Resume Advice Thread - October 13, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - October 13, 2018
- Mod ocawa, AMA!
- Started my first job recently, the hardest part by far are the things related to the build process and version control and dependencies and so on; is this normal?
- Company rejected me for the wrong reason. Thought you might get a laugh.
- Any disadvantages to using Python when solving Leetcode problems?
- Zecruit Global asks $800 for training scam
- PDP Program at Northrop Grumman vs other company?
- What can I do to make me look better, on top of projects (and aren't internships or employment)
- What are some underrated colleges that have high CS graduate job placement rates/average salaries?
- Is it reasonable to ask a new employer to wait 2 months between offer and starting?
- Background check discrepancy
- Is it a mistake to try consulting for 6 months?
- Getting non-cs related job in order to get cs-related job?
- Do all the Ivies have pretty similar career opportunities?
- Internship decision?
- To trade or not to trade, that literally is the question!
- are two sigma tech quesetions any different from regular coding tech questions?
- Should one get a degree in CS if one has no interest in becoming a software developer, but instead wishes to do data analysis? Is there a better major than CS in this case? if so, what? would CS major be boring to someone who wants to do data analysis and not software development?
- Anyone here left their shitty job for an equally or shittyer job? How did it go and how did you recover?
- Anyone hear back from PayPal (Timonium MD new grad)?
- Will companies lower my pay if I move to another location?
- Big Decision - Take PHP Internship or stay in current job? Am I dumpstering my career?
- 28 not great at math, should i struggle through a CS degree because it looks better or stick with CIS, I'm more interested in the business/tech side of things.
- Raises
- What technologies do you think it's best to learn in 2019?
- Is there a service like "Copyscape" for coding?
| Resume Advice Thread - October 13, 2018 Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:06 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]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:02 AM PDT Please ask away like you won't be able to anymore because I'm one of the last two mods to do an AMA, haha. Here's a link with other mod AMAs and a little about me to get the ball rolling. Although I'm working full time now, I'm fairly young in the mod group, maybe even the youngest. The biggest brand name on my resume is a Tesla internship, which I credit to reading this sub on the toilet every morning (seriously). I've always liked the idea of a place where people can help and receive help with just an internet collection, and as such I enjoy contributing to Reddit, Wikipedia, Wikia sites, and Hackathon Hackers on Facebook. I'm a general full stack engineer right now, but I may like getting into cloud computing in the future. I've also had tech product manager internships before, but I'm sticking to development. Fun fact, I've never done leetcode before, and I made the '>?' logo for the sub. I greatly enjoy reading Wikipedia and contributing rarely. I used to think Ultimate Frisbee was my favorite sport because it's so scalable and has continuous action. However, now since it's hard to get a bunch of people together to play now, I think running is my favorite sport since I can do it myself and it can turn into the most social sport since you can talk really easily. I also have an older reddit account made in 2011 with 9k karma, which I mainly used to discuss games and don't use anymore. I can't think of anything else right now but feel free to AMA! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:44 AM PDT We never learned ANY of this stuff in school, and I feel like I could do a whole other four year degree just on this company's code base and build process and how everything is organized and so on; is this a normal thing everyone goes through or am I just being dumb? Actually I am, despite being a CS grad, kind of ignorant when it comes to a lot of computer stuff, especially anything Windows based as I've only been on Linux for years, but my company does stuff in Visual Studio in Windows, I feel like I need a class just on how to build and debug in VS. [link] [comments]  |
| Company rejected me for the wrong reason. Thought you might get a laugh. Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:01 AM PDT I applied for a software engineer position. The recruiter emailed me this rejection: "We have decided to forgo hiring a Director of Marketing position here at <company> and instead created and filled a new Marketing Manager position in conjunction with contracting a Marketing Agency to develop a strategic marketing plan. Please keep updated with marketing job postings on our website in future months if our plans change. Thank you for your interest and best of luck with your job search." I looked up the recruiter on LinkedIn. She works at an outsourcing company helping companies with hiring. [link] [comments]  |
| Any disadvantages to using Python when solving Leetcode problems? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 04:04 PM PDT I want to use Python when solving Leetcode problems, but am worried this might stab me in the back in interviews later on where the interviewers might prefer languages like Java and C++. [link] [comments]  |
