Interview Discussion - March 25, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- Interview Discussion - March 25, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - March 25, 2019
- Would you take this if offered and in my position?
- When solving leetcode, use library functions, have 1-4 liners solution, or 10-30 liners but more fundamentals?
- How do you stay motivated during your 2 week notice?
- Why do "old" programmers have a harder time finding jobs?
- Programmers, how often do you use SQL?
- Can't get a raise, change jobs?
- How long did it take to find your dream job?
- How do you know if you're not ready for the industry yet?
- GPA as selection criteria?
- Do companies sponsor grad school?
- When did you feel like you made the transition from beginner to intermediate and/or intermediate to advanced in terms of coding skills?
- I get my relo bonus after the start of my internship. I can't financially front housing and flight costs for internship location without it. What did you do?
- Best way to ask employer if I signed a non compete.
- Does anyone have experience switching software fields? (Production Engineering -> literally anything else)
- Are emails like this requesting I apply to CS related jobs spam?
- Are glassdoor reviews reliable?
- How do I ensure that I'm learning relevant CS skills?
- Working on outside of your contract?
- [Need advice] QA - Should I change the company in this situation?
- Is it possible to take a Hackerrank challenge late?
- Drug testing with Disney?
- Embedded software applications engineer vs software engineer
- Offer comparison: Indeed.com vs. Bank Of America
- Advice about direction to take.
| Interview Discussion - March 25, 2019 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 12:07 AM PDT 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 - March 25, 2019 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 12:08 AM PDT 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]  |
| Would you take this if offered and in my position? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:14 AM PDT I'm currently working outside of Seattle at a company for going on 5 years making 99k. They moved my ex wife and I 5 years ago from New York. The job is alright, bland cubicle job with little interaction and shitty coffee. I'm not proud of the project I keep maintaining and churning out 6 month releases for. The commute is less than 15 minutes. I got a divorce 6 months ago and have been in a rut. So a friend of mine who lives outside of Boston (Salem) said I should apply there. So I jokingly did to see what would happen. Well I was contacted by a company (hesitant to name drop?) and I had 1 HR phone interview, 1 take home coding test and 1 hour pair programming test with an engineer. They want to fly me out for a final interview. I gave them some dates a few weeks out, I would give my current company 30 days notice. Boston is expensive, so I was thinking of living in Salem where my friend is and being close to the commuter rail. The place is about 1 hour commute on the rail plus another train, but it goes .1 miles to the office. The position is for 125k, I told them I would like 130-135k, so I'm hoping 130k is the amount. I may need assistance getting out of my existing lease but they would pay for relocation. The office also overlooks Boston, they have beer on tap, unlimited snacks and coffee. Shit my company would dream to have and things my millennial self thinks is worthwhile. Thoughts? Edit: These are all great comments, thanks everyone! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 04:10 PM PDT Hi guys, I am gonna begin my grind over the next six months. When I was looking at leetcode solutions that other people came up with, I see some of them have 1-3 liners because they use like a lot of the built-in library functions(Python). Like, I know it's cool, but I feel like if you ever do this on an actual coding interview, I don't think the interviewer will appreciate it. What I am trying to say is that I guess the interviewers will feel like you are using these "cheat' methods which enable you to come up with easy solutions. So the question is, do you think just using cs fundamentals like for loop, recursion during interview is much better and give a better impression than just using these pre-built in libraries? Like, the interviewer says, pick a language, so if I pick Python3, then does it mean I can use whatever I know in Python3, import libraries, use bunch of library functions to solve the problem? Another question is I can imagine doing so many leetcode questions that I eventually memorize the best answer to each one. So therefore, during an actual interview, do you think i should just like go through it flawlessly since I know the answer already or show some "struggles"? Like what I am trying to say I guess is, does the interviewer cares more about your efficiency and how fast you arrive at the solution or does he value more other things? Thanks for checking this out, I appreciate it! [link] [comments]  |
| How do you stay motivated during your 2 week notice? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 06:33 AM PDT Ive always wondered how people don't absolutely phone it in during this stretch of time. I figured the 2 weeks notice window is for you to wrap up what you are working on and then hand over any information you have. How do you guys handle it? Do you just put in a minimum effort and not really care if the work you're working on finishes? [link] [comments]  |
