Resume Advice Thread - October 20, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - October 20, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - October 20, 2018
- Applied to our main competitor, they told my boss about it
- What's better, take a high-paying job in Silicon Valley, or stay in a low cost of living area?
- Who uses all this algorithm stuff on a day to day basis on job?
- Are any summer 2019 applicants hearing back? Getting in my own head.
- [Serious] Is this burnout or something else? Can't get myself to write a single line
- Lockheed ELDP
- What are some things which you wish you knew when you started your career?
- Is it wrong to apply to many open internship positions for the same company?
- Last CS class before I graduate - Distributed Systems v.s. Operating Systems?
- Does Nvidia sponsor visas for interns?
- Junior full stack dev in my first software job dealing with a toxic work environment, choosing a career path, and preparing an exit strategy from this company; I'm seeking advice and guidance on my situation.
- Finishing training at Infosys and the communication here is horrid. Not sure what to do...
- Mid-level Engineer, NEED to leave job after 2.5 months... what do I say???
- When do I stop feeling like I'm not qualified to work in my career?
- Losing interest in coding. I've heard Computer engineering is the same.
- HireViews
- What makes a good senior developer?
- Is it wrong for me to fall in love with a company simply because the office is amazing?
- Transcripts for Internship
- Anyone received decisions from the Morgan Stanley 2019 FT Analyst Program?
- Finance Undergraduate (Soon-to-be) with opportunity to seek Undergraduate in Computer Science
- Offer Deadline Extension Negotiation
- Data engineer looking for career advice
- APIs and JSON
| Resume Advice Thread - October 20, 2018 Posted: 20 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]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - October 20, 2018 Posted: 20 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]  |
| Applied to our main competitor, they told my boss about it Posted: 20 Oct 2018 04:50 AM PDT I was being underpaid and contacted the rival company, known for paying good salaries. It was my first time doing a hackerrank style interview and failed it. I obviously haven't told anyone about it so I'm positive their HR told my boss to create a toxic work environment for us, which they succeeded in doing. Not sure how to deal with this, I am quitting so it shouldn't matter but still left a bitter taste in my mouth [link] [comments]  |
| What's better, take a high-paying job in Silicon Valley, or stay in a low cost of living area? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 01:24 PM PDT I got tired of answering the same question over and over so I did the math based on my own personal experience. Yes, California has high state taxes. Yes, finding a place to stay is insanely expensive. But in the end, you still win:
Full details: https://thestartupconference.com/2018/09/21/about-that-silicon-valley-job/ If you stay in a low cost of living area, your entire gross pay would be less than the net pay in Silicon Valley. That being said, there are plenty of valid reasons to stay (family and friends, your favorite activities nearby, etc.). Money is probably not one of them. [link] [comments]  |
| Who uses all this algorithm stuff on a day to day basis on job? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 04:48 PM PDT I really like studying the intricate details of computer science. I still have my compilers textbook with me and I flip through it's pages occasionally. I like to dig into the guts of cpython code. I am curious about how the kernel manages routing table and all. But right on the surface of it, I can't think of any place where Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm is used or you have to BFS through a adjacency matrix or use Dynamic programming/greedy algorithm being used. I have two important interviews coming up and I have been grinding on leetcode like crazy. I think it would help me to know, the kind of jobs where people get to use these algorithms on a day to day basis. Again, don't get me wrong here, I am not saying that interviewers shouldn't ask these questions or I am not asking why these topics get asked constantly in interviews. All I am asking is why and where does most of the stuff that you would read in a textbook like CLRS get's used? For one, I would love to get a job where I could actually use this stuff on a day to day basis.. IMO, this stuff is lot more cooler than being a full stack developer. I mean, I find this more exciting then setting up a database somewhere, building a HTTP service that writes to it and all.. So, what companies use these algorithms? Also, what would be job role title? I want to shoot my resume over and see if I can get a call from them. [link] [comments]  |
| Are any summer 2019 applicants hearing back? Getting in my own head. Posted: 20 Oct 2018 12:52 PM PDT Hey the co-op program year just started in my university I've been getting in my head about not hearing anything back. I was told companies start hiring for summer positions as early as Sept-Oct so it's made me nervous that I haven't heard anything back yet, I was wondering if anyone else is in the same boat. I've applied to roughly 10 jobs through my school's job board and 20 through linked in. I have tons of side projects, previous internship experience, solid 3.4gpa, and thought I'd have no problem finding an internship, let alone get a call back. [link] [comments]  |
