Resume Advice Thread - September 01, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - September 01, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - September 01, 2018
- Leetcode hard problems - feeling defeated
- How To Find A Junior Developer Position
- What to do for hand/arm health?
- Can I do IT jobs with a CS degree?
- Some insight into dev culture at JP Morgan Chase, Houston TX?
- Moving jobs after that first job
- Rotational Programs v. Entry-Level?
- How are online degrees perceived?
- Salaries for Embedded Software Engineers
- First job out of college is... Tech Support. I want to be a developer.
- How to respond to position opportunities (LinkedIn) if I still don't have my degree?
- Does taking just one class look bad on a transcript?
- How do you handle working mostly alone when you're not trained?
- Why or why wouldn’t it be a good idea for a senior in college to learn programming languages, frameworks, technology , etc that’s usually required to know for most of the entry level jobs in your ideal CS career?
- Tattoos in the industry
- What title would I call my internship?
- LinkedIn Profile Assistance
- Going up for a potential HTML/CSS position (absolute beginner), need advice.
- Daily Life of a Systems Programmer
- How to get job in US?
- Best use of time for seniors: Leetcode vs. Second side project?
- Internship or Full Time?
- Confused as to what title to assign to this Internship of mine
- I am going to start working as a PL/SQL developer very soon. If I want to build a career working with databases (become a 'database guy'), what is/are usually the next step(s) from here?
| Resume Advice Thread - September 01, 2018 Posted: 01 Sep 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 - September 01, 2018 Posted: 01 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]  |
| Leetcode hard problems - feeling defeated Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:13 PM PDT So I went through an interview with Google a while ago and I didn't get two of the five rounds so I didn't get an offer. The question that I completely bombed I found out was on leetcode as a hard problem so I started doing it. I eventually solved it but it doesn't finished the time complexity tests. The solution I wrote was also long and it took me hours to write up and debug, not to mention the few false starts I had when I realized that I went down a wrong path, or made some wrong assumptions. Basically, even on my best day I'd have no chance of solving it in 45 minutes, handwritten, on a whiteboard. Before finding out that this was a "hard" problem I had assumed that maybe I'll get lucky and they won't ask hard problems, or that they will be more lenient given that it was a hard problem. But seeing that I did get asked a "hard" one one blew those assumptions away, and now I'm freaking out. I have my second interview in a few weeks. I checked the solution on leetcode and it used a data structure that I have never used or even heard of before. There is no chance that I could write the implementation when asked, or even tell you about its time complexity. So to those that got an offer from Google, were you able to get one despite not answering a problem 100% correctly? Were you okay if you looked like you were going on the right track? How much hand-waving could you get away with? Finally the recruiter said there is now a behavioral interview as well so what is that like? Is that like a standard behavioral interview where they ask about how did you deal with failure, weaknesses, etc? [link] [comments]  |
| How To Find A Junior Developer Position Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:30 PM PDT I do not have a degree (some college but I didn't finish and I don't intend to return), I have some development experience from a summer internship, and a ton of GitHub projects. I've been applying at different local companies through websites like Indeed and Glassdoor and haven't really gotten anything out of it. I'm really curious, what's the best way for me to get a junior development position. [link] [comments]  |
| What to do for hand/arm health? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 11:27 AM PDT I am probably one year away from making programming/IT a career but recently one of my arms is failing. Before it used to hurt after five minutes of typing, but now even five seconds of it starts the pain. I can't avoid it unless I want to pair program forever and never be the one typing! What is your method of keeping your hands/arms healthy? Everyone here needs to be able to type, most more than others, so I thought of asking this sub about the issue. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I do IT jobs with a CS degree? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:31 PM PDT I was thinking what if I don't want a dev role? I've been teaching myself python with the help of Udemy and then I'm going to move to C++ after I finish my Python course. I'm also a student. I was originally going to do Cyber security but at my school Cyber security is a concentration for CS. The only reasons I'm doing CS is because I wanted to learn how to code, and have seen that a CS degree looks better on a resume. I'm not sure if I'm good/creative enough to develop actual software... [link] [comments]  |