| Zecruit Global asks $800 for training scam Posted: 13 Oct 2018 01:03 PM PDT I applied for a software engineering job and a recruiter with Zecruit Global contacted me about an entry-level position. He said I will get a job in my area after I pay $800 for a refundable deposit and doing online training using Cisco WebEx, but he tried to assure me that I won't "really" be charged anything because it'll be refunded with my first paycheck. When he told me about the 800-dollar deposit, I immediately felt this was a scam. I look up their company on Glassdoor and sure enough, I see reviews from people that were ghosted after paying a deposit. I fucking hate that I speak with some annoying Indian vaguely telling me about a job opening and then he tells me at the very end about paying the company $800. DON'T FALL FOR THIS SCAM. [link] [comments]  |
| PDP Program at Northrop Grumman vs other company? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:14 AM PDT I am a senior with a high GPA and strong internship experience. I have a couple offers for after graduation, and one of them is Northrop Grumman's PDP program. I am leaning towards it, mostly because the other options would require me to be long distance from my significant other (over 2 yr relationship) for at least 2 years because of grad school. The long distance would be 2-3 hour flights, or 3 hours driving, each way. This is manageable, but not ideal. Also, the main things I like about a job are work life balance (definitely need less than 50 hours a week to stay sane), low or manageable level of stress, and culture where employees are friendly toward each other. I would also like to be exposed to a lot of different projects, and potentially get a Master's or MBA. Northrop appears to have these things. However, it seems common on this thread that Northrop Grumman is viewed as a career-undermining move. Will it hurt my career to take this job at Northrop for a couple years? How much better for my career would it be to take a software engineer role at somewhere like Target or JP Morgan? And how have people's experiences been overall at Northrop? [link] [comments]  |
| What can I do to make me look better, on top of projects (and aren't internships or employment) Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:58 PM PDT Like the title says. Besides projects what can I be doing to improve my resume Maybe freelance work? Where can I find freelance work if I don't even have an internship under my belt Anything else? [link] [comments]  |
| What are some underrated colleges that have high CS graduate job placement rates/average salaries? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:23 AM PDT We all know about Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT, but what are some underrated and not well known colleges that employers love, based on career placement rates and annual salaries? Bonus: what makes these colleges so favorable by CS employees? EDIT: My mistake for not specifying what exactly "underrated" means. It means colleges that many would call "safeties". A rule of thumb we can use is, if we go up to a stranger and ask "Have you heard of X college?" and their answer is no, then its classified as "underrated" for the purposes of this thread. EDIT 2: Great answers guys! But I'd like to encourage us to be less reliant on ANECDOTAL evidence. This thread has a lot of "I go to X school, and the career fairs here are great!" can be said by anyone. A better alternative would be posting stats of job placement, graduation rate, etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it reasonable to ask a new employer to wait 2 months between offer and starting? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 10:35 AM PDT I have a surgery I really need to get that came up just in the middle of job hunting. And to be honest, I really need this job lined up after the 2 month recovery. Is it too much to ask for them to wait for me for two months for my start date if they do give me an offer? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 11:55 AM PDT So I just got a job offer at a relatively big company and just received a background check from a third party and the result includes 2 discrepancies:
Will these be a problem? If so should I email my recruiter/contact to explain I mis-remembered the starting year and that's why its off by 1? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it a mistake to try consulting for 6 months? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 04:23 PM PDT I recently got an offer to work at PwC as a Cybersecurity & Privacy coop for 6 months. Based on the interview, the work would mostly be nontechnical and focusing on consulting. I am currently debating if I should take this offer or continue searching. I'm currently in my 3rd of 5 years in college and am still unsure if software engineering is what I want to do. I already did a 6 month software engineer coop at a very small biotech company and the experience was ok. It wasn't anything great and I felt burned out at times. I'm not sure if this is because of the company or because I just don't like coding. I didn't really have a team there and worked alone on projects while getting feedback and code reviews from my seniors. For my second coop I wanted to try something security related despite not having security experience because it seemed interesting and would mean less coding. I still want to do some coding but I'm not sure how likely I can get my manager at PwC to allow me to do things such as pentesting. The job still seems interesting and is something I'd like to try but I'm afraid it'll hurt me later on if I want to go back to software engineering or a more technical security job. Will having this as my most recent work experience instead of something more technical hurt me if I want to apply to more technical jobs next year? [link] [comments]  |
