DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR April 05, 2019 CS Career Questions |
- DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR April 05, 2019
- Daily Chat Thread - April 05, 2019
- I got fired.
- Job pays 45k/yr and wants Angular, React, and Vue
- "Do you have any questions" - what to ask to gain more info about the company or the team?[examples below]
- So I got fired today, after I refused the offers of other firms that pays 30k+ more.
- Has contributing to well known large opensource projects helped you get into better job offers? Or big companies don't care about opensource?
- How can I deal with this workplace drama?
- Update on being contacted for an internship for the first time.
- Imposter syndrome and not being sure how to feel about current job
- What companies offer good salaries for developers in Canada (specifically in Toronto/Kitchener)?
- Do not, under any circumstance, involve your current boss in a side business venture if you are trying to break out...
- Ghosted after signing the offer. Should I just show up like nothing happened?
- Is it uncommon to directly message a HR rep on linkedin about a job posting?
- How to improve "thinking out loud" during coding test?
- Colleagues at new job are ignoring me
- How should an Asian male fill out US job applications which ask for race and gender?
- Loyalty to internship
- Is it illegal/unethical for an employee of a software company that is contracted to build the apps of a business, to start working for that business?
- Should I apply for graduate US/Canada jobs or spend the time applying in Europe (I'm from Europe)
- My job hunting experience
- I have a BA in psychology and I’m starting my MS in CS this upcoming fall. What type of job do you think I would fit best in?
- Can I get a TN visa for programming when my degree is in chemical engineering?
- Currently interning. What rate do I ask for at my full time offer?
- Is it possible to get a job without a degree?
- Our boss keeps telling us that we need to improve our skills, but then never give us time to do it, and it's starting to get "uncomfortable". What can I do?
| DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR April 05, 2019 Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:07 AM PDT AND NOW FOR SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. THE BUILDS I LOVE, THE SCRIPTS I DROP, TO BE PART OF, THE APP, CAN'T STOP THIS IS THE RANT THREAD. IT IS FOR RANTS. CAPS LOCK ON, DOWNVOTES OFF, FEEL FREE TO BREAK RULE 2 IF SOMEONE LIKES SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T BUT IF YOU POST SOME RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/SEXIST BULLSHIT IT'LL BE GONE FASTER THAN A NEW MESSAGING APP AT GOOGLE. (RANTING BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, BEST COAST TIME. PREVIOUS FRIDAY RANT THREADS CAN BE FOUND HERE.) [link] [comments]  |
| Daily Chat Thread - April 05, 2019 Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:07 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]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 06:49 AM PDT I worked as a full stack developer with a startup. I got fired yesterday because my cofounder said they don't have enough funds. This was my first job after school. I am really scared and confused. What should be my next steps? Edit: I got laid off. I didn't really know the difference. I really appreciate the advice and kind words. [link] [comments]  |
| Job pays 45k/yr and wants Angular, React, and Vue Posted: 05 Apr 2019 07:36 AM PDT And they are asking for 3+ years of experience. I literally laughed when they told me the salary and all of the frameworks I need to have experience with. The recruiter told me that she's passed people's resumes along with more experience than me and they got rejected. I explained to her why that's not a good way of going about trying to hire a person who can make 6 figures with that knowledge and experience. Anybody else have experience with companies like this? It seems comically outrageous, but honestly I'll take it in the interim. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 08:13 AM PDT "do you have any questions?" Some examples coming to my mind:
is it ok to ask:
What else can I ask to gain more about that company? [link] [comments]  |
| So I got fired today, after I refused the offers of other firms that pays 30k+ more. Posted: 05 Apr 2019 06:46 PM PDT Aite guys,I hope I dont' sound like an arrogant person as I am in reality. I am going to just tell the stupid story as it is, as I am a dumb guy with zero EQ. I have been pursuing this high frequency trading firm since before I graduated last dec and a career in this industry since 2016, I graduated with 2 masters in math and computer science. Since my primary language is c++and python, I worked most of my academic projects and personal projects thru these languages and also this is the only trading firm that was willing to give me an offer. I failed the other firms of the same industry mostly as I didn't prep enough for the interview, aka, didn't do enough leetcode(personal advise if you studying financial engineering, do leetcode...) ,aka, it was my incorrect recognition of my competence and effort at the time. I started this job at this high frequency prop firm the first of April, even tho I was interviewed as a quant developer, the first thing and everything for the foreseeable future, all they wanted me to do was help them to build