Resume Advice Thread - September 29, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - September 29, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - September 29, 2018
- Any tips for the Leetcode grind?
- Hiring managers: have you ever been unexpectedly impressed by a new hire?
- Why don't more people File Anonymous HR Complaints at work?
- Is it possible to get a job without having to do ridiculous algorithm questions?
- Back on the l**tcode BS again
- Manager has been unfair to me for a long time now.
- Insights from Capital One's Berkeley Talk on Recruiting
- Should you observe your manager at work
- "Apply on LinkedIn" but doesnt actually show that I did....
- Do companies blacklist you after a certain # of rejections?
- How to improve at entry level position
- I completed an iOS bootcamp (I know, I know) learning Swift a year ago. I published an app in the App Store and everything. I’m still working in sales with no CS involvement. How do I get back into the CS field?
- Has anyone heard of Kintone?
- Consequence of decline signed offer
- Do Cover Letters influence being hired? [Intern position]
- Developers without an unrelated to CS degree, do you think that there is much that holds you back, Long-Term, from the same success/job placement as your peers who have CS degrees?
- Decade of C#, barely any ruby on rails - what to charge?
- As a college freshman without a GPA yet, what should I put on internship applications that ask for one?
- Leetcode vs HackerRank vs Other
- What to dive into next?
- How to get an internship during the academic year?
- C++ out of college
- Besides marketing agencies, what other types of companies are likely to hire a former designer/artist?
| Resume Advice Thread - September 29, 2018 Posted: 29 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 29, 2018 Posted: 29 Sep 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]  |
| Any tips for the Leetcode grind? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 08:47 AM PDT I've got a couple of interviews coming up for some Big X companies, and looking at their Glassdoor pages, apparently they ask some pretty tough technical questions, even in their first rounds (at least they do for full-time positions, which is what I applied for). To prepare for this, I got on Leetcode to get some practice. This is my first time using Leetcode, and I found that the Easy level questions are in fact super easy! I can do almost all of them optimally, I know which data structures to use, and so on. The Medium level questions are more of a toss up - I know how to do a few, and I don't know how to do a few. These will be the ones I'm going to practice now. As for the Hard level questions, well, they might as well be asking me to find a cure for cancer too. I have no idea what's going on here. Do most interviewers even ask Hard level questions? If so, I'm guessing it's gonna be in the final rounds, right? Anyway, I know the obvious way to get better is simply to practice. But do you guys know of any resources or guides that give a way to easily learn what a question is asking, or some sort of tips to figure out a solution to a problem faster? Or any anecdotal advice which could be of help? Thanks, all! EDIT: Thanks everyone for all the help. I'm looking into Cracking the Coding Interview now, and focusing on nailing down the data structures questions. I definitely need more help in dynamic programming problems, but I'll leave that for now because I'm banking on the fact that I'm not gonna be asked a DP problem in the first round. Also, some people are saying why I would take the trouble to do this. Well, it's not as though I like doing this, in fact it's very tiring and annoying. But, I also want to be employed haha, so I have no choice I guess. [link] [comments]  |
| Hiring managers: have you ever been unexpectedly impressed by a new hire? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 09:04 AM PDT As in, the new hire turned out to be way better than expected, beyond natural variation. If so, why do you think that is? Did they just perform really poorly in the interviews? Nerves or stress? Underselling themselves? How long did this take you to realize? Did they impress right off the bat or after a ramp-up period? Do they stand out in ways you didn't interview for? And if so, have you tried to change your interview process to cover these areas? Do they stand out in ways that are difficult to interview for? Intangibles like learning ability, communication, team fit, etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Why don't more people File Anonymous HR Complaints at work? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 10:14 AM PDT I worked at this one job, where a senior network ops developer who would shout loudly at people and RANT and get angry. No one could do anything because his boss loved and protected him. One employee tried going to the boss, before HR, to discuss the issue and employee ended up getting fired. So someone decided to file an anonymous HR complaint to prevent firing. Hr was pissed, but it worked, they ended up doing an investigation and firing the Senior Network developer. Personally I don't care if people think its 'cowardly' to file anonymous complaints. Why file direct complaints to a mob or someone who can fire you? 