DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR January 18, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR January 18, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - January 18, 2019
- Be wary of hidimensional.com
- Question about low pay raise with promotion
- Recent graduate. Got the job! Now I'm terrified. Help?
- Senior math major looking for suggestions to get hired ASAP
- How can you evalute the health/potential of a start up?
- What are some top companies located in LA?
- Apart from money or convenience, what is satisfying about your CS career?
- Devops vs (Big) Data Engineer
- Thoughts on doing after hours work (production support)
- Just applied to a job, and they responded asking me to take a psychological profiling test online. Is this normal/acceptable?
- Under Armor Summer Rookie program experiences?
- Remote workers - Can we get a good breakdown of pros and cons?
- AI dream internship turned out rubbish, whole team just sitting there - what would you do?
- Co-Ops vs Internships
- Is it bad if I take time to learn new things?
- In my early 30's, life crisis, lonely at work, on the verge of quitting, really not sure what to do
- Questions regarding job hunting strategies for soon-to-be grads
- Software Testing as a stepping stone?
- Warning about O'Reilly Autoparts
- Are automation internships considered good enough experience for getting a non automation job out of college?
- Annual feedback and peer review responses
- WWYD: College dropout looking to get into CS, bootcamp or re-enroll?
- My manager is dissuading me from changing my job title to security engineer, which is exactly the work I do.
- Has anyone here attended Lambda School? Can anyone offer feedback on the program?
| DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR January 18, 2019 Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:06 PM PST AND NOW FOR SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. THE BUILDS I LOVE, THE SCRIPTS I DROP, TO BE PART OF, THE APP, CAN'T STOP THIS IS THE RANT THREAD. IT IS FOR RANTS. CAPS LOCK ON, DOWNVOTES OFF, FEEL FREE TO BREAK RULE 2 IF SOMEONE LIKES SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T BUT IF YOU POST SOME RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/SEXIST BULLSHIT IT'LL BE GONE FASTER THAN A NEW MESSAGING APP AT GOOGLE. (RANTING BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, BEST COAST TIME. PREVIOUS FRIDAY RANT THREADS CAN BE FOUND HERE.) [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - January 18, 2019 Posted: 17 Jan 2019 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]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 09:06 AM PST I passed their initial quiz and booked an interview. The interviewer didn't show up to the Google hangouts interview. I sent an email afterwards asking about this and I received no response. Naively thinking perhaps there was a misunderstanding on my part, I booked an interview again and the same thing happened. I am in awe of how absolutely unprofessional this is. [link] [comments]  |
| Question about low pay raise with promotion Posted: 18 Jan 2019 04:01 AM PST So I recently got an offer for a promotion within my company. The typical raise for this is 15-20k usd They offered me only 5k initially, saying that since it was an accelerated promotion, I didn't merit the normal raise. Tbh I feel offended, if I'm clearly better than my peers it would make sense that I be even more likely to deserve that extra pay. They came up to just shy of 10k, but I'm still pissed off. I feel I have 3 options: 1) I can either stay at my current position which offers fantastic flexibility and much less responsibility and stress, and look elsewhere (I am also currently doing a full time MBA so the flexibility is nice) 2) I can accept the position and continue to look elsewhere (I've had a few external interviews but haven't been looking very hard-this fall during on campus recruiting I would likely spend considerable time on that) 3) I can just accept the position Number 3 doesn't sound very good for me tbh Edit: thanks for all the great feedback! I countered with a higher offer more in line with what I'm wanting and am waiting to hear back! [link] [comments]  |
| Recent graduate. Got the job! Now I'm terrified. Help? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:56 PM PST Yesterday I accepted a job offer for a company that works closely with "low-level" systems programming, SAS, servers, etc. This is junior position, I made it clear that I had no experience systems programming. My only experience prior to this was in freelancing by building a simple database with a front-end, volunteer work using web scrapers, and some personal side projects where I made modifications to existing code (all mentioned during the interview) While I am definitely grateful, today I stumbled on this and this. Now I'm afraid I'm a little over my head. A little background, the 2nd interview was about 4 hours long, starting with 2 leetcode style questions (medium-level). Then, we started talking about topics, when the interviewer stumbled upon a topic he knew I knew little about (one of them was tail recursion, for example), he started speaking about it in detail for 10 to 20 mins, then asked about my thoughts (and worst case, code an example). This was probably to test my ability to learn new concepts. I think I did well