Resume Advice Thread - November 10, 2018 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - November 10, 2018
- Daily Chat Thread - November 10, 2018
- I understand software engineers have spent long hours in the industry to get to where they are but please be more humble and treat people who have less experience with more respect.
- Which subfields have the most women or are the most fun?
- If you were able to travel back to college, when you just started your CS degree, what would you do differently?
- How hard is it to make friends after you graduate and start your 9-5 life?
- What’s Palantir’s reputation nowadays?
- Junior engineer not cut out for this
- LeetCode edge cases
- Didn't get business card from someone I met at a Career Fair but had good rapport with the person...ok to reach out via LinkedIn or wait?
- i'm on my first dev internship and struggling to put out results. what am i doing wrong? how can i be better/faster?
- Companies with later recruiting cycles for new grads?
- Stack ranking in capital one
- Purely for improving my application next year, which internship to pick?
- How much code do you actually end up writing a week?
- Accepted the first fulltime offer I got because of the deadline and low confidence in getting other offers because of my GPA, should I keep applying to other places or is this bad manners?
- How can I mix programming and poker efficiently?
- Help! (For a software developer’s girlfriend!)
- Thoughts on Flatiron Health vs. other offers
- career advice needed for an electrical engineering graduate
- I'm an underpaid Junior Developer
- Am I being lowballed?
- How many of you ended up getting your first job in the area you really wanted?
- Tips to stay motivated to keep applying for internships?
- Any chance to get web developer job in working holiday (UK)?
- I'm embarrassed to actually ask this, what do I need to do now as a 3rd year student?
- Foot-in-the-door opportunity?
| Resume Advice Thread - November 10, 2018 Posted: 09 Nov 2018 11:06 PM PST 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 - November 10, 2018 Posted: 09 Nov 2018 11:06 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]  |
| Posted: 09 Nov 2018 08:41 PM PST I've met a lot of software engineers who are extremely arrogant and think that they are smarter than everyone else. I know I'm generalizing the population but those who I've met, think that they are better than everyone else. I understand the hard work they have put in order to get to where they are but a lot of less experienced software engineers might not learn as fast as the experienced ones or simply they just need more time to learn. For me, I am a lot slower than most people or at least I think so. I've been told by a software engineer that I have 0 potential in becoming a software engineer, I am full of retardation and so on.. However, I believe in hard work will eventually pay off and never give up. There are still a lot of software engineers who are willing to help you! Message to those who are struggling to code or are learning to become a better software engineer: Never give up when you think others are above you or simply don't treat you with respect. Keep learning and make the people who think you won't make it to the industry proud. **** FYI, this happens to both males and females. Even though I am a female, I believe that no matter what gender you are, you should be good. I don't want to use my gender to get a job. I want to be good at programming and get a job because I am skilled, but not based on my gender. [link] [comments]  |
| Which subfields have the most women or are the most fun? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:02 PM PST Hi! I'm a junior in college right now majoring in computer science. I'm trying to figure out what kind of tech I like to do and what kind of stuff I want to work on after I graduate. I noticed that the friendliness/culture/fun-ness or a team is super important to me. I think I work sooo much better when I'm around people who are my friends and are nice and that I have things in common with and can form bonds with. I like all kinds of tech equally but I noticed from my internships that I care a lot more about the team culture than the tech stack and my happiness level is more affected by that. Because I'm a woman, I feel like when I've been on a team that has a lot of women, my interest in my job and my happiness level is sooo much higher. Are there any subfields in particular to look at or avoid if this is what I know makes me more happy and more interested in my job? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:58 PM PST My situation: About to wrap up the my first quarter as a CS major at a CC, trying to plan the future smartly, and would like to fix mistakes before they even happen. Let me know your guys' advice [link] [comments]  |