'HR is only there to protect the company, they are not there to protect you.' Anyways my question is, how come more career articles and peers/relatives/society do Not Recommend filing anonymous complaints at work? If everyone filed an anonymous complaint, that belligerent coworker would be gone in two seconds. Why don't they teach these things in grade school, from parents, college, student groups, churches, counseling? These things should be taught to be prepared for the real world. Just a note: to prevent HR picking up on your language, you can always take quotes and previous complaints of people talking about coworkers on internet message boards, Reddit, Yahoo Message, etc, and copy and paste them into the complaint. This way they HR can never pick up on the language. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it possible to get a job without having to do ridiculous algorithm questions? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 12:34 PM PDT I'm sick of stressing about getting a job and I absolutely suck at doing algorithm questions. I'm thinking about switching majors to accounting because jobs seem more easily attainable with almost equal pay. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:17 PM PDT So BigN reached out to me now thats its been a little over a year since my last interview, and they want to bring me in to try again for a generalist position. Im very happy at my current place, but these arn't the opportunities you throw away (right?) so i think I'm going to suck it up, and actually study this time... whats 2 months of study for another 40k+ a year right? especially now that I'm not also juggling classes. I'm starting on the dynamic programming problems (know nearly nothing about DP) and I simply can. not. get. them. I've tried a few and even though I've read through some tutorials, i end up bashing my head against the wall and crawling defeated to the discussion tab. After a quick search, it seems this genre is difficult to wrap you head around in general, so does anybody have any solid recommendations for readings to learn how to tackle these? or is the best way to just hunker down and dump a few hours into some easies? TL;DR: bashing my head against the wall with Dynamic programming, recommendations? [link] [comments]  |
| Manager has been unfair to me for a long time now. Posted: 29 Sep 2018 10:49 AM PDT For the past half a year, my manager has been (what I perceive to be) unfair to me. He started out by mostly ignoring me, as in giving me a lack of mentorship and watching me fail and desperately trying to ask other team members for help, and that was it. Recently, the ignoring (and lavishing of attention on other coworkers) has gotten so egregious that multiple other people have commented about it to him in the last week (shocking to me, I didn't think anyone noticed). In the past month, he has been having up to 2-3 hours of meetings a week with a coworker to help her grow, and he has doubled her opportunities for additional technical mentorship while completely cutting off my access to those resources. When I mentioned to him (in our 1-on-1) last week some of my technical goals (he is very goal oriented, I was trying to speak his language) and how access to these resources would fall in line with those goals, he blamed other people who had done the scheduling when in reality it was him who communicated to those other people to cut off my resources. This same coworker has told me that if he had done the same thing that he did to me to her, she would have not been able to endure the situation at all. A week ago he told me (unsolicited, but the context was that this was in a 1-on-1 where I was trying my best to ask him things I could do to improve our communication) that it is not his job to care about me as a person. I mean, I understand that technically it is not his job to care about me as a human if he does not wish to, but I feel it's important for him to care about my well-being as an employee and at least make an effort to provide some sort of mentorship and access to opportunities the way he does for every other member of the team. It's unfortunate that he's one of the most powerful people at the small startup and he has chosen to treat me this way. Every other person I have worked with (whether in engineering or in design) has treated me at least close enough to how they would treat everyone else -- but presumably that's because they have a boss that would call them out on it if they didn't. This person has so much power that even if people comment (as mentioned above) they would have a hard time having him face the consequence of anything he does. The only person who loses is me. This job has taken a tremendous strain on my mental health in the recent few months and it's only recently (when my manager explicitly told me it is not his job to care about me) that it has become obvious that he has been trying to target me for a while now. As this is only my first year in the industry I would appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts about this. I don't want to do anything too emotionally driven, but there may very well be no other option than for me to walk out. [link] [comments]  |
| Insights from Capital One's Berkeley Talk on Recruiting Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:01 PM PDT Just attended a Capital One tech recruiting workshop/presentation, thought I'd share some interesting bits - cutting out the stuff that was kind of general and rehashed here often. Most of these are specific to Capital One 2019 recruitment for their junior internship and FTE positions. Resume
Technical Interview
Things they looked for in questions: consideration of spaces, size of strings when using hashmap for solution, general space complexity.