| [Serious] Is this burnout or something else? Can't get myself to write a single line Posted: 20 Oct 2018 09:45 AM PDT Well, as the title says, I am unable to focus or do anything for the past couple of weeks. I have been working in the industry for 4 years now and consider myself fairly good having worked on both frontend and back end technologies. For the past few days I am unable to write a single line. I get to work, view current task and just stare at the screen for four hours till lunch break. For simple tasks such as creating CRUD operation for an already designed database I take too much time and over think everything, at the end doing nothing. Same thing continues after lunch break and at the end of the day I had accomplished nothing and then the time at home is just pure depression and tention that I did nothing. Just to answer any possible question, this is a new job and I have done these type of and other fairly complex work before, many times and I genuinely enjoy programming. I have already tried the help I found online for these types of things and tried to follow few like making a todo list, avoiding distractions, prioritizing the tasks but nothing seems to work. This thing is making me feel like an imposter who is either not qualified enough or not trying hard. Should I take a break? Will it help or there is any other way. I am thinking of quitting the job and taking few months to recharge, can't find any other solution after trying so many things I found online, focus to exercise to many other but it is getting worse. Some info about work environment: - Nothing clearly defined - Sometimes need to work on Saturdays - No team structure, each person is responsible for their own module, clarify requirements, help designer make the mockups, work on api [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2018 06:40 PM PDT I have accepted an offer with Lockheed as a Software Engineer down in Orlando. I'm getting my UG degree in Business Information Technology, but was curious in how the ELDP works. Do I have to apply to it? Did I have to apply to it beforehand? The manager I report to is an ELDP manager so should I speak to her about it when I start? Any information helps [link] [comments]  |
| What are some things which you wish you knew when you started your career? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 02:04 PM PDT I'd be graduating soon so I thought this would be a good question to ask here and get some heads-ups. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it wrong to apply to many open internship positions for the same company? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 07:51 PM PDT For example, IBM has a lot of applications, I just apply for all of them, is that wrong? I do the same for other companies too, does that look like spam? [link] [comments]  |
| Last CS class before I graduate - Distributed Systems v.s. Operating Systems? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 07:34 PM PDT Title says it all! I'm interested in distributed systems because that quite useful when thinking about how to create scalable applications. However, I feel a bit weird graduating as a CS major without taking OS - it seems like something most people have done. As a side-note: I have taken a System Programming class (UNIX) already, not sure if that would sway the decision though. [link] [comments]  |
| Does Nvidia sponsor visas for interns? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 04:41 PM PDT Hey guys, Does Nvidia sponsor visas for interns (or do they hire people from outside america?) Thanks a lot! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2018 11:57 AM PDT The purpose of this post is to get guidance concerning:
I've created different sections in this post. Each bold heading contains information specifically related to that heading topic. There is a tl;dr at the end of each section, as well as at the end of the entire post. My Background In August I got my first software engineer position at age 30. Prior to that, I chose to become homeless and sleep in my car while I self-taught myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for 6-months, then I spent 6 more months self-teaching myself node.js, Express, mongoDB, and React. I slept in my car to reduce living costs so I could spend 10-12 hours each day studying web development. This was, in my opinion, a better option than working a terrible retail job just to pay rent and then studying after work. It worked out for me. Now, I'm 2+ months into my first junior software engineer position, using React or Vue on the frontend, with node, python, and AWS on the backend. Financially, I'm in the best position I've ever been in in my 30 years. Seriously life changing events that I'm truly grateful for; life is good for the most part. tl;dr: was voluntarily homeless while I self-taught myself full stack development from late 2017 to August 2018 and got my first software developer job using React, Vue, Redux, node, python, AWS. The Company/Toxic Environment I work at a startup in what Glassdoor considers one of the top 10 tech hub cities in the USA outside of San Francisco. The company's business model is to never have anyone above junior level on their team so they can undercut the market price for client projects. The VP was hired in 2017, and he came in and fired 75% of the staff; most of those that were fired were the most senior level making $80k or more with the most experience; apparently these were really good devs that helped teach the junior devs and the environment was pretty good; I wasn't at the company, so this is all heresy. The company then