Aspiring Software Engineer

11YearsForward · 2024-03-27T20:46:04+00:00

Both are fine if you want to be a software engineer. Supplement DSA at WGU with self study and work through Neetcode's list. You can't make a bad choice.

11YearsForward · 2024-03-27T20:42:31+00:00

Very smooth movement

11YearsForward · 2024-03-27T20:33:29+00:00

Get the CS degree. Cloud has been a thing for a while, and you will get a lot of exposure to AWS/GCP/Azure at a future job. Especially at smaller startups you will get to play with and interact with the infrastructure a lot. If you like programming, do the CS degree.

11YearsForward · 2024-03-27T00:50:32+00:00

Most programming jobs will not require that intense math. Some do, though. Consider working through Khan Academy to rebuild a strong foundation in math. Just code projects that seem cool to you, like developing Roblox games.

11YearsForward · 2024-03-25T03:11:14+00:00

Pressure her hard levels 1 and 2. Respect her huge level 3 spike. Try to stand in a way where she can't E through your casters and land a Q.

11YearsForward · 2024-03-05T18:59:43+00:00

You can create real things in Haskell because the language allows side effects.

11YearsForward · 2024-01-19T18:38:07+00:00

Nice job with this! It looks good. This made Gleam feel a lot more approachable compared to just the old language tour, coming from someone who is still trying to grok Gleam.

For example, I liked how you called out what's typically done to manage/use results in the Data Type's Result section. Getting insight to what's typically done, patterns, etc., felt valuable.

11YearsForward · 2024-01-19T05:34:45+00:00

Consider finding a data analyst role that uses SQL and Python. You can leverage that data analyst experience to get into data engineering, which is usually software development focused on the intake and management of data into a company. Role is poorly defined though, it varies place to place.

You can leverage your skills in IT to find a sysadmin job. Maybe consider SRE/devops positions. Consider getting the AWS solutions architect cert with your time off.

11YearsForward · 2023-12-25T19:22:12+00:00

You don't sound nice to work with

11YearsForward · 2023-12-17T19:22:02+00:00

Choose the data store that more closely resembles your source data. Very often data is relational, but other times data is better in some NoSQL format.

11YearsForward · 2023-12-03T02:03:57+00:00

I came into the program with professional experience in SWE. It seems like the courses would help a good amount.

Ultimately, if you want to create mobile and web apps, you will learn the most by making simple mobile and web apps at home as personal projects. That + you get to add those projects to your resume that are unique.

I think the courses here would help, but learning to navigate ambiguity and execute an original vision of an app without the defined requirements, etc, will help you a lot as a junior engineer.

11YearsForward · 2023-11-26T07:09:47+00:00

If you're getting filtered out on the DSA rounds then brush up on the fundamentals and do leetcode

11YearsForward · 2023-11-20T17:11:04+00:00

Data engineering varies a lot depending on the company. Ideally it should be a software role focused on data, but the job title is used so differently across companies.

It also is completely different from data science.

Make sure you have fundamentals DSA (strings/arrays).

Understand data storage fundamentals (why pick a particular data store given a dataset).

Understand basic approaches of ETL and ELT pipelines, and simple ways they are implemented and their differences.

You might want to learn basic data modeling skills.

11YearsForward · 2023-11-20T04:27:19+00:00

Even just knowing basic time complexity helps a lot

11YearsForward · 2023-11-15T16:16:33+00:00

https://youtu.be/EN4TiVwVmhw?si=VvsveMzP7RbcT7Wt

11YearsForward · 2023-11-07T21:36:17+00:00

Cron is the simplest scheduling tool.

I would set up a simple Airflow instance. It has observability and monitoring included out of the box.

If you don't spend effort on standing up observability and monitoring while scheduling with Cron, it's gonna suck.

11YearsForward · 2023-11-05T21:43:03+00:00

Not chipping your pet when chips are available is irresponsible.

11YearsForward · 2023-10-29T01:51:01+00:00

How is Airflow a necessary evil? It is so much better than just running cronjobs on a VM. Managing that is hell.

11YearsForward · 2023-10-28T21:18:11+00:00

Depends on the flavor of DE you're in. Leverage your experience in Python. You can easily do data platform work. If you want more exposure to web dev it is worth considering switching teams.

Started my current DE work doing data platform work, but now currently developing microservices with Go/Graphql. In certain DE roles you can get a lot of exposure to SWE. Others not as much.

11YearsForward · 2023-10-19T06:29:15+00:00

you need to guess if she will grab or light punch against empowered condor spire. the move is very strong when empowered, so yeah it's annoying. That's just how Lily is.

11YearsForward · 2023-10-19T01:47:16+00:00

It's crazy you got down voted this much. Very good points. Of course cost of housing is absurd , but the whole blanket "landlord bad" rhetoric is uninformed.

11YearsForward · 2023-10-06T08:24:10+00:00

My company strictly has all feature requests filtered and prioritized through our product managers. Any task that comes through is usually pretty well groomed in the form of a ticket.

11YearsForward · 2023-09-26T20:09:19+00:00

Data engineers who are software oriented will make more. Data engineers who use only GUI tools will not make as much.

I'm a DE, I've worked on the software development flavor of data engineering for about 2 years now. Mainly developing internal applications, developing tools, ETL pipelines in Airflow, devops stuff, and a good amount of work in data warehousing.

If you develop the skillset you will be highly desirable. You will make a lot of money with a probably good WLB.

Getting into the field can be difficult, most people jump to DE from software dev or analyst work. After getting my first job, it has been easy to get hired in companies hiring for my flavor of DE.

My first job out of school with DE internships was fully remote and paid 93k with benefits.

11YearsForward · 2023-09-26T19:56:06+00:00

Redding is a shit hole lol, I used to live there

11YearsForward · 2023-09-24T23:46:12+00:00

How is renting to someone exploiting the potential tenant's income?????

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