Interview Discussion - October 11, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - October 11, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - October 11, 2018
- Do other software developers with 5+ years of experience have a hard time finding jobs?
- Transcript of salary negotiation
- Australian CS Job Market
- best way to prepare for coding challenge on limited timeframe (< 2 weeks)?
- Is WGU a scam? Finding conflicting posts about it, and r/wgu would obviously be biased. Can I get some anecdotes or advice?
- Demotivated junior dev
- HRs in large companies
- Software Engineering manager or Software Architect positions
- Understanding the project, how long does it take?
- Hired for development, only have testing work... leaving before 1 year okay?
- Shot Down by Manager For Pay Raise
- Asana Intern Salary
- Does anyone actually go back to their old job/employer?
- Software vs. Management Consulting
- How do I know if I am "on the right track"? (Sophomore, 3 previous internships, no luck this year yet)
- At Crossroads in Career - Hoping to Find Some Advice
- 2 lowball offers, lots of wasted time and energy, how to avoid in the future?
- JP Morgan Chicago vs Plano office?
- What is "smart"
- Does working for a certain company look bad?
- How much of famous textbooks do you remember?
- Bloomberg Discovery Day
- Job search experience?
- Is it worthwhile to become a manager?
| Interview Discussion - October 11, 2018 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:06 AM PDT Please use this thread to have discussions about interviews, interviewing, and interview prep. Posts focusing solely on interviews created outside of this thread will probably be removed. Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Monday and Thursday at midnight PST. Previous Interview Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - October 11, 2018 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:06 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]  |
| Do other software developers with 5+ years of experience have a hard time finding jobs? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:21 AM PDT I've been programming for 6 years. Have different experiences and currently work at Microsoft. It still takes me months to find a job. I've been looking for a new job for 5 months. I can easily get past the HR interview. I can't get past the developer interview though. I must have done something right if I can get a job at Microsoft without a degree. But man, being shut down is not fun. Does anyone else have this experience? [link] [comments]  |
| Transcript of salary negotiation Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:56 AM PDT Loose transcript of conversation with CEO of a consulting company with ~20 employees. This company advertised "Very good compensation for the right candidates: high salary with overtime pay". They offered 25 USD per hour. I have a competing offer with 29 USD per hour at a large, publicly traded consulting company. The site of the internships are in Oslo, Norway. [the first 25 minutes of our phone conversation is about reading the job contract out loud. I'm asked in the end if I have any general remarks] Me: The only thing I was slightly surprised about, was the wage. I had guessed beforehand it would be higher. I see that.. yeah – Him: Yeah that's valid input. We pay well for full time employees, but with summer interns, we want the salaries to be… eh… for summer interns, we want the salaries to be not lower than what is usual, but not higher than what is usual neither. We don't want people to choose to intern at us because we have high salaries. We want people to choose us because they are interested in us, and because they might be interested in a fulle time position later. With that said, we have little information about what typical summer internship wages are. I don't suppose you have any sources on that? Me: Well, the best source on that is [name_of_labor_union_for_engineers]. They have an opinion or two on what summer interns should make. They discriminate based on what year you're in, but for fourth year MSc students, they recommend 30 USD per hour. Him: Okay. With some simple maths, it seems they want your aggregate annual wage to be 61k USD. Okay, we haven't caught up on that. We'll bring it up further. We'll look at it and discuss it, and we'll correct it, if you think it's reasonable. I don't suppose you have any source on it? Me: [gives source] Then some yadda yadda, he asks me whether I'm going to choose them, I tell him the choice got less simple when they offered the low wage. He then asked what it would be when they "fix the wage", and then I said "I'll come". Fuck, the anti salary culture in this country is exhausting. It's a mortal sin to mention anything about salaries during the interview process. It was their high advertised salary that enticed me to apply, but keeping my head cool, I haven't mentioned that as a motivator during the interviews. I felt subtly shamed for pursuing a high salary for myself. Do you ever deal with this crap in the US? EDIT: He called me back. ~30 USD per hour. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:23 PM PDT Hey guys, I'm currently going through the senior year of my cs program. I live in the States right now, but I'm strongly considering migrating to Australia for family reasons. Anyway, I've noticed the job market in the Pacific Northwest of the States is huge, and there's a large emphasis on Leetcode-esque technical interviews that focus less on soft skills. [link] [comments]  |
