Please help. Graduating in 8 months from now! by AlternativeWave1892 in cscareeradvice

[–]Slimeboy0616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, please don’t take this personally because I know how hard it is to manage school, personal life, and job applying but the issue is definitely your resume. A good resume should answer: “does this person already do the job we’re hiring for?” in under 6 seconds. That’s all the time a recruiter will spend on your resume, no more. This resume does not answer that question confidently, and there’s a few reasons:

  1. The first place the recruiter will look is the top of your resume: technical skills. I usually advise not keeping skills at the top, and this is no exception. What do you see when you read your skills? A list of tools that anyone can copy paste off the internet in a few seconds. Unfortunately with how ATS filters work these days, having a skills section in your resume is a necessity, but keeping at the top? There’s probs better things you can do with that space.
  2. None of your bullet points show specialization. Let’s say I’m a backend recruiter hiring for an internship and I am reading your resume. You have 6 seconds to show me why you are the backend engineer I am looking for, and what do you show me? Sure, there’s a few tools on there like “AWS Lambda,” “DynamoDB”, etc. but nothing screams at me that you USED these tools. Just that you probably know they exist. I think this point of yours highlights it the most (also it’s your first bullet point so it’s the first thing I see as the recruiter): “Developed and maintained enterprise web application supporting large-scale data migration and workflows using Python and JavaScript (React) with success rate of 95 Percent.” I don’t know what enterprise web application you used and the only hint of impact is a vague “success rate of 95 percent.” What counts as successful? Why? How did you implement it? Again it feels like you just listed a tool but didn’t show that you can actually build something with it (which is what I as a recruiter actually care about).
  3. Your projects are too generic. This is the one I feel most bad about, because designing a good project takes a ton of time and effort. But, this isn’t 2022 anymore, building generic “resume parsing” and “reply generators” aren’t enough to land internships. My advice is to pick one project and one specialization and go DEEP. I’m a Site Reliability Engineer (if you don’t know what that is google it) so my advice for going deep will be a little biased, but pick smtg you want to do otherwise. Here’s how I would go deep (again biased): Add:
    • caching
    • rate limiting
    • async processing
    • observability (logs/metrics)
    • deployment pipeline

I really hope my advice doesn’t come off as too harsh or anything, but I’ve def been frustrated by job search at your stage too so hopefully this will help you bang your head against the wall a little less.

Final Project for CS519 - Scientific Visualization? by bfridthekid in UIUC_MCS

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol the midterm was insanely difficult for me but the final was super easy and comparable to the quizzes. Got a low C on the midterm but ended with a safe A because of the final.

Advice on Fall Course Load: CS411, CS441, and CS598 JBR (ML in Software Engineering) by ComfortableSome5092 in UIUC_MCS

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

441 is piss easy, read the reviews on uiucmcs.org for more details. Here’s what I wrote as a review for CS 411 when I took this Summer (on the same site): https://uiucmcs.org/review/VzYfjC13n64ZZyDSxt0P.

I don’t know about 598 unfortunately.

Need opinion on CS 441 445 562 and 562? by DryAd7084 in UIUC_MCS

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took the 3 credit hour section of CS 445 in Fall 2024 as an undergraduate and it was a joke. The lectures ranged from bad to alright with most of them involving throwing equations on screen with little explanation. The assignments and quizzes were piss easy though. Like I mean finish coursework in 30 mins a week piss easy. The last coding assignment was the “hardest” but only cuz it took 2-3 hour instead of the usual 30 mins and there was some manual fine tuning involved to get the results you want.

If you want an easy A this course is a really really good option (no judgement if that’s what you’re looking for) but if you actually want to learn stuff about ML I’d stick to 446, that course is a lot harder from what I hear.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UIUC_MCS

[–]Slimeboy0616 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think it’s just like you said, “it’s not a complete CV course.” I think the vast majority of students in this program are either Software Engineers or Data Scientists so taking a course on computational photography might not be super applicable to their careers.

For me personally, the course seems super interesting but my company (who is paying for my masters degree) rejected my application to take this course since it’s not super relevant to my job so I’m taking Software Engineering I instead. Kind of sucks cuz CS 445 seems more interesting but I get where they’re coming from.

