Resume Advice Thread - February 26, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- Resume Advice Thread - February 26, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - February 26, 2019
- Can an awful recruiter be a red flag for the company?
- Side Hustle
- Does remote work nowdays boil down to mostly web development? People who managed to shift to mostly/full remote, how did you do it?
- Difficulty getting first developer/programmer job after college
- 10 months post graduate update: Still no job...
- Feeling very behind and not up to par at my relatively new job
- Internship in a big or small company?
- Are you limiting yourself by calling yourself a "Junior" developer?
- Struggling to find an internship
- My options as a Venezuelan developer
- I work remote and suspect that my colleagues aren't working. What do I tell our manager?
- Difficulty getting a remote job having little on-site team experience
- From no technical exp to ios developer?
- Masters From International University
- Recruiter
- What are meetings with references like?
- How can I transition to the web development/android development?
- Is experience with scalability the most important expertise to cultivate for a backend dev?
- Capital One TDP vs American Express
- Hiring Manager / HR / Senior Developers of Software Companies: How do you view a candidate who worked as a developer in the adult industry? Is it a redflag?
- JP Morgan Tech Connect Training
- Choosing between living in SF Bay Area, NYC, or Dallas area for my new job
- JPMorgan Software Engineer Program teams?
- Fingerprints rejected for Background Check
| Resume Advice Thread - February 26, 2019 Posted: 25 Feb 2019 11:05 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. Note on anonomyizing your resume: If you'd like your resume to remain anonymous, make sure you blank out or change all personally identifying information. Also be careful of using your own Google Docs account or DropBox account which can lead back to your personally identifying information. To make absolutely sure you're anonymous, we suggest posting on sites/accounts with no ties to you after thoroughly checking the contents of your resume. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - February 26, 2019 Posted: 25 Feb 2019 11:05 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]  |
| Can an awful recruiter be a red flag for the company? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 11:24 AM PST I applied to a company for an internship and after passing their coding challenge, was scheduled for a technical interview. The recruiter that reached out to me told me to download Webex and said he would give me a test call before the actual interview to make sure everything's working. However, the times he sent me for the test call AND actual interview were not in the times of availability I put, which shows he didn't even bother to double check the times. After correcting him, the test call was scheduled for today about one hour ago and I still haven't received a call and I'm honestly pretty frustrated. I'm not entirely set on how to proceed from here. Should I email something to the recruiter, just wait for the actual interview time and hope the SWE calls, or is this a red flag and I should avoid the company? I feel like I might be overreacting but I want to hear what others think. Edit: Thanks for the advice everyone. The opinions are definitely split on this but I'm probably going to still try my best to get the offer. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:05 AM PST I'm broke! Full time software engineer looking for ways to make extra money on weekends to help pay off debts so I can fuckin breathe a little. For some reason, my mind is stuck on tutoring. I'm fine with that, but I'm reaching out for other ideas. I'm not a great programmer, so picking up contracts related to my day job is a no-go. I'm usually off work at 330pm and could do a bit on evenings, but would prefer something just on weekends. I'm comfortable teaching english, spanish, any math before calculus, and programming fundamentals. Also down for handy work, general labor, an just about whatever. I've done all sorts of construction related work throughout my life and dont mind getting dirty. Open to just about anything, just need to narrow it down and find out how to seek these odd jobs. I'm thinking of applying to the part time tutoring roles on ziprecruiter, maybe shout out on Next Door, but not sure what else. I guess I could also try marketing my little gag gift website, but that's farfetched. Any pointers would be appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2019 12:02 PM PST Hello there! I'm a CS major in the making living in South EU, and being a huge fan of cscq, I've been "exposed" to the better opportunities that exist in USA / Northern EU for software engineers in particular. However, I think I wouldn't want to relocate abroad, no more than a few years per se. I believe I'm at a good point in software engineering for a junior dev (don't we all?), I'm positive that I can definately manage on my own when it comes to soft skills, and with a few internships / job experience I'd like to go remote for companies based abroad. A few questions;
Also, while I have dabbled in a lot of different sectors (webdev, app dev etc), I've yet to stick to one which I truly care about, even though most of remote SoftEng jobs tend to gravitate torwards the typical web+JS, AI+python etc from what I see. Am I missing out on not hopping on the hype trains previously mentioned, now that it's early in my "career", while I've got free time? Thank you a lot! [link] [comments]  |