| How hard is it to make friends after you graduate and start your 9-5 life? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:30 PM PST I'm graduating in about a month, and I have a bad feeling about my social life once I graduate. It's just now hitting me that I won't be around people my age at all times. I already have a job that I'm working part time at till I graduate, and most of the people at my company are in their 30s and have a family. I'm having a hard time connecting with them outside of work as friends due to the age gap. I'd love to hear how you guys have dealt with this. What are some good ways that ya'll have kept making friends after graduation? [link] [comments]  |
| What’s Palantir’s reputation nowadays? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:21 PM PST It was a pretty hot place to work a few years ago... what's its rep now? What's it like working there? [link] [comments]  |
| Junior engineer not cut out for this Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:09 PM PST I am an unemployed Junior-level engineer with roughly 6 mo. of production experience. Here's a summary of my story so far: I switched from business to CS late in college because I really enjoyed programming as a hobby and I loved tech in general. Right away, I noticed that while I really enjoyed the content, I struggled immensely. It was tough to get concepts to click - I usually had to put in three times as much work as my classmates to be at the level of understanding required to do well in class. I withdrew during the second semester of my CS degree because I was at risk of failing all of my classes. I couldn't focus, I was depressed, etc. I totally felt in over my head, but I loved CS too much to switch majors again. I moved home and my parents helped me find a psychiatrist. I was diagnosed with ADHD and began treatment. I returned to school the following semester and knocked it out of the park with a 3.9 major GPA. I still had about two years left in school. As the years went on, my classes got harder. Even though I felt great mentally, I still had to put in wayyyy more time than my peers to just to keep up. I really struggled with the programming assignments. No matter how much extra programming I did, I just never could get it clicking. My grades started to fall, and each semester I had to drop at least one class just to avoid going back on academic probation. Ultimately, I graduated. But just barely. However, what I noticed was that I fucking rock at CS when I have time to really understand it. I can understand any concept, code anything up, whatever. But I don't have three hours to solve a HackerRank; I have 30 minutes. I am a scientist, not a competitive programmer. Unlike 75% of my peers, I graduated without a full-time offer in hand. I didn't have any internship experience because 1) I switched majors late and had to take summer classes and 2) I had to make up for my dropped classes ... during the summer. I was heavily involved in a couple of CS clubs on campus, though. Out of the roughly 500 applications I sent out over the three months prior to my graduating, I got roughly 20 HackerRanks, 20 initial phone calls, and ultimately 2 on-sites. Needless to say, even though I put in countless hours prepping and Leetcoding, I graduated without an offer and had to move home. I continued the interview grind and in about two months, I landed a job at a small startup on the west coast! However, long story short, I was let go after just six months because I didn't pick it up fast enough and they didn't have the resources to train me. It really cut into my already very low confidence. So, since then (very early October), I've been back on the interview grind. I've been getting more call-backs compared to the first time around, but my end results have been similar. While I really click with the interviewer on a more conversational, personal level, I feel helpless on HackerRanks and initial technical screens; it feels like there's a HUGE divide between my passion for programming and my technical skill. I'll run out of savings by February and it looks like if I don't land a full-time job by January, I'll have to move back home AGAIN, but this time from the west coast back to the mid-west. I am trying to stay positive, but I lose motivation with each failed interview. Time is running out and I become more and more stressed with each interview. I just don't feel like I'm cut out for this shit. Yeah, I LOVE tech. In an ideal world, I would skip from programming to product management, but I need to land a programming role first. I feel like I just can't compete with my peers when it comes to programming, no matter how much work I put in. I feel like I may do better in interviews if I had more time, but I can't imagine this is possible to ask for? TL;DR Took semester off CS bc I was failing classes. Moved home to midwest, diagnosed with ADHD. Went back to school following semester, barely graduated CS (had to put in wayyy more work than peers for basic understanding of concepts). Graduated without offer in hand, had to move back home. Two months later, got a job at a startup on west coast. Let go six months later. Back on interview grind, but failing again. Might have to move back home in January if still unemployed. Wondering if I am trying too hard and if this isn't for me? Those of you who have gone thru or are going thru something similar, or those of you who have overcome something like this, I would love to hear your story/any advice you have. How did you keep your head up? How did you get a job, and more importantly, KEEP it? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:13 PM PST I feel like when I do leetcode, I can often come up with a close solution that I think is right, but I keep missing edge cases. I'll submit the code, and maybe a handful of tests will pass, but there will be some edge case I missed. I then correct for that case, then resubmit and there will be another missed edge case, and I'll eventually come to an accepted solution, but often times because the tests point out all the things I missed one by one. I feel like this would reflect poorly of me in an interview, and I wouldn't have the luxury of a robust test suite, so unless an interviewer points out edge cases I miss or I notice them myself, it would just go on to be docked points for me. Do you guys have any advice on how to improve at this particular failure case? Is there a good checklist of edge cases to look out for that you could point me to or a rule of thumb you guys follow? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:26 PM PST I forgot to ask for contact info but I found the person on LinkedIn - is it off limits to reach out via LinkedIn? If not, should I give the company a chance to reach out first? Met on Thursday and I was told I should hear back in a week or two (again I've heard this before and doesn't happen) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:00 PM PST i recently started my first internship at a software dev company. most of my experience has mostly just been school labs (no personal projects). it's taking me a very long time just to implement features/frameworks. the problem isn't really the programming language itself, but me having to sift through the application's architecture and properly implementing it so that it would be modular/expandable. there are little things here and there such as efficiency (sometimes i keep hitting delete when there's a way to just remove one line instantly). I'm also trying to put out as much relevant comments and also preparing documentation in pull requests explaining what and how exactly i've implemented something. i've asked for help for various issues, such as how to take advantage of an IDE's feature to 'why am I getting this error code when compiling?" but in the end, I feel that i should just google the stuff myself or the amount of time they take to troubleshoot my issues is literally the same time (more or less) as I am and asking them to sit at my computer and look at my code is a total waste of their time (because they could be working on their stuff) and mine (because i should be going through the code myself to learn). i feel the nature of dev work is 70% self research and when i'm ready to present my finalized portion, that's when i enter the collaborative phase. as a result i find myself mostly just in my own bubble working, but I'm not sure if this is how things should be. maybe it's because this is my first dev job ever (in the past 10 years, my professional experience has mostly been in blue collar/customer service...) so I'm constantly feeling stressed about my lack of delivery. I think up until this point I've only submitted 2 pull requests 3 months into the internship and I'm just feeling kind of worried about the lack of contribution I've put in compared to the team who are pushing PRs EVERY DAY. however, I haven't had any major complaints from them - but I also have a lot of confidence issues and i feel maybe the team just isn't the type that's confrontational. I don't know :/ the bonus is that i do have a great team and i enjoy the problem solving process but it's just hard to... 'measure' if i am doing actual work or doing it well. is this normal for a starting dev? [link] [comments]  |
| Companies with later recruiting cycles for new grads? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:01 PM PST Hi guys, It seems like recruiting for a lot of large tech companies is winding down currently. However, are there any well-known companies that have yet to even open new grad applications? (I heard Spotify is one of these companies). If so, what are these companies and when do they typically start accepting applications? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:15 AM PST How does stack ranking work in capital one? So if you get bottom 10 or 15 %, you get lay off? [link] [comments]  |
| Purely for improving my application next year, which internship to pick? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:56 PM PST Wealthfront or Flatiron Health. I don't think either will move mountains, but I just want anything I can get to get more interviews next year. Thanks for any advice! [link] [comments]  |