| Some insight into dev culture at JP Morgan Chase, Houston TX? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:06 PM PDT Could anyone give me some insight into what the dev culture is like in JP Morgan Chase, Houston TX? I have a potential opportunity to join a .NET team in Houston. I am interested in knowing things like below from someone who is working or has worked there. - Are team-members more like collaborative or competitive among each other? Like in a sense low performer gets fired or some other consequence, so it's like fight for survival going on among each other? - How open are teams on using modern open source technologies? - Do they provide access to learning platforms like pluralsight etc? - Are devs provided with decent enough workstations? - Do they provide/use latest and greatest tools? How hard is it to get a permission to install visual studio extensions or purchase tools that helps devs like resharper? - Are there natural light/window around the workspace? - Heard that they lay off people like twice a year! Is that true for IT department too? Thank-you! [link] [comments]  |
| Moving jobs after that first job Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:37 PM PDT Hello everyone thanks for taking the time to read this! Using a throwaway for this. So basically after about 2 years of self teaching I have landed myself a full stack developer position. I feel I got "lucky" with this as half of the job requirements are based on having skills that pertain to my very specific STEM (Non-CS) bachelors degree. Although the job comes with a ~20% raise and FANTASTIC benefits it would require a move into a very small city(less than 50,000 people). I would be moving as a single 20 somethings guy who isn't exactly a social butterfly. I will be moving from LA so I am concerned about the move to a significantly smaller city miles away from family. My main question is: generally, how easy is to to get another dev job after getting that first one and working for a year or two? Is it worth it moving to a place that I don't really want to live and treating it like a necessary career move? The tech at the job offer is the LAMP stack if that makes any kind of difference. Thank you for any input you can give! [link] [comments]  |
| Rotational Programs v. Entry-Level? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 04:01 PM PDT I have been applying to rotational programs and am wondering the difference in pay, work life, etc. What would you guys say I focus on? Maybe a mix? Looking to get into software development. [link] [comments]  |
| How are online degrees perceived? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:44 AM PDT I know this will vary greatly but I've been considering the idea of getting a second bachelor's in CS online. Being on campus seems too expensive and will have too many distractions. I'm currently 24 with a BS in Marketing and MS in Strategic Marketing for reference. My current role as a digital analyst does expose me to a bit of the CS side of things but nothing substantial. I feel comfortable with HTML CSS and Python. Currently becoming more comfortable with JS. I think in the future it way pay off rather than just being self taught. However I want to know if my I'm investment is worth it. Thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Salaries for Embedded Software Engineers Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:37 PM PDT There seems to be a lot of info for salaries for SWE's floating around but these seem to be focused on areas that aren't embedded. Does anyone have experience and know if the compensation is comparable, especially at the big tech companies? [link] [comments]  |
| First job out of college is... Tech Support. I want to be a developer. Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:18 PM PDT I graduated with a CS degree in June. I had to pay rent, so I took the first job that made me an offer. I will continue grinding leetcode questions and building personal projects. I've read that having tech support on my resume would hurt more than help. Is this true? Has anyone here had a similar situation and can offer me some guidance? [link] [comments]  |
| How to respond to position opportunities (LinkedIn) if I still don't have my degree? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:55 PM PDT I made a LinkedIn profile about two months ago, and I began to get about 2-3 messages from recruiters a week about Web Dev, Mobile App Dev., and SWE positions (mostly direct hires, sometimes middleman recruiters). I've been mostly rejecting them, but recently there's been a few that I've had interest in, but I don't think they're reading my profile. They seem to all be looking for someone looking to start ASAP, but I clearly state in my profile page that I expect to graduate late next year, or mid 2020. I don't want to completely reject these opportunities and wanna keep a window open just in case they're still open by the time I graduate. How would you go about responding to recruiters? Should I completely turn off recruiter contact/opportunity offers until I'm near my graduation date? [link] [comments]  |
