Interview Discussion - November 19, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - November 19, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - November 19, 2018
- Just a reminder to take things you read here with a grain of salt
- How do I maximize the use of LinkedIn to get a job in CS?
- How do I get out of a Death March project?
- How to land first internship?
- Salesforce Offers
- Anybody know anything about Ab Initio Software in Lexington MA?
- Wanted: Tips/advice as I start a Machine Learning Engineer job at a startup
- Torn between 2 offers
- Is there an over saturation of CS people going into the work force or is the CS field broad enough to take it?
- Wealthfront vs Flatiron Health?
- Is it worth going back to a company I was fired from just 5 weeks ago?
- CS Graduate with 2.6 GPA & no internships.
- info on blindData in nyc?
- Feeling demotivated from HackerRank warm ups
- Pigeonholing into Frontend
- Intel Internship vs Dream Company Full Time?
- what is UX Engineer?
- Would it be beneficial at all to learn Calculus I/II and Differential Equations?
- At the end of my rope with rejection after rejection for Entry Level SWE Jobs. Should I just give up and go with Revature(despite how skeevy they are) or continue to hold out hope?
- What is the most niche or obscure software tech you've worked on?
- How to quantify work that goes into personal projects? Developed this application 100% myself?
- WTF is a Developer Advocate?
- What was your starting salary?
- Recommended career path for software developer
| Interview Discussion - November 19, 2018 Posted: 18 Nov 2018 11:07 PM PST 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 - November 19, 2018 Posted: 18 Nov 2018 11:07 PM PST 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]  |
| Just a reminder to take things you read here with a grain of salt Posted: 19 Nov 2018 11:44 AM PST I just wanted to put this out there as a bit of a sanity check for people. I've frequented this sub for almost 5 years now (using various throwaway accounts) and many times I see people get extremely stressed out, angry, or indicate that they want to make huge shifts in their life based on advice they read in this sub. But here's the problem... This sub is largely students with 1, maybe 2 internships under their belt. That doesn't prevent them from giving advice about things they have no business giving advice about, though. Much of it is the blind guiding the blind. It's likely the person giving the advice doesn't know what they're talking about; they're just echoing a comment some other CS student made a week ago. Nothing is black and white, and having a 3 month internship at Google doesn't make anyone an expert in anything other than maybe how to get an internship at Google. Outside of that, their advice is total guesswork. So take what you read here with a grain of salt and don't forget to look within to find the best answer for you. Many times, this is what sets someone apart. [link] [comments]  |
| How do I maximize the use of LinkedIn to get a job in CS? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:59 AM PST Hey guys, wanted to know what is the best way to get the full benefits of LinkedIn to get an entry level position as a software engineer? Do I email recruiters? Pay for the premium service? What is the best way [link] [comments]  |
| How do I get out of a Death March project? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 04:04 PM PST I am near the end of a project where staff critical to the success of the project were let go/resigned. The current delivery deadline is impossible and I have been warning my project manager and my personnel manager for 2months. We are working weekends to try and meet the deadline, even though it is highly likely to fail even with the extra work. The company is not planning to invest in our group further; I wouldn't be surprised if we are all let go at the end of the project. The extra work makes it difficult to prepare for interviews, but I don't want to deliver unfinished work to the client. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 03:27 PM PST How do you get industry experience without any prior internships? I am having trouble finding jobs that required previous experiences [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 03:09 PM PST I'm curious what as the Salesforce offers like for MTS and SMTS? I couldn't find much info here or elsewhere, just a few comments. What's the negotiation like? Any information will be extremely helpful, thank you. Edit: Just found them on levels.fyi actually. Still, any info on negotiation would be helpful. [link] [comments]  |
| Anybody know anything about Ab Initio Software in Lexington MA? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:24 PM PST |
| Wanted: Tips/advice as I start a Machine Learning Engineer job at a startup Posted: 19 Nov 2018 06:24 PM PST (x-post r/MachineLearning) A month ago, I began my role as a data scientist/machine learning engineer at an early-stage startup. I'm working on some NLP stuff that I'm really excited about. More on my background for context:
As this is my first time [1] doing ML in industry, and [2] working in an engineering capacity in industry, I'm looking for some advice to act on right now what will be a valuable investment for the future. Here's what I'm aware of so far... How to be a good engineer:
How to be good at ML:
I would love to hear advice from anyone on this, either on the Engineering or ML side. Thanks. (Please let me know if there is a more appropriate sub for this) Edit: change wording for clarity [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 06:12 PM PST Hi all, I currently have 2 offers and am torn between which I should accept. Am a dev at a big corporation in the greater Seattle area making currently 85k total compensation. Got a bit over 3 years of experience. I got 2 offers now, one from a big corporation in Arizona for ~115k total compensation and one from a medium sized corporation in Bellevue for ~125k total compensation. I got some family down closely located to the Az job, but my girlfriend would have to give up her job to move down there. She doesn't work in IT and I'd think she would get a similar paying job there. I would like to buy a house in the foreseeable future, but with the prices in the greater Seattle area I can't really see that happening anytime soon. On the other hand, there are more jobs here and the weather is milder. Anybody had to face a similar choice? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:23 PM PST As more and more students go in to the field of CS are we seeing most of them landing a job in the vast fields CS has ? Or will there be an over-saturation or no one knows ? [link] [comments]  |