Things they looked for in questions: is the LL circular, is it doubly or singly linked, would you entirely remove all elements of duplicates or simply eliminate the existence of duplicates. That's about it. Hoped this was somewhat informative to some people. [link] [comments]  |
| Should you observe your manager at work Posted: 29 Sep 2018 04:37 PM PDT As a tech worker do you observe your superiors or vice versa as a manager? I mean watch them at meeting or the desk while theyre working or speaking to understand their mode of operation [link] [comments]  |
| "Apply on LinkedIn" but doesnt actually show that I did.... Posted: 29 Sep 2018 02:05 PM PDT there are a lot of job postings on linkedin that say to click to apply on linkedin but usually they just take you to that companies job portal to apply. Either way whenever I do click those links, LinkedIn NEVER shows that I applied.... kinda defeats the purpose of alot of the features you pay for with premium. Am I doing something wrong here or is just their crappy model? Glassdoor has a similar issue. [link] [comments]  |
| Do companies blacklist you after a certain # of rejections? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 11:46 AM PDT Say if I applied to Google multiple years in a row and failed the phone screen or onsite each of those years, do companies have like a certain # of failures a candidate can have after which they won't consider you again? [link] [comments]  |
| How to improve at entry level position Posted: 29 Sep 2018 05:25 AM PDT I graduated from uni recently and I've been at my job for about 3 months. I'm doing backend work but there's so much to know and I've had almost no experience with any of the stuff I'm working on before coming here. I'm struggling to keep up with the technical conversations and I've realized that doing leetcode did not prepare me for writing and architecting production code. I don't want to be hand held but at the same time I'm so lost. I feel like I'm going to get reprimanded at work soon since there have been private talks without me. What can I do to catch up with everyone? How did you guys improve your engineering skills after the offer? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 04:39 PM PDT I finished the bootcamp in October and my final project was a niche app to help /r/2007scape players. It had around 5k downloads with no advertising before being removed since my dev license expired. After the bootcamp, I failed to land a programming job. I was low on cash and went back to my roots in the sales industry because I knew I'd get hired. It paid the bills but I loved learning programming. I haven't coded in ages and tried to get back into it recently, and as you may imagine, I've forgotten a lot and it's tough to wipe off the dust. I want to get back into Swift programming and don't know where to start. I feel so behind and lost and I don't know what I don't know. I've been watching a ton of YouTube vids (bless Sean Allen) and the passion is back. I realized although I am good at sales, I am not passionate about it; I love coding. Where do I start? Thanks for reading, even if you don't reply :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 04:24 PM PDT Hello, I just got an offer from a Japanese software development company and they told me I should learn how to use Kintone. I looked on reddit to see if anyone else mentioned it before, but no luck. Does anyone know what to expect with Kintone and if there are any in-depth tutorials on it? [link] [comments]  |
| Consequence of decline signed offer Posted: 29 Sep 2018 07:39 PM PDT So I got my returning offer from my intern. I have signed the offer, however now I receive another offer that has better compensation. I want to go with the new one. What happen if the new company found I have decline the past signed offer? Because if I accept the new offer, they will do past employment history check and probably find it out. Also if I want to decline the returning offer, should I tell them now or waiting after they finish the background check? [link] [comments]  |
| Do Cover Letters influence being hired? [Intern position] Posted: 29 Sep 2018 03:41 PM PDT Current sophomore applying for Summer 2019 Internships. After having filled out near ~65 applications, it just occurred to me to ask whether or not cover letters make a difference? Many companies make it an optional document - and so I have not attached a cover letter to single application. Edit: Those of you that applied with cover letters, did you see a trend of getting call backs and emails faster compared to when you did not attach a cover letter? Edit 2: I do not know how to write a cover letter, but I found this [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 07:14 PM PDT I am applying to graduate school this spring and I am curious-- if I dont finish my MS will I still have good job opportunities as I gain experience? Or will it be a big loss for me not to finish that MSCS, versus continue career with only my BS Economics? [link] [comments]  |
