Interview Discussion - January 03, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - January 03, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - January 03, 2019
- Submitted my notice but company wants me to stay on an extra month for helping with transition - do I need to stay? At will employment
- What does "Knowledge of React or Angular or Vue" really mean?
- LPT: Keep archives of your previous resumes saved. It's rewarding to look back at your progress and see how you have developed since you were a Freshman, Senior, New Grad, etc. and compare it to where you are now.
- Should I "warn" my boss that recruiters are offering me on avg 20% more than I currently make?
- How do you feel about employers sending IQ tests?
- How to vet a company for its engineers
- Should I defer my final year in college to do a 12 month software engineering internship?
- Internships abroad
- What are the potential consequences of a no-deal Brexit on the tech industry in the UK and the rest of Europe?
- Working at Revature?
- Suggestions on handling workload and setting boundaries
- Currently working as a "IT/Admin Assistant". Would like advice on either elevating my skillset to systems admin/analyst or doing a complete career change based on my strengths.
- Does it reflect poorly to apply to 2 different jobs at the same place?
- I didn't get credit on a project I've spent the last 4 months on and I'm fuming.
- Am I supposed to keep in touch with my future manager before starting a job?
- Renaming job title?
- Applying to a job I've been rejected from?
- How much switching jobs impact for future jobs?
- Which one is the better education path to take?
- How do teachers switch careers?
- What would you have done in this situation? They make you sign stuff acknowledging that you're underperforming at your job.
- “Quickest” route into tech
- Marlabs, Revature, SummitWorks? Are they all really awful?
- Math in computer science
| Interview Discussion - January 03, 2019 Posted: 02 Jan 2019 11:05 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 - January 03, 2019 Posted: 02 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]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:00 AM PST I've been working for a consulting firm for several years. It's gotten to the point where I hate my job and dread going into the office. The software I work with is very specific and the industry is a bubble. I don't feel like I'm going anywhere in my career. Honestly, I regret staying so long. I wanted to take some time off and re-evaluate if computer science is even right for me. So I submitted my 1 week notice to upper management today, and they tried to guilt trip me as they had been flexible with me working remote for some time and said they'll lose the project that I'm currently on if I quit now. They want me to stay on an extra month to help with transition as they don't have any one else to replace me at the moment. In the spur of the moment, I actually agreed (non-binding) but now I'm regretting that. Since my company is an at will employer, do I really need to stay on? Could there be any repercussions other than pissing the company off? I don't plan to ever work in this particular bubble industry again. At this point, I'm so done. UPDATE 1/3/18 5:33 PM: Thanks for all the guidance guys. I asked for a higher rate for the remaining month and it didn't go over so well, with my superior getting upset, continuing to guilt trip me, lecturing me, and even threatening me at one point to give a negative referral. I managed to stay firm and will be ending in a week as planned. Although I seemed to have burned this bridge, I don't regret it. [link] [comments]  |
| What does "Knowledge of React or Angular or Vue" really mean? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 09:49 AM PST Hey, Does it mean that they are using all those frameworks, so regardless of what I know, I will be able to contribute Or, Does it mean that I will have to learn one of them if it just so happened that I use lets say angular while they use react Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 11:09 AM PST I have been saving my resumes since High School. I have a folder titled Resumes with different PDFs that are titled with the date and note if it was a resume that got me a job. For example, ReverseTheKirs Resume - 2017 May (COMPANY_NAME). Every time I make a major revision I will save the copy before I make changes. I keep a single word document for my resume and have several PDF exports for different periods of my career. I'm graduating soon so I only have a few years of revisions but even in that time I'm amazed at how my resume has changed in formatting, job experience, and wording over the years as I got my shit together. Just looking back at my resume that got me my first internship, I wonder why they took a chance hiring me when I had so little experience. As I enter full-time life, I'm excited to look back on my current resume 10 years from now and see just how much my career has grown. Another cool bonus is that when some family friends who are younger ask for advice, you can show them your resume from when you were in their position to give them an idea how far along you were. It is a cool representation of career growth that you can look back on. Do your future self a favor and start saving those resumes! [link] [comments]  |
