell you anything about port forwarding or cgroups. Instead, when you start 'faking it', you'll feel like you have to go heads-down and do a bunch of research yourself in order to be able to live up to whatever you promised about your knowledge. This is the wrong thing to do and can lead you down a 4-day rabbit hole... which holds your team back. How to approach situations where you feel tempted to fake knowledge or skill relies on a few things:
Your job as an engineer isn't to know all the things but to take responsibility for communicating about and negotiating for the resources you need. That way, your team lead can delegate something to you and walk away thinking "okay, that's being taken care of and I can worry about other things. If anything comes up, he'll let me know" Those resources can include guidance in planning something, time in your own roadmap to spend explicitly learning about something, or a half hour on someone's calendar to walk them through your plan and challenge assumptions you didn't realize you were making. Without the ability to be honest with yourself and your team about gaps in your knowledge, it is incredibly hard to work up the courage to ask. But with that self-knowledge and a healthy organization, it often only requires asking. "If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles" EDIT: verb tenses [link] [comments]  |
| How should I display work experience in the porn industry? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:00 PM PDT I have worked at MindGeek, parent company of friendly household brands such as pornhub, redtube, youporn, etc. I current list it as MindGeek - Industry Leader in Adult Websites. Would this put off hiring managers? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it worth paying for a LeetCode membership while looking for a new job? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 04:38 PM PDT Recently laid off, looking for a new position. I want to shake the rust off and I have an interview with facebook in about 2.5 weeks. The woman I spoke to actually gave me a study guide and recommended leetcode to practice. Though facebook or no facebook, would you recommend paying for at least the months i'm unemployed? The mock interview thing looks like it could be worth it [link] [comments]  |
| Not sure the industry is for me, I like programming just not for 8hrs/day in near silence Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:48 AM PDT This is such a first world problem. I'm paid well, find my Java development job pretty easy and sometimes fulfilling, but still feel sometimes like I've been sent to jail and am in solitary confinement. Obviously I wouldn't want constant distractions, but my job is really getting me down. I'm more used to manual jobs where everyone has a laugh, I don't feel like my co-workers are good at relating to people- and its depressing me in a surprisingly big way. Maybe the problem is just me, i dunno. Any advice would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:39 PM PDT I was never interested in programming or computers beyond gaming as a teenager. My dad is a software developer, he told me to go into it because it's a good career. In my first high school CS course when I was starting out I was failing the course though it eventually gotten much better because of how much effort I put in I sometimes wish I just gave up on programming back then. So I've always being terrible at programming, but I worked hard and had good grades. I got into the CS program at one of the best North American schools, my parents basically assumed that a good school will make me a good programmer but the truth is deep down inside I always knew I was going to be terrible at it. So once I was actually in University things just fall apart, I literally cannot connect lecture material with assignments when it comes to coding. Like when I start doing assignments in Stats or Math or whatever instead of my coding courses I'm actually relieved. The ironic thing is doing the courses that's actually relevant to my career is what I'm actually worst at. I had internships: at almost every single one of the internships I've being told I would probably be fired if I was a full-timer, I was actually fired from one. I'm beginning to come to the conclusion I can't handle complicated problems: I know that people say I should break them down but I just can't. I don't even know when to begin. And once I start coding it's like everything just becomes a fog: all the objects and classes starts to mix together. It's like being told to assemble an machine with many components and I don't have the design diagram in my head so I keep jamming components together and getting nowhere. I start writing methods which make no sense, or I suddenly start writing methods which are obsolete or does nothing, or I start putting code in classes which make no sense. Or I start fiddling around with code that has nothing to do with the current problem. Or I dive into solving a problem only to realize it's so incredibly convoluted I can't solve it: and worse yet, it never needed solving because i made a fundamental design flaw 5 steps ago which caused the issue in the first place. I'm afraid to ask for help because the look I get like "this is such a stupid thing to ask" and other times it feels I'm asking for help so much that I'm almost getting other people to do the project for me. Things got better after I graduated (I graduated successfully because I worked 3x more than everybody else did). I actually ended up doing a grad degree in a non-CS mathematical field but I ran into the same problem I did in my undergrad: initially things went really well, but as soon as the problems become complicated I go from top of the