| How much code do you actually end up writing a week? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 05:52 AM PST I started a new job not too long ago and it is my first job in the field. I'm feeling a bit uneasy as my coworkers often have conversations within earshot. They'll talk normally for most of the conversation but then they also whisper a lot so I can't always hear what they are saying. But after they usually come and talk to me about something. Sure if I made a mistake or something I'll fix it. But one time they made a comment where it made it sound like they were expecting a push with a lot of changes -- like I'm not writing enough code. I've completed a few issues, which are admit-ably relatively simple. But the only other issues I've been assigned are writing integration tests which I find to be taking a lot of time even though I'm not writing a lot of code. There's zero integration tests for the codebase currently so it wasn't exactly designed with it in mind to be simple ; tight coupling of components that shouldn't require it. Was just wondering about other people's experiences. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 12:06 PM PST I interned at this company last summer and they just offered me a return offer for 76k/yr which I accepted because I had a good time working for them, it had a 2 week offer deadline, and I had no other offers at this point. I also wasn't entirely confident I could get more offers because my GPA is awful (2.6). I get barely any interviews applying to places online (I assume because of my GPA) and I go to a no-name school so career fairs really aren't an option. However, I really haven't applied to that many places (maybe 10-15 total), so I'm not sure if I want to "settle". It's a decent company but I feel like if I never gave it my all in trying to get into better companies I would regret it a lot later on. I'm pretty confident in converting interviews to offers but I've gotten exactly zero interviews at this point, despite thinking my resume is pretty good (apart from gpa). Would it be bad manners to keep applying to places? I graduate this December, and my offer would have me start work in January. [link] [comments]  |
| How can I mix programming and poker efficiently? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:32 PM PST I've had a web developer job 5 of the last 6.5 years mixing front-end/backend tasks over 2 jobs, more specifically Java and React at my last job for 2.5 years. I left my previous job in mid January 2018 on amicable terms to take some time off before my next job. I hoped to travel a bunch, sleep in, and take advantage of the free-time (which I have). I've taken one trip a month, and expect to keep this up until I get a F/T job again. During the last 10 months since I left the job I've spent maybe ~10 hours a week programming, whether it being working on github projects, tutorials, books, etc so that I don't fall out of the loop, and stay up to date with everything. Lately over the last 2-3 months I've been working on a side project(twice) once in Angular and once in React. Now my catch is that I play online poker as well maybe 35-40 hours a week, which allows me to code simultaneously. Poker has gone very well in the last 18 months, and I've played it for > 10 years. I average about 10k CDN a month over the last 18 months. Will it stay this profitable for ever? Probably not, but I should be able to do well for the next few months at a minimum. In the summer I applied for maybe 15 jobs, maybe 1/2 got back to me, and 1/4 of those applications lead to some interviews, but no job offers. All of the recruiters, hiring managers I told them I took time off to travel, lay-low, and that I was expecting 70-75k CDN for salary expectations (so the time off didn't seem to be an issue with any of them). I want to eventually get a job again, but how long is too long in between jobs? Also I'm in a weird situation since I am doing so well in poker, and I don't think I'll be able to make as much in a 9-5 that I will make in poker. The winter is always the most profitable for poker, last winter I had 3 months where I made roughly 20k. I will always play poker, but what is a good approach you guys think given my situation? I don't need a job now, but I don't want to become unemployable in the web programming world. What do you guys think? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Help! (For a software developer’s girlfriend!) Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:45 PM PST Hi, My boyfriend recently accepted an offer with Amazon. He worked in the Seattle location this summer as an intern. I don't know much about this stuff but I know it will be highly likely that he will have to return to Seattle. He hasn't gotten his placement yet but he says that everyone he knows has gotten placed on the teams they were on this summer. I'm going to be in New York City for graduate school and we were really hoping that he would also be placed in New York. He did indicate New York as his first choice on his survey and has tried speaking to his recruiter about the placement multiple times. If he was placed in Seattle, how long would it be before he could transfer to the New York office? How easy would that be? I know that since the split HQ2 might be in Queens, it could make things easier.... [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts on Flatiron Health vs. other offers Posted: 10 Nov 2018 03:45 PM PST Hey guys, I'm currently debating full-time new grad