Resume Advice Thread - June 30, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - June 30, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - June 30, 2018
- Converted Big O cheat sheets into a quiz for algorithm prep!
- New manager here... found some pretty incredible salary discrepancies
- If the recruiter stops replying does that mean that I am no longer in consideration
- Job hopping...When does it become a problem?
- Following up with recruiter?
- Develop good communication habbits?
- Graduating With No Internships
- Does anyone else feel like almost all of your coworkers are introverts and hard to talk to?
- leetcode explore vs top company vs companies tag difference?
- Need help thinking about how to plan my career as a now dropout.
- First day of employment after school - office bag
- Left a direct hire gig for a contracting position that pays a lot more. I'm not sure if I should be actively looking for jobs before the contract is up
- What personal project (done by you or someone you know) impressed you the most?
- What should i say for expected compensation.
- is it worth getting Computer information System?
- Anyone work on computer assisted diagnostic software?
- Graduate next May - When to start looking for full-time job
- Why is working on large scale systems treated like the be-all end-all of software programming work?
- Can previous mechanical engineering internships help me in becoming a quant?
- Liberal Arts student looking for a job -- Advice?
- Getting from a linguistics degree to an AI career
- Trying to decide between two offers.
- Work after Uni?
| Resume Advice Thread - June 30, 2018 Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:07 AM PDT Please use this thread to ask for resume advice and critiques. You should read our Resume FAQ and implement any changes from that before you ask for more advice. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - June 30, 2018 Posted: 30 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]  |
| Converted Big O cheat sheets into a quiz for algorithm prep! Posted: 30 Jun 2018 01:12 PM PDT I'm practicing my big O notations, and wished there was a way to test myself on the big O cheatsheet material without writing everything down. I wrote a small script that converts the site into a quiz. Hope others will find it helpful in preparing for interviews! Here's the link to the script for those who want to see the source code if you copy and paste that into the console in chrome dev tools of big O cheat sheets it converts it into a quiz as well. That being said, all credit for the original tables go to Big O Cheat Sheets! Please note that that the key to knowing the time/space complexities is by understanding the algorithms behind them, so please use this to double check that you understand the algorithms rather than just memorizing the big O table. *edit: If you spot any bugs please let me know and I'll do my best to fix them! Thank you in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| New manager here... found some pretty incredible salary discrepancies Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:19 PM PDT Just became the manager of 15 engineers and now I can see all of their salaries. I know these 15 engineers pretty well and it seems like certain engineers are WAY overpaid and certain engineers are WAY underpaid. We're talking about a difference between the highest and lowest salaries of more than $80K. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| If the recruiter stops replying does that mean that I am no longer in consideration Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:55 PM PDT So I applied for the Google fall internship and completed three interviews before being sent to the hiring committee. It has been roughly two weeks and the recruiter has not replied back even when I asked for a status update. Does that mean I am no longer being considered? [link] [comments]  |
| Job hopping...When does it become a problem? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:15 PM PDT It's no secret that our generation of software developers have a tendency to jump between jobs quite frequently. I'm curious when this becomes an issue from the perspective of a recruiter or employer. Let's ignore the obvious red flags, such as someone leaving jobs after 6 months. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:49 PM PDT If a recruiter emailed me(e.g. on thursday) about a job application I filled out and asked what date and time works best for me for a phone call, and I emailed back saying I am flexible on monday&tuesday, how about x time. And it's now Sunday and I have not heard back, when should I email again and what should I say? [link] [comments]  |
| Develop good communication habbits? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:08 PM PDT So at my workplace, I have a hard time "breaking the ice" with the customer or giving them a good experience. My speech teacher told me I sound too robotic and same with my manager. I guess my question is do you guys have any advice for improving my communication skills? Because later down the line, when I am doing a Whiteboard interview I have to get used to communicating my ideas to other people. In addition, I was told that people who communicate better than others end up making 50% more money. I definitely want that! [link] [comments]  |
| Graduating With No Internships Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:52 PM PDT I'll be graduating next June with a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering at a pretty good state university. I'm really worried though about my job prospects because I had some terrible luck with internships. I got an offer for an internship over this summer but the company's budget fell through and they weren't able to hire me. I got the rejection about a week before my start date so it was too late for me to find another one. I'm really worried about how this affects my future prospects though. I have a few decent personal projects to put on my resume but no relevant work experience. I'd greatly appreciate any advice on what to do. Tips like what kind of personal projects to work on over this summer or when and how I should start applying for a position would be very helpful. [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone else feel like almost all of your coworkers are introverts and hard to talk to? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:52 PM PDT Sometimes I'm amazed at the lack of social skills that my coworkers have. Amazingly nice people, but sometimes very awkward. [link] [comments]  |