| best way to prepare for coding challenge on limited timeframe (< 2 weeks)? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:11 PM PDT Have 2-question coding challenge with a large e-commerge giant in less than two weeks for a full-time position. Honestly didn't think I would even get considered or a response so quickly, so I'm pretty unprepared. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to spend the next week and a half preparing for this specific company? I already started doing leetcode easy's. To be honest, I've never been considered for a large company like this before- I'm super nervous- I'd really appreciate any suggestions. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:19 PM PDT The price and the 100% online aspect is what appeals to me the most. I am looking into the computer science degree, but I am interested in what this "software development" bachelors offers. However I am reading things such as people losing their money and not being given degrees despite paying, and that you really can't test out of classes (might as well take the whole class) Is this worth it? I am sort of in a state of flux regarding my career.. I am completely burnt out and terrified of finding myself in another bad job situation so atm I am unemployed. Slowly running out of money, too. But right now, my mental health is more important-- although I am wondering if I should just ignore my growing mental health problems and just keep working (ugh, probably going to work til I die, what is retirement) I want to take some time to actually enjoy life and reconnect with hobbies and interests I used to have, instead of being a constant workhorse, stressing over projects and putting in extra time/effort to "benefit the team" only to find that it actually makes people hate me instead of say "hey, great job on xyz, we like you now" Maybe I can take some time off and just say I was doing school.. traditional school settings won't work for me, both in terms of cost and social anxiety Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:12 AM PDT I'm incredibly demotivated in my current job, and I want to leave. I'm looking for perspectives on my situation. I'm not sure if I just don't like being a developer, or if its the company. A few facts about me:
Why I am dissatisfied:
I feel isolated and confused and totally lacking in professional guidance. Working remote with a very flexible schedule is great, except the utter lack of a sense of team, improvement, and purpose. Everything I've learned from the job has been entirely due to me going out and learning it. I've gone on application sprees in periods of frustration, but haven't even gotten an interview. I have very little savings due to paying off debt, high cost of living, and a few expensive emergencies this year. I'm very clear on certain, not necessarily simultaneous long-term goals for my life: (1) make money without relying on an employer and (2) work on AI safety / ethics / policy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (What are the consequences of leaving my first job after a year? Is it better to stick it out? How do I avoid burning bridges? How do I sell myself when the company as a whole has made no major changes or had any major achievements in the past year? Etc.) Summary: Junior developer with about 1 year of industry experience, 1 year out of CS degree, working with remote team at small, poorly run startup looking for perspectives / suggestions on how to proceed. Few interviews despite sending out applications. I'm looking for some perspectives on what I should do. Apologies if this is a bit of a rant. I'm kind of hitting a breaking point. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:13 PM PDT I'm writing here to sense how you guys feel about HR services in your companies. I work for tech company as support/dev engineer and my worst experiences so far have been with HR. Examples, being too slow with the things I need (need paperwork to be processed, its been 2 days and still waiting) or behaving arrogantly (e.g there was a system bug and our IT requested HR to perform certain changes under her account to check if the bug fix worked, she ignored them for the entire week) . I would think maybe the workload is high, but I've never seen shortage in terms of resources and never saw HR openings on careers website. I understand that they probably have service levels (e.g managers and higher ups have more complex issues that need to be sorted first), but not providing any response is sort of disgraceful. I had similar experience wiith HR in previous large company I worked for and that was one of the reasons I left it for start-up. Having said that there are wonderful people working there too. HR depts always seem to have a mix of total bitches and nicest people ever. What are you experiences with HR? [link] [comments]  |