| Why do "old" programmers have a harder time finding jobs? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 01:51 PM PDT Hey everyone, Just like what the title states, why do older programmers have a harder time finding jobs compared to their younger counterparts? is it because older people have a harder time learning so its just more efficient to hire someone younger? Are the languages that older programmers know not relevant in 2019 anymore? What are the reasons? Also what age is considered "old"? Is a mid 30s guy going to be penalized for his age or does this age "limit" only harm people 50+ Hopefully my question makes sense, thank you all. [link] [comments]  |
| Programmers, how often do you use SQL? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 05:17 AM PDT Hey. I just started my first job. Internship but basically being rushed into senior role. I like that. But can this potentially hurt me? Green as Green, I'm a C# programmer. The job is VB.Net mostly and some older vb. I can use vb I guess. However, every day more SQL can be spotted. I'm going to be taking over a soon to be retired programmers shoes and apps. He's only one who codes in VB there. Some of these SQL statements are 50+ lines of subquerries and ten joins. That's fine but the aliases/col names are crazy.. F0006 for a customer ID number? Then f0110 for a table name?? My question now that there is some context.. Is this typical? Is SQL of this caliber usually this common in a c#/web service developers world? If I drop the ball and my internship only last the three months.. Can that hurt me? Will I likely find a job I'm the future far easier now? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Can't get a raise, change jobs? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 06:24 AM PDT I'm a software developer, around 5 years of experience. Third year with my current company (soon), asked for a raise and got shot down (asked to wait for next review round, after last round got me nothing despite glowing peer reviews and absolutely no raise). I also found out the most junior member of my team has a higher salary than I do, which somewhat pissed me off. Now, I know people who have the exact same diplomas as I do (bachelor's and master's) from the same institution, worked for as long as I have, who I've worked with before, and they get a 50% higher salary than I do. I really enjoy working with my immediate team, some of the best people I've met both in terms of ability as well as personality, but I honestly need the money as I've been eating into what little savings I have. I've already booked a couple of interviews, among them one with a company I've left in the past. I know I might not enjoy the every day part of the job if I leave, but I don't know if I can endure knowing I'm underpaid. What would you do in my position? [link] [comments]  |
| How long did it take to find your dream job? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 05:00 PM PDT Interested in hearing how long it took for people to get to a job where they feel hits every single point on their own personal list. Was it grind to get there or did it eventually come? What would your tips for getting somewhere you want to be? [link] [comments]  |
| How do you know if you're not ready for the industry yet? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 04:52 PM PDT I'm graduating next semester and I have absolutely no idea if I'm prepared. And I certainly don't want to be one of those coders who end up with no offers months (years?) with no offers. And I certainly don't want to be the junior dev that gets complaints from my superiors because I don't know how to code. (I think I know how to code. I've done a few projects, back end and front end, but don't many CS majors? Or do a lot more people cheat than I thought? I look at stack overflow, but I always try to understand the code before incorporating it.) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 02:53 PM PDT Hi folks, recruiter asking for some help here. My company runs a global graduate program and we're trying to look for ways to be more inclusive in our recruitment and selection process. One of the ideas is to drop the ask for the candidates' GPA entirely, but some of our stakeholders are quite keen on still keeping it as part of our selection criteria (specially for the Engineering and science-related careers.) I got the task to look for articles/ reports that show that a high GPA doesn't necessarily translate to a high performance, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me find some sources that have studied that? I found some stuff from the agencies that work with us on recruiting grad students, but they're mostly UK-based reports. I wanted something more US-focused to add to my paper. Any thoughts or ideas or where to look? [link] [comments]  |
| Do companies sponsor grad school? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 01:06 PM PDT As titled. I'm currently doing my undergrad but I'm asking because I want to do grad school in CS one day and I would prefer not to leave a job or pay for it out of pocket if I don't get funding. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 01:53 PM PDT I personally still feel like a beginner because theres always so much to learn. Though in reality I'd say I'm closer to intermediate. I probably realized this a few years after I started coding when I was working on a project that had a few thousand lines of codes that could actually accomplish something. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 12:46 PM PDT My company is providing me with a $5000 relocation bonus to get to San Francisco on my first paycheck AFTER I start interning. The downside is I don't have the financial means to book a flight to SF, put down money for a deposit, and 1st month rent with my own money before the internship starts. Has anyone ever had this problem? What did you do? How does your internship company compensate you to avoid situations like this? I wanted to hear what other peoples solutions were before asking my recruiter for help/a solution. [link] [comments]  |