offers for a big retail tech company (you know which one I'm referring to in Seattle) and Flatiron Health (NYC) that I've been fortunate enough to receive, and since the two are such different companies, I'm looking for some feedback and thoughts regarding the two companies. Any comments would be welcome! To give a little background if you aren't familiar, Flatiron Health is a great health tech company that was founded in 2012 and was acquired earlier this year for around $2 billion by pharma giant Roche. I've always been interested in the health tech space, and I would also like to set myself up for future career success by starting out at a company with high engineering caliber (which Flatiron and the other company both fulfill). Regarding comp, both pay a similar amount (Flatiron Health is a little more, but it's also in a more expensive area in NYC). I'm a former intern at the big retail tech company, and I really enjoyed my time there, so that's why this has become a difficult and confusing decision for me. What do you guys think? Thanks for the help! [link] [comments]  |
| career advice needed for an electrical engineering graduate Posted: 10 Nov 2018 03:00 PM PST A little bit of a background on myself: I graduated form a university in electrical engineering. Before i graduated I had worked as an electrical designer intern at firm A ,here I was doing Autocad drafting and other power engineering calculations. I got a good reference and then after I graduated moved onto firm B. At firm B they needed an Autocad drafter like for 9 months i was just drafting and doing nothing else .In 9 months they came to the realization that my speed is about half of what a good drafter's speed should be and so they dismissed me(about 2 weeks back). I had actually created a Reddit account to ask how to get batter at Autocad and that why the name. new thoughts in my mind: So when i was doing my electrical engineering i graduated with average marks(72%). The subjects that I was the worst at were hardware engineering courses so I knew that whatever I do I would not be able to do this. I have walked into hardware engineering interviews where i have struggled really bad. My favorite courses were real time embedded systems and digital system design. so this made me think that maybe I want to be a software programmer. After going into interviews (about 10 months back) I realized i will need to learn a lot ,for eg I just know c++ and many people i talked to said python is in demand. I was not able to answer tough questions on data structures and algorithms (I have never been taught that course). so basically i figured I need at least 4 to 5 months of rigorous self study to be any good as a software developer. this is the point at which I got a job in firm B. now that I don't have a job and have a lot of time . I would like to try to be something except an electrical designer so I am thinking of putting effort in to become a software developer. I would really appreciate some advice . my research till now: from this link i kind of figured that machine learning and data scientist seem to be the most in demand jobs. I am in Ottawa right now but can relocate to Toronto or Waterloo. could some one tell me if( that link shows data about the United States ) the demand and supply similar in Canada. general advice and suggestions would be really appreciated , really confused right now. advice on which type of software development would be easier to get into based on my background would also be appreciated. Another thing I would like to add is that the closest I have come to getting a software development role was when i was applying for internships(about 2.5 years back) I went to a company where they were writing perl (and another language whose name i forget) scripts. the engineer interviewing me was really impressed that I had learned visual basic, HTML and SQL on my own in high school so he hired me. unfortunately a few days later i got a call from their HR saying that I could not get the job because I did not qualify for NERSC funding or something. [link] [comments]  |
| I'm an underpaid Junior Developer Posted: 10 Nov 2018 08:20 AM PST I currently work as a Junior Developer (Quite underpaid at 28k yr) at a tech consulting company that operates for the banking industry. I have been working there one year. In this time I have worked on DBA Administration, BI, Programming scripts for SQLLoaders and for 6 months now I've migrated the whole infrastructure to AWS and making everything serverless so, I've pretty done a lot. I'm taking the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Cert in two weeks and I'm asking when is the best time to ask a raise? Or should I apply elsewhere? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 08:14 PM PST Got an offer from a medium size private company, the total comp is a little under 85k. Has what I would think is about average benefits (3% 401k match, month of PTO etc). This is my first full time job out of college, and to be honest at first I was very happy about the offer. Then other people at my school started telling me they're lowballing me and that everyone makes 100k out of college in cs. This is right in the heart of LA btw, and would force me to move from the east coast (5k signing bonus to cover reloc) [link] [comments]  |
