DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR September 28, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR September 28, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - September 28, 2018
- Just attended a Computer Science career fair. Just a though.
- I got promoted at performance review today however after work I was called into the office to talk to my manager and he suggested I go see a therapist. This is really weird. Is this allowed?
- I feel like a loser
- Anyone else frustrated with the way this sub is being managed?
- In the interest of combatting the doom and gloom I have another good story!
- Ancestry.com is trying to hire me (senior in college) as a senior SWE?
- Entry-Level Positions in SoCal?
- Why the hell do companies want you to parse STDIN in online coding interviews?
- Is SRE/DevOps a senior role? Looking for my first job. Should I apply for "normal" SWE instead?
- Am I locked to a salary range after a phone screening?
- Just learned I'll get fired. Should I quit before they fire me?
- Europe - Why do I keep hearing that data science jobs are better paid when all job offers I see/receive are equally paid for frontend, backend and data scientist.
- [OFFICIAL] New Splinter Sub: /r/cscareerlife for all your not-really-career needs!
- Is it easier to move around in a company once youre in (from a smaller role to a higher paid one)
- Feel extremely guilty about looking for a new job
- Got a business idea but don’t know where to start
- Anyone do the JP Morgan Chase Apprenticeship?
- Out of country recruiters
- Companies with junior internships for underclassmen?
- Should I try to get a internship as a freshmen with college credit equivilant to a sophmore in college or just run a passive business at college?
- I'm planning on making coding videos for YouTube
- College freshman looking for a little advice.
- What is the best way to find a job with lots of international travel?
- Anyone here currently in/thinking of going into CS as an academic field? Thinking about taking the less lucrative option of research/professorship and want to here others' experiences.
| DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR September 28, 2018 Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:08 AM PDT AND NOW FOR SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. THE BUILDS I LOVE, THE SCRIPTS I DROP, TO BE PART OF, THE APP, CAN'T STOP THIS IS THE RANT THREAD. IT IS FOR RANTS. CAPS LOCK ON, DOWNVOTES OFF, FEEL FREE TO BREAK RULE 2 IF SOMEONE LIKES SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T BUT IF YOU POST SOME RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/SEXIST BULLSHIT IT'LL BE GONE FASTER THAN A NEW MESSAGING APP AT GOOGLE. (RANTING BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, BEST COAST TIME. PREVIOUS FRIDAY RANT THREADS CAN BE FOUND HERE.) [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - September 28, 2018 Posted: 28 Sep 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]  |
| Just attended a Computer Science career fair. Just a though. Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:43 AM PDT My god, the career fair I attended was PACKED! If I think about all the other uni's having career fairs just as large, are there really enough jobs for all of us? That's also not including those who didn't attend the fair, bootcamp grads, and self-taught professionals. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:54 PM PDT I'm 24, I've been in (first) my job for 1 year now almost exactly. It's at a rather large company. I liked my manager a lot before this. He's very nice. I hit all my performance marks and was given full rewards and a promotion. He brought up some issues about me taking blame for things that weren't my fault (they were, he's wrong, but I don't like to disagree with people) and it caused some problems, namely with figuring out where we fucked up ('we' didn't, I did) so we can improve in the future. But that at this level it wasn't a big enough deal to deny a promotion because I've done everything else 'great'. This isn't true but I'm not about to turn down free money. After work when I was about to leave though he brought me into his office and asked me to recollect a couple events (I don't want to get into detail) where I fucked up as best I can remember. After talking about the details for a bit he asked me if I knew what imposter syndrome was, and I do know so I said yes. I thought he was going to accuse me of having it and saying some bull shit about how I'm doing great and it's common. He didn't say that instead, basically, said: None of what you said is actually how it happened. "Your memory is lying, this is what happened, and I think you have depression and it's hurting your ability to actually evaluate yourself and your performance, specifically discussing what went wrong" and that it could in the future affect promotions as I get more responsibility. He then suggested I see a therapist. This is weird. Can he do this? Is this a threat? The way he described events weren't actually the way they went down like..at all. So he's obviously lying to me. I might have depression (maybe? I feel like I evaluate myself pretty well, it's not positive but it's honest) but my memory is good and I fucked up pretty hard. So why is he doing this? Can he even recommend therapy? Is he trying to get on file that I'm going to a therapist or something and it's affecting my performance? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:47 PM PDT I graduated last month - Computer Science degree. No internships through college. I did work at my schools IT Help desk for a couple of months in college. That's all my work experience. No professional programming experience. I've applied a lot to no avail. I try to work on personal projects and I never get past the first couple of hours. I can't find the motivation mostly because I can't figure out what to focus on. Should I do a Java project? Should I build a website? I pick one, start working on it, and change my plans because I don't want to do that one anymore. What can I do? Grind LeetCode, do personal projects, apply to jobs? I hate this grind because I'm not seeing any results at all. I can't stand doing it because it feels like I'm just wasting my time since there's nothing in this world I can do that GUARANTEES me a job. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone else frustrated with the way this sub is being managed? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 10:54 AM PDT Mods don't seem to have a clue as to how to properly manage this sub. Just today one of the mods thought that making a new niche sub was the answer to one of our problems. The wiki is outdated. We've been asking for mandatory tags on posts forever, and filtering by tag. Same questions keep popping up and mods don't make an effort to point people in the right direction or to the faq. Plus countless other little things that could help the sub. Whenever these issues are brought up the mods just kinda say well it's your job to make sure all this is done, I'm just here to ban and sticky stuff. Or the good ol' we will discuss this and make changes as necessary (read: shut up and go away) If you're not going to mod this sub then please step down or at least add more mods who will do it. This community has grown and change is needed. I personally don't frequent this sub that much anymore because it's just a mess to try and filter through stuff. I hope people in the comments can highlight more solutions to issues that I missed. [link] [comments]  |
| In the interest of combatting the doom and gloom I have another good story! Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:11 PM PDT I'm a sophomore at a state university. I don't have a great GPA but I've done a couple of extracurricular activities related to programming and I've done a decent amount of stuff relating to CS that I have a pretty solid knowledge of that. I'm not a crazy person that's going to invent a new programming language but I believe I'm pretty good at this. About 2 or 3 weeks ago I got contacted by Microsoft about an on-campus interview, it was my first technical interview literally in my entire life. It was on short notice (a day or two after I had gotten the initial email) so I didn't have much time to prepare. I came out of the interview thinking it didn't go terrible, but didn't think it would go on from there, to my surprise the next day I got. an email inviting me for an onsite interview! It was really awesome experience to go down to Seattle (I've never been before) and go through their entire process. I felt really good about these interviews and thought they went well. Then came the most stressful week of my life. I'm not someone who stresses out either so this is very new for me. Whether it's tests or anything I'm able to relax, but 2 days ago I literally laid awake all night stressing out about my decision because I wanted this offer so unbelievably bad. Today I got my offer! I literally sat in bad for 10 minutes just giggling. Even right now I'm smiling remembering it. Just hoping that some of my happiness rn spreads through this story to you guys. :) [link] [comments]  |
| Ancestry.com is trying to hire me (senior in college) as a senior SWE? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:56 PM PDT I went along with their interview process because I was a bit amazed that they would offer this opportunity to a new grad, but I passed their technical and they want to fly me out this coming week. I've made it clear multiple times that I am still in college. Job description mandates 5+ years professional experience. Is this a red flag? This certainly seems wacko to me which makes me a bit hesitant. [link] [comments]  |
| Entry-Level Positions in SoCal? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:50 AM PDT I'm having a difficult time finding new college graduate full-time positions in the LA/San Diego area. It seems like there are a good amount of general full-time job postings (3-5+ yrs of experience), but nothing specifically for recent college grads. I also heard that a lot of companies wait until a specific date/time to release their college grad positions (s/o AirBnB). I graduate in May, have a competitive offer in the DC area, but have always dreamed of living in southern California. Not sure if this is important, but I have a 3.8 GPA from a ~tier II~ CS school in VA. I'm welcoming any advice on securing a solid job out in SoCal! [link] [comments]  |
| Why the hell do companies want you to parse STDIN in online coding interviews? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:24 PM PDT I just took an interview for a large bank and quit it halfway through. I attempted 2/5 coding questions and both had complicated input parsing from stdin, which took me 10-15 minutes per question to figure out and get right (out of the 30 minutes I had per question). I code in C++. The stdin threw me off so badly I blew the rest of the code too (the main logic of it!). Perhaps this stdin is standard nowadays, but I am returning to online interviews after a while - what is the point of stdin? Not even simple stdin, multi-line parsing with commas and semicolons that mean different things. I had to then convert the parsed input string into a vector and the other part into a map. Also had to do some conversions from string to char to int. I don't understand what purpose it solves. Why not have leetcode type format with a Solution class and functions that return data structures? I mean, who even uses stdin so extensively in everyday life? I am really frustrated right now, because I spent a fair deal of time grinding leetcode, and the problems in front of me were medium level backtracking and multiple pointers questions. But I couldn't get ahead or test anything because of the stupid stdin. It threw me off, made me angry and broke my morale, so I closed the interview halfway. I am now going to revise all about stdin and parsing, so I am ready for the next interview. Please pardon my tone, I blew my interview just minutes back. [link] [comments]  |
| Is SRE/DevOps a senior role? Looking for my first job. Should I apply for "normal" SWE instead? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:51 PM PDT Hello folks. I'm applying for my first job because I graduate this year. I have a couple of internships and projects that have to do with DevOps and infrastructure stuff, but obviously no experience dealing with actual big loads and systems because I only had internships so far. Are DevOps roles supposed to be for seniors? I've been applying for them but the requirements for SWE positions always seems easier, and yet I don't wanna apply for a role that I don't want and possibly get pigeonholed... Is it a thing to start as SWE and move on to SRE or should I apply directly to SRE? [link] [comments]  |