class to literally the very bottom. So after 10 years of struggling since my freshman year, the only thing I've achieved is to be at an entry level developer position in which I'm doing just well enough that I'm not afraid of being fired. But even now my boss always comments on how I'm doing things too slow, or how my code sucks. I was literally stuck on something for a week which should have taken a day because I went in the wrong direction and took a deep dive into the wrong direction. Every single time now when my boss asks me "where are you in this problem" I die a little inside because I know I'm doing things too slow and I get stuck on things. I did a calculation vs inflation the other day, the really scary thing is I realized as a developer I haven't had a real raise in years. Meanwhile, all my classmates, including the ones who dropped out of school are working in silicon valley making $100ks/year. They are senior developers or managers. I don't even talk to any of them anymore because how shit I feel. What prompted me to write this is the fact I've being stuck on a dependency issue in my current project all day and I'll probably get yelled about it in the morning. I actually worked in support instead of Developer for a year and actually made more, but the problem is I felt I was learning nothing and its a simple job that's probably going to be automated in the years to come. I want to learn, I want to solve interesting and difficult problems and build my worth as an engineer. But at the same time I feel I have zero aptitude for it and I'm wasting my time. I don't see things changing in the future and I have no idea what to do. Everyday now I regret going into this career and wish I had done something else, I believed I had potential for something great going into university and I feel I squandered it. [link] [comments]  |
| Fired from first job in Chicago Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:57 PM PDT I was just let go a few hours ago by my company, a trading firm in Chicago. I have not had time to look through all the documents but they're giving me a large bonus, with standard stipulations that I do not share confidential information, sue the company, etc. This is my first job out of college (am 23). A few questions:
Thanks in advance. I know I'm rambling but I have a million thoughts going on and it's impossible right now for me to rational or cohesive. [link] [comments]  |
| Help getting into Data Analysis. Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:14 PM PDT I've been wondering through college without a clear career path until i took classes related to SQL, Business Intelligence and Data Mining and decided to look into a field related to those. Maybe Data analysis isn't a very encompassing term but broadening my view with were i could go is also i need help with.. But after looking up information related to what i learned in those classes i feel as aimless as i was before and without a clear idea as to what kinds of jobs i can expect to find and of course what kind of preparation i'll need to even apply for them. If i sound like i'm not making any sense it should give you an idea as to how lost i feel. Any advice on where i can go after i get a BA in computer science in terms of jobs and/or continued study would be very much appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Few days into new job and want to leave Posted: 27 Jun 2018 04:29 PM PDT Hey guys. I just recently graduated and started my first software development job and I'm not liking it at all. I have to admit I only accepted it as backup because it was the only offer I got at the time and wanted to renege later. Despite not everything working out, I ended up starting the job anyway. It pays very competitively with amazing benefits. This is the only reason to work here, yet I'll still try my best to learn given what I have until I find another opportunity. As for why I want to quit, it's not a good fit culturally or for my experience. Everybody here is a middle aged FOB of a specific skin color. Now I'm not a racist and this isn't too big of a deal for me but I've already found it difficult to make lasting connections here, when everyone is speaking a language different from me and I feel I'll never be able to make meaningful conversations with them. I feel really left out here. Is this a concern people often have? I feel like I could be complaining too much here but like I said not my biggest concern. The culture within teams isn't ideal either. No one really talks to each other outside of meetings. I already know I'm not here to make friends but it is a complaint I have. The culture is super corporate and without interacting with anyone, I can feel it bleed through the drab lightning and cubicles. I've had some internships here and there and they've all had pretty modern tech stacks. This company however is completely opposite. Most of the work here is porting legacy code to use a more modern tech stack, yet it's not very modern at all. Lots of windows development, manual code merging, no usage of git at all, proprietary framework, manual deployments, spaghetti code...everything I have been taught not to do is what I'm about to be doing. It feels like everything I learned about structured development, writing clean code, etc has been washed away.This to me is the number one reason why I want to leave. I don't feel I will be growing at my full potential. I applaud you if you read this far because I could have just trusted you to believe that I'm not liking this job at all. So now I'll ask some questions on how to handle this situation. I'd be completely cool if you offered your honest opinions on my complaints and if they're valid or I'm just being too pompous.
