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Siliziumleben posted:What is a "normal" amount of applications to be sending out per week when looking for an entry level job in software? As many as you can manage at companies you might remotely want to work for, while still keeping the quality of your applications high and reasonably targeted.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:24
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Siliziumleben posted:As a followup to my own question, am I right in assuming that I have a snowball's chance in hell at landing a job in the US while still living in Germany even if I explicitly state on my applications that I am eager and able to relocate? And you don't have to elaborate on it, just put "U.S. citizen" somewhere reasonably prominent and you're done. Most folks will think you probably just went to school in Germany and that's fine. If you want to state more about your background you can put it towards the end of a cover letter. If folks make it that far through your cover letter, they're probably not going to toss it just because you live in Germany. In general, Germans aren't spamming job applications for "must be willing to relocate, must be US work eligible" job postings the way that other nationals (e.g., Indians) do, so I wouldn't worry about accidentally being filtered.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:25
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Tech is already a fairly internationalized industry so any companies that toss your resume without further consideration are probably places you don't want to work for anyways.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:43
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csammis posted:Just don't put "Proud White US Citizen" on your resume in a red-white-and-blue block next to your name. 
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Sep 14, 2015 19:54
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Siliziumleben posted:Should I show up dressed like this for the interview? Yes, except put on blackface as well and if they ask any questions or raise their eyebrows tell them you're cosplaying as Apollo Creed
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Sep 14, 2015 20:03
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Siliziumleben posted:I'll just put both. "US citizen - can legally live and work in the US." The only places you'd need to worry about it is at smaller places that can't afford to fly you out and want onsite interviews. Otherwise no one will care.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:16
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Say in your cover letter that you're already planning to move back to the US, so it's more like you're actively looking for US work not just seeing what's available.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:50
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Strong chance i'm getting laid off at the end of the month. I want to break out of C#/WPF desktop work and get into web development, which means realistically I should be heading towards ASP.NET. Does anyone have any idea what I can do for the next 2-3 weeks to put together a portfolio piece (or pieces) to show off that I can work with this stack?
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Sep 14, 2015 21:22
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authwiggidywack posted:Strong chance i'm getting laid off at the end of the month. I wouldn't focus too much on ASP.NET. While you may end up doing server side REST services in it, there is a big push towards SPA frameworks like AngularJS and React. I would take a look at them, and give Typescript a look as well, it's like C# for browsers (is designed & developed by Anders Hejlsberg, designer of C#).
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Sep 14, 2015 21:53
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Thanks for the tips, Skandranon. Fill try and focus on more of the front end stuff. Once I get into the backend (C# its all cake from there.
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Sep 14, 2015 22:49
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In ASP MVC even the views can look a hell of a lot like C#, so you're probably more ready than you realize.
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Sep 14, 2015 22:53
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Munkeymon posted:In ASP MVC even the views can look a hell of a lot like C#, so you're probably more ready than you realize. I'm trying to think of a few small things i can put together on github to show this, anyone have any ideas?
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Sep 14, 2015 22:59
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Make an Orchard plugin. Even if it's babys first string mangler the fact that you can show you can work with Orchard+Angular/React/Knockout/Fabric(?!) is going to get you past a lot of resume buzzword filters.
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Sep 14, 2015 23:10
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How much money should I ask for a job which will involved keeping a broke rear end webforms application, not done in-house, running until eventually the client kicks it to the curb and makes a new one? What interests me on the job is moving abroad, but when even the manager tells you it will be frustrating upfront, it makes me reconsider. Not to mention, freakin webforms, really?
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Sep 15, 2015 15:23
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Honest Thief posted:How much money should I ask for a job which will involved keeping a broke rear end webforms application, not done in-house, running until eventually the client kicks it to the curb and makes a new one? How was this communicated? I recently took a job as a mobile developer for a very large bank. My manager told me "you will run into things that will frustrate you from time to time. We are working on fixing this. If you run into something that frustrates you, tell me asap and we will fix it." And so far, that has been exactly the case, he's been a pro at getting poo poo knocked out of the way. Or did he basically say "this job will be supremely frustrating and I just know you'll put up with it long enough that you don't owe me any relo money."