| Wealthfront vs Flatiron Health? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:43 PM PST Ignoring the purpose/location/culture of the companies, which is generally better known in the industry, and more highly regarded? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it worth going back to a company I was fired from just 5 weeks ago? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 03:46 AM PST I worked at a mid stage startup with around 70 employees for a bit over 4 years. It was my first job after college. I was actually the third developer to join the company and at the time there were only 7 of us working there. At the time the current CTO was a developer and the current director of software engineering was also a developer. Now there are over 25 developers at the company. You could say that I "grew alongside" this company. Over the last year and a half the management made several decisions about the core product that I heavily disagreed with. I was quite vocal about this and voiced my concerns in our daily stand-ups and monthly sprint reviews. There were others who disagreed as well but I was the only person who was vocal about it. I was quite good friends with the upper management up to this point and we hung out often after work and on the weekends but it got to the point where we stopped being friends and kept our relationship strictly professional and during business hours. Anyway, I ended up being correct about several of the features they requested being huge flops to the point where we wasted a huge amount time and effort to create garbage that we could have spent on other things. I felt like because of this the upper management started to disapprove of me even though I was the person who basically architected the entire backend. There were many features implemented that really nobody but me (and another guy who left a few months ago) worked on. Anyway, I was let go five weeks ago for "performance" reasons. I didn't mind too much as I was looking for a new job anyway since I wanted to try working at a different company. I decided to take some time off before continuing my job search and actually I am on vacation in Europe right now. I've been here the last two weeks. I just got an e-mail earlier this morning (which would be late Sunday night California time) asking me to come back, and there was an offer letter attached and everything for around 20% more than I was making along with a nice signing bonus (same amount that they gave me when I first joined) and some equity. Has anyone ever returned to a company on similar terms? Did you think it was worth it? I don't think the upper management will ever want to be on good terms with me again based on their personalities, so I am honestly a bit shocked in that regard, but also I knew that once I left there would be some huge issues on the software development side of things at the company since nobody would be able to work on some of the features unless they took some months to learn how they worked. What should I do in this scenario? [link] [comments]  |
| CS Graduate with 2.6 GPA & no internships. Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:08 AM PST Hello all. I've been reading through existing posts about this subject but I wanted to create a post asking about my specific situation to see if anyone can provide insight. I've been in working and going to school for a while now. I've had to really fight to get to the finish line but I am finally here. I am 28 and I'm graduating with a BS in Computer Science from Fort Hays State University. Yes, it took me longer than most to graduate but circumstances made things more difficult for me. Anyways. I am graduating with a 2.6 overall gpa and a 3.0 major gpa. I didn't get any internships and even if I got accepted it would have been difficult because I have had to work full time all of these years. I am concerned with being able to get a job. Some have advised me to start working on big elaborate projects to showcase skill. I'm interested in Full Stack Dev, VR Dev, and Mobile Dev. I figure a project in each might entice employers to give me a shot. What do you guys/girls think? Is there any advise any of you may have that may help in my situation? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 05:00 PM PST applied on indeed for their software engineering position and was told to take the exam online. I took it and got an email saying I was a finalist. Some people are saying it is fishy and that they are just collecting data. Anyone have experience with them? [link] [comments]  |
| Feeling demotivated from HackerRank warm ups Posted: 19 Nov 2018 05:46 AM PST Hi all, for a bit of context, I've been a software developer for more than 5 years now, creating web applications mainly. I'm trying out my skills at HackerRank and I'm getting my ass handed to me. I can't seem to solve even their warmup exercises on their interview prep kit. I've never encountered such questions before in my life! My daily activities are to create websites, make it look good, fix the bugs and make it responsive. Not to brag but I can safely say that I do a good job with web development, but with these exercises, I do feel a little bit out of my element. I realize that these exercises are to test my analytical skills to show employers that I'm a quick thinker or I can think outside of the box or something but I just seem to have a hard time solving these things... On the problems that I do manage to solve, I take a lot of time and my code doesn't look elegant, it looks as if I'm in college (haha). Am I missing something? Or I just suck? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 10:51 AM PST I'm a Junior full stack developer but I've been working mostly on front end for the past year. My frontend skill is better than my backend skills. I'd like to transition more into backend but my team needs me on the FE. I hate the styling aspect of FE so I don't want a career as a pure FE dev. My manager has promised to promote me in Q4 of next year but I don't think I can wait that long. Can somebody that has gone from FE to BE give me insights on how you did it? I'm aiming to apply to leading companies next year. How good of backend dev do I have to be for an entry or intermediate developer at one of the leading companies? [link] [comments]  |