| Decade of C#, barely any ruby on rails - what to charge? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 11:41 AM PDT I usually charge $75/hr for outside contract work in C#, but I may have a chance to work on a ruby on rails project. It seems fair to charge a lower rate since I haven't done a production ruby on rails project... how much should I charge? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:44 PM PDT My semester one grades won't come in until the end of December. Most online application forms want an exact number, and won't let me submit unless I provide one. One company rep at my school's career fair said I could just put down my high school GPA for his company. Is that good general advice? Edit: also what about schools that don't have grades at all, like Hampshire College? [link] [comments]  |
| Leetcode vs HackerRank vs Other Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:33 PM PDT I'm starting to prepare seriously for software engineering roles. So, I wanted to ask, what are the pros and cons of using either HackerRank or Leetcode or some other sites to prepare for the algorithm-creation aspect of interviews. Which site is best and why? Also, are there other alternatives that are also good? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:15 PM PDT Hey guys, I've been studying Web Development like a madman for a little over a year and a half now. For the first year, I studied Ruby, ROR, HTML/CSS, responsive design, and became familiar with how everything works together. Towards the end of that year, I started learning Javascript and picked up an internship(Meteor) that ended up going for almost 7 months. Since I've picked up JS it's became my main focus and I'm pretty damn confident with it when it comes to codewars problems and such. Right after the internship I dived into the MERN stack and picked it all up rather quickly. I'm not a node or react pro by any means yet, but this leads to my actual question....should I focus on getting better with React/Node or take a step back and maybe get a better grasp on some CS fundamentals and learn things like big O and such. After my internship I realized I'd be perfectly capable of handling a Jr position, but that just hasn't happened yet. I'm in a weird position where I feel like I've covered enough areas to get a foot in the door somewhere and I just don't know what to focus on next in the meantime. [link] [comments]  |
| How to get an internship during the academic year? Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:08 PM PDT There does not seem to be many companies outside of the bay area that offer fall/spring internships. I applied to the five internships in my area near school and cannot get interviews. Do most people take time off from school to work in the fall and spring? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 05:43 PM PDT I'm getting ready to graduate with a BS in math and was wondering how hard is it to get an entry level position that requires c++? I'm pretty good with Python and C and was thinking about getting into c++ in the next 9 months before I graduate. I have what I think is a decent portfolio of solid projects that I spent a lot of time on with a lot of attention towards the docs and unit tests.However, I'm starting to worry about how long it might take me to find a job. I have a family to support, so I can't really afford to take 6 months trying to get my first dev job. Since JS is so popular, I've been considering focusing on learning JS and making web apps so I can get started as a web developer, then moving from there to backend, or desktop if I so decide.So, do companies hire fresh graduates for jobs that require c/c++? Does not majoring it CS mean it would be harder for me to try to get a job that deals with more low level code than one writing web ui's? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2018 07:06 AM PDT Someone told me that I have nothing to offer since I have no degree/direct experience, and shortly afterwards I gained attention from a marketing agency *(for a front end developer role). I realized that I had to consider the type of company I was applying to as opposed to the content in their job post. Now I'm going back to what I originally intended... complex animations, transitions, and design. [link] [comments]  |
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