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| Too old? Time/financial constraints...options? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:42 AM PDT Hey guys, I saw a post about age and saw the OP was worried in his late 20s. I'm 33 going 34 and have almost no background or experience in programming. I recently started a udemy course and got a decent grasp of front end (I think? I hope?) and starting back end now. I'm working as a pharmacist and absolutely hate the job...am utterly miserable and in pain from standing around for 10+ hours. I've always been decent with computers and would like to see if I can switch jobs or at the very least use it for side jobs and stuff. But the problem is I take care of 2 mortgages(my parents place and my own), school and car loans and am out to work from 9 am to 8 pm M-F. Then I come home and try to study for about 3-4 hours. Rinse and repeat. I'm steadily working on my front end and back end stuff the best I can but it is a lot. And I can't seem to focus properly to retain. I'm usually better with some structure so I was looking to see if a bootcamp would work, but theres lots of time limits and deadlines which I'm not sure I can make. And at this rate it'll take me another year or two to be comfortable enough to look for a job, which'll put me at around 34-35+ years old. Sorry for being longwinded. Ultimately I hate pharmacy, I want to change out but financially I can't. First off, am I too old at this point to be considered at a job position? Is the process I am taking (the udemy) adequate or should I look into a bootcamp at the very least? Are there any decent bootcamps that doesn't have such strict time constraints? Of course it depends on how good I am, I totally understand that. Thanks! EDIT: Wow people are so kind on this subreddit....I was half expecting people to laugh me out. I really appreciate the words of encouragement and suggestions. Thanks guys! [link] [comments]  |
| How much value do you put on intangibles at a job Posted: 27 Jun 2018 07:46 PM PDT For some background am most likely going to quit my job of 4+ years, its the only one I've had. But as I get closer to finalizing my decision I keep finding myself drawn to the non compensation related parts of my job that I like and don't know how much to value them. Like enjoying the people I work with, having an office all to myself (will be moving to one of those open/shared workspaces shudder), am valued at my job and have a lot of goodwill (can work from home as much as I want for example, spent two months working remotely from another country last year), having a manager who is genuinely supportive and just being in a small close-knit company (instead of a large but prestigious one). Would I be foolish to value these things over compensation, prestige/big-4-ness and future-growth? TL;DR : How to account for the intangibles at a job/company? [link] [comments]  |
| MODSERVATION: How to quit when you cannot stand the people you work with Posted: 27 Jun 2018 06:24 AM PDT Dearest CSQC subscribers When you have a coworker, boss, team, project, company, industry that you want to leave from and want to leave them all on fire what are your do's and don'ts ? I'll toss some of mine in the comments but interested to learn others thoughts here. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:39 AM PDT Hey guys! Just some background on me:
I am considering leaving my current role to pursue opportunities overseas, namely in Switzerland. However, I don't want to damage my reputation by doing this. I have almost always made moves because I could get a much bigger raise in pay this way. I was getting 3-5% raises annually by just staying in my job, or getting a 15-20% raise by switching. It does not seem like it's been an issue for me yet, since I am still fairly early in my career with about 6 years of experience. However, I am worried that if I keep this trend up I will start being viewed as a job hopper and places will view me as a risky hire. I certainly don't want this reputation, but I also don't want to get shifted on pay when jobs are so easily available in this industry that will flat out pay better if I want to pursue them. I guess my question is, does it matter in this field? Does anyone have experience with this area? I don't really sense loyalty among my peers with regards to the company; it seems that people are, more than ever, motivated by money and opportunity. Thanks for the read. :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 07:13 PM PDT Hey all, The timeline for this is about two months ago, so it's not fresh off my mind, though I'm 99% certain I remember things correctly. Was thinking about it the other night and decided I'd post my story on here to see if others have had similar situations. I have an in-person interview without any phone screening in another department in my current company. Met with 3 managers during the meeting. Took about an hour and was asked about basic CS questions, relevant work history, projects, etc. At the end of the interview, which went pretty damn well, I asked when a decision would be made. They looked at each other, talked quietly for a few seconds, and gave a verbal offer on the spot. I accepted, pending the written offer of salary and such. A week goes by and I hear nothing, so I