| Am I locked to a salary range after a phone screening? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:03 PM PDT I wasn't sure what to say when asked and I think I low balled myself. I'm still interested in the role but afraid that I'll be stuck at the lower end. Can I still negotiate if I do get further with interviews? [link] [comments]  |
| Just learned I'll get fired. Should I quit before they fire me? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:35 AM PDT I was already considering to quit this job because of various reasons. I was hesitating because this is my first job and I'm only 5 months in, I'm afraid of how it'll look in my resume. Today I learned that they're looking to replace me, and I'll get fired as soon as they find a replacement. This information leaked to me, nobody knows I know. I can probably find another job in 1-2 months, but nobody can be sure about those things. Which one would be better among the three:
I can finally be free from this toxic place and can find another job faster by focusing on projects and interview prep (I presume)
This would certainly be ideal but this risks getting fired before I'm able to find another job
The only pro of this is getting paid as far as I can see. My finances are OK, I think I can live comfortably for three months if I quit now, more if I cut down my quality of life. I'm very confused, I don't like any of my options but the first option sounds more exciting. EDIT: Where I live unemployment benefits are negligible. You can assume there won't be any difference between quitting and getting fired in terms of unemployment benefits. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:35 PM PDT This might be only a European thing but all offers I keep seeing are equally paid given same years of experience. I keep reading here in reddit that data scientists are making big bucks, and then the job offers state to be paid the same as other kind of devs such as frontend or backend. Any experiences on this? [link] [comments]  |
| [OFFICIAL] New Splinter Sub: /r/cscareerlife for all your not-really-career needs! Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:05 AM PDT Hey everyone, got an exciting announcement today! Inspired by the "How's SWE Life in [City]?" thread fad of a few months back, as well as the rousing success of our partnership with /r/csmajors, we've decided to create an offshoot sub, /r/cscareerlife, to contain a certain type of question: questions that are related to being in a CS career, but are not directly about the career itself. For more on this, let's see what the new sidebar says:
So please, send all your personal life questions related to being a hotshot wiz kid shinobi programmer or a sadsack imposter code gorilla over there, and not here! Thanks everyone, we here at CSCareerQuestions Incorporated appreciate your mandatory cooperation! [link] [comments]  |
| Is it easier to move around in a company once youre in (from a smaller role to a higher paid one) Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:03 PM PDT IE. I have an offer from Amazon to join cloud support services. Its not what I am practicing to do (I want a SWE position) but Im curious if I do it for a year or two would it be easier to get in? [link] [comments]  |
| Feel extremely guilty about looking for a new job Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:51 AM PDT I've been at my current position for almost 2 years (1 year and 8 months) and am job hunting because I'm starting to grow very tired of this place and the way of working. However, I feel extremely guilty about this. This is my first job out of college, and I know that in the beginning, getting experience is the most important thing. I wonder if ~2 years is long enough of a stay to warrant looking for something better or if I just look like an impatient, job hopper who isn't committed to sticking it out. I am one of 2 on-site devs (1 remote) and I work for a company that runs a prominent architecture website. In the beginning it was okay (because I had just graduated and wasn't about to complain) but this entire year has been a drag for me. I've been working on a project that is stuck in development hell for the past 9 months and that nobody other than the company president believes in, and there is effectively no project management. Its just me communicating straight to the company president. This gets extremely frustrating because he is never clear with what project goals are or at outlining tasks that need to be. He just kind of comes up with what he wants to do in the middle of a meeting and then sends you back to your desk with the requirements in verbal form (I have to write this stuff down in a notebook and even then I usually walk out confused). On top of this, despite the company president basically being my "direct superior", he is only in the office an average of 2-3 days a week. Every once in a while he will just disappear for an entire week, often without informing anyone or telling me what I'm supposed to be working on. It's extremely frustrating. The thing is, despite how much I hate the working process, I absolutely love my co-workers, and that is the biggest reason why I feel so guilty. I don't want to leave the other dev (who is actually a friend of mine outside of work) by himself and I don't want to seem like I'm bailing on everyone. (As cliche as it sounds, some of us are "like family"). Am I jumping the gun by doing this 2 years into my career, or an I just overthinking it? lol [link] [comments]  |
| Got a business idea but don’t know where to start Posted: 28 Sep 2018 05:22 PM PDT Like I know I can hack my way through it but I feel like if I do so and it does get big, I'm going to have to refactor a lot. I have no clue how to even go about bringing this idea to life. What I struggle with mainly is this:
All the projects I've worked on so far and I feel like none of them are at the professional standard I'm aiming for because of their tacky nature. More importantly, none of them has the potential to be this big. If anyone can put me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate that. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone do the JP Morgan Chase Apprenticeship? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:15 PM PDT Hey guys so HCC (Houston Community College) has a partnership with JP Morgan Chase for a year long apprenticeship. Just wanted to see if anybody on here has participated in this and what their thoughts were about the program (The apprenticeship is not exclusive to HCC so open to thoughts of the program in general)? Also how should I prepare for applying for this apprenticeship? I'm currently taking Programming Fundamentals II and will be taking Algorithms/Data Structures and Computer Organization in the Spring. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:37 PM PDT Hi Everyone! I have been in my job search now for a couple of months, and I have been getting contacted by recruiters that are based out in India. Usually, they send emails for positions that are out of state that I'm not interested in, but there are a couple within my city. I'm just a little hesitant to work with these recruiters since they are located outside of the U.S. Has anyone worked with these kind of recruiters and had any success or should I just keep ignoring them? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Companies with junior internships for underclassmen? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:25 PM PDT The header sums it up. I'm a second year student who wants to apply to junior internships in either the bay area or LA area. Any help is greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:13 PM PDT I think I should be able to handle a good share of 2 technologies, a fair share of some projects I did for fun, a tiny bit of backend (setting up backend that's scalable, but not for billions), and knowledge in data structures and algorithms by the end of my senior year in high school. I have been thinking about simply taking a TripleByete quiz to kind of see whether I think I could handle an interview, but the thing is I am just going to be a freshmen. The thing that kind of pushes me towards this however is that I practically taking my first year of college at high school (don't ask, just know in my state there is a program for taking college classes in high school at a much cheaper price). The best thing is that I don't have to wait as long for a Masters, but I do need more action I feel with my circumstances. I think I could maybe jump to another level in knowledge if I take a year off of the internship, but my credits are essentially the equivalent of a sophmore in college. I have "experience" by running a "business" that has me making software and a decent share of projects made for fun. To sum it up, would you recommend just trying for the internship the first year in the summer or keep my nose down and make more stuff? I know I might get denied since I heard most of the internships go for people higher in the seniority chain and extremely skilled prodigies. I know it doesn't hurt to try. Do you think I should maybe try waiting a year, programing more projects for fun, learning more or just try for an internship. I'am just afraid of sabotaging myself, knowing that I could've had a new experience and have a network planted early. The other side however allows me to run a business that could actually do well and allow me to intern the next year or so. [link] [comments]  |
| I'm planning on making coding videos for YouTube Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:52 PM PDT What are some things you'd like to see or tips you might have for creating ideal videos? I was thinking of starting with making videos reviewing some basic coding projects I've done in C++, screen capture style with a voiceover. Hopefully to help stuck students like myself and hopefully have a better understanding of my own code and why it works by reviewing completed projects. [link] [comments]  |
| College freshman looking for a little advice. Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:26 PM PDT I'm half-way through my first semester working towards my BA in CS. I've done some research and one of the top pieces of advice I've read is to have some side projects completed to show employers. I'm in my first CS class, CS135, and we're learning C++. Next semester it will be advanced C++. I'm trying to think of something I could build in my spare time to help with really learning the language but I don't really know where to start. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to give me an idea of something I could create with C++, not something that's unique or original necessarily but something I can really dig my hands into. [link] [comments]  |
| What is the best way to find a job with lots of international travel? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:26 PM PDT I know a lot of people dont like a job with lots of travelling involved. I am the opposite. I would like to explore the world and at my current experience level I am interested in looking for a job where I can travel in a lot of countries. I currently live in europe, have 4 years of experience as a software engineer and a post Masters degree in computer science. How do I go about finding my dream job? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2018 10:45 AM PDT Hey everyone, only an undergrad here but lately I've been realizing that I may not be happy working a desk job 9-5, even if it is doing something I enjoy like development or quant trading, which is the direction I am headed in now. Over the last few months I've found more and more of an interest in academia, and a career of research and teaching, and wanted to hear other experiences. How was/is your Ph.D. process? How was/is the stress and how did you handle the finances? What were/are your career prospects looking like? What is academia and the research community really like? Most importantly, if I have a strong feeling that I'll enter this field sooner or later in my career, would it be more beneficial for me to try getting into a Ph.D. program as soon as I can to have that "younger" edge (does that even exist? lmao) against others, or take a couple of years in industry and then find a program later on? Any insights would be appreciated, thanks! Edit: oh also, anyone regret going into academia instead of industry? How's the pay and how do you manage it, if you're comfortable sharing. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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