Colbear posted:

Standish posted:

have answers ready for all the usual bullshit questions that they love in HR, like "what is your greatest weakness" or or "where do you see yourself in 5 years time" or "tell me about a time you worked as part of a team" or "tell me about a problem you had in work and how you solved it" or "how would you resolve an interpersonal problem with another team member?".

Also think of some good questions for you to ask them -- personal development & training, career progression, that sort of thing.

ancient lobster posted:

Thanks, I did that. If I come off as a jerk to the dude, well, every interview is experience..

Standish posted:

You don't ask for a raise, you ask for a "performance review".

Sab669 posted:

So, earlier this week I posted about having a phone interview for an internship. Just got that call. It went alright.

-Asked me how databases work (ie. A database is made of tables, is made of columns, which has rows of data in it, thought that was a strange question)
-Difference from an object and a class
-How much I knew about HTTP. I thought this was a pretty vague question and didn't know how to answer it with anything other than what it stands for.

They want me full time for three months- unpaid though. A friend of mine (lives in a different state) said it's not legal for companies to have you full time and unpaid as a student, unless it's for credit hours with the college. Either way, I'm gunna talk to my student advisor to see if I could work that out, and then my parents to see if they might be able to help me out for three months.

Scheduled a follow-up interview this coming Wednesday, they said it's a "small office, don't need to dress up" but I've heard people saying that that can be a trap. I figure I'll just wear some nice work pants / button up shirt. No tie or coat or anything too fancy. Meet 'em half way?

I'm really not sure how I feel about all this

ShinAli posted:

Just graduated a while back (something cum laude or other). Recently a job came up that I was excited for in a nearby non-profit. I've sent an application two weeks ago and didn't hear anything from them. Should I just call up their HR department and see if I am still being considered?

Cicero posted:

If they have you "write out the code by hand," wouldn't you just type it up in a text editor?

Oisin posted:

How long should I stay at my current programming job so it doesn't raise a red flag on my resume? 6 months? A year?

Safe and Secure! posted:

Alrighty. I've been reusing chunks of very similar setup code in each test, with the actual testing being quite small, on the order of three or four lines. I guess that makes my tests lovely and non-maintainable in addition to being too long, so I'll refactor them somehow. Thanks, everyone.

Sab669 posted:

Yea, I've just always kind of imagined unless you have a 4.0 they won't even consider you. My GPA is an abysmal 2.7 or something like that because I gently caress off and don't put the effort into school outside of the classroom

baquerd posted:

I would note the game of life problem is a great opportunity to show dynamic programming skills.

KidDynamite posted:

This is what I did. I made a class.

unixbeard posted:

Those lines in contracts are jokes and you should draw a big fat line through them before signing.

Safe and Secure! posted:

Currently doing a non-development internship for $10/hr at a place 60-80 minutes from my home at 20 hrs/wk. I estimate that I spend an extra $40/wk due to the extra driving. I do QA work here, though it's with a scrum team that seems to have its act together. In January I'll have a different class schedule and only be able to work here 16 hours per week.

My friend just told me that he's looking for a replacement for the position he has, since they only give him 5-20 hrs/wk, though it's usually much closer to 5. They pay $25/hr (though I'm like 99% sure it's contract work) and it's actually development work rather than QA. It's a work-from-home job, so no implication of teamwork or social skills for my resume.

Normally, I would just take it and work both jobs, but I naively signed a work-for-hire/assignment contract with my current employer.

Anyway, is there any tactful way I can ask my boss about the possibility of getting permission, from whomever is has that authority, to pursue work on the side here?

If not, then would it look bad on my resume to quit an internship after three months to go for another part-time job? Would it look better on my resume just because I could sell it as "real" work (meaning not an internship) and because it would be actual development work? I'm thinking, next semester I'll suddenly be getting $160/wk here and be spending ~$30/wk, so next semester I'll be getting $130/wk before taxes for 16 hours of work, plus I share a vehicle with someone else, so even if I only work 8 hours in a day, my entire day is consumed because I wake up around 6am to get ready and get home around 8-9pm.

If I can get this other job, then next semester I'd be getting $125/wk before taxes, without the crazy driving, and I could direct the extra time toward working on my own projects so that I can get a decent job at some point. Most importantly, it would be another bullet on my resume, which only says that I did some research assistant work for a professor for six months and this internship for three months.

seiken posted:

Hey, I work at Google, and I know for a fact recruiters definitely do find people by looking on github so this is probably real enough.

Ithaqua posted:

You shouldn't comment out code for posterity. That's exactly what source control is for. If it's dead code, remove it.

Pweller posted:

The whole dev industry is pretty messed up in terms of an employee's career development and experience. Once you've got your foot in the door, a junior developer could be someone with <2 years of on the job experience. Regular developer maybe someone with > 6 months experience, senior developer could be someone with > 2 years experience. That is hosed up. Smooth operators can get much, much further than they should and faster. This can be a good or bad thing for you and me depending how you look at it.

If you go into an interview and are confident with the tech they use, and are someone people would want to be around for long periods of time, you should be able to land a job you'll be happy in after a given number of attempts. I'd argue that job titles in this field are a very poor indicator of anything. If an opening says they want a "Senior Developer", it just means they want the type of person that can reliably field questions with authority from 'junior developers'. You can get there by focusing deliberately on something over only a month or two in many cases (edit: presuming you have experience in the 'business' and design of software development already).

Mystery Machine posted:

So, I've been having a lot of fun designing a website for someone. I've been using jQuery, which I just taught myself, to do it, and I've made it so that, using some simple scripts, she only needs to upload pictures correctly to her hosting, and the script does everything else for her (details aren't too important).

Anyway, I've found this kind of programming pretty fun. I'm still a student, but I was wondering, what kinds of jobs are out there that involve web scripting? I have a friend who told me it was a pretty dumb idea to want to get into stuff like this. Is that true? I'd love to keep learning more of this stuff, but I want to make sure I'm not learning a skill that could be easily exported out of country, or something.