attained some sort of agreement with a coding bootcamp. Essentially, every 3-6 months this company has a new group of 10-15 coding bootcamp grads that they pay $15/hr on internship for up to 90 days. These interns are essentially potential replacements for anyone that isn't performing as well as the company would like. If the interns work out, they are then offered anywhere from $45k to $50k for their first position. The benefit to the coding bootcamp is that they have a "successful placement rate of 100%" because all of the students are virtually guaranteed an internship (a job) if they "graduate" (survive til the end) unless they are forced out of the coding bootcamp before the end. The benefit to the company is that they have a steady supply of people who desperately want their first software job and are willing to work for less than the next person, while also working up to 60 hours a week to "prove themselves." To provide a non-ambiguous example of the toxic environment, one of the power hungry team leads told another dev that he better not question him again because he will recommend that he be replaced by a new bootcamp grad when the new interns come in in January. This type of behavior at the company is absolutely disgusting to me. However, it's the circumstancing I'm dealing with; I'm still in a better position here than I was living in my car while studying in the library. tl;dr*: I work at a startup in a top 10 USA tech hub with a business model to keep developers from advancing in their career by always having a stream of recent bootcamp grads as interns every 3-6 months that will work for less than already hired devs with managers that actively discourage devs to question them or else they will replace them with a new, cheaper bootcamp grad.* My Job Duties I was hired and within the first 2-weeks I built a working prototype based on the client's designs using AWS (Cognito, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, with node.js) with no previous experience with AWS, and React and Redux; so, the company has dubbed me "The in-house React and AWS expert." As this "expert," I'm responsible for teaching others, including the interns that will eventually replace me, AWS and React while also getting my own work done; I've been encouraged to teach it during lunch three days a week. Which means, I'd be forfeiting my lunch to teach; this also means I'd be responsible for preparing lesson plans outside of work as well. To be absolutely clear, I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, I just happen to know more than the coding bootcamp grads on the floor; so, this is an extremely subjective interpretation of my skill level. In React, I know the difference between container and presentational components, how to conditionally render different UI components based on user interactions, client side validation so I don't make any unnecessary HTTP request to the server, I know CSS in JS, CSS modules, and vanilla CSS, I prefer flexbox and vanilla CSS over having to override Bootstrap, Material UI, or any other CSS framework, I'm familiar with React's component lifecycle methods, and I can write my own basic rest API's. But you could learn that in less than 30 days from a $10 course on Udemy. Anyway, the company is transitioning to using AWS for their backend services for new client projects. Thus my accomplishment was extremely exciting for both the company and the client. My company told, I mean recommended, me to get AWS certified in my free time since we are using it at work. However, I don't know that I'm competent enough with the full SDLC in order to become AWS certified using languages I barely know on an infrastructure platform (AWS) I was just introduced to when I don't even know what the hell an index is in a database. tl;dr: I'm a junior dev responsible for teaching the junior devs what I know, which may or may not be best practices because I'm new to software development, and my company wants me to write lesson plans in my free time, teach those lesson plans during my lunch time, and still complete all of my client project without any sacrifice to the quality of my work. Choosing a Career Path I am enjoying AWS, writing my own custom lambdas in either node.js or python, and then using Cognito for authentication, using DynamoDB to store data, giving temporary IAM roles for authenticated users to upload images to and S3 bucket with it's own permissions and policies, then storing the metadata in DynamoDB to save money for my company's clients. However, I also enjoy rending UI elements to the DOM so users can interact with it, making a designer's vision to come to life with my code, and getting feedback from users that they love using things I've built. Seriously, this is all so fun. I code even on weekends because this is genuinely an enjoyable experience to write software, solve problems, and bring programs to life. However, I don't know how to estimate costs on AWS. How much the Lambda will cost, how to provision DynomoDB tables, choose the amount of read/write permission per second, when is a good time to decide to fire up a new EC2 virtual machine, what operating system to use on that virtual machine...I don't know what the hell I'm doing. However, I've been advised at meetups to have a wide array of programming knowledge so I don't become an expert in a technology that becomes obsolete in 5 years. Essentially, not become an "expert" in a framework (Vue) or library (React) because they may not be around in 5-10 years, whereas underlying core technologies (i.e. JavaScript, node, python, C#, AWS as whole) will be