| Does taking just one class look bad on a transcript? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:41 PM PDT I have this class it's a pre req to every other class and I can't take anything else before it. So I'll only be registered for 3 credits this fall. Does that look bad in transcript? Will employers/grad school question it? I could say I was working as well which I am [link] [comments]  |
| How do you handle working mostly alone when you're not trained? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:59 PM PDT Hey everyone, I started my first job a couple of weeks ago as a web developer. It's going along all right but sometimes it feels like too much pressure, especially since I'm the only developer at the company. I was hired to replace another developer who already left. I literally just met him for two minutes in my first day at work. We greeted each other, shook hands, then he took his stuff and left. The company is a media company that writes news aimed at the college student lifestyle. I'm in charge of maintaining the website in which the editors publish articles. My boss/manager does a bit of journalism but mostly stays in the office with me. Still, it mostly feels like I'm working alone. I lack product knowledge of the website. They told me it was made by "a couple of Indian guys" they hired for $4,000. This website is made with a proprietary CMS where I just have to blindly poke around to understand how it works. Nobody else in the company knows tech as much as I do, but neither do I expect the first job in your post-college life to be great. Is this how it usually goes with your first "real" job, though? Feels like I'm probably over-reacting and this is just a rite of passage for starting your career, as opposed to retail jobs where you had more training wheels. But I want to know how you handled these kinds of situations. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:54 PM PDT I noticed in job postings a lot of the specific types of frameworks, programming languages, etc. aren't usually taught in school in the area. It seems it could give you a huge boost over other new grads or intern applicants if you went above and beyond to become proficient in all/almost all of the requirements. Even if the long list of technical requirements is more of a wish list than a requirement. You'll hit so many more than you're competition. I'm not sure if I'm missing anything (whether a pro or con) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 06:09 PM PDT How are engineers with tattoos perceived in the industry? Is it regular to see people with a few tattoos or full sleeves? [link] [comments]  |
| What title would I call my internship? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 05:59 PM PDT I worked at a company where the official title for me there was "Technologist Summer Intern" but here's what I did there - made a Flask app that tracked, visualised, retrained ML models we used from Azure developed a price sensitivity model to detect elasticity of different products the company sold did some speech-to-text NLP models for customer service call center data, and used Azure too. I would call myself a Data Science/Machine Learning intern... but I developed a flask app - so I am not sure whether I would call myself a Software Engineering Intern instead.. what do you all recommend? I am not sure if calling myself a "Technologist Summer Intern" would be way too vague... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 11:05 AM PDT Landed a local internship (#3) as I'm going into my Senior Year. I don't think I'd go FT with the company because they don't have the budget to pay solidly for the area, so with that I'd like to optimize my LinkedIn for FT positions. For a tagline, do I just write "Senior CS Major Looking for Full-time Software Engineer Positions (Open to Relocation)"? Then for the summary I write "Django (Python) Back-End Developer at X with a 3.5 GPA seeking Full-Time positions (Open to Relocation) for a May 2019 graduation date." I have a very, very strong leadership background (through voluntary roles taken at work / a previous job unrelated to CS) that might be worth mentioning? My CS internships have been in C#/SQL -> DevOps -> Django and I'd like to work in Back-End/DevOps (Ideally, I'd stay in Los Angeles, but I'm kind of giving up on that dream because I just can't find tech companies that pay anything remotely decent here outside of top tier big N that I can't land). Super appreciate any advice [link] [comments]  |
| Going up for a potential HTML/CSS position (absolute beginner), need advice. Posted: 01 Sep 2018 01:22 AM PDT So I told a buddy of mine that I've been taking a web dev course(Colt Steele's Web Dev's Bootcamp on Udemy) in my free time and getting pretty into it. So he's recommended me to an acquaintance of his for a juniour developer/internship (not a 100% sure of the details) role that is going to open up about a month from now or less. The only thing he said about the job is that apparently it's "only HTML and CSS". I have a relatively solid grasp on the basic concepts of HTML and CSS and Bootstrap and had no issues wrapping my head around them during the course, but I am by no means able to say that I am confident enough to take on projects right now, or be of any major help to anyone as a helper/assistant/intern. So, my question is as follows: If you had to gain and solidify as much working knowledge of HTML/CSS in a very short amount of time, how would you do it? Any specific courses(preferably free)? Exercises? Reverse-engineering websites? Making new ones from scratch for practice? ALSO: From experience, do you reckon, when he says HTML/CSS ONLY, is that what is actually on the table, or am I potentially going to end up in a situation where I've crammed HTML/CSS for a month just to go in and realize that I will also need to use JavaScript, but am not able to because I put it on the back burner to cram HTML/CSS etc.? Any and all input will be very helpful! Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Life of a Systems Programmer Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:01 AM PDT I recently declared a concentration in Systems Programming in college. I'm starting to look into internships for this summer and I want to make it a goal to find something related to Systems. So my question is, what kind of jobs do systems programmers do? What's essentially, the "daily life" of this concentration? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 07:13 PM PDT I'm CS undergraduate from overseas. After my graduation i like to find job in US. I know some companies offer visa sponsorship. Having side open-source projects , is it enough to get job? [link] [comments]  |
| Best use of time for seniors: Leetcode vs. Second side project? Posted: 01 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT I'm going to graduate in March 2019 with a B.S. in C.S. I'm doing the online post-bacc at Oregon State University so this is my second degree. Currently I'm interning at a very well known company (not Big 4) and gaining good experience. I have one side project that I'm willing to put on my resume which is a database-driven website that I built with Node.js + Express, mysql, and Vanilla JS. Probably put a couple hundred hours into it. I'm going to start applying for jobs this month so I can transition as soon as I graduate. My question is how I can best use my remaining time to prepare for interviews. I started learning React a couple of weeks ago and I really enjoy developing in it. I'm sure having a second project would be nice, but I haven't really gotten started on Leetcode yet. This summer I reimplemented the standard DS from scratch for more practice but I need to work more with algorithms (DP in particular). Just wondering what others in similar situations have done. Happy for any advice you have. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 02:20 PM PDT Hello friends, I'm currently a senior (undergrad), and I'm deciding whether or not to graduate this summer or do an internship this summer and graduate during fall instead. I found different threads of the same topic, but everyone's situation is different so I figured I'd ask. For context, at the moment, I've done two internships, one that involves working with BPM (yuck), and one that involves working on software prototypes at a defense company. The software prototypes were pretty interesting, and they allowed me to use whatever tech stack that I wanted which was really fun. Right now, I'm on my third internship. While I haven't started my third internship, I know I'll be working with Matlab. Aside from the poor interview (another topic), the job description they gave me was essentially working on refactoring their code. I plan on trying to branch out from refactoring Matlab code to creating test tools or just anything that's an actual challenge to make myself more "marketable" (I hate using that word) to the software world. I know to take Glassdoor rating with a grain of salt, but their rating is at an abysmal ~2.4 star so I don't expect much from this internship (I only took it because I need two co-op credits before I graduate and this is my second one). Whether or not my internship is a success or not, I feel like having an extra internship under my belt would be better from a career standpoint and a student standpoint. Being an intern is honestly really fun to me and it'd be cool to spend an extra semester working on something that I'm passionate about or something that's grandiose. Working with Matlab at a mediocre robotics company isn't my ideal way of closing out my university experience. Of course, I haven't started my internship yet so I shouldn't be too presumptuous. Anyways, I want to get Reddit's thought on this. Should I delay graduation for a more "prestigious" and/or "fun" internship, or should I aim for a full time instead? [link] [comments]  |
| Confused as to what title to assign to this Internship of mine Posted: 01 Sep 2018 02:19 PM PDT So this was at a startup so it was a mix of work from more than one field.
My second question is a bit different. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Sep 2018 02:06 PM PDT Lets say I work as a PL/SQL Developer for 3-5 years, and I want to work with databases for a career... what positions will I be applying for next? Will there be a lot or few openings for these positions? I am trying to get a feel for where my career will stand in about 3-5 years if I work as PL/SQL developer till then. [link] [comments]  |
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