| Should I "warn" my boss that recruiters are offering me on avg 20% more than I currently make? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 10:56 AM PST Salary reviews where I work are coming up and I'm expected to only get a 2.5-5% raise. I'll have about a year's experience when that happens - even now recruiters contact me about once a week (even with LinkedIn set to "do not contact") with salary ballparks that sit anywhere between 15 and 25% more than what I currently make. I don't feel any loyalty to my current company but dread technical interviews, so would rather only go through that process if my quality of life went up significantly (remote opportunities, more pay, more vacation, etc). Should I tell my boss about the recruiter ballparks during my salary review as a tactic to try and get a larger raise? Or maybe go less direct and just mention that my salary is below industry average? [link] [comments]  |
| How do you feel about employers sending IQ tests? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 02:23 PM PST I applied to a job in my hometown about a month ago, and I received what they call the "Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test" just recently. I thought it was really odd because I've never ran into these before, and upon further investigation, this test is supposed to measure something like general intelligence from what the company that produces it claims. The test was exactly 50 questions to be done in 12 minutes, so it was extremely intense due to the time crunch. https://www.criteriacorp.com/solution/measure_intelligence.php What do you think of companies that require applicants to take these assessments? Do you support this practice, or is it a red flag in your opinion? Personally, I question what they get out of it simply because an actual IQ test is in a proctored environment where a psychologist takes into account your current mental state and various other factors. [link] [comments]  |
| How to vet a company for its engineers Posted: 03 Jan 2019 03:25 PM PST In a classic entitled millennial move, I recently quit my cushy FANG job with all of its free food, fat paychecks, and high impact work. The company gave me way more than I deserve and I'm truly grateful for that, but I eventually had to leave because the isolation I felt on my team was making me miserable. You could sort my coworkers into two buckets:
Having no one I could call a friend really took its toll on me and also sapped me of any motivation to perform - there was a huge contrast between my college days, where I could enthusiastically hack late into the night because I enjoyed being around my project partners, and my days at work where I couldn't wait to clock out. As bad as my experience was, it was still useful insofar as I learned that by far the most important thing (for me) to look for in a company was the people I'll be working with. With all that said, my question is this: What strategies do you have to vet a company for its people and culture, to make sure you'll fit in? I'm curious about all stages of the process: finding companies to apply to, things you can ask during your interviews, anything you can do after you have an offer, etc. I really, really want to work at the kind of place where I can actually look forward to getting lunch or happy hour drinks with my teammates. Do companies like this even exist in the bay area? I genuinely enjoy software engineering but I would never have chosen it if I knew this was the social environment I would be consigned to. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I defer my final year in college to do a 12 month software engineering internship? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 06:01 PM PST I'm in my third year of CS in Ireland. I have an internship in march as part of my course for 4 months however it's a networking internship with a small bit of dev ops at a small company, not a software engineering internship. I have been offered a software engineering internship for 12 months at an American cyber security company starting in July however, I would have to take a year out of college to do it, but I would likely be offered a full time role with the company upon completion of the internship providing I do a decent job. It's also quite a good company. They're not huge, they're a relatively new silicon valley company founded in the last 5 years doing some really good research in the cyber security space, have excellent products and are expanding quite rapidly setting up offices here and elsewhere around the world in the past year so I will be handed a decent level of responsibility. Keep in mind this is in Ireland so approx 90% of graduates would have a 6-8 month internship since its mandatory for almost all CS programs, most of which would be software engineering internship's since there's a huge amount of American companies here with their EMEA HQ's along with a decent start up scene. My GPA is terrible so I'd be worried I may find it a bit difficult going up against other graduates with just a networking internship when the majority of grads will have a 6-8 month software engineering internship. Would it be worth taking a year out of college to do the 12 month internship at the cyber security company then come back to do my final year just to make my job search upon graduation a lot easier? I know I'd probably get a job without the 12 month internship, it's just I would probably have a lot more of a chance to get interviews for companies I really would like to work for and be a lot more desirable as a candidate with this experience under my belt with my GPA being awful and that. The potential of a job offer at the cyber security company as a safety net would also be nice. Worth it? or just do your final year and get college over with? Keep in mind also that since i'm in Ireland, I get college for free so there's absolutely no cost to me deferring a year, only a year off my youth. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:14 PM PST Hey guys! Does anybody have any experience with finding international internships ( I am from the U.S). I am super interested in international opportunities in countries in Asia such as Hong Kong and Shanghai and Korea or Taiwan (I am completely fluent in Mandarin) or countries in Europe such as Spain or the U.K . I would love to hear your experience in finding such opportunities or any advice as to how to find companies that hire students from the United States! For some info I am a sophomore majoring in computer science at a top school (<8% acceptance rate) Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 06:58 AM PST There are less than 100 days until the UK officially leaves the EU and, so far, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful deal that is viable for both the UK Parliament and the EU. Of course, this is still hypothetical, but a no-deal Brexit seems to be a realistic scenario. In that case, what will happen to the tech industry in Britain? Will we see a brain-drain or flight of tech companies and talent from the UK? And will this also affect the tech industry in the rest of Western Europe? To British citizens on /r/cscareerquestions: are you prepping your career for a no-deal Brexit scenario, just in case? If so, how? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 02:09 PM PST Hey guys! I've been a self taught developer for almost 2 years and know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and a couple of frameworks. I've been applying to places like crazy around the San Diego area...and discovered Revature. I've heard some mixed things about that company though..so I haven't returned their calls or text messages. How are they as a company? How do they treat new employees, as well as new front end developers? Idk if the stuff I read back then was outdated so I'd like to hear some recent sources//feedback. Am I dodging a bullet here? [link] [comments]  |
| Suggestions on handling workload and setting boundaries Posted: 03 Jan 2019 06:45 AM PST I'm mid-career, and have made the realization my biggest weakness is setting boundaries and saying 'no'. I seem to get locked into a repeating cycle wherever I work:
What are your suggestions on effectively setting boundaries, communicating workload and saying 'no' in a tactful way where I don't come across as difficult and can effectively communicate (particularly to upper management) that I don't have the capacity to do more? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 08:50 AM PST Hello all. I'm crossposting this from r/jobadvice based on a recommendation. I'm unsure of if I should be posting here or at r/ITCareerQuestions, so please let me know if you think ITCareer is a better sub for this. Currently I work in my company's IT/Admin Assistant role. I work with specific programs that manage our company's sales and manufacturing process. Other than that I work mostly in excel to create the spreadsheets people ask for. I've been stuck in an admin assistant role for too long. I think given my past experience, I should perhaps pursue an systems admin or analyst role, but I've never had formal IT or systems admin/analysts education. I do know how to build a PC and some of the ins and outs of hardware, but I would need a fair amount of Google to do anything hardware related on my own. My education background is a BA in English and Global Studies. I would say a lot of my stronger skills are "soft skills" rather than things like SQL or databasing. While I have some experience with both, I'm not particularly skilled in either. I would say I can somewhat manipulate existing SQL statements to suit my needs, but I have trouble building my own from scratch. My question is what are the best paths to pursue to elevate my skillset from that to "kind of knows her way around a computer" to "systems admin or analyst"? I'm willing to return to school if I have to. Should I pursue a second bachelors in Computer Science? I worry about this as I didn't do well in intro to programming in college and ended up dropping the class. I think a degree in "Information Technology" might be more up my alley, but I'm reading conflicting advice on whether that degree is outdated. I'm also unsure if I should pursue a formal education, or just sign up for something like code academy or ITU to get the certifications. TL;DR: Came to a realization my career will grow stagnant if I don't do anything. Debating between studying a field I do not excel at, but can probably manage and be comfortable with or switching careers to something I would probably excel at, but may struggle with financially. Also, whichever I do, I want to be able to leave USA by 2020. Skillset/Details: * 27 years old. BA in English and Global Studies. 