| Software Engineering manager or Software Architect positions Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:46 AM PDT I'm actually a Lead Developer at my current job at an AI startup. My experience is mainly in creation of ETL, data ingestion, and data science cloud micro services using Kafka, IOT protocols, Scala and Java. I've been working for 10 years. I just had an excellent performance review where I was told I was being vetted for a promotion in the near future. I was asked if I was more interested in Engineering Manager roles or Software Architect roles. I asked my managers what they thought I was most suited for. I was told that they feel I am a great employee with the soft skills and technical skills that would be able to succeed at both roles. I guess I'm currently mulling this question over. My question I guess is - between engineering manager and technical architect - which role has greater potential in terms of career advancement and opportunity? Which has potential to pay more, and which is more in demand in the marketplace? I live in a major tech hub and have a masters in CS FYI. As far as what I feel I'm better suited for, I don't know right now. I am introverted and never felt that I was an extroverted people person - but apparently my managers feel that I am from my feedback. That's fine, I like techies and get along well with developers and understand their perspectives. I also feel I am very above average in terms of my technical skills but not sure if I have the top tier vision and passion for cutting edge technology I see in principal architects that I've worked with. I feel I'd be more comfortable burying my head in challenging technical problems all day, but maybe what I need is to stretch myself and grow in the areas of leadership and business skills. Any feedback on this appreciated, surely other people here have made this transition in their careers. [link] [comments]  |
| Understanding the project, how long does it take? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:09 PM PDT So I've been at my first development gig for two weeks now. It's web based account software for a large company. We've got several teams working on different pages of the same site and each team is about 12 people. I think I'm in too deep. I have backend experience from smaller projects and here I'm just UI but the amount of waiting around for information about and the scale of the project are kind of overwhelmin, not to mention the beuracratic corporate process. I feel really out of place. I was assigned to change one line of text as my first "story" on this project and I can't even do it because I need to wait for an update from the legal team. I could attempt bug fixes for backend even though my job is UI but looking at the size of this project makes me not want to even open a file cause I might fuck something up. There's literally nothing I've been assigned to do outside that one line of text so I'm just sitting here. It's strange. I just wait until the have a UI task that isn't bogged up by corporate beauracracy I guess. Man dude, it's surreal. Does this sound normal? Edit: I totally vented instead of actually posting my question, sorry. How long should it take before I can really get the flow of this project and understand all the moving parts? Like a month, three months? [link] [comments]  |
| Hired for development, only have testing work... leaving before 1 year okay? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:59 PM PDT Got a job at a large defense contractor earlier this year. I was pretty hype about it, since the position was being advertised as a development role. Fast forward to today - my job is maybe 10% development, the rest is testing. I've asked my boss about doing more development work, but the team is adamant about keeping me in testing. I've just hit my 7th month here. Would it look bad to look for a new role before reaching a year? [link] [comments]  |
| Shot Down by Manager For Pay Raise Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:32 PM PDT So I've been at this job for almost a year and a half (financial tech company out west). I began with 4 other developers at the same position on different teams. Since the very start, my workload was considerably higher than my peers and I was basically expected to keep up with the other seasoned devs on my team in terms of responsibility and workload. Last year, our team had to come in on some weekends and basically had to work all thanksgiving and Christmas. Whereas the other entry level developers that got hired with me didn't have to do nearly as much. Around last March we all had annual reviews and while my reviews were great I got a lesser pay raise than the devs at my level on other teams. At the time I just took it as something I'd have to deal with since not every team is the same and not every manager is as flexible with money. And at least I got a raise right? But around our mid year reviews, I learned that not only were people getting raises and promotions left and right in our department, devs on my own team were getting ridiculous bumps. Some of the guys/girls I started with were getting promoted as well. Apparently there were fears that people were flight risks and the company decided to give raises and promotions in order to sway them. Once again it makes sense from a business perspective so I'm not complaining there. Also they were expecting us to once again work holidays and some weekends so it made sense to keep the devs happy What kind of got to me was when two other new hires on our team that had barely been here a year (less than myself), were getting paid more than what I make. Not only that, but they both are no where near as productive or diligent as I was when I started and are still quite a ways away from being fully productive members of the team. Based on all these factors I brought up the idea of a raise with my manager. I cited my progress (which he seems to always praise) over the last 18 months and also the market rate in our area for entry level devs as a reason. Long story short he just seemed annoyed by the fact that I even brought that up and just brushed it off without giving me an explanation. Like He didn't even give me a chance to mention how much more I wanted. Also, I brought up the idea of getting extra paid time off for the days I have to work holidays and weekends and that got no answer either. I know I shouldn't bring up the compensation of my peers or the amount of more work that I do compared to them but I feel like there comes a point where managers might just be taking some people for granted. Like I didn't have to stay late or agree to cover on weekends and holidays. It's also frustrating because the rest of the devs on my team are paid wayyyyy above market. Like no exaggeration. It makes sense since we do so much work, but it would be nice to reap the rewards like everyone else. So idk. I feel like I had justified case for this request I get some people might say I'm acting entitled, but I thought I had to at least ask right? Has anyone dealt with something like this? Like it just feels bizarre. How do new hires that I'm having to help train make more than me? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:21 PM PDT Not sure if this type of post is welcomed but I got a verbal offer from Asana (once I pick a deadline, they extend the details 2 weeks before) and I'm really curious about the details of the offer. However, I don't want to give an early deadline since I'm not ready to make the decision yet. I was just wondering if people/past interns might know the intern offer from previous years (ideally 2018 or 2017 since I searched in past threads and couldn't find anything in those threads). Thanks y'all! [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone actually go back to their old job/employer? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:29 AM PDT
I'm a "full stack" dev, and I left my job a few months ago in search of greener pastures. For various reasons, the thought of going back to my old job has crossed my mind once or twice, but I've never actually met anyone that has done so. So i'm keen to learn: 1. Have you done it (or know someone who has)? 2. If so, what was the outcome? 3. How does it look on a resumè? [link] [comments]  |
| Software vs. Management Consulting Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:09 PM PDT Hi all, I've asked this same question in the consulting forum and would love to get the perspective of the other side. I'm currently debating an offer as a software engineer from a tech giant (think Apple/Microsoft/Facebook) and another as an associate from MBB (McKinsey/Bain/BCG, the equivalent of FANG in the management consulting world). I'm looking to pursue software entrepreneurship to some degree down the road, whether that be starting/joining a startup or entering the VC world. Being in software, have you seen individuals commonly leave their tech roles to pursue entrepreneurship of some sort? Or is this more of a long shot? While it's not the largest factor as I'm more interested in investing in my career path, the salaries are also quite different: MBB offers ~$90K base with ~$5K signing, while the tech company offers ~$110K base with ~$25K signing and ~$90K stock. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:06 PM PDT Background: college sophomore at a top 20 CS school with 3 previous internships, 1 at a selective/somewhat prestigious employer in my state, 1 in which I worked for the head of a school's CS department, and a third one which doesn't sound quite as cool. Assorted IT/customer service employment experience. All internships were in high school. GPA is roughly 3.0, core CS GPA is under 3.0. My school is known for brutal GPAs though we still have some tryhards with 4.0's. The last 2 years I have struggled to find an internship because my connections could only give high school internships. Last year (freshman), I applied to a variety of companies (insurance, government contractors, etc, companies this subreddit says aren't too hard to get into). 0 interviews or even phone screenings. I was rejected straight up by every company and many wouldn't even take my resume despite my experience. This year (sophomore), I have had 4 interviews (IIRC) with mostly non prestigious companies. Still aiming for non prestigious companies mostly: non tech companies, not Google, Microsoft, etc. (though I applied to Microsoft Explore because a prof recommended we do so). One "interview" turned out to be for unpaid temporary employee work during the school year (wtf? never heard of this) so I declined. My current plan is to aim for the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as prestige (government agencies). Some of them are pretty cool too, I would much rather work in the public defense sector (defense is important) than for startup X which sells panties using Snapchat barcodes or some shit. Also the benefits are good and they would be the easiest to get right? One of the next several companies I plan on applying to is a gov't agency with very good pay, it actually does something important and ethical, and is ranked on glassdoor as being "extremely easy", I guess I will see. Obviously I am doing way better this year than last year but is there anything else I should do? Clearly my resume is OK if I am able to get interviews, I have asked lots of people from professors to other students to my college's help desk and everyone says it's great. So my problem is either something in the interviewing, or just an issue of scale right? I don't really want to end up working for $14/hr again this summer lol. [link] [comments]  |