| leetcode explore vs top company vs companies tag difference? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:48 PM PDT I notice if I choose Top "Company X" Questions or filter by company tag on the main problems page, the list sorted by frequency is totally different than if I select the company from the Companies panel on the right hand side (and then also sort by frequency). Is one more accurate than the other? Also compared to Explore? I want to narrow it by company and then do the most common questions - I have premium. [link] [comments]  |
| Need help thinking about how to plan my career as a now dropout. Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:09 PM PDT Long story short, I have now left college early after 4-5 semesters due to a mix of reasons (family, medical, etc) and I don't plan on going back. I have had 4 internships; 2 big bank, trading company, and Big 4 on top of research assistant work during university. I had a decent GPA (~3.6) and now work for a great financial company making ~140k total comp in a big city (so I can save/spend money to do something beneficial). This is my first year of real professional work, and I have been only working for a few months, and I am 22. I have some projects on github and plan to add more over the next 1.5-2 years before I leave my current company, but I'm worried about how I will look at other companies without a completed bachelors. Right now my plan was to add several more github projects (I code quite frequently for fun), as well as some Udacity nanodegrees (these are more for me than job searching) and perhaps attend a coding boot camp for a few months after leaving here. Is this a reasonable plan for getting interviews at Google, Bloomberg, etc? I've previously passed the leetcode style interviews with never having an issue, so I am 100% not worried about the interviews with these companies, but I am worried about my ability to even get them. Thanks for any help! [link] [comments]  |
| First day of employment after school - office bag Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:55 PM PDT I just graduated from school and begin my first day of work next Tuesday. Am I supposed to carry an office bag to the workplace on the first day? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:47 AM PDT I left a cushy job with decent benefits at a company that's main product is not tech. They paid well for the location. I was reached out by a recruiter from a recruiting firm for different opportunities. I looked at what she had to offer and I saw a position/company that seemed cool. I was told that if I do well during this 9 month contract, I am guaranteed a position. The company I work at now is very well known and their main product is tech based. My salary increased by 50%, which was the big selling point. I enjoy working with my team, I'm working on some cool stuff, and overall, the culture here is perfect for me. I'm very close with my manager and the dev lead on the team as well as a bunch of others at the company. One of the downsides is that my insurance (through the recruiting firm) is incredibly bad. It doesn't cover ER visits, surgeries, exams etc. And I'm paying more for this insurance than the insurance at my previous company, which covered much more. I also don't get PTO and I am forced to take holidays off, which means no pay. I also checked out the benefits for a full time employee and I noticed they are not good compared to the first company I worked at. My contract is going to be up in the next 5 months and I'm not sure when I should start looking for new jobs. My manager and my lead are saying I'm doing very well and I'm going above and beyond the scope of my job. I feel like my resume is really good and I shouldn't have to be contracting at all, I only took the job in the first place because it was a 50% increase. I just don't want to have to rely on someone's word and be out of a job by the end of it. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| What personal project (done by you or someone you know) impressed you the most? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 01:03 AM PDT Have you ever come across a project that truly awed you? What project was it? Why do you think it was so amazing? If this was your own project, how did you come up with the idea? There are so many people with different backgrounds and experiences in this subreddit. It would be enlightening to know about those quirky project ideas. Please share if you know of any such projects. For me, it was Jennifer Dewalt's 180 websites in 180 days. It was such a smart way to learn and express the things she learnt along the way. is her website, if anyone is interested in learning more about her project. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| What should i say for expected compensation. Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:05 PM PDT I am in compensation talks with a big N and they want me to give a expected compensation first. I do not have a previous salary to build off of or competing offers. Should I just give them what payscale gave me or should i overshoot by a bit or is there a smarter thing to do. [link] [comments]  |
| is it worth getting Computer information System? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:00 PM PDT I've been studying a Bachelors degree for Computer information System for 4 years now and really don't know what to do after i graduate (1 year from now) can someone give me any tips what to do after college, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone work on computer assisted diagnostic software? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:49 PM PDT I'm a soon to be medical student, but I'm fascinated by computer science and it's potential cross over with radiology. I was wondering if anyone that works in this field works closely with radiologists and if so what their roll is it helping develop software. [link] [comments]  |
| Graduate next May - When to start looking for full-time job Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:18 PM PDT I'm interning this summer and the fall semester. Will graduate after Spring 2019. When do you guys think is a good time to start looking for full-time jobs? [link] [comments]  |