| Best way to ask employer if I signed a non compete. Posted: 25 Mar 2019 10:54 AM PDT I currently work remotely for a company, and am looking for a new job. I don't believe I signed a non compete when I started, but I want to make certain. How can I ask HR both if I signed a non compete, and for a copy of the non compete without raising suspicion that I am pursuing other opportunities? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:25 AM PDT Is it bad to say I like everything about my job besides the job? I'm a little more than 6 months into my first job after graduating in CS as a Production Engineer. While early on I thought I didn't like software, I realize I dislike this position as it feels like an SRE position (complete with oncall and stressfull reactionary support duties). I'm not doing engineering/design work and it is slowly killing my morale I like my team and environment but I don't think healthy offices are unique (if this is not true please let me know!). Ultimately I want to leave and give (real) software engineering a shot. Does anyone have experience switching software fields? I have a better idea of what I want in a job thanks to my experience:
I don't mind moving (as a matter of fact, I'd like to try a more urban city sooner or later, while I'm still young) In my job I've learned a lot about the software production lifecycle as well as how large architectures eventually integrate with each other but I haven't had direct development experience. Does anyone have advice for getting positions other roles? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Are emails like this requesting I apply to CS related jobs spam? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 10:01 AM PDT I get about one of these emails per day. They are odd because on one hand, they seem to be spam emails that have nothing about me in them (why is someone who's asking me to apply for their job unaware of my resume?), but I'm not certain. I cropped out the recruiter's name but left the company in. I think this is OK, I can remove if not. I'm not a fulltime dev, I'm a college student. I do have an above average resume for my age but no one expects a college student to have years of experience in multiple languages or have "proven experience". Should I even bother replying to these? Or should I put them in the spam folder? I am not really sure. [link] [comments]  |
| Are glassdoor reviews reliable? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 04:48 PM PDT I want a job with a good life balance, but find a lot of reviews that say work life balance isn't good when applying to jobs. At that point I just say no and look somewhere else [link] [comments]  |
| How do I ensure that I'm learning relevant CS skills? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:42 PM PDT I'm two years into my CS degree and I feel like I really haven't learned anything relevant or marketable in any environment. I've taken DS and I feel fairly confident with them but my course seemed very rushed. I'll be looking into internships soon but I'm not sure that I have anything to offer. What should I being doing to help myself and improve my relevant skills? *I'll be looking for open source projects and resources over the next few weeks* My language experience could be outlined as follows: ----------------------------- C++ (Intermediate) Python (Beginner) ---------------------------- Thank you for reading through my rant. Any response is appreciated TLDR; I feel like I don't have any relevant CS skills. What should I do:? [link] [comments]  |
| Working on outside of your contract? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:38 PM PDT Some companies will have a clause in their contract stating that you're not allowed to work on side projects or that you may, but only under very strict and undesirable conditions. Do you adhere to these clauses within your contract? Has anyone ever been "caught" breaking their contract in this regard? [link] [comments]  |
| [Need advice] QA - Should I change the company in this situation? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 03:29 PM PDT Hello all, this is my first post here after lurking for some time. Even though English is not my native language, I'll try to write correctly. It may sound like nothing big, but I'm having a really hard time to decide whether I should change companies. I've been working as Software QA (without a technical degree, as I learned computer & software stuff on my own) for about 4 years now, started in a manual role, changed companies after 1.5 years, learned to create automated tests for web apps using Selenium with Python. After 9 months I moved to my current company, worked for 6 months on front-end and back-end automation, but then the project was dropped and I found myself choosing a mobile project (mostly manual testing, but implemented UI automated tests using Appium with Python on iOS and Android, created a simple UI testing framework, mainly just for clicking buttons and entering text, nothing too complicated). Currently, I started to realize that this project isn't challenging anymore, even though I'm doing a decent job. A friend of mine left for another company and then recommended me for a QA Automation position at his new company, a position which, at the time, I didn't actually consider taking, but it was almost 2 years since I've been to an interview, I wanted to see the market. I passed 3 interviews (HR, a weird technical discussion and another interview with a Project Manager). I found out that they wanted me to start on a different project than the one they initially called me in for, it's a new project that will use Selenium with Java for automated testing, but I don't really have any experience with Java as I've only worked with Python before. My 'problem' is that I'm having trouble in deciding whether I should keep my current