And this is the only top level reply. Interesting.
How would you describe it? Our work cycle is dominated by context switching between clients and billable hours. Very often we don't get enough billable hours to resolve technical debt. With this billing model keeping clients in a good mood becomes more important than doing what's best for them, and the former is difficult to quantify.I try to answer these questions so I can better update my...
In Chicago I find they're still sparse, still nowhere near the level they used to be since the lockdowns threw everything off.
Or rather, how close was it like Silicon Valley to be working in tech in the UK during that time? For their time, lot of name brand products in computing came from the UK, and even though the market today is not very lucrative, the nation still left a legacy to the computing industry as a whole. So when this sort of activity was in great flux in the 80s I can only assume it must've been really...
I haven't worked a full-time web dev job since 2014, and from 2015-19 was doing freelance work with technology mostly stuck in 2014. I am aware of how much the web dev game has changed since then, but have lacked the will to catch up with the tech on unemployed time. The drive and curiosity that led me to learn web dev in my early 20s isn't there anymore.I found out about returnships and they...
I'm unemployed and have been job searching for a while (though I took a recent break due to burnout). Recalling the common questions I get asked like, what tech stacks I have worked on, and then realizing when my experience is far from what they're doing. But, I learned that, sometimes, saying that I am willing to learn these technologies at home can turn a so-so outlook to a good one for the...
Reddit style forums are not great for posts intended to log something in progress (like a computer build) because they require the user to make a new thread multiple times instead of making a new comment that automatically brings the thread back to the first page. But flat list threads are great for that.
They usually try to compromise with comment replies shown in "comment pyramids" but they can get unwieldy quick. It's a reasonable tradeoff for the flat chronological layout.
And why do I rarely seen any context of transition states between the two? For instance: When does a small-scale but growing app no longer qualify as "small", and does it make it automatically large-scale at that point? (maybe it's similar to the heap paradox?) Another sample topic: Companies that prefer to hire for experience in large-scale web dev. Small-scale devs want to learn but lack the...
Digital agencies seem to get a lot of criticism in the tech world but I wouldn't mind working for one again if the job culture is right. Plus you get the opportunity to use many front-end and back-end web skills to stay well-rounded.But what I want the most is having an incentive to actually fulfill positive outcomes for the clients. And actually see my work make a difference. I don't care for...
I'm interested in how to find them more easily, and from smaller companies. Finding them in general is like a needle in a haystack (as well as discussions about them, apparently)
As an addendum, this other question: My resume and LinkedIn profile show no work since 2019- why have no companies or recruiters targeted me with returnships- only regular jobs?I'm in a position where I could use a returnship and I think many more people are now in that position because of the climate of the tech jobs market. But returnships are still rather uncommon. I've found that it's...
But, it is true that I did not take my career seriously for a long time. I treated it more as just work, with no clear direction, since I didn't understand the fundamental difference between a career and a series of similar jobs. Every new job, I was just hoping for a modest pay raise and learning a new thing or two, and being able to coast when I wanted.
Coasting is probably acceptable once you hit senior level in a well rounded team, but I figured out the hard way it's bad to do as a junior or mid-level.
I just can't see myself improving by learning on my own anymore. As another professional told me, "you're practicing, but with no guidance and nobody to step in and let you know when what you're practicing is the wrong approach." And when a person can spend many hours a week with practice and learning and receive the same result - no job offers - as someone who did little-none, it's entirely reasonable to conclude that learning new things is just a waste of time.
I still code once in a while, just to keep busy. Still haven't gotten a good idea of "exchange rate" for employability with the knowledge I obtained from my personal C and JavaScript projects.
I know that many companies won't train you from the ground up, but there are a couple. So I started looking into WITCH and similar consulting firms with a contract training program.
InfoSys and Deloitte have rejected me for some general SWE positions (not language-specific) but there are other similar places. Don't mind if I have to go to one of these body shops, they seem like my best fit for a software job right now.
I've had my resume re-done several times, and took the aforementioned interview prep. Applied to almost a thousand jobs last year alone. It has not made me more employed. And yes, I do want a job handed to me because the lack of progress has made me very desperate.
I don't even trust myself to do the right things anymore. But I now prefer not to learn anything for work unless I am getting paid for it. There's no positive feedback cycle I can find otherwise.