probably be around. tl;dr: I enjoy both frontend with React and backend with node/python and AWS's infrastructure as a service. I'm just so new to development that I don't know how to choose a career path going forward; however, it seems that the industry is transitioning to cloud architecture, so I'm tempted to focus my efforts on learning AWS for better job prospects. Guidance I'm seeking Becoming an "expert" in a single language (JavaScript) or a framework/library (React) seems to be ill-advised. However, becoming AWS certified so early in my career when I don't know much about DBs, virtual machines, or how to estimate costs and scale also seems like a poor choice. Thus, are there any recommendations on what I should consider when deciding on what I should focus my learning on in my free time? Should I be focusing on Vue and React in my free time to get better at those so I can more quickly escape the toxic work enviroment? Does it make more sense from a future professional standpoint to simply focus on the AWS ecosystem since I'm in a position to 1) learn it on my own, 2) use it in production at work, and 3) learn from my mistakes on my companies dime and time? I feel like I'm currently in a unique position to get AWS certified since I'm currently "affordable" to my employer and I'm also skilled enough to feel secure in my employment with them for at least the next 6-9 months while I 1) become AWS certified and 2) gain more real world experience with AWS on the job. TL;DR: I work in a startup with a business model to burn and churn through junior devs and to never have any senior devs as a cost saving measure. As a self-taught junior developer using AWS, node, python, React, and Vue in my first job with no senior devs on the team, should I focus on becoming AWS certified in my free time since I'm getting hands-on experience at work, or should I focus on becoming more familiar with React and Vue for better career prospects for the rest of my career? [link] [comments]  |
| Finishing training at Infosys and the communication here is horrid. Not sure what to do... Posted: 20 Oct 2018 01:16 PM PDT I work at Infosys which is a consulting firm. All of their new software engineers go through 2 months of training. The training I have done is in Python, Java, Spring, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Angular. I'm in the final week of training. I was not aware of many things that are happening now in the last 2 weeks of training.
I feel like this whole thing has been a colossal waste of time. The training was pretty bad. About 80% of the employees are from India and can't speak English very well. So I have 5 more days of training and still have no idea where I'm going, where I'm living, or who I am working for after. The HR rep is saying basically to trust the process. Could I get some advice? I am just looking for my first SWE job where I can get experience and knowledge to advance my career. Am I overreacting or should I start applying for other jobs already? [link] [comments]  |
| Mid-level Engineer, NEED to leave job after 2.5 months... what do I say??? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 08:30 AM PDT Hi everyone! Particularly needing feedback from hiring managers/senior engineers/team leads, etc. I'm a mid-level software engineer (4 full years experience now) that just started a new job exactly 2.5 months ago. I was at my previous employer 3 full years, and my employer before that 1 full year out of college. My recent job change in August was due to a HUGE jump in salary, as well as the company being much more advanced/interesting in a new industry. This company is "big" in their field, and having them on a resume looks real, real good. However, there's been a couple obvious hiccups in the past few months: the position has become almost pure data science, statistical analysis, SQL, and big-data wrangling, versus the backend web engineering I was hoping - and looking- for. It's a rather significant industry change as well, and I am quickly discovering I am NOT liking this industry either. On top of that, and most importantly, the work life balance is horrendous - long, arduous hours, on call weeks (that I was not told about during interview) and I have to give a report every week on how I spent every hour of every day the past week, and am criticized harshly for any perceived "slow velocity" and "lack of ownership" if a problem persists more than a few hours. I have truly been giving this job a shot, but my most recent meeting made it very clear that the business was honing in their scopes on me - either the product I am working on improves immediately, since I was apparently hired on as a way to fix the sinking ship that is the project, or they will find someone else who will fix it. Needless to say, I think it's toxic, and I think it's taken a hit on my mental health as well as the well being of my family. I think this is the classic scenario of bad fit: the job/company isn't quite what I was looking for, and they want someone who's willing to slave over this product way more than me, probably with more industry experience. SO: I think I'm at the point where I need to get out on my own terms before I'm fired. And, y'know, so I don't go insane with more "expected" 12 hour micromanaged days. Obviously though, I've never been in a short-term scenario job change scenario like this. So my questions are:
Basically, just confused about what the best way for me to present my current situation. Keep in mind I have NO problems describing my scenario in person to a hiring manager or engineer I'm interviewing with. But I don't want to prevent myself from getting to that point in the first place. Thanks!-An anxious mid-level SWE [link] [comments]  |
