Daily Chat Thread - January 16, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- Daily Chat Thread - January 16, 2019
- Big N Discussion - January 16, 2019
- So, I just erased our JIRA database
- Grad for about a little over a year (end of 2017) with no related experience/internships. What should I do?
- New job high pay but nothing to do
- Reneging on internship?
- How important is a CS degree in the long run, is work experience enough?
- How is working for Cisco as a first job after graduation, or just in general?
- What non-programming thing do you LOVE most about your job?
- Victim of bad recruiters
- Asking for minimum salary range
- When does the job get easier?
- Best way to go about giving notice?
- Software Engineer - > Product Manager Plan
- Quitting programming
- Has anyone taken and pass an IBM code challenge?
- Need some guidance for freelancing
- Entry Level Programmer job
- CyberCoders.com: recruiters or bot farm?
- Furthering my studies for personal reasons, is it a waste of time?
- How many LC questions should you be doing a day?
- Failed out of cs/school, found work at a startup in Bay Area, but salary is stuck and other companies do not seem interested
- What companies typically accept internships (paid or unpaid) applications from early undergrad (1st and 2nd year) students, if any? And any advice for applying to them/seeking out the best ones? Lastly, would you even recommend unpaid internships?
- Looking for work while pregnant
- Low salary + experience vs continuing job search
- Lowballing Salary
| Daily Chat Thread - January 16, 2019 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 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]  |
| Big N Discussion - January 16, 2019 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 11:06 PM PST Please use this thread to have discussions about the Big N and questions related to the Big N, such as which one offers the best doggy benefits, or how many companies are in the Big N really? Posts focusing solely on Big N created outside of this thread will probably be removed. There is a top-level comment for each generally recognized Big N company; please post under the appropriate one. There's also an "Other" option for flexibility's sake, if you want to discuss a company here that you feel is sufficiently Big N-like (e.g. Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc.). Abide by the rules, don't be a jerk. This thread is posted each Sunday and Wednesday at midnight PST. Previous Big N Discussion threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| So, I just erased our JIRA database Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:53 AM PST I am working as a DevOps for about 2 months and a half. Today I was supposed to migrate our JIRA to another server, the old server hard drive was mounted on another computer using an Ubuntu live CD. Super simple, right? I was trying to export the postgres database and I used a chown to change the data directory owner's to the postgres user. The folder simply vanished and there's no backup. I'm fucked. Did anyone passed through a similar situation? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 02:05 PM PST So it's been quite a bit of time since I graduated with a BS in Computer Science. I spent probably a good 4-5 months shotgun applying to jobs with no responses so I ended up taking a job kinda in construction for some income. The amount of effort I put into job hunting for a software engineer/developer role pretty much dropped to none as I was at times mentally and physically too exhausted to care about job hunting. The only pieces of experience I have on resume are a hackathon and that construction job. I do have a few school projects listed and a minor outside of school personal Android project. I've been out of work now for about 2 months now so I can full-time job hunt but I've gotten as much results now as I did then - which is close to none. But man it just sucks that I think I've only gotten maybe one call from a recruiter from a company that isn't from one of those "IT Staffing Consultant Companies" like Revature or FDM group. I live in NYC, so it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere. It's really mentally draining, not gonna lie. I workout pretty often to relieve stress so I have some outlet. I just recently purchased the React 16 The Complete Guide tutorial on Udemy and about to full dive into it so it can hopefully give me something to build. I'm planning to build a simple portfolio/personal website in it but I'm not sure how much good that'll do. Anybody else been in the same situation? How did it work out for you? [link] [comments]  |
| New job high pay but nothing to do Posted: 16 Jan 2019 11:07 AM PST I started my career at local government where I had immediate project management duties and freedom to work on my own projects. Because I was working for local government and provided a ton of freedom to make a name for myself with my own office I had a reason to enjoy working. I had fullfilled purpose. I recently took a job for a large us city mainly because im getting paid 40k more a year! I figured with the insane pay and more resources and prestige , I would have even more fullfilment. Well its the exact opposite. Im stuck in a cubicle farm and havent been given any projects to work on and when i ask and try to be proactive im told to not do it. I went from having total freedom and 6 appointments and projects meetings a day to literally staring at a pc reading online books. What did o get wrong here? Im a prrofessional with serious accomplishments under my belt but am being treated like an intern. Why pay someone an insane amount of money knowing they are a career professional not to give them anything to do. I want to jump ship. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:16 PM PST I accepted an offer for Capital One over a month ago, however, I just received an internship offer from my dream company. I honestly feel shitty for wanting to renege bc I was so happy when I got C1 and really enjoyed the company, however I don't really want to work in the Fin-tech space in the long run and feel as though my dream company better aligns with my interests. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to renege and what the repercussions will be. Like do I just contact the recruiter and say that I feel really bad but unfortunately I will not be able to complete the internship in the summer. It would be amazing if someone who has reneged from C1 could educate me with their experience. [link] [comments]  |
