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It's more of a bad sign for the senior developers who will now be tasked by management to watch the juniors even more closely during their probationary periods
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Passing a coding interview is pretty different from doing the job, even at a junior level.
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oliveoil posted:Funnily enough, I no longer have to: You seem to have this weird focus on the trappings of software engineering without any idea of how building software actually works.
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Gee, I wonder what part of "being good at coding competitions" makes one good at passing interviews. Is it the intuitive understanding of code needed to quickly translate a problem into correct code? Is it the ability to remain focused under time pressure? Is it the fact that they've repeatedly practiced solving this form of problem quickly? No, it must be the code artifact they produced that makes them so good. Anyone able to produce a similar code artifact quickly, even if it's just by copying a Discord message someone else sent them, will also be just as successful in passing an interview. For a clown job, at the circus.
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Looking for advice on a career transition into a data analyst / business intelligence position. Not sure where to start and looking for resources on what's required - I know on a technical level these jobs rely heavily on SQL and (maybe?) some knowledge of scripting languages (python). Any advice appreciated!
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if you're starting from nothing, a coursera course or similar is likely to be your best bet. you're probably rich enough to just hire a private tutor, though. i wish you success but don't give up on acting!
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What are you transitioning from, if you don't mind? I only ask because I'm a semantic rear end in a top hat and there's two sides to business intelligence - the 'intelligence' part which I usually call the SQL/Python/R/DAX side of things, and the 'business' part of how businesses actually operate, make/spend money, etc. If you're transitioning from anything even mildly business related then you can leverage that really hard, agreeing with Achmed Jones on the acting part. General courses on SQL, python/R, and a reporting tool like Power BI or Tableau would be a good idea to start with. Not sure what your timeline is but start with the free stuff if you can.
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It's not for myself, asking for a friend - they're coming from a completely non technical position (office admin stuff).
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6 month-long hiring loop. Many rescheduled remote onsites and recruiter swaps due to hiring freezes, only for them to go with another candidate in the end
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trying to find a remote midlevel frontend (react) position for a friend in latam. it's been shockingly difficult for them - openings dried up overnight and the few that remain not only have extreme levels of competition (think 500-1000 applicants per posting) and are almost exclusively senior level. it sucks. pretty bad time to be job hunting
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i used to get like 2-3 recruiter spam/day inbound, half midlevel and half senior, and now it's turned into 1-2 recruiter spam/day, every single one senior. Junior stuff evidently dried up a few months ago and it looks like midlevel stuff dried up, at least for inbound stuff for me. I guess in a few months senior stuff will dry up too, although the tc levels they say up front seems to be holding - keynes wuz right i guess
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marumaru posted:trying to find a remote midlevel frontend (react) position for a friend in latam. it's been shockingly difficult for them - openings dried up overnight and the few that remain not only have extreme levels of competition (think 500-1000 applicants per posting) and are almost exclusively senior level. I have a friend in LATAM working for a Canadian consultancy getting paid in USD. I can make an intro if you DM me a LinkedIn profile. The clients are American and Canadian so his English would have to be good.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i used to get like 2-3 recruiter spam/day inbound, half midlevel and half senior, and now it's turned into 1-2 recruiter spam/day, every single one senior. Junior stuff evidently dried up a few months ago and it looks like midlevel stuff dried up, at least for inbound stuff for me. I guess in a few months senior stuff will dry up too, although the tc levels they say up front seems to be holding - keynes wuz right i guess Yep, as a mid (5-6 years) I atleast used to be guaranteed an interview when I try for a relevant assignment, but now there's like 70 people applying and the gig goes to someone with 15 years of experience. Not seen a junior gig in over 6 months.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i used to get like 2-3 recruiter spam/day inbound, half midlevel and half senior, and now it's turned into 1-2 recruiter spam/day, every single one senior. Junior stuff evidently dried up a few months ago and it looks like midlevel stuff dried up, at least for inbound stuff for me. I guess in a few months senior stuff will dry up too, although the tc levels they say up front seems to be holding - keynes wuz right i guess Oddly my inbound recruiter spam volume jumped up a bit recently. I think probably due to my employer being one of the ones that have done layoffs
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I want to say for the record that I watched mkbhd's tesla video and self driving is currently dogshit and thread was right and I'm dumb thank you <3
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My linkedIn and email spam is slightly down, but it often is this time of the year. Speaking for my own company, we have projects we ARE going to do, but the markets have made getting a budget in writing more difficult, so things are on hold until the financial new year. I wouldn't be surprised if this is true for a lot of other companies too. I think there is a downturn, but its not quite as bad as it first appears.awesomeolion posted:I want to say for the record that I watched mkbhd's tesla video and self driving is currently dogshit and thread was right and I'm dumb thank you <3 So I don't watch MKBHDs stuff usually. I don't care about phones and that is his bread and butter. and him historically being an Elon fan boy put me off too. But watching his commute was interesting, he looks terrified almost the entire time, like a Dad taking his kid out to drive for the first time ever. I've said it before, if tesla had just sold 'auto pilot' as a driver lane assist for use on high/motorways, like every other car company has, it would have dodged so much criticism. They could even claim "we have the best lane assist in the industry!" but sadly they have a child as a CEO and he has to embellish everything. AI Addict is a decent channel to follow if you want FSD demo videos. He does lots of videos in San Jose which has trams and bollards which the tesla struggles with and has time stamps in the description of all notable events. He was a tesla employee but they fired him for posting FSD videos. His most famous videos is probably this one where it turns into a bollard and crashes, despite it making that turn fine across multiple other videos and FSD versions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSDsbDQjSU In that one video it also thinks a wells fargo sign is a stop sign, it runs a red light and also tries to ram some bollards two more times. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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I don't know what to think about this switch to senior positions or whatever because they all demand lots of very specific skills and experience that nobody has.