job (where the company just increase my monthly salary by about 8% and also gave a decent bonus) or I should move to the other company for a bigger salary (about 20% increase), but having no experience at all working with Java. It's been really bugging me and I have to give a final answer to their offer in 3 days. I kinda want to accept the offer as I feel I would learn more on this new job, but on the other hand I'm kinda scared that I'm not gonna make it through the 3 months of 'trial' period (the legally required period in my country). I was always underselling myself and I don't really know if I'll be able to properly learn to use Java with Selenium in, let's say, 1 month of intensive study (job & at home). I know all this may sound really crappy, but I just wanted to know what you guys would do in this situation, so any opinion is welcome. Thank you very much. TL,DR: QA Engineer, started manual testing, learned Python and Selenium, got good job, worked on automation but switched back to some manual and automated testing on mobile, got job offer with Java and Selenium, not too confident about being able to learn Java in a short time in order to be reliable at new job. What would you do? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it possible to take a Hackerrank challenge late? Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:13 PM PDT A company sent me a challenge to complete in about 3 days. I was on vacation and missed the email completely. It's been 4 days already. Should I take it anyways? Should I try to ask my recruiter for an extension? Would appreciate any advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2019 07:11 PM PDT Anyone have an internship with disney or any of their companies (ABC, ESPN, Lucasfilms, etc)? Do they drug test interns upon extending an offer? [link] [comments]  |
| Embedded software applications engineer vs software engineer Posted: 25 Mar 2019 06:50 PM PDT Hello All! I am currently a computer science student, and I have been offered a position as a embedded software applications engineer, and I was wondering what the differences were and how much of engineering I need to know. Thank You! [link] [comments]  |
| Offer comparison: Indeed.com vs. Bank Of America Posted: 25 Mar 2019 09:58 AM PDT Hi all, I recently received an offer from Indeed.com (in Austin, TX) to intern as an Information Security Risk Analyst Here is the break-down: Indeed: - $26/hr - Housing included - Free food - stipend for transportation - 10 weeks Bank Of America (Business Analyst Role) - NYC metro - $40/hr - fixed stipend to cover all expenses (won't be used since I live near the location) - 10 weeks - Team placement has not been announced Based on the all the feedback I've heard on this forum, BoA is terrible place to work at, but the total comp is much nicer. In the long run, should you say InfoSec has more job security than business analysis? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Advice about direction to take. Posted: 25 Mar 2019 06:32 PM PDT A recent post on here has kept me wondering, as I do weekly whether I should continue down the path I'm currently going. I'll give a little background. I live in Perth, Australia. I'm 34, married with 3 kids (6, 2 and 2 months old) I'm currently studying a double major (Computer Science & Mathematics and Statistics) at Murdoch University here in Perth, however I'm studying externally, which means I do all the content online and only go into the university for exams etc. I also work full time, approx 40 hrs a week at a job I hate and a job that has nothing to do with the field I'm studying. There are multiple reasons I continually reconsider whether what I'm trying to do is worth it but the main things that keep popping up is my age, I'll probably be 37 when I graduate. While that's not old, I worry how the industry will be to someone older with no previous exp in the industry. It's one of the main reasons I've chosen Mathematics and Statistics as my second major, even though the last time I done math was when I was 14/15 in Year 10 before I dropped out of high school, I thought having that as my second major may make me more employable as a CS degree with math and stats as my second major should be a strong combination. I don't have that much time with my kids is the other reason. I wake up early and study, leave to go to work, see my kids for 1 hour before bed and then I study until I go to bed. Luckily I have a very supportive wife who is going to continue her studies after mine, so she understands. I'm really wanting to get out of the position I'm in, especially work wise and the only way I can see a way out is via University or self taught, however I've chosen the university path. After I graduate, I don't care where I end up, different country, different state in Australia, my aim is to be in this field because I enjoy it. I really should have typed this out after work today rather then last minute before I rush off, then I could of explained things more clearly rather then rushed. Being external doesn't help this either, as I know literally no one doing the degree I'm doing and I don't get any face time with anyone at the university unless I book it, and then I have to take time off work for it. What are your thoughts on whether I should continue the more traditional degree route or whether someone at my age is better immersing themselves and attempting a self taught route with the same discipline carried over from study? and should my age factor into either of these decisions at all? Sorry for the rambling, I may come back and address some things I missed/fix the messy way I've written it, but just wanted to get it off my chest and maybe see some opinions from people. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
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