| How important is a CS degree in the long run, is work experience enough? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 03:18 PM PST I have a degree in Finance and started at a bank in their credit division. I self studied Python and had an interest in analytics and eventually transferred to the business analyst group running various SQL queries and python scripting here and there. Recently, I transferred again, this time in a software engineering position, i'm working in and learning Java at the same time. My question is, outside this bank, in the future, will work experience alone be enough to put me on even level with everyone else or will I need a CS degree to eventually climb up the ranks? [link] [comments]  |
| How is working for Cisco as a first job after graduation, or just in general? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 03:17 PM PST I have an offer for a software engineering job at Cisco San Jose, CA, but I'm not sure what to expect from the company. Does anyone else here work for them? [link] [comments]  |
| What non-programming thing do you LOVE most about your job? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:00 AM PST I'm still new at my dig but I absolutely love the freedom of schedule that I have and the travel involved in this position! Let's bring some positivity into this sub! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 11:45 AM PST Where do I start with this one. Left a comfortable contract role to pursue full time positions. I had really great interviews with hiring managers and then poof, bad recruiters hit me like a fucking train. I interviewed with vmware and during the interview, hiring manager mentioned that he wanted me onsite to meet the team and further interview and that I should coordinate with the recruiter to schedule sometime. This was in November 2018. The fucking recruiter never responds, left him voicemails, ton of emails, fucker sees my linkedin messages but doesn't respond. Fuck you J*****. Then I had a interviewed with a really good startup in SF and my onsite interview was interrupted when the CEO decided to call for an emergency meeting. Recruiter says she will reschedule and this was in December 2018. Never responds and just skips weeks altogether to schedule something only never to respond again. The other company gives me a verbal offer and poof nothing, after giving them >10 required references (which they never checked) no response. No written offer no update on anything. Is this how the recruiters are now?. Should I just accept this fact and move on?. It sucks to give up on really good companies. [link] [comments]  |
| Asking for minimum salary range Posted: 16 Jan 2019 01:11 PM PST Can I ask for salary range before giving references? I don't know if I'll accept the offer below a certain number and I don't want to waste my friend's time to do a HR interview. Also, it's a little bit awkward asking Passed this company's technical interviews and HR interview and they want references now [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:45 PM PST Self taught developer. I've been out of college (with an unrelated degree) for about 6 years, and I'm a pretty stable person. I've been professionally employed as a software developer for about a year and a half. I've recently (about 6 months ago) taken on Lead responsibilities for my team as well. The company isn't Big N or anything, but I feel it has a similar culture. It's flat, transparent, and collaborative. Full of talented people who could absolutely hack it at a Big N. For me though, everything I do is a struggle. Everything is hard and I feel like I'm burning out. I have less and less energy to get over each challenge. I get anxiety when I come up against something that's new, rather than being excited for a challenge. I have come a long way since I've been here, but I don't seem to be getting to any kind of comfort zone or finding a sustainable pace, meanwhile my work is constantly behind schedule (or at least where I want it to be). Management is tolerant of being behind schedule as long as there is justification, and there have been some recent team reorgs that have left everyone resource-constrained. Company culture is extremely supportive, and my CTO has let me know on a couple of occasions that all I need to do is send up a flare and we'll back things off. However, given said resource constraints I don't know if that is feasible to ask right now. Everyone I work with is incredibly talented and efficient, but I feel like I've let my professional responsibilities grow out of pace with my actual professional development. When does this get easier? [link] [comments]  |
| Best way to go about giving notice? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:42 PM PST Tomorrow I need to give my 2 weeks to my current company. I'm leaving for a list of reasons: my manager's dishonest behavior, lack of growth as a developer (we never get to learn new technologies, etc) and the new job massively increases my salary. I WANT out. I'm glad I'm moving on.. but I'm nervous. How do you guys usually handle giving notice? [link] [comments]  |