their infrastructure as they thought my c++ skill was quite impressive. It was very unpleasant for me, since during the interview I was told that they are making 50+ million dollars a year in net profits, however, they wanted me to implement their market data backup in some low cost file server, meanwhile the data for each day was at most 1GB(buy some 970 pro you cheap fucks). To put it into a better perspective, they are paying me 65k+5k+contingent bonus(100% of 65k according to the CEO, good guy with the best jokes tho, made me laugh more than 10 times a day) and 11 hours of work each day and performance based work visa(yes, I am a chinese national in the land of the free). The first day I joined(April 1st, no joke), I got a firm that offered 100k with 10% guaranteed bonus(with green card promised by HR) by another firm in downtown chicago, the second day, I got another offer across the street from the previous firm with 95k no bonus. So I talked to the managing partner on the third day in this high frequency trading firm about my work visa, trying to negotiate that he make a promise on my work visa next year and I give up all other offers."Nope." he said, that's your problem and you gotta do what you gotta do. It was humiliating, however, I am a regular bro science guy who thinks very highly of himself. So I told him, "ok, not a fucking problem, I am kinda like it here and I will give you one hundit all day every day and I think I will get that 100% bonus" , its a trading firm with traders, everyone cusses, N-word, C-word, F-Word, all you can think of. So I turned down the 2 offers politely and started to bother my supervisor relentlessly in an effort to try to get familiar with the entire code base. Yeah, it was annoying even for myself as I was running back and forth like an 8 year old begging his parents to buy him the toy. What do I know, just as I was testing my code this afternoon, I was called in by the COO and CFO, and they are letting me go with a check of 1250. It was like the world collapsed on me and it was worse than the worst of all my break ups. It's sad especially because the guy I liked the most(CEO) is the one that's kicking me off the boat. It's also sad that the dream I pursued for so many years only lasted a week. The saddest thing is that, I dont' think people in the trading industry ever makes friends as I am the 3rd one they let go on the 5th day of the month. BTW, i am ranked ~200 on leetcode globally, in rating. The lessons I learnt:
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 01:19 AM PDT Hi, i wanted to know your thoughts, especially, folks who have contributed to well known large open source projects, how has your contributions to opensource projects impacted your
Or it does not really have much impact, and leetcoding & experience years, are way more important for big companies and recruiters. Please guide use folks here with your experience. Also please mention the project you have contributed in past/ present [link] [comments]  |
| How can I deal with this workplace drama? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 02:38 PM PDT I am part of a small team of developers at a big company, working on a service my manager made almost a decade ago. Back when he made it, the service was great but it didn't scale very well. Now, the service has a ton of issues, and my team spends way too much time doing operational work trying to keep this service running. A little over a year ago, I proposed an idea to replace the service with a new one. My boss shot it down, saying it wouldn't work. Not long after this, my boss got into an accident, and was on long term leave. After a while of being buried in operational tasks, myself and my team nailed down a design for a replacement to this service; we brought it to the director (who was the next step above my manager) got permission to build it, and even got us some support headcount to handle all the operational workload while we built this new service. Months later, our service is built, and we are doing the final steps to push this into prod. Suddenly though, my manager comes back. He gets angry we chose to replace his service. He decides to do everything in his power to destroy our project, even going as far as to deleting code and removing environments and hosts that were running our service. He told the director that the project wouldn't work, and the original service was the only way to do things. So, what should we do at this point? I still have a backup of our original code for the service, and it would take a while but we could rebuild our environments and make this run again. I would need to talk with the director again though, and say what really happened with the project, and show him evidence that the service we created was working great. Tl:DR: My team built a service to replace my manager's aging service, he didn't like it and deleted it [link] [comments]  |
| Update on being contacted for an internship for the first time. Posted: 05 Apr 2019 08:59 AM PDT Last week I made a post about how an internship I applied for finally contacted me for the first time. They sent me an email asking me to fill out this questionnaire with a bunch of questions about myself. I emailed it back to them on thursday last week. On monday morning of this week, they emailed me again saying that that they would like to invite me to an interview with their Information Technologies Executive! I have a meeting with him next monday. I'm so fucking excited but also really nervous. The only Jobs I have ever had before are retail and factory work so this is a huge deal for me. I keep feeling like I am underqualified and will fail the interview but I am trying hard to stay optimistic. [link] [comments]  |