| Getting non-cs related job in order to get cs-related job? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 11:10 AM PDT Hey, I am a recent graduate with a B.A. in CS and minor in IT. I live in a top 5 metro area in the U.S.. I have been applying for CS jobs with little luck, lots of applications, only a handful of interviews. I believe the main issue holding me back is I have no CS-field work experience, but I have had the same job throughout college, so I do have work experience. Someone recently suggested I try and get a non-CS related job at one of the major companies in my city, ex. customer service, etc., and try to transition into a CS job once I have my foot in the door. Does anyone have experience with this? Is this a good or bad idea? Any advice would be great. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Do all the Ivies have pretty similar career opportunities? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:45 PM PDT As in resource fairs, favorability among employers, etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:30 PM PDT Hi, I've been fortunate enough to receive offers at Lyft, Stripe, and Facebook. I'm wondering which of the three are best on my resume / work experience. I have Amazon Web Services as previous experience, and will also be heading to Two Sigma. Numbers are comparable. Thanks for the help! [link] [comments]  |
| To trade or not to trade, that literally is the question! Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:25 PM PDT So as a little background I have been in the financial software development career path(nyc) for about 10 years worked at a few places positions tend to rotate every 3 or years here. Currently working at a good size financial institution for about 2 years. My current role is transitioning into a developer manager type of role and a few people have started working under me which is a great opportunity for me that I am pretty happy about. It's an awesome opportunity to move my career to the next level. Sounds great right so far right? Well my conundrum is last week (Thursday) one of the Financial traders I work with calls me into a conference room. He gets right to the point, he'd like to see if I'd be interested in a position as a trader one of the traders that works for him is departing and he figured he would ask me. He is a fairly tech savvy trader so he writes a lot of his own code. We had worked on a few things and got along well. I was up front as said I didn't have much background in the particular things they traded in but had some financial knowledge from previous jobs, he said it shouldn't be a problem and there is a bunch of programming to be done , etc. So some stuff I'd know and probably a bunch I don't. I am kinda leaning on not taking it. But I have a sinking feeling that others would tell me I'm crazy not to jump on it. Part of me does want it, it sounds interesting and good work. But the other part of me says I have a really good thing lining up on the tech side. I am building on my existing career the way I wanted. If I took this I would be entering in at the bottom again. Some might say isn't there much more money in the trading aspect. Sure maybe once a established and a lot depends on performance (which I don't even know where I'd fall). Plus I'm making pretty alright money ($200kish total not bragging or anything just trying to put into context vs what a trader might make). Stability wise staying on the tech side is far more stable than the trading realm but nothing is 100% stable at these places. But on the tech side at least there would be clear career progression. On the other hand the trading will have more freedom to what i want and methods to solve my problems. TLDR Got offered a trader position that focuses on my dev skill but i would have to give up the career progress i've made in my current track. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| are two sigma tech quesetions any different from regular coding tech questions? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:11 PM PDT I have a solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, recursions, etc, but I'm wondering for finance companies, what else do they as during live coding questions? I've heard people on quora say that they have more math type and logical reasoning questions. I was hoping someone can shed some more light on / corroborate any of this. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 10:16 AM PDT Should one get a degree in CS if one has no interest in becoming a software developer, but instead wishes to do data analysis? Is there a better major than CS in this case? if so, what? would CS major be boring to someone who wants to do data analysis and not software development? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:55 PM PDT Jumping jobs is a risk. Some say the grass isn't always greener on the other side and I'm afraid I'll find myself in that situation one day as I'm contemplating jumping ship for more money (job is ok but want more money). I would like to hear how someone mentally coped and overcame their shitty situation. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone hear back from PayPal (Timonium MD new grad)? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 02:35 PM PDT I applied on Sep 24th for the new grad position and haven't heard anything back yet. Is anyone in the same boat? [link] [comments]  |
| Will companies lower my pay if I move to another location? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:08 PM PDT Throw away account because my real account is associated with my current company. My company has three tiers of salary based on location.