| Difficulty getting first developer/programmer job after college Posted: 26 Feb 2019 07:53 AM PST Went to school and got a Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems last May. Got introduced to coding in school and that is the career path I decided to pursue. Since graduating it has been very difficult to get my foot in the door anywhere in the development world. I wasn't able to get any sort of internship or work while in school because I am a working adult with a full time job to pay my bills. I have been applying for a ton of junior and associate level developer roles but it seems the experience of level of knowledge they want is a bit more than entry level. I have researched online and worked at the skills I think I need, however I can't help but feel under prepared for every interview I do manage to get. I want to learn and grow my skills but doing it on my own, while working a full time job, and not having the resources a job would provide (databases, requirements, contacts, etc.) I just don't know where to go from here and it is becoming very frustrating. I don't want to give up but I just don't know where to go from here. TL;DR Trying to get my first developer job after college and finding it very difficult to meet employers expectations without an internship or professional experience. Any help advice would be greatly GREATLY appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| 10 months post graduate update: Still no job... Posted: 26 Feb 2019 12:48 PM PST Hey guys, graduated 10 months ago with a bachelors in computer science. I have basically been applying everywhere (software dev/engineering roles and web dev roles) and got 7 in person interviews and about 13 phone screens but still no luck (had one spring internship as a developer). I always get hit with the "We have found another person who is more qualified" phrase usually and its the most discouraging thing in the world. I just want to know what I should do because I have to support myself and I still don't have a job. Should I apply out of the country to get a definite job? apply to the most basic role there is in the computer science world and get experience? Give up? Anything helps and have a great day guys [link] [comments]  |
| Feeling very behind and not up to par at my relatively new job Posted: 26 Feb 2019 09:47 AM PST I'm a software engineer with a degree in CS and 4 years experience at a large, corporate bank in a small US city working mainly on SQL scripts and some proprietary 3rd party tools the company was using. It was a very comfortable job where it wasn't hard to impress. I got a new job about a year and 3 months ago in NYC at a small, kind of known, tech company. I had never touched javascript or web-based applications before this (I did mention this in my interview). When I started the job I was working on a larger team of 6 developers but the size of the team has been reduced to 2 of us now that a lot of people have left the company. Things are finally looking up for the company again and I do want to stay on, they've offered me a large stay-on bonus so I have a large incentive to do so, for at least the next year. I do really like working here, the culture is great and the people are also great. It's light-years better than my old company. However, I've been feeling like my manager is very disappointed with my work. I'm not a fast learner and it's been difficult for me to pick up javascript and the technologies we are using (node, react, express, mongo) as well as just dealing with such a large code base. As people have left the company this has only become more apparent because now a lot of the focus is on me and the one other developer. The other developer is much more experienced and generally way better than I am (this is reflected in their title, they are a senior dev). They are also younger than me, which doesn't make me feel great but I understand that they come from a different background and have more experience with this kind of work. This and a couple other things have just been making me feel inadequate. I'm wondering if I should be worried about getting let go. My yearly review was pretty critical. There were some good things, and my manager did not explicitly say I was not doing well, but it was definitely clear there is a lot of room for improvement. My manager told me he doesn't think I'm challenging myself enough. I also did not receive a yearly bonus. I'm trying to spend some more time working on some side-projects to improve my knowledge in my free time. My manager is even meeting with me to check in on the status of these weekly. I really don't want this to turn into me spending huge chunks of my free time for work though. I enjoy a good work-life balance and would really like to keep work at work. This is a bit of a rant and I just wanted to get this written down, but any advice you might have is much appreciated. I was honestly kind of afraid I'd end up in a situation like this when I started. Javascript and web development has always been very daunting for me, it feels like the wild-west coming from the very rigid world of SQL and Java. When I was looking for new jobs originally I was working on Android development in my free-time and was seeking jobs in that but ended up finding this job first, it seemed like a great company (and it is) and a place I'd like to work so I took it. After investing a year in learning web-dev and putting Android down for that time I'd hate to have to switch back. [link] [comments]  |
| Internship in a big or small company? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 03:59 PM PST Hi all, I should be in bed 3 hours ago but this problem has been eating me out for the last few weeks.. I had the opportunity of getting two internship for my first year of masters. One in a big multinational company and another one in a local brimming startup company. The thing is, the big company internship holds my interested. But it has all the inconvenience to it. Moving far away from ppl I love, bringing inconvenience to the people who helped me a lot already, and simply making my life a lot harder. On the other hand, the one at the brimming start up does not sound too bad and it just makes life a lot easier but then again, I'm afraid that this "easier" choice would bring consequences in the future.. This question might seem dumb and unnecessary but I would really appreciate it anyone can help me out. Thanks a lot guys... [link] [comments]  |
