Big N Discussion - March 03, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- Big N Discussion - March 03, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - March 03, 2019
- I hate my data science job
- What do you do with your stock bonuses?
- Bay Area vs. Seattle vs Austin vs. New York for new grad jobs
- How is it like for a Canadian finding a job in Silicon Valley
- Is there a list of CS specialisations out there and how math intensive they are?
- How to get into tech from traditional engineering?
- Should I take the offer or wait or for a better one?
- Am I a backend developer? Having trouble labeling myself when looking for next opportunity
- I'm no fucking good
- Early Career Advice
- Is data engineering considered software development?
- Getting in Good Companies in Australia
- I am a software-dev and a parttime teacher for an IT-Training-School in Germany but I have lost all my motivation - please help me
- 3 years and 3 junior jobs and I still no one trusts me to be a developer
- XR Trading
- How to get summer internsh1ps while studying abroad in the fall?
- I don't understand the fascination the younger people here have with wanting to work in the Bay Area
- Switching to sales engineering?
- Anyone have experience with an RA position post graduation?
- I know most people on here are pretty young, but does anyone worry about ageism?
- Self Employed perception
- How do you guys feel about posting directly on LinkedIn asking for full-time opportunities?
- Joined a startup using a tech stack that I have no experience in, how do I manage expectations while working on catching up?
- Senior year upcoming, undecided about masters - can I switch a new grad offer to internship?
| Big N Discussion - March 03, 2019 Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:05 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]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - March 03, 2019 Posted: 02 Mar 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 Mar 2019 06:49 AM PST I just graduated as a Physics major from one of the top schools in my country. All my life I've hated maths immensely, and when I was in senior high I decided to get into Physics just to overcome my fear towards it. Well, it more or less worked, I was gaining some functional skills on it with LOTS of struggle and tears, but my scores weren't exactly great, with GPA around 3.28, practically killing my chances of ever getting into a great grad school. Now that I felt like I didn't have any place in the academia, I decided to become a data scientist, thinking that I would probably find what I've always been looking for, besides the huge pay. I am now a data scientist at one of the top financial technology companies in the nation, but I just hate every minute of it. The weekly deadlines, the boring SQL queries, the constant pressure to always learn stats and coding on top of my game. I'm so stressed out. Is this a normal way of feeling this? [link] [comments]  |
| What do you do with your stock bonuses? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 10:15 AM PST I'm curious to know when people here do with their stock awards from companies. Do y'all sell it the moment you get your hands on it? Do you sell it to reinvest in other things or keep it all in your bank account? Do you just keep your stock and hope it grows? Do you sell some and keep some? I'm interested in knowing! [link] [comments]  |
| Bay Area vs. Seattle vs Austin vs. New York for new grad jobs Posted: 03 Mar 2019 05:07 PM PST Currently comparing offers from various cities. I'm leaning towards Austin, so I can be close to my family, but I have heard that it is a lot harder to move up in the industry if you aren't working in the Bay Area or Seattle. Can someone give some insight on this? I have a pretty good job offer at a well known tech company's Austin office, but I don't wanna take it over something that could maximize my potential down the line. [link] [comments]  |
| How is it like for a Canadian finding a job in Silicon Valley Posted: 03 Mar 2019 05:55 PM PST Software Developer with a few years experience with Java, node.js, React and Angular. How is like finding a job in Silicon Valley and what are some tips? Currently working in Vancouver as a developer and looking for a change. I hear the interviews are more algorithmic vs where I'm from where it's more architecture and coding project based. Is that true. How easy is getting a TN Visa (I'm an EE grad not a CE, CS or SE) and is it reliable or should I just be looking at the H1B. What type of companies should I aim for that will take a Canadian? Is there any good job sites for companies looking for foreign developers? [link] [comments]  |
| Is there a list of CS specialisations out there and how math intensive they are? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 03:12 PM PST Just curious! Can't really seem to find anything but the heaviest math areas seem to be ML, Robotics, AI and the least seems to be programming languages. What do ya'll think? [link] [comments]  |
