Big 4 Discussion - August 29, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Big 4 Discussion - August 29, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - August 29, 2018
- Goldman Sachs Reimbursement - HORRIBLE experience
- As a fresh grad out of work: How do you become an in-demand, highly sought after developer? Is there a place online/somewhere to learn great software design/practices? What other technical skills are valuable?
- Would it be useful to share and make LeetCode solution videos?
- Best NYC Tech Companies for New Grads
- r/blackladiesintech sub is here
- Improving verbal communication when whiteboarding - besides practice, any techniques to organize ones thought and express it verbally?
- 85K in Delaware vs 95k in NY (JC/Brklyn)
- Software developer at Citibank in SF vs Software developer at JP Morgan in NYC?
- What are the odds to get into a top PhD program given my background
- Associate Software Engineer at Infosys
- What does a good github page look like?
- What is it like to work as a technology consultant for one of the big consulting companies (e.g. Deloitte)?
- when do you start calling yourself a senior front end dev?
- Startup vs. stable job
- Being managed out - any things I'm not doing to prepare?
- Anyone else refuse to put Slack on their phone?
- Compensation
- Will companies ever send out a coding test/initial screening if they're going to reject you no matter what?
- Cybersecurity vs Developer
- IMC Trading in Chicago
- How do I find Companies I'm Interested In?
- Can a Computer Science major get a job that is normally for humanities majors (PR, marketing, journalism, etc.) after graduation? What if I get a history minor or BA?
- Close to graduating, but have no idea how to work professionally
- Dumb question, but I'd like to ask about being a web developer.
| Big 4 Discussion - August 29, 2018 Posted: 29 Aug 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 - August 29, 2018 Posted: 29 Aug 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]  |
| Goldman Sachs Reimbursement - HORRIBLE experience Posted: 29 Aug 2018 11:48 AM PDT Goldman Sachs is absolutely ATROCIOUS at processing reimbursements after interviews. I had an onsite with them the week before Memorial Day, and only on Monday did I finally get my reimbursements sent to me (after 3 months of fighting and them "losing" my case in their system). They initially said 4-6 weeks to process the reimbursement (which is ridiculous in itself), but took over 2 months to first mention there was an issue internally after I contacted them multiple times. Another few weeks passed, and nothing happened until I pushed and pushed. And even after that, they ended up sending it to me in a fricking WIRE TRANSFER (which gets hit with my bank's $15 fee) instead of doing it like ACH that literally even mid-stage startups can do within a single week. For someone that calls themselves a financial institution, this is absolutely unacceptable. Absolutely terrible [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:22 AM PDT I am really just eager to learn about what real software is like. I went to a great school with fantastic teachers but like others on this sub, it was very theoretical CS with little application to the real world. I can also learn syntax all day long but unfortunately most tutorials stop there. Coding projects seems to me like a good place to continue in, but I figured I'll never learn if I keep using the same (bad?) patterns everyday. For example, you could build project after project and never learn that writing functions that are massive in length (for eg.) is something to be avoided. It seems like structuring a project, maintainable code, great design, and most importantly, software architecture, are skills that are tough to learn on your own. (I would love to have a senior dev mentor to teach me the ropes, but finding a job in tech is quite competitive, and people don't have time to mentor others) Senior devs of r/cscareerquestions, if you were to "coach/build" a terrific, incredible software engineer, starting with a fresh grad who knows DS/algos/oop, and has a lot of free time (unemployment), what would you tell him/her? What resources/books/projects/activities would you direct them towards if they really want to hit it out of the park in 2 years? Should the focus be on system design? [link] [comments]  |
| Would it be useful to share and make LeetCode solution videos? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 06:28 PM PDT I wanted a way for me to practice LeetCoding questions and figured it could be useful not only for myself, but possibly others if I recorded a video of me doing them. So, I went ahead and made my first one and figured I should get some feedback before I am too deep into them. Let me know what you think of the first one, and if you think I should continue making them, or how I could improve! Intro to the channel: https://youtu.be/04eiLqAU91U First LeetCode video: https://youtu.be/yMzFRrlcFWY [link] [comments]  |
| Best NYC Tech Companies for New Grads Posted: 29 Aug 2018 11:05 AM PDT I'm currently working a FANG internship in CA but don't think I'll be able to transfer the return offer to NYC and would prefer to work there bc I grew up in the area. What are some of the best tech companies with interesting work in NYC? [link] [comments]  |
| r/blackladiesintech sub is here Posted: 29 Aug 2018 06:55 AM PDT Wanted to get the word onto here, in case there's anyone interested in joining! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 03:08 PM PDT I struggle so much with explaining my thought process when going through a whiteboarding session. It's not just whiteboarding but I've typically struggled to explain technical concepts even if I had a good grasp of it. Besides practice which is a given, are there any techniques out there to organize one's though to verbally express a thought process? [link] [comments]  |