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interviewing is just sales. you wouldn't look at a request for proposal and actually believe anything thats written on there, right? (and you wouldn't gauge your chances of winning an rfp seriously if you didn't get that rfp written in the first place, right?) just start cosplaying a salespeep in your mind
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I don't know what to think about this switch to senior positions or whatever because they all demand lots of very specific skills and experience that nobody has. Most senior jobs don't actually demand anywhere close to what they list on the posting. Yeah sometimes algorithms will gently caress you over; I recommend putting a bunch of keywords on an "other skills" kind of section at the end of the resume for the robots to read, just tell something approaching the truth if a human asks you about a specific one. But I can also tell you that I've had better experiences with recruiters as a senior candidate than I did as a junior.
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Che Delilas posted:Most senior jobs don't actually demand anywhere close to what they list on the posting. Yeah sometimes algorithms will gently caress you over; I recommend putting a bunch of keywords on an "other skills" kind of section at the end of the resume for the robots to read, just tell something approaching the truth if a human asks you about a specific one. But I can also tell you that I've had better experiences with recruiters as a senior candidate than I did as a junior. OTOH, some senior jobs are definitely "Baby come back, I know we can make things work out"
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Hi programming friends, a question from someone kind of new to the SW world - 6 months ago I jumped from a proj. mgr. role on Defense products to a Tech. Prog. Mgr. for Device SW at a Consumer-facing “Tech” company. My portfolio is all MCU driven stuff (running bare metal or an RTOS). I can see the belt tightening, so I’m thinking about options if I’m laid off in ‘23 or if the company spirals. My fear is that I’m blocked out of more secure/higher paying TPM jobs since I’m not getting any exposure to SoCs/Android/higher level stack stuff. Is that a reasonable concern? Is there a meaningful delineation between those skill sets/roles in the Commercial world? My hope is that as a TPM my core skills are the same and the lack of domain knowledge wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but I’m still trying to understand the ins and outs of the Tech industry.
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Crazyweasel posted:Hi programming friends, a question from someone kind of new to the SW world - 6 months ago I jumped from a proj. mgr. role on Defense products to a Tech. Prog. Mgr. for Device SW at a Consumer-facing “Tech” company. My portfolio is all MCU driven stuff (running bare metal or an RTOS). there's a kind of TPM job where they'll put you through domain-specific technical wringers all the time (or they expect you to code half-time competently or something like that - dont do this lol) and there's a kind of TPM job where it's exactly the same as the nontechnical PM job in every way shape and form except you have a different set of buzzwords sometimes. if you're feeling up to the wringers, then go for a TPM role in another place sometime in a reasonable time (reasonable time is 18-36 months in techland, which is a fuckton shorter than defense-land). otherwise, just go for a PM role in another place. often there is a bigger difference between project and product management ("it's like non-mission command and mission command" - but I've heard both of them put forth as the mission command-equivalent one lol) basically, there's no overall standard for this poo poo, even the putative standards aren't really standards, and you have to be able to smell out dog-poo poo companies and companies you aren't suitable for yourself. peeps are never really blocked from a job title, they are very often blocked out from a job title at a specific place where it actually means a specific thing there's also a better thread for this, a product/project management thread somewhere in bfc, i think. or general corporate thread bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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I don't think there's a specific product management thread, but there is a general career path thread that might be a better place to ask. We're pretty specialized here.
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Is there a good primer for aws, as far as what's expected for interviews that say they want in those skills? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ is a lot of information
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Feral Integral posted:Is there a good primer for aws, as far as what's expected for interviews that say they want in those skills? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ is a lot of information Pretty much everyone with something to say on this will have more cloud experience than me. I've been learning by doing, and what I've learned is that there's an absolute shitload of separate services, each of which do wildly different things, so your question is a bit like asking if there's a primer on Python Libraries. The main connective tissue is IAM, which sets up permissions for users and services. It might be good for you to try doing a basic project on your own, like setting up a database in DynamoDB (or whatever), and a local script so you can read/write to it, and then make it more complicated by having a Lambda function that automatically adds a timestamp when a database element has been changed (this will probably involve IAM as well, but I haven't thought it all through). By that point you'll have your feet under you and you can start either looking into more relevant services, or play around with stuff like Terraform or other deployment tools, which is how organizations actually manage their cloud systems.