| How to get into tech from traditional engineering? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:53 PM PST Mechanical engineering student (senior) with qunt analysis experience and I know how to code in R. But the rest of my internships are in the automotive industry. Im trying to move into a tech career when I graduate. What jobs should I be applying for? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Should I take the offer or wait or for a better one? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 03:02 PM PST So I finally got an internship offer after 30+ applications, and it's for a financial software developer role at Envestnet (I've seen it mentioned once on this sub). The pay is not bad (19/hour), and I don't have to relocate, as it's close enough for a commute. The one problem I have is that the recruiter gave me until Monday to make my mind up (about 2 business days). Obviously, by that time I probably won't hear back from other companies. So these are my thoughts/questions:
I'm in my third year of university, so plenty of my friends/professors told me I should go for it. Let me know what you guys think. [link] [comments]  |
| Am I a backend developer? Having trouble labeling myself when looking for next opportunity Posted: 03 Mar 2019 01:56 PM PST Hello, I've been working at a startup for the past 1.5 years now. My current title is software engineer. This is my first development job, and prior to this job, I had a lot of random low-end jobs in sales, operations, and research outside of tech. I attended a bootcamp and was fortunate enough to find a job in the industry. Anyways, I work on a SaaS product. Our product is broken down into microservices, and I work on a service that deals with reading the data that is added to our SaaS product and applying specific functionalities to that data. It's pretty much a stream of data that goes into the service, we filter that data for each applicable functionality, and complete processing of that data. We utilize Kafka and ZooKeeper to first manage and filter data by each functionality, and then we have our subscribers for each functionality to finish processing. I joined when the base architecture for this service was already built. I basically added functionalities to it. I would say I'm competent with the technologies we use. Also, I can add new functionalities to work in our deployments which uses Kubernetes/Docker. I know how to deploy our product, but if I were tasked with building my own kube chart, I'd be completely lost honestly. I basically know how to copy and paste charts and adapt them to what I need. When looking for other jobs, I feel very conflicted putting down Backend Engineer because I don't know how to do a lot of the things Backend engineers might need to know, like infrastructure, security, deployment practices, etc. But I definitely do not fit into the full-stack or front end criteria. I am however interested in front-end or full stack. I guess what I struggle with most is the idea of always looking to progress your career, and that usually means looking for higher pay, looking for a more senior role, etc. But given what I know and my experiences so far, I feel like I work in a very specific thing, whereas most companies want that person that has a good broad understanding of things. How can I properly market myself to companies? How should I "label" myself? Should I just look for another junior role that will probably pay much less? I want to be a good generalist, but I don't really get the exposure to many things at my current role. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 08:05 PM PST Despite the weepy title, this isn't going to be some whiny rant about how hard this line of work is, but I do want to extend some feelers out there to established industry vets and rookies alike from a guy who's trying to break in to the field of CS as a completely self-taught developer. Learning how to code is without a doubt the most challenging thing I've ever done, and I'm at that oh-so-familiar point where I begin to question if it's even worth sticking with it. A little about me: I'm a 33 year old male from the midwest and I've been teaching myself how to code since December 2017. Last September, I landed a full time paid position with a globally traded software company as a QA engineer (doing all manual testing), so my dreams of being a developer have not yet landed. Therefore, I still finish work and put in 2-3 hours of studying each night, lately at the office where it's dead silent and I don't have to leave when the library or cafe closes. My language of choice is Javascript, and the React front end library, and I've also learned the usual like HTML5 and CSS3. I've dabbled a bit in PostgreSQL and MongoDB but haven't built any fully fledged databases on my own. I've taken some courses on Node.js as well as Redux, but I haven't quite gotten the hang of them yet. In fact, that's kind of why I'm writing this... because I haven't quite gotten the hang of anything. I just took two 3-hour take home coding assessments back to back and I failed them both in an embarrassing way. One was entirely Redux and I literally didn't submit anything, after it dawned on me that while I took a course in Redux none of the material had stuck. The other wasn't as bad, but it required writing a to do list in React in their IDE which should have been easy since I've done it so many times before, but I kept getting tripped up at writing components in a CodePen-like IDE when I'm used to using a file directory on VS code. Furthermore, I couldn't remember anything off the top of my head and had to look a ton of stuff up, even the basics like writing event handlers, which I think counts as cheating according to these guys but I'm not sure. Point is, I've been trying to learn this stuff for almost a year and a half, and I still can't write a simple to do list app from the hip. As the title suggests: I feel like I'm no fucking good. This material just is not sticking. I watch