| When do I stop feeling like I'm not qualified to work in my career? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 12:53 PM PDT I've been working in the same company for around 10 years now, but I still feel like I should never have gotten this job and that I don't know what I'm doing. During meetings I never know what to ask or how to answer questions I'm asked and I just stay quiet. I'm always scared to commit my changes because I'm worried I've missed something or we're lacking test coverage and my change will break something as a result. When writing up reports I never know what I'm doing, I don't know how to format what I'm writing and I don't know how to represent whatever data I'm reporting. Everyone I work with always knows what they're doing, they know who to contact when they need information, they know what to say during meetings, they know how to write reports and I'm just fumbling around with no idea what I'm doing. People who have been here for less than a year seem to be better at this job than I am and more aware of what's going on. I never get negative reviews from my manager but I honestly don't trust his judgement. How do I change this and learn how to do my job with at least a minimum level of competence? [link] [comments]  |
| Losing interest in coding. I've heard Computer engineering is the same. Posted: 20 Oct 2018 08:21 PM PDT Should I just get comptia a+ certificate in Computer Engineering? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2018 08:02 PM PDT So recently I had a hire view which i don't think I did that well on giving my response. I applied again thru a different email same location and got an invitation for the hireview. Do you think it is smart to do the hireview again with better response. I haven't herd back yet from the first one I did... please let me know if u think it's smart that i submit another one with the new email. [link] [comments]  |
| What makes a good senior developer? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 08:22 AM PDT Hi all, Just joined a new team with a lot of junior developers. Apart from being technically competent and having years of experience breaking stuff and making mistakes. What do you think makes a good senior developer? Note: I am not the tech lead, it's just me and 5 junior developers. There is a tech lead across the teams I am mainly experienced in backend [link] [comments]  |
| Is it wrong for me to fall in love with a company simply because the office is amazing? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 01:52 AM PDT So recently this week Bloomberg invited students from my uni to a tour of their NYC office and I absolutely fell in love. I was completely taken back given that my experience with offices at financial services firms were bland. Now I really want to do well in my upcoming phone interview. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2018 06:30 PM PDT I'm thinking about applying for an internship for the Summer of 2020 and the website says to send transcripts for any school I've attended in the past 3 years. This might be a dumb question but is there any chance that this includes high school or do employers normally just want college transcripts? Have any of you ever had to send high school transcripts? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone received decisions from the Morgan Stanley 2019 FT Analyst Program? Posted: 20 Oct 2018 05:55 PM PDT It's been past the ~4 week decision time they gave me after my final round but they recently said that they still need more time. I was wondering if anyone has gotten their decisions from the September interviews? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Finance Undergraduate (Soon-to-be) with opportunity to seek Undergraduate in Computer Science Posted: 20 Oct 2018 11:56 AM PDT This is one of my first Reddit posts so please be easy with me. I am in my last semester of finishing my undergraduate dual major in Finance and Risk Management & Insurance. I have under three years of experience in commercial real estate on the brokerage side, but realizing through all this experience and searching for information online pertaining to other career paths such as commercial appraisal, continuing brokerage or other facets are that I will never feel satisfied having an unbalance in life. Rather, it's pretty miserable even if you have an opportunity to break-in which is something that I could do given my network. Guidance in my life has been questionable, so I have had to learn a lot on my own and studying for this education gave me the impression I would be ahead of my peers. I had a host of medical issues in high school and dropped-out at one point because catching up on work was overwhelming. Luckily, I got over the illness and went back to receive my high school diploma and finished with 3.8 GPA. All this time in my life was unfortunately focused on short term goals of taking one step before the other, so SATs or ACTs, plans out of school were not properly gauged upon like I should have made them to be more proactive. After graduation and going to a community college I decided to get my real estate license to work in commercial real estate. Dealing with the bulk of red tape in a growing market in the United States gives you perspective how self-absorbed others can be, especially finding a mentor or simply a team to work with. From the time I received my Associates and moved on to studying for my undergraduate, it only took one year