| Imposter syndrome and not being sure how to feel about current job Posted: 05 Apr 2019 09:11 AM PDT I've been an engineer for 5-ish years now - primarily Node and React work. I've always tinkered in my own time and created a few mobile apps, some games, a few backend pieces, some tools, some little CLI apps, and more. I've won some hackdays at a previous company, did well there and learnt an insane amount in the 3.5 years I was there. I moved to another large company and stayed there for about a year doing React Native and I didn't really enjoy it - I felt like I regressed quite a bit as a developer as I wasn't releasing anything as the project kept shifting. Anyway I joined a new company (a start up) as a Senior working on Elixir (and soon to be Elm). The platform is quite small and only gets a few hundred hits a week due to the nature of the company. I moved because I wanted some more backend experience and these guys were very happy to let me learn on the job (and pay me a good salary). Despite what the other devs on the team have said (that I'm getting up to speed very quickly) I feel very slow and that I'm not getting a lot of the experience I wanted and am even falling behind other devs I used to work with. I had a big JS performance background but we're using Elm so I can't really apply a lot of it and the team hate React, I wanted to get hands on experience with some ops work and things like Docker and Kubernetes but we have one big monolith instead of microservices so the team are against it and the entire stack is hosted in one AWS EC2 instance. I can't get distributed systems experience because we don't do that, we don't use message queues, we don't do a lot of the stuff I wanted to get out of this job but I'm getting Postgres experience which I never had access to so that's good? Sorry, this is a mini rant but I'm also not sure how to feel. I wanted to work in something that wasn't Javascript because I enjoyed doing things like Golang and Elixir in my own time but I'm a massive Elixir beginner so I can only really do the basics. I'm also not extremely interested in the language so I find myself not caring to study it in my own time. I couldn't get a Go job because there aren't many Go jobs in London and they all seem to want very specific hardcore backend experience which A) I don't have, B) I'm not likely to get in this role? On the other hand I should field grateful that I'm learning new tech and getting paid well for it - I just feel like I don't belong here and that I'm falling behind my peers as a developer. Might sound petty but I love what I do and I hate feeling like I don't know what I'm doing anymore - I used to be good at my job - or at least I thought I was [link] [comments]  |
| What companies offer good salaries for developers in Canada (specifically in Toronto/Kitchener)? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 05:07 PM PDT What companies in the Kitchener and/or Toronto area offer competitive salaries for software engineers/developers? Also, I assume the same companies would offer competitive salaries for interns/coop students, am I right? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 09:58 AM PDT This is not a question, but I feel I need to put this out there. Barring non-compete clauses in your current contract, if you find it's legally possible for you to start a side-venture (company, consultancy, etc) in order to detach yourself from being an employee, do not bring your boss into it. You may think he can help you get up and running faster because he has more resources. You may think he'll appreciate you are really smart for doing something like this. You may think he'll be happy to increase revenue if your joint-venture works... etc etc etc These are almost always flawed. Your boss is your boss, and he'll very likely see himself as that even if you are working together, as partners. Last month I was asked to co-own a side project by my current boss and another guy in the office. It was a three-way partnership. I was ok with it knowing it was just an opportunity to make extra money, and my boss needed me to code the damn thing. After two brainstorming sessions, it was clear who "the boss" was in his mind in this "joint-venture". Imagine if it was my idea and I had gone to him for support... Bottom line, people will almost always see you under certain lenses, no matter what. It's up to you to see this and understand where your true future lies. Hope this is of any help to any of you guys :) [link] [comments]  |