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Sep 15, 2015 15:39
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pr0zac posted:I mean, if your job would pay for you to get a masters yes its probably worth doing it. Yeah with all the help I can get I'm definitely applying. Just a bit worried after the MS it will be more difficult to get software engineering jobs outside of the health industry because that will be my only experience.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:46
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KidDynamite posted:Yeah with all the help I can get I'm definitely applying. Just a bit worried after the MS it will be more difficult to get software engineering jobs outside of the health industry because that will be my only experience. Its only two years and you're still programming. I wouldn't worry about it.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:51
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Siliziumleben posted:Should I show up dressed like this for the interview? I never got to find out because this guy didn't get past the phone interview stage, which we had to conduct twice because he slept through the first appointment. We asked HR not to schedule a phone interview at all because we weren't going to hire anyway based on his resume but that got us an accusation of "reverse racism." That was an awesome conversation.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:15
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Honest Thief posted:How much money should I ask for a job which will involved keeping a broke rear end webforms application, not done in-house, running until eventually the client kicks it to the curb and makes a new one? I'd have to be in some desperate times to take a job specifically maintaining an already broken webforms application. Some things aren't worth knowing.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:20
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csammis posted:I never got to find out because this guy didn't get past the phone interview stage, which we had to conduct twice because he slept through the first appointment. We asked HR not to schedule a phone interview at all because we weren't going to hire anyway based on his resume but that got us an accusation of "reverse racism." That was an awesome conversation. I'm going to choose to interpret this as HR saying it would be 'reverse racism' not to interview the guy.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:20
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kitten smoothie posted:How was this communicated? I recently took a job as a mobile developer for a very large bank. My manager told me "you will run into things that will frustrate you from time to time. We are working on fixing this. If you run into something that frustrates you, tell me asap and we will fix it." And so far, that has been exactly the case, he's been a pro at getting poo poo knocked out of the way. More like, "I know developers want to develop from scratch but this job, for the meantime, can't give you a date yet, will be to keep this application alive". He literally said the application was trash, but it's too big to fail right now, and of course the client wants new features added in. Skandranon posted:I'd have to be in some desperate times to take a job specifically maintaining an already broken webforms application. Some things aren't worth knowing. Honest Thief fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 17:48
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csammis posted:I never got to find out because this guy didn't get past the phone interview stage, which we had to conduct twice because he slept through the first appointment. We asked HR not to schedule a phone interview at all because we weren't going to hire anyway based on his resume but that got us an accusation of "reverse racism." That was an awesome conversation. Well, you wouldn't want to be the black man in the alley.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:34
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sarehu posted:Well, you wouldn't want to be the black man in the alley. Isn't there a D&D thread you can poo poo up?
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Sep 15, 2015 19:51
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Serious question: If the guy interviewing you lists Something Awful on his Linked In page, and you realize that he's a goon Do you ask him during the interview if he has stairs in his house?   
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Sep 16, 2015 04:48
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If he lists SA on his linkedin page he's probably radium and you'll dodge a bullet by not interviewing him
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Sep 16, 2015 04:50
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I don't think Goon is a protected group, so you are free to discriminate against him on those grounds.
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Sep 16, 2015 04:57
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Hadlock posted:If the guy interviewing you lists Something Awful on his Linked In page
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Sep 16, 2015 05:59
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Hadlock posted:Serious question: Wouldn't this make it clear that you stalked him on LinkedIn?
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Sep 16, 2015 11:34
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Safe and Secure! posted:Wouldn't this make it clear that you stalked him on LinkedIn? I thought the whole point of LinkedIn was you expect people to look you up there when applying for a job.
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Sep 16, 2015 15:51
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Skandranon posted:I thought the whole point of LinkedIn was you expect people to look you up there when applying for a job. The point is also for people I've only ever peripherally worked with 8 years ago to suddenly endorse me for a technology I'm barely competent with and have never actually demonstrated to them that I have any competency with whatsoever. 