and my passion to learn is ever-growing. Never once did my GPA drop below a 3.6, and I have been extremely proactive in my studies. I have only ever enjoyed my statistical courses, calculus courses, and advanced finance courses. Visual Basic was a great class although I never got everything I wanted out of it and given that I went to a community college, the instructor was not someone that was very helpful. That being said, I want to learn more of the mathematical side going deep into subjects of Calculus, Physics, Data Structures and Algorithms, etc., while also building a background in programming for C++, Python, R, and other useful languages associated. Physics and Calculus were always my strong suits, and I wish I had a different experience in high school to prepare me better toward what I truly desired. My goal is to avoid the risk of more regret in my future. Unfortunately, I cannot attend my university home campus for computer engineering as it is very far from where I live; the branch campus does not offer anything other than Cyber Security and IT. I have an opportunity to take the prerequisite courses required to be accepted into UFL online and take an online course for a BS in CompSci given my location as well as the cost (Florida Residence). For reference, I am in my younger twenties and finally healthy. Commercial Real Estate taught me a lot about patience and constantly working in sweat-shop conditions until I finally made my first set of deals on commission(1 year and 3 months to be exact). I do not want to pass this opportunity up. I am open to many career options and have interest in mathematics, statistics, programming, and even something involving both fields of finance and computer science. If based on pure computer science, software development would be something I can delve in. Most of you will mention that it is one thing to take CompSci, but it's important to practice outside of the classroom setting to which I am very well prepared for. I feel that quantitative analyst may be out of reasonable expectations as a background strong in math on paper is desired; time is finite and my branch campus does not offer anything mathematical based except classes that prepare students to enroll in engineering at the main campus that I would use to knock out the prerequisites for UFL. So the real question is, am I SOL? I wish I could have made a different choice in the past, but I also don't think it is too late for me to continue my education is pursue my passion so long as it makes sense. Salesmanship is not an issue for me and neither is working as people-person; I just want something that ensures a degree of security regardless of economic or market condition and to open more doors of options. I also don't fully regret my choice in career and education path because I learned many lessons in life that I never would have been able to but as I have said, maybe I would have taken the path different to get a B.S. in CompSci first, or something mathematical based just to lay the foundation moving forward. From my mind, I feel that an undergraduate degree in finance and CompSci is not unusual but would rather hear from seasoned veterans or those that have taken the same path could vouch in. Thank you for reading this long post. [link] [comments]  |
| Offer Deadline Extension Negotiation Posted: 20 Oct 2018 05:19 PM PDT I am currently a Junior applying for Summer internships. I have an offer with company X that expires November 15th I have a couple onsites with companies Y and Z November 20th December 7th respectively. How do I tell company X to extend my offer deadline until after December 7th (what kind of reasons should I give them)? I really want to work for company Z however December 7th was the earliest day they are available for an onsite. I am not sure if I'm going to get the offers at company Y and Z so I don't want to turn down company X without having a backup. [link] [comments]  |
| Data engineer looking for career advice Posted: 20 Oct 2018 12:19 PM PDT Hi everyone! Wall of text below... I'm 25 and have about 2.5 years of working with data in an engineering role - traditional etl and data warehousing, as well as big data and streaming stuff - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Spark Streaming and Kafka. I've worked in consulting companues and in telecom companies. I live in Russia and make about $25k after taxes which is considered a good salary for Moscow. My next job in Moscow could get me closer to or over 30k. My dream is to move to the US, make decent or hopefully good money and put some of it into a good cause. My current plan is to save up for a Masters in yhe US, all while trying to get an offer from an American company or a European company with the possibility of transferring to the US internally. In case that doesnt work out, I will get my masters in the US and use the increased chances of getting the H1B visa to realize my plans. My concern is that by the time I save up enough money and get my masters, Ill hit about thirty anf the ageism will start kucking in, decreasing my chances of getting a job. Thanks for reading! Any thoughts or constructive criticism is welcome! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2018 03:54 PM PDT Recruiter told me to be ready to answer questions about these. What could they even ask me? These seem like super simple concepts. For JSON, all I could probably be asked is to create an object or parse through some, right? For APIs, what can I be asked other than how to make an API call? [link] [comments]  |
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