| Intel Internship vs Dream Company Full Time? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 03:02 PM PST Alright I realize the title is a bit clickbaity but I'm in a small conundrum. I have a standing internship offer from Intel that's due tomorrow (this is with an extension already being granted) but I also just interviewed with one of my dream companies (which happens to keep doctors away when eaten once a day) for a full time position and the recruiter said it's looking positive and they will most likely make me an offer in a few weeks. Obviously I'd prefer the full-time but I don't want to reject Intel only to end up with no offer at all. The Intel Hiring Manager has also been really nice so I'd hate to reneg on him but I guess you have to worry more about yourself in the end? What would you guys do in this situation? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:57 PM PST I see some job posts about UX Engineer. What is UX Engineer? Is it different to Web Frontend Engineer? Is it limited to Web? or App? or Both? Any clues? please [link] [comments]  |
| Would it be beneficial at all to learn Calculus I/II and Differential Equations? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:44 PM PST I'm a few years out of college now and working a full time job. When I was in school I skipped all my math classes and barely passed them. I only remember the very basics of the courses but nothing beyond that. Am I ever going to need this stuff? Should I bother trying to relearn it? What fields of CS would require this knowledge? IIRC even ML/Data Science stuff requires more of a statistics/linear algebra background instead of calc. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 12:08 AM PST I've been on the job hunt ever since I've graduated with a BS in CS 5 months ago(Sadly no internship experience). I've sent out application after application, been through several phone screenings and maybe 4 in-person interviews. 3 times I've been given a code quiz and each time I somehow screw up by overthinking the details and running out of time or I get so overly nervous I forget things and have anxiety attacks(I've been going to therapy and have been put on Prozac in the last couple days to combat this). Now it feels like Entry Level Jobs have just dried up all of a sudden whenever I look through Glassdoor. I had been considering a job with Revature(the only company I've managed to get an offer from) but after reading all the skeevy things about them I've seen on both this subreddit and other places I declined the offer from them back in July. I don't like the idea of packing up and moving to Virginia from Washington State to work for a company with no guarantee of a job and a two year contract hanging over my head. But at this point...I don't know anymore. I have a support system here so I don't need to worry about food and housing at the moment, honestly the worst of it is that I'll need to start paying back my student loans starting January but I have savings built up and I could always get a part time job where I'm at. Revature seems like my only option for right now for even getting a goddamn foot in the door. I don't want to work for them but at some point I have to ask if I even have an option anymore. One of the reps contacted me a month ago saying that the company had made changes to their salary policies, but honestly I'm still skeeved out. Yeah I could always work on projects and stuff like that(Though honestly I wouldn't even know where to start), but will companies even look at stuff like that or will they just look at my Resume and wonder why I haven't gotten a coding job in the past 5 months? I just...fuck man, I don't know anymore. I've been depressed for months now after rejection after rejection, and all I want is a chance. [link] [comments]  |
| What is the most niche or obscure software tech you've worked on? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 04:40 PM PST Or rather, most obscure tech that you had to use. As a web developer, one of my first jobs had me organize an archive of video seminars that anyone can watch online. These videos were in a -wait for it- RealMedia format. I had to use some proprietary markup similar to HTML which added timestamps inside the video player window as hotlinks to jump around in the video. That was the only time I every had to use this feature. [link] [comments]  |
| How to quantify work that goes into personal projects? Developed this application 100% myself? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:13 PM PST You can quantify work you do at your actual job, but how do you go about quantifying work that goes into personal projects? You don't make any incremental changes, nor you generate revenue... I am puzzled! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:12 PM PST And why do people on LinkedIn keep messaging me about becoming one? [link] [comments]  |
| What was your starting salary? Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:58 PM PST What was your salary/wage just after getting Cs undergraduate/master degree? Also what was your job and position? [link] [comments]  |
| Recommended career path for software developer Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:37 PM PST Hello everyone, I am a senior in high school. I am trying to go into the field of software development, but I am not sure what I should be majoring in college and what steps I should be taking throughout my career. I have programming experience and am still learning at a rapid rate, which I believe would definitely help me. I've been interested in this field for a while but I am not sure what path I should really be taking to be successful in it. [link] [comments]  |
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