| Why is working on large scale systems treated like the be-all end-all of software programming work? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:08 PM PDT It can be challenging for sure, but there must be many other kinds of software development that can be a good showcase of skill, and different needs have to be suited for different styles. I've come across an old topic one time where someone asked to have their resume looked at, and one guy brushes off one of his works seemingly as if to say, don't be proud of that, it's small potatoes. Reason being that OP mentioned it was an application deployed for "hundreds" of private users. So the reaction was, that hundreds of users is nothing, you can run that off a laptop (so I guess that doesn't count as "real" work?) There's lots of specializations that don't strictly deal with large systems or millions of transactions, and it's still hard work. Like embedded software for very resource-limited systems. Or designing an operating system. Game development can be very tough too and technically that is just "software that runs on a laptop". Business is business, someone was making dough from that and it served a real world need and you should definitely use what you got for your background to present to others as long as it wasn't extremely immoral or illegal. I'm just tired of the gatekeeping on what is "hard work" versus "slacking" based on how many users use your software now. [link] [comments]  |
| Can previous mechanical engineering internships help me in becoming a quant? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:06 PM PDT Hey everyone, so I am really interested in becoming a quantitative analyst/algorithmic trader/other quant roles and I am currently doing a software engineering internship (tech analyst) at a bank. I am a cs major, but before that I was a mechanical engineering major and had a couple of internships there. If I had a mechanical engineering internship at NASA, would this help me in applying to be a quant given that I learn the computer science/programming skills and take statistics/math courses? I am asking because I know for software engineering at a big tech company they wouldn't really care since that wasn't software engineering, but I read that quant firms like physics and electrical engineering majors because they are problem solvers, so I was wondering if it would be similar for mechanical engineering. Thank you for any advice you can provide! [link] [comments]  |
| Liberal Arts student looking for a job -- Advice? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:06 PM PDT Hey all. I have a Liberal Arts degree from a state school, with a minor in Computer Science. I currently intern as a web developer in a role that straddles traditional web development with tier 2 analyst/ IT at a state institution. It's not the flashiest role, and the pay is bad, and I desperately want to find a full time job. I have a relatively decent grasp of OOP fundamentals, as the CS minor was actually pretty extensive (it took 21 units). But I feel that I'm being held back by my humanities degree in job applications. I have yet to even get a single interview. I have work experience with JS, HTML, CSS as well as school experience with Python, Java, and C++ and i feel that that's just the issue -- i'm too inexperienced and too much of a 'jack of all trades, master of none' to get a foot in the door in the bay area. I'm just looking for career advice mostly. I'm taking a look at teaching myself React -- if you could tell me to get really good at one single thing to get a job what would it be? Would react be a good place to start? TBH I just want a job. I like doing front end, back end, database, data science, web dev, i love video games -- anything. I just need a fulltime job. I'm bleeding money fast. [link] [comments]  |
| Getting from a linguistics degree to an AI career Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:25 PM PDT I have an undergrad in linguistics, and I'm wondering what is the best path towards getting into working on the language portion of AI (computational linguistics/natural language processing). I have an enormous interest in the current issues of AI, as well as its future, and have been learning/reading a lot on the subject-matter. I am aware that I will need a CS background to work in this field. I am currently getting into programming, and have been enjoying it thus far. I will likely take a couple of free online courses (in the meantime) to further my knowledge, though I understand that this doesn't usually substitute attending a traditional university. I have seen master programs that I would eventually like to attend, but I realize that I will first need to undertake the essential CS classes. Would it suffice to take whatever required CS classes I need for the graduate programs (I have looked at some of them, and they can seemingly be taken in a year's time if done full-time)? Or should I commit to a second bachelors in CS (or something even more specific to AI)? Is this the only path to working in computational linguistics/nlp? Or are there alternatives? [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to decide between two offers. Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:27 PM PDT Offer 1: The start-up Salary: $150k Bonus: $15k Other Information:
Offer 2: Microsoft Salary: $120k Bonus: $24k Signing Bonus: $15k Stock: $10k Other Information:
So in the first year total comp is about the same but every year after that I'm losing $20k not to mention the losses on percent based raises. I've sent a counter to Microsoft that brings total comp closer in years 2+ but would like feedback based on where it stands now. What would you do? What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:20 PM PDT Hi everyone I hope this is okay to post here... I'm about to start my third year at university studying Software Engineering (UK) and hope to graduate with a first. I'm just wondering what to expect from getting my first job in the industry? At uni we've done lots of programming assignments which are along the lines of code a game of pong, or create a traffic simulator etc. but not really picking up existing projects or working on a group project or things I imagine to do in a professional environment. I just feel if I were to start a programming job I wouldn't even know where to begin. Just wondering about people's first graduate jobs or what to expect sort of thing or advice. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
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