| Ghosted after signing the offer. Should I just show up like nothing happened? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 03:46 PM PDT Before you tell me "just go apply moar" let me tell you this: It's my first permanent job and I am a self taught developer. It was hard getting it and I can't be dismissing opportunities just like that. I hope you understand. The story Fortune 500 company was looking for a web developer. They've found me through a recruiter agency. I've passed all 5 interviews, including the onsite. Received an offer from F500 and have signed the contract with the abovementioned agency shortly thereafter. 2 days after signing My recruiter called me up and broke out the news that the hiring manager from the F500 company wants to push back the start date by a week. Red flag? Maybe. Maybe not. But again, it's my first permanent job and I can't be picky. Recruiter promised me to contact me and update me on finalized details later. Last business day before the start date He didn't. No calls from him throughout the whole week. I called him on his "personal" cellphone number, no answer. I called the agency and the guy on the phone told me that he's not in the office. I've asked for his manager (she personally met me before the onsite and was a second point of contact with the agency) and he told me she's unavailable too. I called on her "personal" number and there was no answer either. My questions I know that in the end the answer to this is just to continue applying. And you can be sure that that's what I'll do. But I just wanted to see if anybody has ever dealt with this? What did you do? What has caused it? And should I just show up like nothing happened? The contract is signed, the start date and location are known... I think I should just show up at 9am? I am still hoping that nothing bad has happened, and that my lifelong dream will come true very soon, I'll start my developer career and I wouldn't need to go through the stress of the job search again. It's tough for self-taught first-timers out there. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it uncommon to directly message a HR rep on linkedin about a job posting? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 09:19 AM PDT After being on the job search for about 2 months now, I'm starting to reach a point where I have to try a different approach. Most of the time I'm just applying through job postings and I'm getting a 17-20% respond rate. I have around 2 years experience with front end dev and I've been applying to pretty much anything, jr, mid, sr positions, front end, full stack positions as long as I had some experience with their tech stack. My question is, is it uncommon to directly message a HR rep on linkedin about a job posting? Will they just simply tell you to look at their careers page? Have any of you received an interview via direct message to an HR rep? thanks [link] [comments]  |
| How to improve "thinking out loud" during coding test? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 10:34 AM PDT Yesterday, I finished up a codepair and fortunately got an email 15 minutes later saying they wanted me to move to the next round. It was over the phone with a code pair challenge. However, a couple of things I noticed was how much I sucked thinking out loud. I had to take a quick 30 seconds to reread the question over and over and I told him "Sorry, I need a bit of time to write down the question on my notepad". Writing the question down forces me to really think of an idea or draw something out. But it felt awkward and that 30 seconds felt like it was taking forever. When we got to the coding, it was actually pretty well. My code ran, eventually. I saw a couple of minor bugs but when he tried to run it, I said "oh wait, let me fix it" and proceeded to code while it was running; it was running inefficiently and I didn't realize it. So after hashing it out, he kept asking me questions to help me, but it was sorta distracting while I was coding? I think he was trying to help me, but I already knew where I fucked up but wasn't sure how to communicate it. When it finally ran correctly, I said "yaaay!" and he said "yay!" too, and he started laughing. I dunno why I had to say that out loud, but I was actually really stressed out and I laughed out of nervousness. He then ask me what my time complexity was. I actually wasn't sure how to, and I tried to attempt it, but I just kept mumbling some caculations (After the interview, I found out it was Θ(log(n))) I told him that I was a bit rusty after mumbling a crap load of equations that were obviously wrong, but I ended up running out of time to caculate it. How can I improve "thinking out loud"? Obviously there was a bit of miscommunication here. My next round is also again on the phone. [link] [comments]  |
| Colleagues at new job are ignoring me Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:18 AM PDT I have just moved across the country from a graduate software engineering position to a general software engineering role. The primary reasons for moving were an increase in pay and to learn new technologies. I have been placed in a team of 4. 2 of which I am directly working with in a mob programming style of working. Naturally (I think) I have been asking lots of questions (both about the specific system we are working on - which is an existing system; and about the tech they are using - it is java spring, and several DevOps techs, neither of which I am familiar with). At first they guys I were working with were very helpful and were taking the time to explain things to me. This was obviously slowing them down and I was having to ask some quite trivial questions because I had no context about anything that was going on and I was unable to follow what they were doing. I felt quite bad asking so much but I didn't want to just sit there doing nothing. I am coming to the end of my second week here now and it seems that 90% of what I say is being brushed aside. Lots of the time even direct questions are not acknowledged and it feels like I am