| Software Engineer - > Product Manager Plan Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:19 PM PST Trying to get some feedback about my plan to become a product manager. I have around 5 years of experience, 2 focused on back-end web development, 1 javascript front-end stuff, 2 years devops. I've been given an opportunity in my company to transition to solutions engineer or sales engineer but given my skill set it looks like solutions engineer is a better fit (since I have experience with the product but no sales experience). My thinking is that by being involved in customer onboarding from the client side I'll develop more customer facing skills as well as more skills dealing with internal stakeholders. I already have strong experience with the product (since I helped build it as a software engineer) and I hope to gain more experience on the business side (since I'll primarily be dealing with Product Managers as a solutions engineer). Specifically I'm looking to be a product manager for a technical product (no experience in design), I'm in a SaaS company and our product is an API for developers so it is technical in nature. We currently do not have product managers in our company but in the future when we scale I believe a position will open up. I'm also thinking about an MBA as a backup plan in a year or so if I cannot make the transition within the company. Basically I'm wondering if this is a solid path towards becoming a PM and if there is anything else I should be working towards. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 04:44 PM PST I am 40 years old, and I have been a programmer for 20 years. Due to several nervous breakdown because of staying behind the computer for so long, I am going to quit this job but I don't know what to do next. Any suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| Has anyone taken and pass an IBM code challenge? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:34 PM PST I am an undergraduate trying to get an internship with IBM. I applied for their cognitive developer internship, and according to the job description, I thought my skills matched it almost perfectly. I did get a response, and the response was to take this coding challenge through HackerRank Now, this is my first coding challenge through a company, and the email explicitly states " We find that a majority of our candidates are able to complete this challenge between 60-105 minutes however you have up to 4 hours to complete the challenge." As soon as I started the challenge, it became very apparent to me that I will not finish nearly as quickly as "majority" of the candidates. Not only were the problems difficult, they would require even a skilled person to complete them in a few days, and I had only 4 hours to complete both problems. The first problem requires you to predict values and the second one requires you to parse a database and calculate "confidence" based on inputs. I did complete the second problem, and the 3 visible test cases all passed as soon as I finished coding it. However, the remaining 6 all failed, and I have no idea what was wrong with my program since I had no way to really debug it, and the "custom test case" option on HackerRank is completely bugged. I did document my thought process for each problem, and commented throughout the second problem. I just think these problems were really difficult, and it just seems like the "60-105 minutes" claim is just complete BS, especially if they had problems as hard/detailed as mine. I submitted the challenge with literally 5 seconds left, and I feel like I just bombed the challenge. Has anyone actually passed this challenge? Edit: The 6 failed test cases were all hidden [link] [comments]  |
| Need some guidance for freelancing Posted: 16 Jan 2019 03:13 PM PST Hello! I'm a 17 year old high school student in Romania, currently in the 10th grade (second year of high school, out of 4), looking to become a software engineer, in the future. So let me give you some context: I discovered my passion for CS in the 8th grade thanks to some local course, that taught students of our age the basics of C programming and some algorithms; after that I started to practice more algorithms, C++, and some HTML, CSS, JavaScript in my spare time, up until 9th grade, when I got a pretty good result at the national olympiad of algorithmic programming; despite all of this, I came to the conclusion that algorithms are not exactly my kind of stuff, so I pivoted to web development, mostly because I already had a good grasp on 'the basics' of it. Now, I frickin' love doing this. I discovered Laravel and did some projects with it, got some basic understanding of Node.JS, and I'm looking to get one front-end framework in my tool belt. My ambition is to get to study in the UK (or some other English-speaking country, mostly because I can't be bothered learning another language), but I'm not the brightest spark out of them all, I mean, I like math and I do pretty decent in school without neglecting my social life, and managing to get some web apps going, but nothing like some of my peers that are considering the same thing that I do. So I'm looking to get some real, quantifiable projects done, to make up for my lack of grades and interest in those boring classes, to increase the chance that I could be accepted in a somewhat prestigious university (because going to a random college won't be better than going to a college in Romania). I know I can think about something and just do it, but freelancing seems more exciting and more of a challenge, so I'm looking forward to start this summer. My arguments for this are:
I'm not looking to commit myself 100% to this, because I'm still in school, but I could dedicate somewhere around 20 hours of freelancing on a normal school week. I'm not looking to make a huge amount of money out of this; if you want to make an idea about what's like to live here, with 300$ you can feed a 4 member family with some pretty fancy stuff for a month if you cook at home (something very wide-spread in Romania), so any amount of money I can make later on it's ok to me. At least, at this point, is all about the experience that I can acquire.I'm not looking to commit myself 100% to this, because I'm still in school, but I could dedicate somewhere around 20 hours of freelancing on a normal school week. I'm not looking to make a huge amount of money out of this; if you want to make an idea about what's like to live here, with 300$ you can feed a 4 member family with some pretty fancy stuff for a month if you cook at home (something very wide-spread in Romania), so any amount of money I can make later on it's ok to me. At least, at this point, is all about the experience that I can acquire. This is just a plan; my rationality could be flawed or maybe I'm missing some very important point. I'm not sure if I should start doing this or just stick to regular GitHub projects? Also, every bit of extra information which you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:03 PM PST I recently applied to a job within another division at my company, the job commanded a bachelors degree (not in CS but just a degree) and one year of programming experience. It also preferred knowledge of a few languages, git and web dev knowledge. I met about 4/10 bullets, with a bachelors degree, git, python and some web dev knowledge. Other bullets were more specific and probably didn't apply to most candidates but I'm sure they were asking for it anyway. I have no formal position programming, however, I took 4 programming classes which I listed, and I have a 3 decent projects which show that I'm committed to learning more but obviously that I don't know too much. I have a texting app using Twilio, followed a tutorial for a recommendations system but used my own data from another API and a simple JS crud app with google maps. Nothing fancy but I had fun with the projects. I applied for the position when it first opened, after it closed, I had visitors to my personal site and referrals to my github, but then the job was canceled. Following that, it was reposted, but I was never contacted. Reluctantly, I applied again hoping they might consider me, updated all my documents, readmes and today I had a visitor to my LinkedIn page but I was still never contacted. The job was closed a few days ago and I'm wondering if I'm even in the running given my lack of formal experience and education. Should I have more projects or larger projects before applying to jobs like this? Do you guys think I have a shot at all? [link] [comments]  |
| CyberCoders.com: recruiters or bot farm? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:52 AM PST I'm asking because there doesn't seem to be any humans there, but I applied for a job last week which I actually really want to get! They have 3 email templates I've seen, all of which are obviously automatically sent based on triggers in their database - I just got 5 copies of the same email because I attempted to apply for the job multiple times on a non-IE browser. Before realizing their forms don't work outside of IE. I don't believe I've gotten a human-written email from cybercoders.com in the past decade. I've certainly never gotten a call-back, nor a notification that the client company has gone elsewhere. I'm honest and I'm a great fit for most of what I apply for - not that I think any of these HR companies can actually measure how qualified an applicant is.... Feedback or suggestions? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Furthering my studies for personal reasons, is it a waste of time? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 04:13 PM PST Hey guys, I enrolled in night school in Canada at Athabasca University for their BSc in Computing and Information Systems. It is cheap about 2/3 price of regular university, and very easy material since I already work in the industry for a few years now and went to College before that for Computer Programming, I am currently a full stack software developer full time (Java, Javascript, and SQL SaaS web app for tech stack). I enrolled to someday hopefully become a manager or further my career, as right now I don't know how to progress up, and competition is stiff in this industry. Now my hiring manager is the VP of Engineering and he is happy for me, but he doesn't have a degree, so I see that it is directly not necessary although it helps to progress up the ladder. A few coworkers have told me it is a waste of time and money as well, as experience trumps education and I am getting very solid experience at my current job. Also no one in my immediate family has a degree, it would be nice to have a degree and not just a diploma, at which point no one in my immediate family besides me has a diploma either lol. Am I wasting my time? I feel like I am learning through the material and I transferred 15 of 40 credits to the degree, meaning there's only 25 courses to complete (majority are COMP300-400 classes thankfully, those will be challenging), and at $800/course it comes to about 20k that could maybe be better allotted somewhere else, but as I am going through this slowly and pacing myself it is a course every 1 or 2 months right now, which doesn't get in the way of my work, and my finances aren't completely jacked by it. Let me know your advice. Waste of time/money, or a solid pursuit. [link] [comments]  |