5 years of employment history. * Microsoft Office Suite (not even special, I know). Some experience with Visio. * Experience with MRP systems * Native English. Limited Korean (speaking and writing) * Limited experience with: hardware repairs (PCs, printers, switches, etc). * Limited experience with SQL, Ubuntu (installing/uninstalling), MacOS. I can usually solve software problems provided I have admin access. * I do have customer facing experience, but not in sales. I've also managed a few vendor relationships. Thank you in advance for any advice. ---Additional Info not CS related--- Should I make a complete career change to something more suited to my original skillset? (Literary analysis, history/social studies, teaching, writing). Without a doubt I am better at those things and have much more experience with that, but I don't see myself making a comfortable salary in publishing or education. I know publishing in particular is a difficult field to break into. Another issue is that I want to leave my country (USA) for personal reasons. Ideally I would go to Korea (where I hold a citizenship) or UK (where I'd like to live eventually). However, I worry that my lack of formal education in CS or related fields will be an obstacle for studying abroad. While I'm more confident I could pursue a Masters in something like Politics, English, Social Sciences, or even Business, I worry about getting a job after. [link] [comments]  |
| Does it reflect poorly to apply to 2 different jobs at the same place? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 12:54 PM PST I found a company that I'd like to work for. I'm excited about their culture and their product. They have postings for both a software engineer and a database administrator. Those are the two jobs that I was really looking for when I began my job hunt after graduation. My excitement grows. But then I get stuck on the question...would it look bad if I applied for both positions? Or do companies tend to welcome that? My options seem to be:
I'm kind of at a loss for what to do. Any and all advice would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| I didn't get credit on a project I've spent the last 4 months on and I'm fuming. Posted: 03 Jan 2019 05:29 PM PST I'm an engineering manager/tech lead at my company. Over the last four months, I architected a brand new, technically complex system, lead a team of 3 people, worked really fucking hard, and delivered a great product that the business is excited to start using. I work with an engineering director, call him John, who is technically senior to me, but who I do not report to. We both report to the CTO. I want to clarify that he was *not* involved in this project at all. It was literally all me and the engineers I was leading from start to finish. Yesterday, this project went live, so the product manager I was working with sent out a company wide email, including the executive team, basically notifying everyone that the product was live. A bunch of people responded to the email thanking her (the PM) and the director John for their "hard work". I know it was probably a mistake, but nobody corrected them and I'm really mad that nobody seems to be aware that I was basically responsible for the success of this project (and I'm not overreacting), and I didn't even get mentioned. My boss (CTO) knows, so I'm sure I'll get credit from him (re:salary,bonus,etc), but I'm a young guy, within my first year of technical leadership/management, and this is the first project I really ran from beginning to end. I'm upset that I'm not really receiving public credit for it, and someone that had literally nothing to do with it is. Am I overreacting? [link] [comments]  |
| Am I supposed to keep in touch with my future manager before starting a job? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 01:29 PM PST I'm a new grad who had an interview in mid-December and received and accepted an offer at the company a week after. Today I received an email from my future manager. It was mostly a friendly congratulations type email, and asking me what type of laptop I wanted. But I noticed that he started it off by saying "Long time no hear!". I didn't send a thank you note after the interview, or anything after accepting the offer, so that makes me wonder - was there an expectation that I would have reached out to him by now? How much contact is expected between me and my future boss/co-workers before I start next month? Anything else I should be aware of before starting a new job? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 04:29 PM PST I start an internship next week that has a vague title of "Technical Intern" but the job description is similar to that of QA tester. However, I will be developing automated QA test scripts in selenium using java so would that make it more of a SDET role? I know it's probably a bit early for this but since it's my first internship, I'm excited to add it to my LinkedIn. If I were to do that, would it be acceptable to change the name to QA intern or SDET intern or would that be seen as misleading or an inflated job title? [link] [comments]  |
| Applying to a job I've been rejected from? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:59 PM PST Earlier last year a relative referred me to their <500 person start up for a new grad position. I was rejected after a technical phone interview. I recently noticed a listing on a jobs site for the same new grad position but with a later start date so I applied. Is this considered bad from at all since I was rejected already? I wouldn't think anything of it normally except for that my relative works there and I wouldn't want to do anything which might bother or embarrass him/make me look bad in his eyes. [link] [comments]  |