| Are you limiting yourself by calling yourself a "Junior" developer? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 02:30 PM PST Especially since there really isn't an industry standard definition. By putting you are a Junior dev, maybe some hiring managers automatically might assume something about your skills. Maybe it is safest to just put your skills, and let the person doing the hiring decide if they want consider you a junior or senior or whatever? [link] [comments]  |
| Struggling to find an internship Posted: 26 Feb 2019 11:17 AM PST So I have applied to a ton of places (200+ applications) and have gotten maybe 4 or 6 coding challenges some of which I did well on and moved onto the next stage, but no offers. Some Background:
Its fairly disheartening that I have applied to a ton of places and have gotten about 5 coding challenges in total. Some things that I think might be a turn off to employers specifically looking for software engineering may see a lot of my data science experience and believe I do not have the skills necessary, but I do have some projects showcasing the stacks I'm familiar with on my personal website. I have also posted my resume on the resume advice thread and have not really had any major criticisms, so I'm really lost as to what to do. Here is a link to an anonymized version of my resume: Resume [link] [comments]  |
| My options as a Venezuelan developer Posted: 25 Feb 2019 09:28 PM PST Thank you for reading this and I'm so sorry for the length of the post. As a context, I would like to introduce myself fully. I'm Alex a 27y old male Venezuelan with high school completed and just 3y of higher education in economics(not finished degree). I got into my family business and because of that I never had the need to pursue higher education as that job allowed me to work little for a lot of money (relative to the economy in Venez) and yeah it's not drugs... hehe Therefore I never went to college until I was 21, I studied there just for fun since I had so much time. But things started going south economically because of the country state (It was already, but I was protected by my financial bubble, but it wasn't something sustainable) I started studying programming as a way to sustain myself at home as it was becoming more and more difficult to maintain some sort of lifestyle. I sold part of my family business to buy time in order to study into a point where I could get hired. I fought really hard to find my first gigs in order to start my career as a freelancer since getting a job was more difficult than I thought but the more I was in the business of freelancing the less I was learning about programming as I was dedicating my time entirely and desperately to finding jobs. This is a reality that hit me hard because at first I was doing it for the financial stability but later on I started loving it, I started to enjoy programming things but I had no time or anyone to improve my skills since I was going solo. There was no one who I could check out and see how things were done and no time to explore in open source code bases. 2018 hit me like a truck and I got kidnapped(It's my 2nd kidnap) in Caracas because I'm whiter than most people who I hang with so I stand out as someone with money. I almost get killed during this incident and panic and decided to flee the country with my computer and some cash through the borders. I tried finding a local job in Colombia but most people didn't want to hire someone who doesn't have a cs degree. There were two companies who wanted to hire me but with a subpar wage, even on Colombian standards ($350/month) basically taking advantage of me and my condition. I can't find just regular jobs abroad because most working visas (that I know of) required you to have a college degree. I would like to if I can study cs but my grades weren't great in high school to get in a good college and just from a resume standpoint having a Colombian degree on an unknown college won't really help me much. The way I see it I have these options:
I don't think there are many people who have been in my situation so I understand if you don't know what to say. But if you have any advice or any comment that you might have it will be really helpful. [link] [comments]  |
| I work remote and suspect that my colleagues aren't working. What do I tell our manager? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 05:27 PM PST I'm four months into my full-time job as a frontend developer for a VC-backed medium-sized healthcare startup. We're a distributed team of 4 that's preparing to scale up by building a second product to replace our original as well as significantly expand our revenue model. Our team consists of:
Something doesn't feel right here, the junior and I have a ton on our plates but I'm barely seeing any code from anyone else. I struggle to get code review and have PR's that stay in limbo for ~3 weeks before getting reviewed. We're at a point where I'm being charged with really big tasks like implementing OAuth, CI/CD pipelines and some backend features that in some cases I'm completely stumped on after a week. It's not common, but when I am stumped it's really hard to talk to my manager - I know he's overworked, and it feels like I'm a failure and quitting when I do talk to him.I lined up exit options (return offers) but my question is, what do I do about this *today*? I'm still going to spend ~6 months working here before I can start one of the exit options, and I have to support my partner in the interim. TL;DR Half our team is spread thin and our senior dev is AWOL and flaky. I lined up an exit opportunity, but what should I tell management *today*? [link] [comments]  |