up to this point. Then came the final questions regarding work experience (Do you have experience working with Linux servers? No Do you have any experience in C? Not much). I think I said no to about half of these, and thought I was not going to get the job for sure. To my surprise, I was given an informal offer on the spot, and a formal one yesterday. Obviously I was ecstatic, but I started searching the reddit and read some of the horror stories about people starting out. Now I'm a little worried. I went back to school 3 years ago because I wanted a career change. In spite of that, I'm definitely on the older side, and wondering if I can keep up. With that said, I gave my current employer my two-weeks notice. There is no turning back now. So I guess my question is this, what are some of the best tips for people starting out in my shoes? And also, what is something I can read up on now? (Job starts in two weeks) Thanks for any help you guys can give. I definitely would not have gotten this far without this subreddit! [link] [comments]  |
| Senior math major looking for suggestions to get hired ASAP Posted: 18 Jan 2019 06:59 PM PST My goal is to be employed as a software engineer, I graduate this May as a math major. I plan on attending a programming bootcamp as soon as my semester is over, then finish late august/early September. Then apply and hopefully be employed by 2020. Currently: Finished intro to Ruby by App academy, will look into their programming challenge soon. This semester I'll be taking another C++ class (2nd course) which focuses on pointers, sequences, recursion, references, functions, classes, inheritance, constructors, trees, maps, algorithms, parallel programming. Is this a data structures course? It's labelled as "Programming II" essentially. I've taken 1 semester courses in Java and Matlab but haven't practiced since, risk management internship this past summer, 3.1 GPA, Math major, east coast. What I plan to finish: Hack Reactor/Full Stack/App Academy/ Flat Iron free prep material and programming challenges With any free time I can find what else should I learn/do? I read stories of bootcamp grads not being good programmers, so how can I be one of the good ones? I am currently on winter break from college so I have a lot of time on my hands. [link] [comments]  |
| How can you evalute the health/potential of a start up? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 06:47 PM PST I'm interviewing with some start ups and want to learn how to evaluate the health of the company, how I can determine their likelihood of failing or growing. Any links to good resources or advice would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| What are some top companies located in LA? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:14 PM PST I'm trying to move to LA and was wondering what big companies are located in LA. I know of: Riot Games, Tinder, Snap (dying?), Hulu [link] [comments]  |
| Apart from money or convenience, what is satisfying about your CS career? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:08 PM PST I have been working in the IT industry for almost 10 years, developing software for about the last 5. During that time I was, and still am, "addicted" to software. I feel it enables me to open my laptop and accomplish nearly anything I set my mind to do. At work, I felt the possibilities were indeed endless (even if my projects were at times insignificant to my organization as a whole). Add to that the ability to work from home and easily earn more than enough money to eat until I'm fat and comfortably retire. Now however, I feel it's time to put on my big-boy pants. I want to make sure I am working on things that bring value to the greater world and not just to myself. For CS pros, what value are you creating that brings you satisfaction? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 03:17 PM PST Currently I have the opportunity to choose between all round Devops and Big Data Engineer traineeship. Regarding to my career which option should I choose? In which field is the salary higher? Where do I have higher chances to get a higher position (management for example), and how is the future going to be in these fields? Are they other important factors which I should take into consideration? [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts on doing after hours work (production support) Posted: 18 Jan 2019 07:20 AM PST I wanted to get a feel from the people about doing after hours production support. Pretty sure most of us do this, but not too many people like to talk about and express really how they feel about this. Basically, after hours support is not always compensated, destroys work-life balance because you are always tethered to your phone and cannot really go out and enjoy life, and really it is just workplace not funding extra shifts for people to support the system after hours. How do you guys feel about doing production support and has anyone managed to set up production support system that works out and doesn't burn out the developers. PS: I know that people should expect to take initiative to ensure that the whole company does good so that everyone has a job the next day, but I do not see BAs, project managers or any other non-dev resort getting pulled into doing production support duty, the contribution often falls flat on the shoulders of developers. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:28 PM PST I applied to a mid-sized, seemingly normal and respectable company for a programmer role a few weeks ago. I just sent in my resume and filled out the typical "are you authorized to work in this country?" Questionnaire. I got an email back saying that they want to interview me, but that I first have to fill out an online test. The test ended up being an odd mixture of a math quiz and a psychological profiling exam, which I was NOT prepared for. I filled it out, but I'm feeling really nervous and weirded out about the upcoming interview. Does anyone with more experience job hunting have any insight about this practice and why they would ask me to do this? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Under Armor Summer Rookie program experiences? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 11:15 AM PST Recently got an offer to UA's summer rookie technology program. Does anyone have experience with UA and their tech internship? And any suggestions on what to pick: I have another offer from ATT as an engineering intern and it pays more. EDIT: I made a comment about my process lol but has anyone ever worked at UA? [link] [comments]  |
| Remote workers - Can we get a good breakdown of pros and cons? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:14 PM PST Hey guys, I'm considering three offers right now with a large amount of remote work on each. If you could post your experiences like...
For context I'm considering a Dev Ops job that is 100% remote, A consulting job that is 3 weeks of travel and one week off a month & a SE job that is 2 days remote in office 3. I'm trying to get out of aggressive software engineering as it's just not what I want to do anymore. The Dev Ops role worries me in that aspect [link] [comments]  |
| AI dream internship turned out rubbish, whole team just sitting there - what would you do? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:32 PM PST So, I recently (7 weeks ago) started three-month internship in big tech international company. At first, it looked okay, but after two weeks the project on which the team worked for 6 months got cancelled. Since then (3-4 last weeks) whole team is doing nothing, waiting for info about new project. I really hoped I will learn a lot during this internship but I'm just sitting on MOOCs everyday. Other people in team are doing the same, reading nips papers, watching tutorials, playing fussball. I feel heartbroken... I left my previous job (script programming in python) because I wanted to shift my career towards something more AI/ML oriented but now, I'm 6 weeks before the end of my internship and I don't know what to do. The options are: a) do nothing, wait till the management decides about me (stretching internship for another 3-6 months with crappy salary OR giving me full-time contract but this is unlikely) b) ask management to move me to another team (it's highly possible, but I will have to start internship over again) c) look for another AI job with this experience in my CV d) ??? e) use time to finish deep learning moocs and prepare portfolio I really tried my best to learn more during this internship, but at first people were very stressed finishing their project and now they're stressed because they are bored and don't know if they save their jobs. I should admit that my previous job paid better than this internship and took seriously their words that after 3 month internship I may receive full time offer (or internship will be prolonged). I don't want to spend, like, half of a year with this crappy salary. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 04:43 PM PST Is one more desirable than the other? After my advisor told me about co-ops, I wondered if they gave a better experience/resume piece than internships. Is there a different process for applying to a co-op? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it bad if I take time to learn new things? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 04:38 PM PST Hello, I am an OK computer science student with a job offer. I realize that when I learn something new, I must read the entire chapter, and really comprehend it. For example, when doing math problems, I have to spend a ton of time before I can throw myself at entirely new problems I have not seen before. It is very time consuming. I got through algorithms the same way - dedicating an enourmous amount of time to reading and fully comprehending the textbook. When programming, I usually just design a solution and then google syntax of whatever language I am using along the way to implement it. I am pretty good at C through repeated use. I think part of the reason why I did poorly in Calc 2 is that I fully did not spend enough time understanding the theory of differentiation, so memorizing all the rules did not come easily to me. So practicing for tests was difficult, because I missed the basics. I did not devote enough time. Will I survive in a corporate training environment, where I will be expected to learn bits and pieces of various languages and frameworks that I have not seen before, with no overall larger picture? EDIT: I realize the title might come across as begging for sympathy. I want an honest opinion [link] [comments]  |