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given that, there is still a radical inequality between aws services and their usages. the actual histogram is proprietary to aws, i think, but it has to be the case that ec2, s3, iam stuff, sqs, ebs, cloudfront, elb, rds, cloudwatch, sns, route53, ses, redshift, cloudformation are pretty dominant and quantum compute, omics, satellites, private 5g, panorama, stuff like that is rare and idiosyncratic
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this third-party thing says that lambdas, kinesis, glacier, beanstalk, dynamodb, sagemaker and lightsail are up there too, which makes sense to me https://allcode.com/top-aws-services/ the acronym and name spam does suck, i recommend spaced repetition flashcards like anki (note that there are so fuckin many of these things acronyms collide: ebs is blockstore and beanstalk lol) bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Dec 21, 2022 |
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the acronym and name spam does suck, i recommend spaced repetition flashcards like anki Man I thought GCP's names were unpleasant with everything seemingly having "Cloud" in its name but at least they're somewhat descriptive so you know roughly what domain of problems each tool falls under. What the gently caress is a beanstalk lightsail?
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oliveoil posted:Man I thought GCP's names were unpleasant with everything seemingly having "Cloud" in its name but at least they're somewhat descriptive so you know roughly what domain of problems each tool falls under. when you're hosed from an outage of one or by a poor implementation of one, or if you do a project using one for everything its got, you'll remember the name i learned those names that way, but it sorta took 8 years
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oliveoil posted:Man I thought GCP's names were unpleasant with everything seemingly having "Cloud" in its name but at least they're somewhat descriptive so you know roughly what domain of problems each tool falls under. Get a cloud practitioner cert and Amazon will let you sell their tech stack to your boss. That won't help with understanding what it's for, because you'll still just repeat words in similar to appropriate context without understanding. But it will help you grift your way through a few more years of employment.
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My understanding of AWS is within a rounding error of zero, so I refer to this website frequently. https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
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I work mainly with PHP/Laravel and I do enjoy working on it. But I kinda want to diversify and earn more money. Should I learn Go or Python? Have a tiny bit of Python experience writing some AWS Lambda scripts. Earlier in my career was Java, still have a strong foundation there. I do see purely PHP postings sometimes that are in the mid to high 100's in comp for senior but there are def less of them.
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I found Go to be an easy transition from PHP, but it depends on your PHP habits. If you're using Composer, programming to interfaces, and using static types, you'll feel very much at home.
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I much prefer Python over Go for most of my tools. I find Go useful for writing statically-linked self-contained cross-platform binaries. But Python is what I reach for when I need a quick and/or dirty throwaway / prototype. If you're doing system programming, maybe choose Go. Anything else, including webdev, I'd go for Python.
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Based on pure popularity alone, Javascript/Typescript is very valuable. Typescript makes using Javascript suck a lot less especially for long-running/large-scale projects. But it's still Javascript at the end of the day with all the warts and bruises that entails. Similarly, Java is hugely popular and lucrative. It's what most of "big tech" run on, as well as tons of small-medium companies -- as well as old dinosaurs but they're stuck in legacy hell. Modern Java is quite nice compared to the old Java 6 EE days, but still carries baggage. Can still be verbose but the JVM is dead nuts reliable and static typing etc make maintenance and refactoring support so much better than any dynamic language and the flavor of the day isn't changing every few months. I personally don't love Python all that much, but it is obviously popular too. I tend to see it a lot more in data analytics/ML and system scripting stuff than production web apps. If I were writing a new web backend for a non-startup company I would not choose Python, but plenty of people do. For me, quick & dirty I'd reach for TS+node, for real making money prod-ready web stuff I'd reach for the latest Java with spring boot (or maybe Kotlin if chasing trends). But I've been Java-pilled ($$$) so ymmv. If you told me five years ago I'd be bullish on Java/JVM langs I'd have laughed at you but here we are. Guinness fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 4, 2023 |
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Comb Your Beard posted:I work mainly with PHP/Laravel and I do enjoy working on it. But I kinda want to diversify and earn more money. Should I learn Go or Python? Have a tiny bit of Python experience writing some AWS Lambda scripts. Earlier in my career was Java, still have a strong foundation there. the idea of learning a language just because is foreign to me these days, i wouldnt learn either until you have a job or project for which it'd be a good fit for juniors, sure, learn a little about different programming paradigms or whatever, get more experience, blah blah blah. but you already have experience with plangs and normal languages, neither go nor python is going to teach you anything that meaningful other than the idiosyncrasies of the particular languages in question. youre probably not going to self-study-for-funsies your way to professional competency in either of them unless you're doing a meaningful project in them (in which case you have a 'job or project...' and the above advice holds true)
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Achmed Jones posted:the idea of learning a language just because is foreign to me these days, i wouldnt learn either until you have a job or project for which it'd be a good fit Yes that's probably the most realistic answer, thanks! Good food for thought. This thread helped me change jobs Sept 2021, I'm contemplating looking again, but things aren't that bad. One thing I do miss about Java was the nice debugging. Comb Your Beard fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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Comb Your Beard posted:Yes that's probably the most realistic answer, thanks! Good food for thought. This thread helped me change jobs Sept 2021, I'm contemplating looking again, but things aren't that bad. Always be looking. But say no a lot.
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