not even there. For instance, a couple of days ago they were having problems connecting to a server from a spring app. They had been working on the problem for around and hour at the end of the day and were unable to fix it. Based on the error messages, I thought that they were pointing the client to the wrong port. They set the server using a random port somehow but I never saw anywhere in the code where they told the client what this port was. I queried this with them and they were adamant that spring managed this and it was going to the right place. As I do not really know spring and lots of it seems like magic to me, I couldn't really dispute this. That day they left convinced that instead they should rewrite that part of the system in another language instead. I thought about my port idea all night and went in early the next day to try it out myself (they were using my computer the previous day so I had no direct access). Within 5 minutes of getting in, I found the issue and it was exactly what I thought with the ports. I created a short demonstration in the code to prove this and implemented a quick code block to fix it. When I showed them the solution, they still seemed a little uneasy with accepting that the port was the issue but put in a hardcoded value for the port to fix it (rather than my semi-complete code block). It seems a little like they don't have much faith or respect in me and would rather get on with the work on their own now. I am trying my best to use my evenings and weekends to get familiar with the tech. But should I be putting more effort to learn the tech that they are using to lessen my burden on them with my trivial questions? [link] [comments]  |
| How should an Asian male fill out US job applications which ask for race and gender? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 05:03 AM PDT I'm Canadian and recently have been applying to a lot of US internships. What surprised me was how every single one, without fail, asked me my race, gender, and whether I was a veteran. Each question had an option like "decline to answer". My name makes it quite obvious I'm an Asian male, so I may as well choose the right options instead of declining to answer but I also feel like I'm putting myself at a disadvantage right from the start. Any thoughts? I'm not familiar with how this works in the US and whether it's common for companies to take race and gender into account when hiring. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 06:58 AM PDT I am currently finishing up my Senior year in computer science and I've been lucky enough to have a pretty good internship that started this past summer. Originally the internship was more of an IT support role, but I was able to show my supervisor that I could program and I am now working on a project that will eventually affect the entire store chain (roughly 600 stores). That being said , I had a meeting with my supervisor and his boss to discuss job opportunities and they want to offer me a job on the software development team. I am told I will have an official offer letter by the end of next week. Recently I got in contact with another company only a few minutes down the road from my internship that is offering a good starting salary and I would be on a team that is just starting a brand new project that sounds very interesting to me. The recruiter also really sold me on the work environment there being not so corporate unlike my current position. Do I owe it to my internship to stay because they are trying to give me more exciting projects and offering a position that I said I would be more interested in or can I make my decision to change if I wanted to the other company? TLDR: Do I owe it to my internship to stay with the company when they offer me a full time position? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 09:22 AM PDT Company A has outsourced it's development to Company B, which is in another country. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I apply for graduate US/Canada jobs or spend the time applying in Europe (I'm from Europe) Posted: 05 Apr 2019 02:02 PM PDT Hi, I'm from Spain. I wanted to ask you how hard do you think it is for a graduate EU student to get a job in the US or Canada? Has any of you succesfully got a job in North America? If so, could you please share your experience? I guess you might say "hey, you'll never know if you apply". But what I'm trying to decide here if it's worth it or should I spend that time applying to jobs here in Europe instead. Thanks for your time and have a nice day [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 10:20 AM PDT Apologies, I'm not familiar enough to make a fancy looking data chart or diagram. The following is my job hunt experience over a 3 week period. For reference I'm a generalist - primarily back end but with a decent amount of full stack work - and have most of my experience in Java and Python. Depending on technology that the job is using I'd claim 3-6 years experience in most cases. I targeted mid and senior level roles as I see myself kind of in the void between the two. I made this post a few weeks ago before I started looking and thank you all for your advice that commented there. When pressed I would give my goal range as 95-105k and privately was ready to accept at 85k if the company checked all of my needs boxes. End result of my search is an offer above my band with flex hours and regular WFH days.