I originally worked at the company in Seattle, then I moved to NYC and got a pay raise of about 10%. I am now planning on moving to Detroit. I understand increasing my salary to accommodate the living expenses, but is it common practice to lower my salary because of living expenses? Will I take a 20% pay-cut for moving to a lower city? I know this is specific to my company, but there might be standard practices in the CS community. [link] [comments]  |
| Big Decision - Take PHP Internship or stay in current job? Am I dumpstering my career? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:02 PM PDT I'm a Senior graduating in May. I've interned at a C# startup, Devops at a Fortune 15 company, and now Python back-end web dev. I'm a big fan of my current role and would love to do modern back-end web dev FT. This company, however, hasn't launched, has 0 non-founder funding, and I don't know how successful its going to be. There's no market research, founders project 'next Amazon', but literally 0 reason to think that. The company is self-valued at 15M as per their shares and what they're trying to get from investors, but we haven't even launched. I sort of don't believe it'll be successful. I make $18/hour. I've been offered a role at a large, established startup that is essentially a dream company. Catered food, dogs, everyone seems super happy, 401K, medical, dental, etc, etc. Everything I've looked for in a FT role they've got. They're paying $29/hour. They're looking for someone to convert to FT too. My current job has absolutely no benefeits, etc. FT pay would be lower than the $29/hour startup for sure, plus no 401K :( The catch is that the $29 startup that can offer literally everything I'd want - the role is in PHP. They do all new dev in Java, but they're a WordPress based website or whatever, so as a result, there's a lot of back end done. In my team, we'd be going through a big backlog of tickets (mostly changes), with no indication we'd switch to Java. They said they don't know when the switch would happen, but for now there's a ton of stuff in PHP. I could do other things in the company or w/e, but right now I'd have to focus on clearing the big backlog of tickets first. When it does happen, I'd be given time to up-skill Java, but yeah. Maybe do 3 months then beg to pivot? Or ask for front-end work in 3 months to supplement? I really, really want a stable, secure FT job that isn't a defense contractor. I don't think PHP looks too fun, and I'm mobidly afraid of dead-ending my career right here as a new grad. I've gone and done CTCI, > 1 years experience, etc. I'm just not landing calls for interviews at fucking all, so I'm scrambling right now to find a position. Can I just list the role as software engineer intern -> rest back end bla bla, and not say PHP? Will the PHP hurt my prospects as a new grad because it'd be my most recent role? What's the best move here? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:00 PM PDT I haven't done anything more than basic math in 10 years. I took precalc in high school but I sucked at it. I'm currently a bartender and want to reinvent myself. I've got an associates in comm so all my gened bullshit is out of the way. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2018 05:54 PM PDT Can a company get away with not giving their employees raises? Especially those who have worked there for several years? [link] [comments]  |
| What technologies do you think it's best to learn in 2019? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:41 AM PDT Hi there This year I wrote a post about the best web development technologies to learn in 2018. The list was primarily aimed at people that have a basic grasp of web development and perhaps comp sci fundamentals. A ton of people viewed the post and I got feedback both positive and negative. I'd like to create an updated post for 2019. What technologies are you learning and what technologies do you think it's important for new coders to learn? This can be to learn the technology for the sake of job prospects or to build awesome things. Going through the list from last year: #1 Laravel - I included Laravel because it's a great framework for beginners and allows them to build very powerful apps without having to make a ton of decisions or learn extra tools. It's powerful and quick to get started with. The downside is that there as not as many jobs that are specifically Laravel related. #2 Object Oriented PHP - This is a good one but it's probably better to generalize this to learn computer science fundamentals, OOP, Data Structures and Algorithms. #3 Wordpress - This won't be making the list again. Last year I was high on the possibilities for Wordpress. There are so many sites out there that use it and need developers but it's a pain in the butt. Combine that with the fact that by becoming a Wordpress dev you're almost by definition working with non-technical folks it's not a great career choice right now. There are other great site builders out there like Statamic and Squarespace or Gatsby/Hugo + Netlify for blogging. #4 Shopify - enormous opportunities for Shopify developers and low barrier to entry to get started. Still recommend this one! #5 AWS Lambda and Serverless - This is moving up the list. Can combine with Google Cloud functions and all the cool Netlify static site business. #6 Vue.js - getting hotter and hotter New ideas for additions: - Kubernetes + Docker - Chef/Puppet/Ansible - Netlify + static site generators such as Statamic, Hugo etc - React.js --> one reason I didn't include this is because it seems every web development course out there teaches React in about week 2 so mentioning it didn't seem to provide a whole lot of extra value. It is a big player in our industry though Other ideas? [link] [comments]  |
| Is there a service like "Copyscape" for coding? Posted: 13 Oct 2018 11:10 AM PDT I'm wondering if there is a service that check some lines of code written (eg: a function, not a whole software) and match them for "similarity" from public sources (eg: github). My doubt essentially is: If a coder works for me and get some snippets of code from another source without telling me where they come from, may i get in trouble ? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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