| Difficulty getting a remote job having little on-site team experience Posted: 26 Feb 2019 10:57 AM PST Basically, solo dev at a consulting company and have no experience on a team. That being said, I stay on top of my skills constantly, implement new tech where it makes sense, writing tests for everything, project management techniques, proper Git branching models, CI/CD pipelines, AWS and Azure implementations, etc. I know that one of my biggest weakness is that I don't work on a team, never have, so I try to make up for it where I can. Within the next few years, I plan to make a transition and move out of the Bay Area because I have to start thinking about retirement and the possibility of actually owning a house (as in paid off) before I turn 59 1/2. In addition, buy a place that is my ideal: in the woods, private... basically not a metro area. Thus, I'm looking at 100% remote positions. I posted these questions a while back to get some feedback on seeking 100% remote and got some great feedback: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/aeowfn/developers_who_work_remotely_100_how_did_you_land/ Then I came across this yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/auq6au/my_experience_as_a_web_developer_and_how_i_got_2/ OP talks at length about the difficulty of landing a 100% remote job if you don't have much previous on-site team experience. Just curious, anyone else has experienced this? Have you personally landed a 100% remote position without previous on-site team experience? [link] [comments]  |
| From no technical exp to ios developer? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 07:39 PM PST I am currently in client service at a tech company and am looking to make the switch to the tech side for $$$ reasons but also I've always been semi techy. I have recently been playing around with html and css and believe it is something I can see myself getting into. I am looking at boot camps and am seeing that most people in my situation (from no tech background) are jumping at web development/front end camps and jobs. I feel like I could learn this stuff fairly easily (obviously with a lot of hard work) but am worried that this field may be saturated. I love apple and their apps and always have ideas on apps I want to make and thought about learning ios development instead of the previously mentioned front end all other people making a career change were doing. How feasible is it to go from no tech background to learning swift and all other skills that are needed to be a fairly good to good iOS developer? What skills are necessary, what are nice to haves and what will benefit me in the future? Thoughts on taking the leap to iOS developent vs web development? Is knowledge and skill of web dev needed before iOS skills? I am going to take watch some YouTube videos to see if I can handle the basics of iOS but would love any advice if this is in the realm of possibility. [link] [comments]  |
| Masters From International University Posted: 26 Feb 2019 07:31 PM PST Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any idea how it looks on a resume to have a masters from a European or Asian university versus one in America. I have my undergrad in America, but do you think companies wouldn't value a masters if it was from a German institution or a Korean one? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:44 PM PST How does It recruiting work and how do they get paid? I got calls for 3 different companies for the same job but they all offered different dollar amts each different by 1$/hr. Sad to say the recruiter with the lowest offer is the one I've worked the longest with and who took me out to lunch a few times. Not sure if its worth it for 2$ more to go for a new recruiter who I am no so sure about but I dont understand why my long time recruiter lowballed me or if he always has been. It is confusing and I also dont want to end up on any black list or step on any toes. But with some things I own falling apart, I need to start making better money, and soon! [link] [comments]  |
| What are meetings with references like? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:37 PM PST My friend got a job at a company and put me as one of his references. Apparently, I got contacted by the United States Office of Personnel Management for a 10-20 minute meeting irl so my friend could get a security clearance. We will be meeting at a nearby restaurant to my house. just wondering, what are reference meetings like? [link] [comments]  |
| How can I transition to the web development/android development? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:33 PM PST How can I move forward? I'm under a lot of financial and emotional stress right now working in an accounting job that I don't enjoy. I would love to transition to making websites fulltime while working remotely. I just can't figure out how to get there. If you give me any suggestions, I would forever appreciate it. I will do whatever it takes to get there. My Goal My goal is to transition to the computer science field, Thus, I've been working to transition into the computer science field. The Accounting education that led me to computer science I graduated with a degree in accounting and was the treasurer of an organization with a yearly budget of $350k. I helped clients prepare budgets, income statements, balance sheets, rental ledgers, loan ledgers, as well as reconcile accounts, make general ledger entries, and calculate loan accruals. I loved freelancing but can't quite make enough money to live remotely. Web development is my goal because I love creating beautiful things that satisfy people's hopes. That motivated me to take as many computer science courses as I could while I finished my Accounting degree. To date, I've taken courses in Courses I've taken
Courses I'm taking After work I'm attending a 15-week coding boot camp after work where I'm learning I've been attending Epicodus for 8 weeks and the program ends in April.
Next things to learn? The next portion of the boot camp costs $7k and it teaches the following (yet, I can't afford this). I also couldn't afford to stay in college longer to learn computer science.