contact our HR department for an update. Was told it was going well and that they should have the verbal offer to me very shortly. Two weeks go by and still nothing. Walk into HR's office for another update and was given the same sort of story. At this point I'm thinking something funky is going on. Wait another week and see a couple of the managers just standing around bullshitting. Decide to casually chat with them. They keep saying how interested they are, so I feel it's appropriate to ask when they think the job offer will go through. They assure me it will happen very quickly and to just sit tight. The next day I get a short email stating they chose another candidate. Obviously I felt crushed, but landed another job about a month later, so it's all good now. I guess I'm wondering... is this common among CS jobs? Has this happened to any of you? Seems super shady and underhanded. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:56 PM PDT Recruiter contacted saying they plan to make offer. What are the hierarchy/levels at Intel? I was asked to fill out an app with Sr Software eng position title, which is what i think they "might" be planning for. BUT with 15+ yrs experience i'm already above their "principal eng" experience level. I think i'm getting downleveled as the "potential" manager was made principal a few months ago and has less experience than me in general. Should i fill out the application that has "sr sw eng" title to move things forward (and risk being seen as implicitly approving of the title) or negotiate now and risk making them not move forward? [link] [comments]  |
| Is GWT experience relevant in today's job market? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:55 PM PDT I've been working as a Software Engineer for 2+ years at my current company where we extensively use Java, so much so that we develop our web applications with GWT. We do use some plain servlets, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in some projects when we need something quick, and don't care if it's dirty. On top of that, we only use MongoDB due to the nature of our data. As you can see, our stack is not very common as opposed to popular stacks using Spring, Hibernate and AngularJS. I'm scared that I won't be able to get a job elsewhere given the stack I work with. I've been trying to learn Spring, etc, but each time I get busy at work and come back to it, I don't really retain any knowledge, certainly not enough to fool an engineer at a prospective company. The knowledge I feel like I retain is my company's stack since I'm always working with it. What should I do? -
Any information would really be helpful. [link] [comments]  |
| How you break out of a bad career? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:33 PM PDT I graduated 6 years ago. I love worked for 3 companies. One small one right after graduation, but I've been at two of the big tech companies since. About 2.5 years each. First big tech company I was learning a lot and was doing well, team changed and things went south and I really didn't like it so I left. I feel like that was a huge mistake. I left and got a promotion, but ever since I started I am doing much less than at the old company. So I hung on for a while then switched teams after about 2 years. My new team just has me working on build shit that I can't stand anymore. I brought it up to my manager, he was willing to help me find something better on the team. Now he's gone in a reorganization. I'm moving on to something that sounds better, but I just don't have the will to do this anymore. I feel like I've gotten no useful skills, haven't grown at all in this job. I just don't know how to succeed here. I don't know how the hell I'm going to get out of this. I don't think I can pass an interview. I talked to a pretty well known later stage startup and basically got told I have no relevant skills, recruiter very helpfully offered to stay in touch and said he's gotten people in at top tech companies... I've spent years working for supposedly two of the top companies. I feel like I've been working for 6 years but I have about 2 years of real experience. I'm bitter about the fact that I've spent 5 years working for the two largest cloud companies, most of that in their cloud divisions, and I still haven't been able to work on anything where I get to work at scale, work on services, etc... it's all just shit. I've spent the last 4 months refactoring fucking build files and I just can't stand it anymore. It's gotten to the point where I have no idea what I want to do anymore, because I just feel like it's all going to turn to shit. I feel like I have a gift for making the worst possible career move. I see my friends all moving up, doing more and I'm stuck at a job I just can't stand. I'm on be verge of just quitting right now. I would if it wouldn't leave me months from homelessness. Anyone have any advice? Any suggestions on how to get to the point where I'm actually learning and growing instead of doing menial tasks on complex and awesome systems built 10 years ago by the same people Who just moved on to build the next big thing (how do I get to that group)? [link] [comments]  |