| At Crossroads in Career - Hoping to Find Some Advice Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:09 PM PDT Hey everyone, I post on here occasionally giving other people advice - primarily people trying to get an internship or their first full-time job - but now I'm the one who could really use some advice or words of wisdom from the tech community. I'm using a throwaway as someone on here looking through my regular account's post could very well personally identify me. Okay, so a little about myself. I just turned 25. I graduated from a mid-level state school in 2015 with a degree in Integrated Information and Computer Sciences with my primary coursework being focused on web and mobile app development. I am staying in the city where I went to school, a mid-size city with some large companies in it or nearby. Job #1: I had an internship my last year of school, which lead to a full-time role once I graduated from school. It was with a small marketing firm that had one or two major companies as clients. I decided to leave the company after all signs I noticed were pointing to an eventual meltdown - sudden stopped disclosure of financials, more passive aggressive management, R&D budgets completely cut, etc. I worked with recruiters and found another job, and low and behold, a little more than 6 months later the marketing firm shut its doors. Job #2: The job I went to was for the product engineering and R&D division of a company. 65 or so employees, a few million a year in revenue, solid client base. But the software for it needed work and they wanted software to be a huge focus for the next version of their product. Shortly after I started, I asked the guy I replaced if he had advice. He sent an email to my personal address detailing why he left - he felt management at the company had stabbed him in the back and became unsupportive of him over time. I decided to stick it out. I was there for a little more than 18 months. I expanded software to being a department of its own with 5 people, including me as the team lead reporting to our engineering VP. I had a plan, and investment, to rearchitect and redesign our whole software. And I was able to execute the plan for a few months, until my VP cancelled it saying we didn't need things like test-driven development, CI, and Scrum - the best approach would be to keep band-aiding our current software - even though the plan had his approval. In the meantime, the company was shipping failing product - in one case, a faulty circuit board had started on fire and caused an emergency response to a medical facility. I was flying around the country at least one week a month fixing software issues in the field. Things came to a head when clients began demanding refunds, production stopped shipping product, and fingers were being pointed. I won't get into the political details, but I then saw why my predecessor had left. And so I put my name and resume out to recruiters. Job #3: Eventually, I was able to secure a contract job working at a major retailer based in a suburb of where I live - a top 10 chain store with a well-established technology division. I was brought on to work as a SWE in their Technical Architecture team, which sets standards and such for the rest of their developers. All of the team members have 20+ years experience in the field. I was brought in to work on a tool to automate the team's code reviews, build a front-end for said tool, and "corral" the team's summer interns (also on said project) as the managers always had tons of meetings on their calendars. Besides the exclusion from company events that comes with contracting, I overall like this job. My direct supervisor is very laid back, friendly, and ambitious. I have a decent work environment, Scrum, CI, TDD, all that good stuff you would expect at a much larger company. My pay is over $20K more than the last job, and my work-life balance has never been better. Unfortunately... Recently, the Technical Architecture team got a new leader, a new VP. He is changing the scope of the TA team does and how they do it - my supervisor left a meeting with him with a new job description. My supervisor, his manager, and I all got together last week to show off the tool I was working on. He said he liked the idea and how it fit in to how TA was running before, but that the tool would have no place under his new procedures and how we wants the department to run. He told me to stop development on the tool immediately. He commended our efforts, but said in his vision the tool has no place. What this means for me is that the plan for when I originally came on to the company has been derailed. The team's manager wanted to bring me on to develop a first stage of the tool with the interns, then enhance the tool in a second stage after they left and start to distribute it. Then, use the results of that tool to pitch me as a necessary hire for the company and get a FTE role for after my contract expiration, which is right before Christmas. So, for over a week now I have had no job duties. I have been online taking Coursera courses on other parts of the company's technology stack and infrastructure. I was supposed to have meetings with my supervisor and manager this week to determine which projects I should take on next, but others meetings have taken priority. I am taking a vacation tomorrow and this weekend, and my supervisor promised to speak with my manager tomorrow so I can hopefully come back on Monday with something to work on. So What's Next? While it hasn't been directly said yet, I am assuming at this point my contract will not be extended and the team will not be able to make me an FTE offer. In a month, the 30 day countdown for my contract begins, where the window is open for renegotiations or for the staffing agency I'm with to find me new work. However, there are more options and potential opportunities for me. These include:
I'm Posting Here Because... For the third time in three years, I am likely going to be making a career move once again. Is there anywhere else I should be focusing my efforts? Are there other things I can do? I'm hoping to gain some insight from other experienced people in the field and the community on these types of situations and maybe some additional information on where to go from here. [link] [comments]  |
| 2 lowball offers, lots of wasted time and energy, how to avoid in the future? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 10:51 AM PDT I think the general advice is to not discuss salary until the end of the interview process, right before an offer is made or after an offer is made. I've had it happen twice now where there was never any hope I'd take the job, the budgeted salary was just too far from the salary I was looking for. How can I avoid this in the future? Is the advice just bad and I should bring up salary right away? First time was a smaller company away from a big city and I think they just had unrealistic expectations about how much it would cost them. Second time, applied for senior position, got slotted into a junior-mid position and didn't realize it until the end of the interview process. Not sure what the internal recruiter thought was going to happen but he certainly didn't come out and clarify that I was slotted into a lower level position in the phone screen. Any thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| JP Morgan Chicago vs Plano office? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:25 AM PDT Got my internship offer a few days ago and my top 3 choices were NYC, Chicago, and Plano (I live here). NYC was filled up obviously, so my recruiter's letting me choose between the Plano or Chicago offices. I've been to the Plano office before, and it's pretty nice. What is the one in Chicago like? How is the workplace/culture there compared the Texas? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 05:00 PM PDT I recently went for a hackathon in my college. While I am in a computer programming course, we didn't have a data structure and algorithms class. The program is more on the DBA side (which I am not really into but it's okay I guess). So after the hackathon was over and I couldn't solve a single question I see this guy who got 2 of his solutions correct and almost got the other ones. I am the kind of person that puts himself down cause yk... issues. But yeah as my marks reflect I have a Pretty high GPA and do well in my classes. And not being able to solve these questions makes me feel stupid. Also, when it comes to jobs what is the expectation vs reality situation like? I see people talking about having to solve a lot of complex algorithmic questions and how it doesn't relate to their actual job. Is that really true? Cause I kind of like being stuck on those questions. TL;DR couldn't solve algorithms based questions, feels bad. What do I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Does working for a certain company look bad? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:04 PM PDT If the only offer I have is with Infosys and I don't mind working with them for a year or two and then moving on to something else. Does it look bad? I know unemployment is worse but I've read alot of bad things about working for them. I don't know if I should take it or continue looking. [link] [comments]  |
| How much of famous textbooks do you remember? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 10:59 AM PDT I have always wanted to read some textbooks from cover to cover with exercises.
But however much of these l read after a while I only retain 25 to 30% of the content. How much do you all remember? Specially if your job heavily depends on knowledge of algorithms, like HPC or computer vision? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:13 AM PDT Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows what the Bloomberg Discovery Day is like? Do people usually stay for 1 day only or all 3 days? I don't want to stay all 3 days if nobody else is gonna be there but I don't want to stay only 1 day and miss out. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2018 09:51 AM PDT Just landed a second position in the Bay Area after graduating from college, and it was tougher than I thought it would be. Is it usually all data structures and algorithms for entry level or junior dev positions, as there is not much work experience they can pull from? Does the interview process get harder/easier as you progress career wise? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it worthwhile to become a manager? Posted: 11 Oct 2018 05:44 PM PDT I have been in my current position as a software engineer for a little over a year on a small team at a big company. A couple months ago, my manager got into a bad accident and may be retiring from it. Around the same time as the accident, the senior guy on my team went to another team. This left us with only 3 people on the team, me being the most senior of us. The other two have less than 6 months here. Since my boss is no longer able to work, I have been stuck with all of his tasks and duties, as well as my own stuff. My boss reported directly to the VP. VP also just happens to sit a few feet from me. Anyways, a few days ago the VP mentioned I had been doing a great job managing the team, and asked if I would be interested in continuing to manage the team. He has also put me in charge of hiring some new people for the team. Is going from software engineer to manager a good career move, or is it a bad idea? I admit I never really wanted to be in charge of people. [link] [comments]  |
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