| In my early 30's, life crisis, lonely at work, on the verge of quitting, really not sure what to do Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:36 PM PST Hey all, I work at a well known prestigious company over in the bay area, and have been here for quiet a while, for more than 5 years. It hasn't been the greatest experience to say the least. A lot of downs more than ups, but it's bearable now. When I was younger I used to blame the company, the culture, etc. but myself as to why I wasn't happy but the more and more I think about it, I see it in myself that I'm actually just not connected with anyone at work. I have been eating lunch alone every single day for my time here. I know it's suuuper sad, but I've gotten so used to it now. I'm really lonely cause I really have no strong connections at work. By no means am an anti-social/awkward person, I have friends outside of work who I catch up with frequently. We travel to places, go out on weekends, etc. I don't feel isolation outside the workplace, but when I'm there I feel completely alone. Has anyone else experienced this? I want to quit my job for something new cause I've been here so long and I need a fresh start, socially and career-wise, but I'm so scared I'll get into the same situation of loneliness/isolation again. I know you'll suggest to take action and reach out to people, and I have tried several times in the past years by being more active, trying to be more chatty/friendly with colleagues, or people from other teams, but ultimately the best thing that comes out of it is just a basic, acquaintance type relationship. People either 1) mostly keep to themselves or 2) have their own cliques and just hang out with them. I don't really belong to any "clique". A side of me wants to start somewhere else, start fresh and bring with me all the lessons learned, become a more social type of person and really try to build connections. I feel like it's incredibly difficult to do so. If you ask me I really miss being in college where it was just so much easier to connect and belong to some group. Is this just adult life? How can I begin creating a network of meaningful, work relationships? They say your network is your net worth and I feel severely deprived and lonely. Ideas? [link] [comments]  |
| Questions regarding job hunting strategies for soon-to-be grads Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:18 PM PST Next semester is my last semester. I am finally graduating. So I've started to look for jobs over winter break and so far I've sent out over 260 applications starting the first week of January. My strategy so far has been to first create a large list of companies I want to work for. Go to company website and career section. Search for any job with "software" in the title that's not a senior, lead, or requires a lot of experience and apply. Often that could be close to 20 or 30 positions at the same company. I've heard that applying to multiple positions at the same company can be harmful to your chances but my core philosophy is persistence. To me I feel like it is a numbers game, if you put out enough applications someone has to say yes. The company I interned for was very happy with my work and is interested in hiring me but at this time they do not have an opening. So far I have gotten plenty of No's, plenty of ghosts, and 1 hackerRank test which I passed and an interview set up. My questions are:
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| Software Testing as a stepping stone? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:42 PM PST Hey. Would a software testing position be a good stepping stone for a Software Development job later? I'm a sophomore studying CS, and this would be my first position in any technical role. I've gotten mixed responses on whether it's a good starting point or not. I'd still be continuing my studies so I'm seeing it as something to add to my resume for later. Thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Warning about O'Reilly Autoparts Posted: 18 Jan 2019 08:12 PM PST This is my first 'warning' post, but this was probably my most frustrating interview experience so far. I've been looking for fully remote positions for a few months now (unsuccessfully). O'Reilly Autoparts had some listings on Stackoverflow for remote positions that aligned perfectly with my experience (Java/Spring-Boot/Docker/etc). I also used to be an automotive tech, so I thought this might be a cool way to align the two career experiences I have. The process was: 1) Apply 2) Phone interview - very informal. Mostly discussion of the process. 3) Code challenege (Hackerrank). I found this relatively easy, and wasn't a big deal for my considering I really valued remote work. 4) 'Skype' interview. It wasn't actually Skype, but it was a video interview with three individuals related to Java, SQL, and front-end. 5) Notified by the in-house recruiter that I had passed and qualified as a senior engineer based on the process thus far. I was told he was reaching out to a manager to see if I fit what he was looking for. So my first concern is that it feels like they're recruiting without actual available positions in mind. Why put me through all of that process before sending my resume to this manager? What is the job description based off? Anyway, I've emailed this recruiter several times asking for updates and haven't heard anything for about a month now. I'm accustomed to being ghosted on applications, but not after spending ~6 hours in the interview/application process. This is extremely frustrating to me and just wanted to make people aware that even if you do well in this process, you may be ghosted anyway. If anyone has any thoughts on what may have happened here, I'd be interested to hear. At this point, I find it surprising that I didn't at least get a rejection email considering the time I put into this. Not the end of the world, but I thought I'd share my experience. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:28 PM PST This may be a dumb or obvious question but I'm not sure. I will most likely graduate with two years of automation internship experience, but I don't want to be a full time developer in automation when I graduate. Do I need to be actively searching for a different non-automation internship to avoid getting stuck with only automation offers? This internship is really good because it's year round and I dont want to leave it for a summer only position, and have no job my last two semesters, unless it's super important for me. I have a good GPA so I'm not very worried about that part of the resume, just the experience. Thanks for the advice! EDIT: By automation, I mean writing automation tests. [link] [comments]  |
| Annual feedback and peer review responses Posted: 18 Jan 2019 07:31 PM PST Hello all, this is my first post here but I've been following this community for awhile. I am a year into my career as a web developer and today was my annual evaluation. I received 3 peer feedbacks which 2 were very favorable. The last one however came from one of my senior developers. The feedback was that in terms of programming capability I ask alot of basic questions and need alot of attention for things like getting setup or adapting to new tasks. And that I need to grow my skills. I don't disagree or feel like this is "bad" feedback but I am a bit confused as to how to improve. The stack I work on is incredibly old and opted for a "configuration over code" sort of approach in it's design and nothing for how it works is documented, nothing is commented in the code base and client requests don't follow any sort of specification. I often run into a wall where I'll be struggling to implement some functionality for roughly 4 days out of a week and on the Friday I'll ask for help only to be told "we can't enable this request, inform them and close the ticket". So with this feedback I'm a bit confused on how to improve, I feel like I could ask less questions but with the stack being so old and alot of things being undocumented it'd take me twice as long to do new tasks, and in terms of growing skill I guess learning more about the languages and design pattern may help but it feels like a waste of time compared to learning in demand technology. Is this sort of feedback common in performance reviews? And what would be the best way to adapt this feedback into my goals for 2019? [link] [comments]  |
| WWYD: College dropout looking to get into CS, bootcamp or re-enroll? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:08 PM PST I am 21 now and haven't had the best college history because I couldn't focus on the bigger picture. Now, it's 2019, I'm about to turn 22, and I really just want to start a career that allows me to be financially independent from my parents and gives me space to grow. Based on that only, I'm leaning toward bootcamp. But like I said, I sometimes have issues looking at the bigger picture. Based on these assumptions about coding bootcamp vs university, what do you think I should choose? If it helps, I'm most looking forward to being a part of a startup and extremely worried about not being competitive enough in my skillset to maintain a career. Coding Bootcamp & Certificates: Computer Science degrees from University: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2019 06:47 PM PST BACKGROUND
SITUATION I'm confused why I'm being offered a systems engineering role when:
I got a lot of push back when I spoke to my manager about this. He told me I was too focused on the title, I was "doing security engineering work anyway," there was no significant difference in salary between the two positions, and I'd be pigeonholing myself. He then went on a tangent and showed me his resume and how his job duties did not align with his titles in previous jobs. I disagree with him entirely. I told him I was perfectly fine in my niche (network security), that I'd actually be pigeonholing myself if I took a systems engineering title instead, and that my title should reflect my duties. I spoke to a friend and experienced network security engineer about this and he told me to fight tooth and nail for the security engineer title. Under no circumstances should I be hired as a systems engineer, he said, and I should be prepared to leave the company if they're unwilling to budge. I've scheduled a meeting with HR about this first thing next week. I'm unsure why I received so much protest from my manager and suspect something... suspicious? QUESTIONS
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| Has anyone here attended Lambda School? Can anyone offer feedback on the program? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:56 PM PST You pay nothing upfront, and you only pay them 17% of your salary over 2 years if you make at least $50k. [link] [comments]  |
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