| How to explain my employment gap when I can't even get a callback? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:51 PM PDT I'll get my main questions out of the way upfront: do I add a summary section to my resume explaining the gap, or to my cover letter? Should I put something about it on my LinkedIn? Should I send an email to recruiters after I apply? Should I not even try to explain it until I land an interview? And now for some context: I moved to the Bay Area after graduating last May because my boyfriend got a job at a Big 4 company, and because I thought there would be tons of opportunities for me as well. But shortly after we moved into our new apartment, Hurricane Harvey struck and flooded my childhood home, as well as the homes of 3 of my aunts. Both my parents' cars were destroyed, so I drove to Texas to give them my car (it was technically in my dad's name anyways). I ended up staying in Texas for 2 months to help my family clean up and to babysit my brother's 2 kids while he worked (he's an electrician, so he was in high demand after the storm). After I got back to California, I was physically and mentally exhausted. I applied to a bunch of places, most of which I never heard back from, and the rest of which rejected me. I was pretty demoralized and figured my resume was too weak, so I stopped applying to places and decided to work on an idea for an app that I had. Working on the app rejuvenated me, and I treated it like a 9 to 5. I got it to a shippable point and finally released it April. After taking a weekend to celebrate, I updated my resume and went back to applying. And so far, the only appreciable difference is that I get 3 times as many rejections as before. My old resume was much weaker in comparison, so I'm pretty sure my large employment gap is what's turning off employers. I don't regret helping my family through a difficult time, and I'm proud of my app, but I'm afraid the time I spent unemployed is preventing me from getting a job. I feel like if I could just explain my situation it would help, but I'm not sure where or how to do that. [link] [comments]  |
| Will a ColdFusion developer position limit me in the future? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:20 PM PDT I've been working about a year as a developer at a company who uses Adobe's ColdFusion language. When I first graduated and was applying to jobs I had another offer in fintech that primarily used Java however the work environment and culture seemed more pleasing at the ColdFusion position for a slightly higher salary so I went with the ColdFusion position.
When I was deciding between the two, I told the fintech company recruiter that I had the ColdFusion offer to try and get a higher salary and the recruiter told me that I should consider the fact that Java experience would be more marketable for future positions at many more companies.
I'm in the process of looking for a new job but now I'm worried that taking the ColdFusion job for what I considered a more comfortable job at the time was a mistake and will make finding a job in, say, Java will be more difficult now. For the time being I have been able to think and tell myself that the language is not the only factor in choosing a candidate but I just keep having this nagging feeling that I set myself up for a life of ColdFusion... [link] [comments]  |
| How can I explain rather extended breaks between jobs? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 08:38 PM PDT I'd maybe call myself an intermediate programmer, somewhere around 3 years of professional experience. At my last couple of jobs, I burnt out. In one case it was a difficult micromanaging PM, and in another case it was a skills mismatch (they advertised one tech stack but as I found out after starting there, that was essentially a lie to get devs for their very, very legacy system). So, I quit both of those jobs without anything lined up. There was about a 10 month gap between job A and job B, and now it's been about 9 months since I quit job B. I've been fortunate enough to have earned enough to sustain myself during these breaks, and while I'm still not desperate for cash, it would be wise to start considering employment again. I'm in a better mental state and I'm ready to try working again, but today I had a rather bad experience: I got on a video call with a potential employer (after they accepted my resume, online questionnaire, code challenge, and video-recorded answers to questions) and the first thing the guy asked me was, "can you explain those gaps in your resume?" Maybe it was stupid to tell the truth, but that's what I did. I said I wanted to take some time off after not having a great time at my last job due to a skills mismatch, and I've been spending time with friends and family. Well, he ended the call right there after less than 5 minutes. "Too big of a red flag" apparently. Now, this guy was kind of an asshole (corroborated by a plethora of glassdoor reviews labeling him as crazy/unethical/a psychopath etc.), but I kind of see his point. These gaps look weird to american companies; most people work nonstop until they drop dead. Thing is, I parted with my employers at jobs A and B on very good terms, no hard feelings. I waited until I was between projects, I wrote documentation on the work I'd done, helped them deal with my future absence in every way I could. I've never been fired or placed on a performance improvement plan. So I've got