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| Is experience with scalability the most important expertise to cultivate for a backend dev? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 12:23 PM PST I have applied for Elixir backend developer jobs (in Europe) and now have several options. I'd like to lay out the situation below and I'd appreciate advice on which option to take: One company is a startup-style spinoff fully owned by a listed company in a traditional industry. They offer generous benefits and slightly fewer working hours (and definitely no overtime), but the pay is slightly less. However, they offered me a mid-level position so the pay is still decent IMO. Online reviews about the company are really positive, and the team was nice. However, my biggest concern is that, since they focus on B2B software instead of consumer-facing software, their systems don't get a lot of traffic and don't really have a lot of scalability challenges. I wonder if my future career as a backend dev would be heavily impacted if I don't accumulate enough experience in this area (I'm still in a relatively early stage of my career). The other several options are all consumer-facing startups with huge amounts of traffic to handle. Scalability/availability is definitely a central challenge to them. However, the benefits, work-life balance and stability cannot match those offered by the first company. They also don't necessarily offer much greater monetary rewards, which seems to be usual for European startups. I wonder if experience with high scalability/availability systems is the most important aspect for my future career development. Or, maybe if I intend to go towards a managerial/team lead type of role, experience with project management etc. will actually be more important? It seems to me that the methodologies in some startups are not that well-developed yet, and they have a "just get things done no matter what" mentality, which might make things become a bit chaotic. They also don't necessarily have clear career progression options. I wonder if work-life balance is really that important. Should I choose a more "difficult" job when I'm still young, even though I might have to work more? Or is this a dangerous mentality to take (especially when there's not necessarily more monetary reward associated with it)? I've heard a lot of stories about burnouts. My concerns about the first company though are, as stated, that I don't accumulate enough experience with large scale systems, leading me to an awkward and eventually obsolete position as I grow older. [link] [comments]  |
| Capital One TDP vs American Express Posted: 26 Feb 2019 10:38 AM PST Recently got offers from both companies. American Express in NYC and Capital One in Mclean and trying to make a decision between the two. Compensation is higher at American Express but I do feel like the tech at Capital One would be better. Can anyone provide some insight? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:09 PM PST This question may have been asked before but not specifically to an area/city and I would like more answers. Basically I am thinking of moving to Munich sometime this year but I recently got offered a Senior Developer position for a company that caters to adult entertainment. How do German companies view this, coming in as a North American fellow? Will it look bad on my resume? Why/why not? Also, I won't post their website but it doesn't show anything that shows that they deliver such content. It only mentions that they distribute media. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| JP Morgan Tech Connect Training Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:06 PM PST Does anyone know the timeline for JPM's Tech Connect Training? At the interview, they said something about being in Delaware for training, but not sure for how long. They also sent out another email about being in either NJ or OH for a month. [link] [comments]  |
| Choosing between living in SF Bay Area, NYC, or Dallas area for my new job Posted: 26 Feb 2019 04:37 AM PST Hi guys. I am from Europe and I am moving to the US for my new job. I have a MS in engineering physics and 3 years of work experience as a software engineer. The company will be sponsoring me for a visa. I already received an offer letter to work at the Redwood City branch of the company (this is in the SF Bay Area, north of Palo Alto) for $122,000. However the recruiter mentioned that I could also choose to work in the NYC office in Brooklyn for the same salary or I could work in Plano (Dallas Fort Worth) area for a reduced salary of $103,000. The signing bonus, stock, and everything else is the same. I can just choose the city I work in since the team I will be working for has developers in all 3 locations. I am currently 27 and my plan is to live in the US for 4-5 years before moving back to Europe. That way I will have hopefully saved enough for a down payment on a house. I also do not want my kids to be born in the US and end up as US citizens and would prefer for them to grow up in my home country. Aside from this, I think it would be interesting to step out of my comfort zone for a few years and experience a new city and culture. As for hobbies, I like drinking beer, lifting, biking, hiking, running, and basketball. Based on the above which city do you guys think I should choose to live in? I know SF Bay Area and NYC have a lot of fun things to do but I know next to nothing about the Dallas area. I want to basically maximize my disposable income but also have as much fun as I can for a few years before I move back home. [link] [comments]  |
| JPMorgan Software Engineer Program teams? Posted: 26 Feb 2019 05:52 PM PST Hi, I wanted to ask if there was anyone here that knew the teams involved in the (SEP) internship program? If possible, could anyone shed any light on the kind of work that would be done on the teams? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Fingerprints rejected for Background Check Posted: 26 Feb 2019 05:42 PM PST I got my fingerprints taken for an internship and they were rejected because they were of "low quality". I'm thinking it is probably because I got dry hands and some scarring because of it. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else and what to do about it. I mean my fingerprints are my fingerprints what am I supposed to do about them? I have since scheduled to have them collected again, but I am not completely certain we wont have the same issue again. I am worried about it, will a second rejection complicate the process or worse cause me to lose my offer? [link] [comments]  |
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