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Sep 16, 2015 16:14
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No Safe Word posted:The point is also for people I've only ever peripherally worked with 8 years ago to suddenly endorse me for a technology I'm barely competent with and have never actually demonstrated to them that I have any competency with whatsoever. Ah yes yes, I believe I will endorse this colleague in XML, he has seen it once or twice after all.
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Sep 16, 2015 16:22
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No Safe Word posted:The point is also for people I've only ever peripherally worked with 8 years ago to suddenly endorse me for a technology I'm barely competent with and have never actually demonstrated to them that I have any competency with whatsoever. Also they're from Sales and wouldn't know JavaScript from a coffee-soaked book. Thanks, LinkedIn!
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Sep 16, 2015 16:38
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My favorite is that you can endorse people on LinkedIn for things like "murder" and "arson." I imagine it's for attorneys who defend people from such charges, but it still makes the whole thing look especially designed for drive-by prank endorsements.
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Sep 16, 2015 17:13
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A friend of mine has a bunch of endorsements for time travel and flying
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Sep 16, 2015 18:34
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Is there a good way to get a feel for the strength of a market besides indeed's count-of-jobs-with-keyword or Robert Half's salary guide by zipcode or metro area?
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Sep 16, 2015 18:49
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pr0zac posted:Its only two years and you're still programming. I wouldn't worry about it. That's the thing about this job(at least currently) I feel like I'm not learning as much as someone in a junior role would be. There is no one reviewing my code to tell me hey dummy this isn't a good practice or just you know help. My manager just has touchpoints with me to see that the app is working. I feel like I'm progressing a lot slower than someone who is at a pure dev shop. Things may change though because my current manager is leaving next week, but I am not hopeful at all, and actually scared because most of my peers are not doing much, if any, coding at all. At least I had that going with this current manager. As a more general question to the thread there are a poo poo ton of acronyms at my current job that have no bearing on my actual code should I ever bother learning them?
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Sep 17, 2015 05:10
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Space Whale posted:Is there a good way to get a feel for the strength of a market besides indeed's count-of-jobs-with-keyword or Robert Half's salary guide by zipcode or metro area? I just found out a few weeks ago that the dept of labor publishes statistics on all sorts of professions and allows you to read individual reports based on a single metropolitan area. Their numbers are pulled from actual company reporting as well so they're pretty accurate. http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm
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Sep 17, 2015 17:07
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Had an interesting interview with a small consulting company, they seem pretty chill and cool, 5* on Glassdoor (granted only 4 reviews so who knows), they threw out a pay # which was slightly above average (Seattle); but a couple things made me raise my eyebrow.
They do pay for insurance and 401k vests immediately so  Not sure I want to do consulting work but maybe it would get me good exposure to different technologies since I apparently can't be arsed to do projects outside of work.
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Sep 17, 2015 19:44
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I just got a job at Google, yay! I'd like to thank  now.That said, I'm obliged to tell you that by virtue of more money == better than, I'm now highly qualified to be a pedantic rear end in a top hat telling students and job seekers what they're doing wrong. Also I've come to the conclusion that taxes are literally Satan's work, stop the Congress created dust bowl.
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Sep 17, 2015 20:00
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I've got over a year of web dev internships under my belt, with some good AngularJS/frontend experience, some experience with various PHP frameworks, some nodeJS and a lot of other random tools and experience (I'm good with Git/Unix CLI, tools such as grunt/gulp/sass etc.) My deal is I want to go into a (probably more frontend-oriented) web dev job, but I want to have exposure to at least some other areas of interest: * machine learning * natural language processing * large-scale nodejs systems * strong UX emphasis environment Out of those, I'm guessing the UX/NodeJS interests would be the easiest to gain exposure to in a web dev job. Anyone have any tips or advice on getting a job with these attributes? Also, any general tips on getting out of the city you're in (relocating) fresh out of college would be awesome as well.
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