two questions: can I continue to take breaks between jobs like this? I feel like it's probably going to be necessary for my mental health. If not, I need to find another industry or even country to work in. And the second question is in the title. How can I get hired again? I've had recruiters and other employers accept my explanation of the gaps: "alright, makes sense." Was this guy just particularly dickish or should I find a better way to explain it/make up a bullshit lie? I'm feeling very demotivated about the whole situation. Thanks in advance for any advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it bad to keep my projects closed source? Posted: 27 Jun 2018 02:39 PM PDT I have been coming up with couple of projects and have considered releasing them closed source. However, would this be bad when seeking jobs? Then I couldn't easily show the code behind my creations. Would that make impressing the potential employer significantly harder? I know we are living the era of GitHub and open source but for me it's not that important that everything in the world is open source. I might want to keep the "genie in the bottle" for these projects. How to make the decision? [link] [comments]  |
| I feel like I'm not progressing on my internship and I'm stressing Posted: 27 Jun 2018 04:50 PM PDT I'm halfway through my internship and i'm getting worried that I'm not really progressing. There's a lot of times when my colleagues are just too busy with their own work that I simply end up browsing StackoverFlow or reading through the code base. Today I was given a time sensitive assignment that's similar to a prior assignment I was given in week 2. It was rather simple but I just couldn't do it on my own. I dealt with a bunch of issues regarding setting up the project environment, running/loading a file, writing the module properly, to the point where my mentor stepped in and did a quick debug on my computer and fixed things in like 5 minutes. I felt really discouraged and stupid. The task was pretty simple but I just couldn't do it on my own. There's a lot of stuff in this company's code that I just don't get the flow of, plus it's in an industry that I have absolute 0 knowledge about. Not sure what to do right now. Guess I'm just venting and seeking for advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:51 AM PDT I have an associates in Computer Programming and recently 'acquired' free time to go back for more schooling. That said, I'm not sure what direction I want to take things. I couldn't land any tech type jobs with just my associates so I have no idea how things operate. I don't think I'm cut out for a career in coding, mostly because I've been told "If you have to be motivated or in the mood to code, it isn't for you". But also because there are just so many who are undoubtedly better than me; Almost naturally so, but, I don't know. That said what is it like to be a professional programmer? What does the job entail? What similar fields use coding but might be more up my alley? I looked into data analyst but that looks too..idk, intricate? I like working with data but not in the way it seems they do. Any advice/insight would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 08:23 PM PDT Hey guys, I am thinking about leaving my current company. There is another company I'm interviewing at that seems pretty interested. I'm a salaried employee at the moment full time and the other position is a salaried contract position for just about a year and some change. I'm getting a pay raise at the current company I work at but id be making just a little more at the other company. Although the other company is a cool start up with the backing of a large organization. The agency that wants to contract me out says that they have had a 100% placement rate at this startup as far as being hired 6 - 8 months on the job/ converted to a full time employee, which at that point you can renegotiate your salary again. I'm trying to figure out if this would be the right move or not, not displeased with my current company but I just want to learn a new tech stack, the tech stack at the startup is using React Native, Node, etc, its really up to date tech which is why i'm interested. Current Company Pay With Raise: 67 - 68k - Cheap Benefits/Full Time Salaried Employee / Not Displeased but not interested in the work and right when i get in I want to go home lol but its great some days? Other Company 68 - 70k - Expensive Benefits but cooler technology / more interesting city / will barely make more but only by a fraction. Also have the opportunity to get hired on as a full time employee 6 - 8 months in the contract and can renegotiate my salary. I just turned 24, and have been out of college for a year and have been working as a Junior Developer also for a year.(Started work a few weeks after graduation.) What do you all think? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2018 08:15 PM PDT I got rejected from Amazon without an interview within 2 days of applying and I'm wondering if I'm not allow to apply for the next summer since it won't be 6 months yet as of this fall (I applied for fall co-op). In the email it says 6 months, but I'm assuming this was just automated since it was so fast. [link] [comments]  |
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