| 85K in Delaware vs 95k in NY (JC/Brklyn) Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:44 AM PDT Hello, a quick background is that I am 20, married, no kids, no debt, and I am now considering two job offers in two different states. It's both for the same company (big bank, location probably gives it away) but I am unsure which one would be the best option. I'd argue both offers carry the same weight (Associate/Mid Level), however the main difference is that in Delaware I won't be working with money but instead more technology (JS, React, Go, Kubernetes, Docker), and in NY I will be working with money but it's the standard enterprise stack (Java, J2EE, Spring). Overall, I am trying to think of the bigger picture as in which offer will be most beneficial in terms of personal and professional growth. For example, in Delaware I'll be exposed to a rather "trendy" stack. On the other hand, being in NY would put me in closer proximity to a much more vibrant tech scene. Also the differences in COL are apparent but I'd love to hear some feedback on how I should move forward. [link] [comments]  |
| Software developer at Citibank in SF vs Software developer at JP Morgan in NYC? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:32 PM PDT Both cities are relatively high cost of living.. so I was wondering if anyone has insight into which company is preferable for software development? (In terms of using up to date technologies, and work-life balance) [link] [comments]  |
| What are the odds to get into a top PhD program given my background Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:57 PM PDT Hi, I'm a non-american second year masters in CS student at an American institution which is ranked between 60-70 by USNews within CS Grad Schools. I got my Bachelor's degree from a foreign university with a GPA of 3.0. I've been working as a RA with a professor whose area isn't CS but his research is informatics so I've been working with lot of CS focused stuff. My current GPA is 3.61 and it'll probably go up this semester as well. I'm a co-author in one published journal article. I'm waiting for two journal articles to be reviewed by peer reviewed journals in which I'm the first author in one of them. I have another project that I submitted to a ML conference that is under review as well. Before applying to PhD programs I'll be submitted 2 other manuscripts. They are almost ready but we didn't submitted yet. Besides, I've around 10 poster presentations in various conferences. I've almost 2 years of research experience and I wonder if I have the proper chance to get in some top 10 CS PhD programs in US like Stanford, CMU etc. (I wonder 10 to 20 as well if you have idea). My current advisor already offered me RAship through PhD program in my current institution but I'd like to do research in a more known university. I'm a mediocre open source contributor with some projects that has some stars but nothing major. I also started two failed startups and made their codes open source. I know this isn't a wanted question but I just need some advice from experienced people. Please let me know, what you think about the odds for me to get into a top school. Thanks for reading! PS, Journals are non-CS software journals even though they mostly have Impact Factor greater than 1.5. [link] [comments]  |
| Associate Software Engineer at Infosys Posted: 29 Aug 2018 02:26 PM PDT I recently got an offer from Infosys as a Associate Software Engineer in the states and I asked if I could stay in California because that was where I'm from. They said it is possible to stay strictly in California and that I will train in the San Jose Headquarters, but I must be willing to relocate to anywhere in California after training ends. I've been reading a lot of the posts on this subreddit talking about Infosys, especially with the Associate Software Engineering position, and how they don't have much say on where they want to be located. I'm just afraid that they will go against their word and send me outside of California after training. Does anyone have any experience with Infosys or may have gone through the same experience? [link] [comments]  |
| What does a good github page look like? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:28 AM PDT What do employers actually look for when they look at my github page? Right now mine is pretty sparse. Just two projects. Feels like a waste because I have a lot of projects just sitting in my hard drive collecting dust. They're not "presentable" enough to upload to my github - meaning that they don't have readme files, the code was sloppy, no comments or explanations in the script, etc. But do employers actually care about any of that? Would it be more impressive to just upload a bunch of projects that aren't cleaned up? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 03:54 PM PDT What is the day to day like? How much travel is involved? Do you have any choice on where you travel? What technical skills are most important? Do you build products for clients individually, or as a team? How much time do you spend on a project before moving on to another one? How much support is involved with previous clients after you have moved on to something else? Sorry for the flurry of questions, but I just got really interested in the possibility of a job in technology consulting (since one of these companies is coming to my school's career fair) - if anyone can answer any of these questions, I would really appreciate it! Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| when do you start calling yourself a senior front end dev? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 03:54 PM PDT I have 3 years of experience. graduated in 15 from cs undergrad. I have never called myself senior Dev in any context. not on resume, not on LinkedIn, not to a recruiter. But I see a fair number of my peers from the same university/company list on their LinkedIn that they are Senior Developer/Analyst/PM/etc. There is no "senior dev" title at my company, and no "senior analyst" either. So this is a question for all front end devs, after what kind of experience you acquired that you start to call yourself a senior front end dev? Or if you are interviewing someone who is a "senior" front end dev, what kind of skill set do you expect from them (that you wouldn't be expecting from a Junior Front End dev) ? Thanks. Edit: after reading some replies, I feel it's necessary to emphasize that front end dev in a large project .... not necessarily is the UX person (or is not 100% in control of UX). Just because someone call themselves front end dev doesn't mean.... that person can't write Java/python ( or can only write hello world in the back end) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 07:14 PM PDT BackgroundHi, everyone! I'm a front-end developer with 8 years experience from Brazil in his mid-20's. I work in a pretty stable job for 30 ~ 40 hours a week, earning a pretty good amount of money (at least compared to other brazilians jobs). Sometimes I think that where I work is a little bit too much slow paced to me, but it can be defying sometimes and I'm always learning, even if it's a little bit every day. Putting aside the occasional discussions in the team, I have a good relationship with my colleagues. The schedule is incredible flexible too. Coming from another job where I basically burnt out, I really like this job. The offerI was contact by a "talent hunter" on LinkedIn two weeks ago (this guy and many other more looks for developers only in South America. I believe that we "cost" was less than a developer in the U.S), with a opportunity to work for a startup based on San Francisco, CA. I passed three "stages" in their interview process and I will have another soon pretty soon. The problemI'm not sure if it's the right decision to leave my current job to this startup. I have some pros/cons of leaving that I wrote down. Pros:
Cons:
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you guys can help me with this dilemma here. I will be following this post very closely. Thanks a lot in advance and sorry about any english spelling errors! EDIT: It's a REMOTE position! [link] [comments]  |
| Being managed out - any things I'm not doing to prepare? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:55 AM PDT So I've been at my job for about 5 years now, I'm technically very capable, I do good work when assigned but I'm a bad culture fit. I have been from the start. The writing is on the wall that I'm being managed out, which is fine with me at this point. The company isn't doing well financially and very well could be aquired soon enough. My responsibilities have been taken away, a replacement is here, I'd assume at this point all my work is being rewritten or redone by the replacement. I don't really have much to do. What I've been doing is working on my resume, applying to jobs, studying new languages that will improve my skill set and slowly working on the little work I have left. The company won't fire me because I don't believe they have enough money for a payout or fear of a lawsuit. I really don't know. But I'm not getting fired, if I was going to be it would have been a long time ago. Any tips on how to survive the hiring slowness in the winter months? I'm basically just going to be bored as hell trying to keep myself busy. Unfortunately trying to reintegrate with the company is just not an option, it has become abundantly clear that I am not welcome or wanted. I do my best to stay out of everyone's way and be civil, but it's time to cut my losses and move on. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone else refuse to put Slack on their phone? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 05:37 AM PDT This isn't really limited to CS careers but I feel like most people here would understand. I currently work for an agency and it's my first time using slack. Prior to this I only used email. Which was great because I could log off and that was it. However everyone here appears to be have added slack to their phone and it basically always online (even when they aren't). While I get emergencies can come up, I refuse to always be connected to 24hrs a day. I'm very much about work life balance and this is a clear violation. Update: Interesting responses. Sounds more like I'm the only one haha. Could just be a bit of culture clash coming from a corporatey setting. Update 2: I should have mentioned that my manager is fine with it. I'm just curious about other people/teams. Thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 04:21 PM PDT Hi guys, Been working at a big bank for a lil more than a year now - this is my first job. I joined off the "streets" and not under what is called the TAP program among the big banks. Recently I found out that new grads at my company are gonna be starting with a salary 15k more than what I currently make. Also I know the base salary for other new grads at other big banks as well and they're avg 10k more than what I make. Obviously, I'm not happy about this but wondering how should I go about bringing this up. I think I have a good relationship with my manager, and don't want to do anything to ruin that. Also..usually comp day (day where they talk about raises) is the beginning of the new year. But I'd rather not wait till the new year to hear if I am going to get a raise. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 06:14 PM PDT As someone who rarely gets interviews, I was ecstatic when Google and Amazon sent me coding challenges/other screening tests when I applied online to their new grad positions. However, I also remember last year, when I applied to Twitter University, I solved their 3-problem coding challenge in an hour (given a week to complete the challenge), and I still got rejected. That made me believe that my resume was the thing that couldn't make the cut, despite getting the coding test and doing extremely well on it, and ultimately, I was a little annoyed that they led me to believe I was getting somewhere when I was gonna get rejected no matter what. Similar thing happened with the Blizzard entertainment internship last year. I applied, they gave me a coding test, I solved 9/10 problems, and got rejected. Maybe they were looking for people that could solve all 10/10, so I don't know for sure about that one. To their credit, they said that they received a lot of applicants, so maybe they only wanted the best of the best. So this leads me to ask if companies often to this, like Amazon or Google. I really hope I'm not being led on for nothing. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 09:58 AM PDT I've worked many years in cybersecurity (network security and then security at source code level), now I'm working as a back-end developer. Is any path better or more convenient than the other ? I know cybersecurity has a lacking of people and it's one of the best paid fields, but even if you learn to hack, I feel jobs are not about hacking (maybe as a pentester though). So real jobs don't tend to be like what you studied to be there. Developers seem to be earning a similar salary than cybersecurity, but I don't know how easy or difficult is to get there as it doesn't seem to be a lack of people as in cybersecurity. __________ I still feel like cybersecurity would provide me a faster growth, but not sure about the same as a developer. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 08:39 AM PDT Has anyone interned or gone fulltime there? How's the work and hours? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I find Companies I'm Interested In? Posted: 29 Aug 2018 12:23 PM PDT I'm a sophomore at a top 10 CS college. All my friends are talking about working for investing firms/facebook...etc. I have no interest in working at those types of companies for personal and ethical reasons. I'm interested in companies that actually stand for something, or make good, honest products. However, I still want to better myself as much as possible and be in an extremely competitive environment. It seems like anything less than the investing/google/facebook companies are less impressive and useful. I want to improve as a person and as a programmer. Any tips to find companies up my alley? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2018 05:23 AM PDT I know the people in this sub are focused on computer science careers, but I decided to repost this here regardless. Maybe you guys know someone in your CS program that did this. I have three semesters of my Computer Science degree left, and I've got some doubts. I've aced every humanities course that I've taken in college, and I've gotten 5s on all of my AP history and English exams in high school. I've always been interested in history, and am good at crafting argumentative/analytical essays. I've even started to enjoy writing essays, and I have gotten lots of compliments from my humanities professors. I can't really say any of this about programming. That being said, I have a decent GPA, and I'm not awful at it. There's one area of CS that I'm quite interested in, and I'm really working on trying to improve my skills in that area right now. Nonetheless, I'm currently trying to figure out if I can leverage my humanities-oriented skills to create a backup plan if the programming thing doesn't work out. I've tried looking into patent law, but my CS curriculum is unfortunately not ABET accredited, meaning I wouldn't be able to sit for the patent bar unless I take a bunch of additional courses. I'm not sure how many additional courses that would be. I suppose I could try a different form of law, but I hear a lot of those are riskier. If I take three additional history courses in my undergrad, I can take on a history minor. Would this give me the option of doing jobs that are normally reserved for humanities majors (PR, marketing, journalism, etc.)? My friend also recommended that I could make my BS in Computer Science into a BA so I have time to get a History BA as well. What if I find that I don't have time to take on any of these, and just had a CS degree? Would I be at a serious disadvantage if I didn't have a writing portfolio? Can I use essays that I've written for electives as a portfolio? If all else fails, how competitive would a post-bacc or online curriculum in a humanity subject make me, on top of my CS degree? [link] [comments]  |
| Close to graduating, but have no idea how to work professionally Posted: 29 Aug 2018 03:07 PM PDT I'm getting close to graduating, but I feel completely unprepared to do real work. I've taken all of the classes, gotten decent grades, but none of the courses actually had me do any work further than building an array and making one or two variables. There usually weren't any group projects, but I know I'm going to have to work with other people at some point. Are there any good resources I can use to practice outside of my remaining college work, or is this normal for people graduating? I've been coming up with some projects to practice with, and I'm working on those in my free time, but I've got this horrible feeling that I will graduate, get a job, and have no idea what I'm doing. Any advice is helpful :) [link] [comments]  |
| Dumb question, but I'd like to ask about being a web developer. Posted: 29 Aug 2018 04:57 PM PDT I'm currently attending a Community college was interested in getting my degree in computer science. (Transferring to a university after I'm done) However, my college offers a web developer degrees too. It's so much cheaper then going through a four year. My question however, is as a web developer (I live in the Bay Area) with a simple AA in web developing, is the salary pretty good? Thank you in advance. [link] [comments]  |
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