| How much switching jobs impact for future jobs? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:42 PM PST Background: After third year (mid 2017) of my undergrad study I got an offer from a well known MNC (Not a BigN though). I accepted the offer. I was going to work there from mid 2018. But due to some structural and management changes they had to freeze hiring and fired some of the people. So I got another job in a small company (call this ABC) as Software Dev. I've been working at this company since May. Meanwhile I got the offer again from the MNC. Due to reputation of MNC and technology I'll be working on I accepted the offer. And I've been in MNC since mid Dec. Now: It was my plan during college to work for MNC for 1 year and go for masters studies in US. I'm still stuck to that plan and applied to some universities. My concern is that as I have worked at ABC for 8 months and will be working in MNC for 7-8 months if I get admission in desired University and decided to go. So will this make a negative impact on recruiters in US and will hinder my chances in getting internship or Job in US? [link] [comments]  |
| Which one is the better education path to take? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:38 PM PST Graduated about 2 years ago with a Business degree. Been working as a BA since. Employer will pay for any path I take education wise (BS, PostBacc, Masters). Wanting to go back to school to learn computer science trying to decide which way to go. I sort of ruled out the masters based on what I've read here about the importance of learning the fundamentals as well as taking a much longer time. Currently trying to decide an online PostBacc with OSU which is 15 course curriculum. Or the other option being going back to my old school which is a local no name and getting a 2nd bachelors, this route would be 17 courses because of required math courses. Any advice would be appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| How do teachers switch careers? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:34 PM PST I'm a teacher looking to get out of teaching. I've wracked my brain on where to go and I feel as though I'm going in circles. I don't know what career I want to switch too but I do know a few things as to what I'm looking for/want.
Any former teachers out there who can give some advice on switching careers. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 03:36 PM PST This isn't a live situation, it happened years ago, but I'm curious about what would have been the correct response. -I worked in a heavily regulated industry. -The director of my department was pushing to approve a product which I felt shouldn't be on the market. -Director retaliated by giving me a shitload of work. I wasn't able to keep up and was failing at my tasks. -Director makes me sign a document where I acknowledge that I failed at keeping up with assignments assigned to me, and ultimately not performing to the duties outlined in my job description. And if I don't get on track, they would demote me. This was probably to decrease the authority of my input so the director could go ahead with his project. -The thing is, I already had offers lined up, so I mostly went along with it. But it was pretty obvious what they were trying to do, by throwing everything they could at me. They made some mistakes by claiming that my position had some duties that not even senior people above me had, and I made them sweat those mistakes hehe, but overall I went along with it. -Once my offer was finalized, put in my two weeks and said 'cya!' I'm wondering though, making me actually sign up something, is that normal? Maybe it was to protect themselves for wrongful termination. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:20 PM PST I'm a newcomer to the tech industry and need some advice. I currently have a full-time job which physically drains me during weekday evenings. I have time during weekends to teach myself anything, but need advice. I'm considering looking into qa and/or web development. To generalize things, which route is quicker to get into the tech industry? Working to be a qa tester, front-end web developer or both? (I'm also thinking of being in qa then working my way into web development if it would help me in the long-run). Any advice is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Marlabs, Revature, SummitWorks? Are they all really awful? Posted: 03 Jan 2019 07:13 PM PST CS graduate here, new in the market. I never did any internships , so job hunting has been difficult. Revature has contacted me before, but I heard many horror stories. About Marlabs I know they have an awful training, and $9000 fee if you break the contract before the year. I feel like going for them since no offer has pop up and it's been about 8 months. Anyone has any experience with these companies? are they really bad? What about the accommodation and relocation? what if I get stuck in a project, do I at least get feedback from them? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2019 06:53 PM PST hi guys do you need to be good at math to code like im somehwhat good and can understand the topics if i put in the work but its not like math "comes naturally"to me. and i wanted to ask how intense is math in your guys jobs on a daily basis. [link] [comments]  |
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