| How many LC questions should you be doing a day? Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:46 PM PST I work in game development and our entire studio was recently laid off. I'm in the Bay Area so the standard is quite high. I was a junior so don't have a tonne of experience. Thanks (: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:43 PM PST I make 60k but transportation and rent alone eat most of it. I work with rails as opposed to java or c++. Boss is overly enthusiastic about dumb shit. I have to now go to events and meet people in public places with boss to help him convince people to sign up for accounts. Didn't come here to complain, these are just the reasons I feel like I need to move on. What Can I do the help companies consider at me without the college degree? I have all my coursework on GitHub from sophomore and junior year (core classes like data structures, algorithms, etc) which I heard is useless... Would side projects really help a lot? Would offering to show the code I've written at my job help? To go back to school I would need an entire year of cc to prove Im qualified enough to go back. Is that the best option at this point? I would really like to avoid going back to school at all if possible however if I stay at this job a few more months I might not have an option. I would still have to attend community college for a year which can be done online, so I would like to hold a job. Is it possible to start applying for internships? Most have an explicit requirement that your enrolled in university. Why did I fail out - because I was a dumbass. School was not that hard just takes consistent work, I get it now.... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 03:54 PM PST Sorry for the departure from the regular content on this sub. There's a TLDR at the bottom. I'm a 2nd year CS major and looking to be productive over the summer. I highly doubt that there are any paid internship opportunities open to me at the moment (all I have to my name is a very unimpressive Github; I have no CS-related experience to speak of). My school has an internship program that you can start the summer of 3rd year, but almost everyone I've asked has done it in their 4th just because nobody hires 3rd years (apparently). But even if it's unpaid, I'm willing to do it just because I feel it's better than working a minimum wage part time job for 4 months (I mean, the money from that would help, but I'm prioritizing getting as much out of my undergrad years as I can). Would you recommend unpaid internships? I don't know how useful they are/how good they look on resumes. Would it be better to just work the summer job and work on projects in my free time? And do companies even do unpaid internships these days? I don't know a single person who's done one. Assuming they do, where should I look? i.e. Should I be looking at big companies or startups? Is there a specific field I should look into (I think I'm fairly well rounded in terms of coding, networking, IT, web dev, etc.)? Should I email them myself, or only apply to ones that explicitly state they'll take interns? etc. TLDR Is it common for companies to take unpaid interns? If so, what type of company/department does so more often (big or small, software development or IT, etc.)? And if they don't explicitly say on their website that they're taking interns, should I still send my (sparse) CV and hope? I'm in Toronto, Canada if that makes a huge difference. Any advice whatsoever is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for work while pregnant Posted: 16 Jan 2019 10:47 AM PST Hi, I'm looking for some advice on how to go about looking for a SE jobs while pregnant (very early pregnancy at this point). I'm currently employed as a developer but I don't like the company culture so I'm looking to switch. So I'm wondering if it's possible or should I just wait until the baby is born before looking for something better? [link] [comments]  |
| Low salary + experience vs continuing job search Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:23 PM PST tldr at bottom Hey guys, I'm a comp sci graduate from Sydney that has been looking for a job for around 2 months now. I went to a low-tier university and got average marks (lowest GPA is 4, highest is 7, i have a 5.2 with no fails). I've had two interviews which both went badly, they advertised a salary of 50-55k AUD. Today, I've been offered an interview with a salary of $45,000. This is far below the average salary for IT/Computer science graduates in my city (and in any first world country) and i am currently considering if it's worth trying to get this job, then swap ASAP, or keep looking. I understand companies prefer to hire employees that are currently working rather than unemployed, this would be my main motivating factor to interview and hopefully work for them. The job offers 6-8 weeks of training, then branching into Software Development, DevOps and/or Test Automation. Should i keep searching or try to get an offer from this company? There are no reviews online of working at this company, which i really don't like. It seems to be a small/new company which explains the low salary. TLDR: Interview and work for 45k per year as a graduate, then try to find a another job while working ASAP, or keep searching for a better job. What are your guys thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2019 07:08 PM PST I will be graduating from college in 5 months. I had a phone interview yesterday for a tech start- up company in NYC. My degree is in Mechanical engineering but the position is for data quality assurance. The company is looking for people who can start immediately, which I cant. But then we discussed starting part time. He then asked what hourly rate I wanted and that I'd be a 1099 employee until a graduate then I'd be working full time as W2 employee. I wasn't expecting this question and said $16/hr bc that's what I made at last internship. He then asked for me to come to office today for 2nd interview which went well. Then he asked again about salary. And I said 16 >___< But now I'm concerned, bc it's not an internship. What is going to happen once I become full time? Are they going to double my salary for doing the same exact work? Doesn't make sense What should I do? What hourly rate should I have asked for? I'll be working in NYC, but commuting from jersey. My full time salary expectation when I graduate was 60-70k range. I did not yt get an offer letter for this part time. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
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