tutorials and write code every day, but it's more often than not my eyes glaze over at the narration and I have a hard time internalizing what's being said, getting the concepts to stick, being able to write them on my own, and so on and so forth. I have a feeling I'm just stupid and I'll never get the hang of this shit. Not one to just vent about my problems though, I am genuinely curious... for other self-taught developers who faced similar struggles early on, how did you get over this hump? And I mean specifically, did you fall into a rut where just another course was not doing it for you? How do you manage to get over the fact that you freeze when writing code? Just blank out? I didn't expect this stuff to be easy, but I didn't expect it to be so hard for my brain to adapt. I feel like I'm not getting it at all sometimes, and it's making me think I've wasted the last 14 months. I'd love any and all feedback, even if just to tell me I suck and I'm not working hard enough. But I'm personally interested in hearing your stories, how you stuck with it, what approach you took, or if this is just a matter of time and I need to keep at it. I appreciate it! I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links to my personal website or LinkedIn, so I'll PM anyone who's curious. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 07:57 PM PST Hi All, I was wondering if I could get some opinions on cs careers. I graduated from Cornell with a bachelors in comp sci with minor in applied math. There I took the core classes and specialized in math (graduate linear algebra, partial differential equations, stats, numerical analysis, functional analysis) and then on the computer science side parallel computing and os related things. I now have a role at one of the oil majors in a scientific computing group, which is technically in the IT Department, doing scientific computing. I have been there for about a year, and am thinking about moving. -While working, I have also taken some additional numerical methods classes at NYU that there applied math PhD students take. Namely their first numerical methods course and numerical optimization. Pros -The group interfaces with PhDs from top schools that conduct a variety of computational research that is relatively cool. -Some of the work uses a small amount of my background, but the work tends to be kind of the "grunt" work that the phds have. As such my primary purpose for the first year has been to build research prototypes in python that can be used as test beds for the researcher's algorithms. -Future work may use a larger portion of my background - There are some PhDs in the group that know the science and the computing portion, but that is few and far between. Primarily the typical profile hired is low as the interview bar is low. Cons -Pay is low compared to the average computer science graduate from Cornell. This would be the profile without the math background, which I worked very hard to build and would like to use. -I don't work on production systems building production code, and as such the quality of the code and the standards across researcher varies wildly. Testing is nill. Everyone gets embedded on a team of researchers and is expected to boot up on the researchers program and deliver code. There are no senior developers on that team. There is no code review process, etc, in the sense that this is research code it doesn't matter. -Many members of the group lack high school physics or math understanding, which challenges whether my group actually does scientific computing or is just kind of their as the software handy men. -It resides in the IT Department and as such is not looked favorably upon throughout the entire company. One of the researchers said that my group is view as contractors and not employees. -I was told that if I wanted to do deep technical work, moving into the research org would be impossible and I would stay in this group if interests don't change. Naturally, the view is that my interests should change and that I would be moved around the company. Other roles that would be available would be typical IT functions such as buying vendor software, building websites etc. I was wondering if I should head towards quantitative finance or tech and ML. Should I go back to school full-time for a masters, PhD etc? The question is then: should I stay or should I go? What is your suggestion? [link] [comments]  |
| Is data engineering considered software development? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 01:51 PM PST And should I be lumping my experience as a data engineer into the overall "years of software development experience"? [link] [comments]  |
| Getting in Good Companies in Australia Posted: 03 Mar 2019 07:48 PM PST I have been working in one of the big banks in Sydney, Australia as a software developer for two years. I wanna try out a real tech (not trading) companies right now. Everyone here knows Google, Atlassian, Amazon, Canva. However, I don't think I can get in any one of those and I don't know how to improve my skills because I am only doing some CRUDs nothing challenging and special in my job. So here are my questions: 1. Are there any good companies except google amazon Atlassian Canva in Australia ? 2. How can I improve my skills to get in good companies if my job is just crud all the time? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 09:07 AM PST Hey guys, my name is Rene, I am 32 years old and from Germany. I am a software-developer since 11 years, I never studied but I made a 3-year professional training for software-development. Since 8 years I am a Freelancer parttime too (most likly paid projects at the weekend). I worked for 5 complete different companies in Germany, my longest are 4 years at the same position. Since 3 years I really fall in love with teaching younger people software-development. I made a special training that allowed me to have trainees under me at my company. Though a bunch of coincidences I got the position as a professional teacher at a school for trainees. (To give you a bit insight: In Germany you have to be a trainee for 3 years while having 70% learned at a company which hire you as a trainee and 30% at a special school, depending on your job title you train for). This is something special here, because normaly you can only be a teacher when you studied to be one (pedadogical study) and I accepted. From one day to another I get out of my software-developer office and stood in front of 30 children / young adults that (sometimes more, sometimes less) want to know how databases work, what hacking is really, how security works or that java isnt an island... In the last 2 years I got up from 1 class to 5 classes, 11 hours per week at school, not included all time at home, prepering for teaching and exams you have to give them... I had to learn how to manage my very bad face-recognition, solve problem-people in class and even manage a pupil that never showers and stinks all the time. Addiditonal to that I had 36 hours per week at my software-dev job in my company and still worked a bunch of projects as freelancer in the evenings and weekends. All in all I had 60 to 70 hours per week working and I really really liked it. To cut a long story short (okay, I maybe over this point allready...): I lost all my motivation in the last 2 to 3 month. Due to several situations at school I can't find a good reason not to quit as a teacher, even I know that the school will not be able to find a replace for around 1 to 2 years for me. The most problematic part is the IT infrastructure at school: - We have several viruses / trojaner in the school network due to lag of security and IT administration in there. The hardest one was a ramsoft which would destroy a lot of USB sticks from my students back then (it was there for weeks). The latest one (still there) is on the complete network and every single HDD has 0% space, which cause problems even saving a single word file. - Due to the trojaner a lot of students started to argue with me and with our director that they will not have any usb stick plugged in into any school computer, which causes problems when you work with homeworks or even have a good stutend want to prepare for the upcoming exam. - We don't have school books for any class at IT. The last teacher before me had his own stuff in PDF which he took with him when he leaved. I have to create every lesson for myself - i mean hey, I have 11 years of experience, but I never ever written a learning book... I do my best but it is very exhausting, especially when you even not have someone who will "look over it" before you give it to anyone. Okay I could write a bunch more of that, but I am scared no one will even read it... Please help me to find a new light in my heart to stay. The pupil need me, this school need me but the situation is very very stressfull and will not change - I have spoken with our director several times... Thank you, Rene [link] [comments]  |
| 3 years and 3 junior jobs and I still no one trusts me to be a developer Posted: 03 Mar 2019 05:20 AM PST 3-4 years ago, I thought I was lucky that I had landed a junior role so quickly. It sounded perfect for me. It covered plenty of different topics and skillsets and plenty of promise to learn more as my skills progressed. I stuck with it just over a year because towards the end, I was just doing the same old day-to-day inefficient legacy-code based mundane code monkey work. No progression, learning nothing new. So I got a new job. I still felt very much a junior at that stage, so applied for another 'junior' role, and again, same thing. Maybe I got to learn a touch more native javascript but nothing fancy. The employers kept promising that there would be more challenging stuff on the way. Yet over a year later, still nothing. Still boring super novice stuff that was only work because they didn't bother to optimise their own systems. So I quit again and tried my luck applying for non 'junior' branded jobs. Very low success rate with the interview processes because I am very much still a junior :( But suddenly, I get this interview. For a great company, much more corporate, much more room for growth. I did okay at the interview and managed to establish good enough rapport with the interviewer but he said that my dev skills just 'aren't quite up to scratch for that position yet', but that he could give my details to his colleague in the marketing department. It was a role working on emails and some marketing websites. and he said, there will likely be dev positions opening up which I could apply for internally A year is now coming up, and my day to day looks more and more like before, just doing the same junior thing over and over. Some static html emails and some basic bootstrap copy paste landing pages. There's very little chance to work on the React and Angular tech-stack part of the sites we have, other than the odd text update. I even approached that Digital tech manager (there's more to it but in the interests of keeping it short&sweet) and