Wasn't just me at this workplace, but all the individual contributors were as well. We saw the writing on the wall, that the co-founders were not interested in full-time conversions and turnover rate increased.
It actually made me question the legitimacy of software careers for a while, because I was caught in this illicit operation.
More a vent than anything else...I am 40 and sort of stumbled into a weird "comfortable but still poor" loop which for me meant working low paying developer jobs on and off, until one final job three years ago where I got laid off, no longer able to get hired again and now just living frugally off the small savings from my jobs.As far as catching up with others in the field, I have put that...
I came across a post of a photo of a question from a online job application. The question asked what your catchphrase would be if you played a neighbor character, in a sitcom, whose backstory takes from your real life.Aside from the roundabout way of trying to draw more information from your past, I also think, this question is something I'd expect to get in face-to-face or onsite interview,...
Most internships being accessible/important only to students, anyways. Doesn't apply to all of them (but won't fit in the title)A very cynical take I've heard is that it acts as a class filter, just as is higher education. A somewhat less cynical view is that it's favoritism and trust, just like how people from certain top schools tend to hire those from other top schools with less harsh...
As implied in the title, I'm currently unemployed and been so for about a year. But I also still need to be around other live professionals, and burying my head in books and YouTube tutorials isn't enough for me. I repeat, I do not want to continue self-learning alone. Sometimes you gotta practice interviews with people who know how to interview developers, and learn under the guidance of a...
The first couple years of my career were relatively normal. Full-time software development work involving teams, not always local or in-house teams, but I had at least a couple of other engineers to work with. After 2015 work was sparse. I couldn't catch a break most of the time with interviews and had to settle for solo freelance work to tide me over. It helps fill a few holes in unemployment,...
I feel like a fraud in the tech industry. But I'm not someone who's getting paid well and with a high job title who thinks I don't deserve it.I'm someone who feels like they've been working like a dog and still not making ends meet, and it's making me think I don't deserve working in the industry in general.I'm not an inexperienced person struggling to find their first developer job, but have...
I am curious about digital nomading in the future and almost always they're traveling internationally, but I am more interested in hearing of digital nomad experiences that involve traveling within the US. There's still plenty of room to stretch your legs in a country of this size. Lots of beautiful locations that I'd like to visit and sight-see without me needing a passport.Digital nomads...
Auditing and forensics does seem to get applied more frequently in cryptocurrency projects, but as you said, that sort of accreditation still has to be meaningful.
Formal credentialing generally means you demonstrate "I can do this", in a very drawn-out, thorough manner. It's gatekeeping more, but there's a much larger guarantee for your creds to be transferrable from place to place.
In software engineering, you demonstrate "I can do this", in a several-round bout of interviews. And then have to demonstrate it all over again and again, for every single company. Your interview performance is non-transferrable.
My opinion is, the latter is more wasteful as it involves repeating yourself a whole lot.
The former has a higher upfront cost but you are betting in the long run that it will amortize over time as you continue to go on interviews.
The latter has less upfront cost but a greater chance of creating more cost in the long run, depending on how much you interview and where.
OP spent 6 hours- personally I wouldn't spend that much on any assignment, but the bigger issue here is that 6 hours is only valid for one company. Interview "work" is so proprietary and non-transferrable- like currency that is useless outside that one company. You cannot take what you did there and show it elsewhere to expedite an interview. You will have to run through another several-hour process again (whether interviewing or another assignment), for some other variation of a CRUD based problem that they expect developers to do.
I suppose the closest thing we have to avoiding repetition is- the answer many won't like- Leetcode. You still have to navigate through opinionated views of your answers, but at least there are more patterns that carry over that its benefits compound more easily from interview to interview.
Outside of work, though, I drop my colleagues at the drop of a hat. Doesn't matter if I had drinks and lunch with them many times, they are out of my mind as soon as I leave the office, goes both for quitting the job or just clocking out for the day.
I almost never go back to chatting with the people I worked with, unless I am curious enough to ask if their current company is hiring, as they would've changed companies as most do. Outside of that, I don't really have a need to contact them. Maybe the occasional look at my resume online, for a sanity check when I'm applying to various jobs.
Trying to build meaningful relationships at work stresses me out. But also, I don't want my career to stay bad from the lack of good work relationships. I just don't want to be stressed, neither in the short run nor in the long run.I treat interactions with people at work as being very "in the moment", very transactional, just doing the minimum to realize the goals of our work and the company....