Several of the on-sites did whiteboarding of one form or another. There was actual whiteboarding, writing code on paper (one of the ones I declined to continue with), whiteboarding on a smart board, and being given a laptop with some IDE's and told to pick my favorite and perform a couple of word problem style coding tests. None of this was super heavy DS&A questions, for the most part they were things if you had a degree and a logical mind you could puzzle out in place without memorizing algorithms. I'll put some of the specifics below. Questions I recall in no particular order:
Hope this was insightful or at the very least interesting to some of you. If you have any questions that I left out let me know. I tracked a lot of random info at least partially through the process in case it became interesting. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 10:54 AM PDT Hi guys! I saw some people posting questions here so I thought I'd post one too. I appreciate anyone taking the time to help:) So as the title says-I have a BA in psychology and I'm soon starting my MS in CS. I want to be prepared when for when I have to start applying for internships/ jobs. What kind of positions I'd have available for me? Any advise for landing a job as a programmer with a psychology background? I'm very passionate about understanding people and behaviors and yet I'm a big time introvert so I'd like to work behind the scenes, making programs more efficient and also understanding how to impact people though technology. Anything in that sort of line? Thank you everyone and hope you're having a great weekend! [link] [comments]  |
| Can I get a TN visa for programming when my degree is in chemical engineering? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 05:41 PM PDT I graduated with a chemical engineering degree almost 5 years ago, but somehow started programming a couple of years ago. The pay at my current job is alright, but I've heard that I could get almost double that if I move to the US. Would I even be able to get a work permit though, since my degree doesn't match? Or would I be better off doing a Master's in software engineering or something before trying to move? [link] [comments]  |
| Currently interning. What rate do I ask for at my full time offer? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 04:46 AM PDT I'm 21. Bachelors comp Sci. Interning, first it job ever. Being paid 20hr hourly. Fairly certain I'm going to get an offer in five weeks to become a full time employee. I'm in Detroit greater area. Cost of living is average I think. Haven't heard a number. The job : I would of optimally been a senior engineer when they hired me. They couldn't find anyone. So they're training me, and in four months the only DotNet (visual basic..) programmer is retiring. Ill be alone basically to support twenty plus years of an older code base. Lowest one percent for a software developer in Detroit is 55-60k. Am I only worth this much currently? I get this company probably would pay more but I don't want to burn bridges, I love the company for many reasons. Thoughts? Thank you very much. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it possible to get a job without a degree? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:23 PM PDT Hello Reddit Coders. I'm looking for advice and answers to my questions. Here's some background on me… I'm 30 years old and I'm very computer/tech savvy, I've always loved computers and learning how things work. I built my first computer back in 2004 and fell in love with overclocking and computers/tech in general. In 2005-2006 back in High School I took a HTML Programming course and learned HTML code. I remember loving this course and being very good at it. I ended up finishing the program way ahead of my other classmates and was able to tackle other projects and learn more types of programming. Years went by, I attended college for an unrelated degree I don't even use, and I'm in Sales/Customer Service. I moved up the chain internally and now have a role as a business analyst. The pay isn't awful but it's probably not much more than starting salary for a Junior Developer. I've been doing coding on websites like CodeCademy and FreeCodeCamp. I enjoy this stuff. Finally "getting it" and seeing my code in action is very satisfying for me. Which website is better? I spend like 80% of my work day doing nothing but browsing Reddit and wasting time because this job is so damn easy for my skillset (not to brag, but I know Microsoft Excel like the back of my hand and this job isn't challenging enough for me)...so after awhile I thought to myself, why not learn code and find a new career on the side? I do work full time and can't afford to go back to school for a 4 year degree, both time and money I don't have. I'm wondering if I work on building my portfolio, would it be possible to land a Junior Dev job within 1-2 years of being self-taught? How far along do I have to be? What do you suggest learning first? I heard JavaScript should be the first thing I learn, then HTML and C++. I also hear Python is what I should focus on, or Ruby. I'm looking for guidance and I don't want to waste learning time on one type of code when I should be learning something else to land a job. Last question- What laptop do you suggest for code? I have a custom built gaming PC that's very powerful and can do anything, but some people are telling me I may want to invest in a Mac for programming since I may want to learn iOS. Thanks for any advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Apr 2019 07:23 AM PDT My boss has told me and my team for the Nth time that he wants us to improve and dedicate time to learning new things and improve the quality of our work. However, we never have time to do it. He keeps bringing on projects, assignments, tasks, etc. We manage to do everything without getting overworked, but there's definitely no extra time available for learning, but he keeps insisting that our products are getting repetitive. Two members of our team are making good progress actually, and he used them as an example of people who are improving. The problem is, these two are learning things by doing unpaid learning sessions outside working hours, and that's how they are getting an edge over us... This is not fair. I don't want to sacrifice my personal life just to compensate for my manager's bad management skills... how can I deal with this?? [link] [comments]  |
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