asked about potential roles opening up and he said "Not in the foreseeable future, and unfortunately you haven't had as much web experience as I thought you would". Not gonna lie, that kinda hit me in the feels. I've now been struggling for 3 years to get a job where I'm a proper developer doing development, but instead I have only been able to be slotted in to code monkey roles that seem to have high turnover. I don't gain much experience, and so my position at interviews is hardly any better than before when I started each role. I don't know what to do! :( I'm getting super depressed with my situation and I'm coming into the career late (I'm already 32) so there's an urgency for me to get going with my proper career but I don't have the tech skills and now I'm not sure which way I can turn. If you have any advice for me I'd really appreciate it. tldr; 3 jobs over the last 3-4 years have been 'junior' with the promise of getting more complicated work as skills develop. But they've all turned out to just be pure junior roles with mundane static code tasks and no development. I don't know what to do next and need your thoughts.[link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 07:13 PM PST Anyone interview or worked for XR Trading in Chicago? I've got a interview next week and trying to figure out how to prepare. [link] [comments]  |
| How to get summer internsh1ps while studying abroad in the fall? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 06:58 PM PST I go to a large University in the US. I'm entering my junior year so I plan to apply to some large tech companies like msft. However, I am studying abroad in France for the fall. How do you interview if you are abroad? Do they fly you back to America or do you interview in France? Or should I just not study abroad altogether. [link] [comments]  |
| I don't understand the fascination the younger people here have with wanting to work in the Bay Area Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:27 PM PST It really isn't that great. In fact, it's one of the WORST places I have ever lived. Super expensive, horrible traffic, the cities are disgusting, and overall the atmosphere is actually quite boring, unless you are fond of coding with friends outside of work hours. Not getting your first job or internship in the Bay Area isn't the end of the world. I worked in San Francisco and I've been around the Bay Area and it is literally nothing but horrible experiences. On a 6 figure salary, I was still barely scraping by, in a city that isn't even worth the price you pay to live in it. That's just my opinion though, for some people it might be their dream come true, but you couldn't pay me enough to go back to that shitty area. [link] [comments]  |
| Switching to sales engineering? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:03 PM PST Senior software engineer here, I've been slowly transitioning to a more management-driven role, and I haven't enjoyed it so much. A friend recommended looking at sales engineering as an alternative, which sounds interesting based on the research I've done. Has anyone on here ever made the change from software engineer to sales engineer, and if so, why? What were the pros and what were the cons? What should I be thinking about as far as making a career change like this? [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone have experience with an RA position post graduation? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 05:51 PM PST I see a lot of Econ professors and Stats professors looking for full time RAs. I will graduate with a dual degree in DS and Econ. Wondering how much a full time RA at a "prestigious" institution can expect to make (for example, this job: https://www.nber.org/jobs/2019Chernew.pdf)? I have good internship experience in DS and SWE roles, and have made it far in the interview process for well known companies like Amazon, but always get rejected near the end of the hiring rounds. So I'm pretty desperate at this point for any data-related role [link] [comments]  |
| I know most people on here are pretty young, but does anyone worry about ageism? Posted: 02 Mar 2019 10:24 PM PST I feel it is so easy to fall behind these days. Tech moves so fast. Ageism is a big thing and apparabtly employability falls 7% every year after 45. So I worry... do I pretty much have to plan a career path to being exec level in order to stay employed? 😬🤯 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 01:51 PM PST I'm looking for some advice on how to represent my employment history. I graduated with a non-cs degree but I've been programming since high school and worked a number of contract software engineering jobs during university. When I graduated I formed my own startup with 2 other cofounders where I built the entire platform from the ground up on my own. Now that I'm looking for other positions, I feel like I should hide the fact that I was essentially self-employed. It's led to some awkward interactions where I try to hint at the fact without outright admitting to it. It's just led to an awkward situation where even though I'm at the level of a more senior developer, I don't have experience with Agile environments, project management, and other basic knowledge that comes with working in an established company. I really don't think I'm being irrational here in thinking that the fact that I don't have a cs-degree and that I'm self-employed will reflect poorly. The only reason I'm questioning it now is because I heard another developer phrase it as "I've been running my own startup for the past few years" and it didn't sound as negative as it does in my mind. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you guys feel about posting directly on LinkedIn asking for full-time opportunities? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 05:23 PM PST I have three internships, one of them being at NASA and the other being at Amazon, but I did not want to work there full-time. Is this too tacky or should I still try it? I am a UX designer, so this may be slightly different. I've barely gotten any interviews. The upside is having some companies I want to work for message me, but the downside is all of these other companies I don't want to work with messaging me. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:38 AM PST After working for a year and a half at my old company as a backend engineer (joined right out of college), I recently made a switch. My old one had a completely Java-based tech stack. There were a couple of libraries here and there, but it was mostly pure Java. Now I had an interest in gaining experience working with frameworks in the Hadoop ecosystem. So I joined the data-engineering team at a startup that works at an impressive scale, hoping to get hands-on experience in that domain. I am worried however, that I won't be able to meet my manager's expectations. So the tech stack here consists of Spark, Hive, Flink, etc. Most of the codebase is in Scala, with a handful of Golang services. I have absolutely no experience in any of the frameworks that are used here. While interviewing, I had not mentioned these frameworks on my resume. So my understanding was that in the event that I was hired, these people would know that there would be a significant learning curve for me, and they were okay with that (IIRC one of the engineers even asked me in the interview if I'd worked with Spark before, I told him I had no previous experience there). My main concern is that judging from my manager's behaviour, it seems that he was expecting me to be well-versed in this tech stack, and he's disappointed to discover the truth. After the initial onboarding where he introduced me to the team, our interactions have been mostly of the following variety:
And my answer has invariably been "no". I mean, I don't directly say no, more like "I have a basic understanding, I'll read up about it" and so on. But I'm worried that he's disappointed. He doesn't say anything directly, but from his reaction it looks like he was really expecting me to know something atleast. And his questions are becoming more broader in scope. For example, he asked me if I'd worked on any frameworks at all. Now apart from Dropwizard, which we used for setting up the server, there was no other framework. We had a couple of NoSQL DBs and messaging queues that we used, but that doesn't count. So my answer was "no" again. His follow-up to that was asking me if I knew about database partitions. Again, I know what sharding is, but I knew that there was more to partitioning than that. Anyways since I had not worked directly with SQL partitions, I just told him that I only had a brief idea and I'd look it up. And he didn't respond to that. My goal was pretty clear in my mind when joining here. I aim to be good enough to be a core contributor to OSS projects like Spark and Flink, and this role would give me an opportunity to get a good understanding about the entire ecosystem, as well as hands-on experience at scale. I rejected offers from some really prestigious companies for the same reason. But now I'm getting seriously worried that I might not last here for long. I also barely have any interaction with my manager, which is not helping. I realise that it's possible that I'm just jumping to conclusions from my manager's reaction, but it would really help if there was atleast some clarity on what his expectations are. I guess I should take the initiative to approach him regarding this, but I'm not sure exactly what to say! As I've indicated, I'm willing to put in the effort to learn. I'm ready to invest time from my evenings and weekends to go through learning materials. But since I'm new to this, it would take a fair amount of time. Also, I've been asked to handle a couple of manual tasks for now, which are quite tedious, and keeping me busy throughout the week (not leaving any time for studies). So my question is, what should my approach be with regards to discussing my manager's expectations? Should I approach him directly regarding my concerns, and if so, what should I keep in mind during such a conversation? Also, I'd really appreciate it if any of you could provide some advice on getting familiarised with a completely new tech-stack. Thanks! TL;DR: Joined startup with completely different tech stack, worried that I won't last here for long, need some advice on tackling this situation. [link] [comments]  |
| Senior year upcoming, undecided about masters - can I switch a new grad offer to internship? Posted: 03 Mar 2019 04:47 PM PST Hey everyone, so with my senior year coming up soon I am really starting to think about doing an extra year for my masters. I was wondering, if I went to the fall career fair and received a full time offer, and then decided to actually stay for another year, would the company be able to switch my offer to an internship over the summer if I asked? Also is this something that people do often? Thank you for any help you can provide! [link] [comments]  |
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