| How many of you ended up getting your first job in the area you really wanted? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 08:08 PM PST 3 weeks into my first job out of college, I feel it could have been a bit more interesting, perhaps it's too early to call it. I did struggle a bit during the first week in particular; I felt there was no proper structure, and I felt like I was supposed to learn things myself. I am more into C/C++ dev for embedded boards in particular, and the company does have a team that solely writes device drivers and some other development stuff whereas I am on the testing side where I write test plans, cases (in JS tho, which I was never into). Considering that, I am not sure if I am going to have a huge learning curve but I can't complain as long as I am getting an experience. Down the road, however, I am not sure if it's going to undermine my chances of going into embedded jobs. I am certain that a lot of people would have once been in this situation, but how did you cope with it? Did you end up working there for a long time or made the switch asap? [link] [comments]  |
| Tips to stay motivated to keep applying for internships? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:51 PM PST Right now my main priority is my classes of course but I applied to a few internships, I need to apply to way more.. Is there any tips to stay motivated? [link] [comments]  |
| Any chance to get web developer job in working holiday (UK)? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:12 PM PST Hi, I am 28 / female and without CS degree, and I considering to go to UK next year for working holiday (Tier 5 Youth Mobility Scheme). I am a self-taught front-end web developer in Hong Kong, who will have one and a half year experience on front end next year, mainly focused on React, JS, HTML, CSS and sometimes work on simple PHP backend / firebase for campaign landing pages. I hope to go to UK next year, but I am not sure if I can get a decent job in UK as a self-taught coder right now? I had done some research on this issue, and I saw most of self-taught coders can get a job, but not related to working holiday, so I am curious if it is possible or not? Moreover, which area would have more jobs for web developers in UK other than London? I want to discover more, but don't know where should I search for. It would be great if you guys can give me some insights! Thank you so much! [link] [comments]  |
| I'm embarrassed to actually ask this, what do I need to do now as a 3rd year student? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:55 PM PST I'm a third year student who transferred over to a 4yr from cc. I'm a computer science major and currently taking classes. I'm not so great at coding, but good enough for my classes, especially when it comes to projects (so far). What I'm confused about is my future (I know it sounds cheesy). I don't know how to prepare for interviews or apply for internships or what jobs I should I apply for? I want to learn things that have to do with websites (specifically frontend and backend type stuff). What should I be studying? What should I be doing? What internships should I be applying for? Does it matter where I apply? What do I do if I don't have any experience besides retail? Should I even apply? (My resume probably can get me a job at McDonald's). There's so many information out there that I sorta freeze. I literally don't have a roadmap in my head and that really scares me. So far I know a little bit of java (because of my data structures class) some html/css/javascript. Sorry if this sounds like a ramble, I just needed to get that off my chest. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:29 PM PST So i started an associates degree program in software development at my technical college. I had some personal issues come up and I didnt do that well in my 1st semester. Ive since been unemployed(for about 6 months actually) ive done some website building and began exploring html css and js on my own time and have been reading books on design principles...also i have a bachelots degree in pscyhology..long story. Anyway, i recentky took a job as a associate manager at a retail store which i have a lot of experience in. Anyway i had an interview at a company called 'Deluxe' for a data entry position. Deluxe is a huge company but the location im working at doesnt really do anything with website development or small business services, which id like to get in to. Both this job and my manager psoition pay the same (retail scheduling and working extra hours sucks). Basically, does having experiencr in a company even if its doing something completely unrealted make you a stronger candidate. Retail is kind of my fallback and having taken this job if i quit the odds of being hired back im guessing are slim. Idk what are your allsis thoughts? Any experience with Deluxe as a web design firm? [link] [comments]  |
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