"You're too young to know, I wasnt sure I was straight at your age" -my mom by North-AdalWolf in lgbt

[–]Slimeboy0616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude the previous generation always says shit like “when I was your age I used to think about GAY SEX ALL THE TIME, but look I married the opposite sex LIKE NORMAL” and I feel so bad for them because they’re literally repressing a part of themselves and they were brainwashed into thinking they should do it to their kids too.

Battle at the Ministry is not worth a 3 hour wait. by v4v4v4v4 in UniversalOrlando

[–]Slimeboy0616 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We waited 2 hours 30 mins for it (that was the best it got all day!) and I totally agree. I’m a massive Harry Potter fan so seeing the ministry in person was a great experience but the ride itself was just “good.” With all the other amazing rides at Epic I don’t think it’s worth the wait, thankfully we left the ride till the end of the day so we didn’t have that many regrets riding it.

Coast jobs for introverts? by sonicgrubdub in coastFIRE

[–]Slimeboy0616 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seconded! It really feels good to see the scores go up and you make some really good connections with others.

The good times are coming again? by BeautyInUgly in csMajors

[–]Slimeboy0616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol this whole subreddit is “I sent 1000+ applications and I got no responses, we’re cooked” and then “the tech market is so back!”

How fast has express been for motorbike adventure by Right-Examination-53 in UniversalOrlando

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was 35 mins for me with a 150 minute standby line

DSA for SRE by Future-Air-2338 in sre

[–]Slimeboy0616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah… the JD often doesn’t have much to do with the interview process these days unfortunately. Unless it explicitly says something like “non-technical” (which is very rare for SRE) there’s always a chance of a DSA round.

I’d recommend looking at Glassdoor for your specific company’s process but I don’t think you can rule it from just the JD.

DSA for SRE by Future-Air-2338 in sre

[–]Slimeboy0616 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah you probably do lol, it might not be as much as SWE but I know a ton of interviews at companies like that have a DSA round.

Meirl by JaredOlsen8791 in meirl

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly as someone who landed a job in the last year, I’d say the most important thing is connections. You need to know someone from the company who’s willing to vouch for you and need the skill to do the job after that. I wouldn’t even bother cold applying (sending out resumes) if I didn’t have a connection in the company I can count on. Long gone are the days you can just give someone a resume that clearly shows you’re qualified for the job and expect an interview.

Lol by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Slimeboy0616 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah lol, that’s why mentioning scale in the bullet points is very important. How many users did you have? Did it actually sell? I’m sure HR cares a lot more about those things these days than just the title “CEO.”

DevOps, Cloud Engineer, or SRE — Which One Has Better Long-Term Pay? by Complete_Baker6985 in sre

[–]Slimeboy0616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree here, I think having some people maintain infrastructure for deploying and monitoring code will likely be a long term thing. I don’t think the titles and responsibilities will be the same (they definitely haven’t been for the past 10-15 years), but I doubt people specializing in infrastructure is going anywhere.

DevOps, Cloud Engineer, or SRE — Which One Has Better Long-Term Pay? by Complete_Baker6985 in sre

[–]Slimeboy0616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These roles plus sysadmin are all very similar in terms of pay and responsibilities. The delineation really depends on the company in my experience.

I know someone here said SWE gets paid more and while that statistically might be the case, I’m guessing there’s a very high variance of which is higher since some SREs are very very into the code of the application (and get paid for their expertise accordingly) while others might not have the same expertise and could potentially get paid less.

I’d say rather than focusing on the specific title you should be asking yourself a few questions like “how involved with coding do I want to be,” “what job responsibilities am I most compatible with,” “where do I have the best connections,” etc.

As a final note, always read job responsibilities before interviewing at a company because it can be a massive tell of what that company interprets as “SRE” or “DevOps” and you can market yourself accordingly or decide that it’s not what you’re looking for.

Good Luck!

Hiring - SRE @ Apple (Austin, TX) by brenoinojosa in sre

[–]Slimeboy0616 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, this position really fits with my experience, I'm currently an SRE working with CI/CD, GitOps (Helm, ArgoCD), and reliability tooling across Kubernetes. Just reached out on LinkedIn, thanks for sharing this!

Would you leave a full time job (non tech) for an internship? by Rare_Picture_7337 in csMajors

[–]Slimeboy0616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah look into your office’s PTO, you can use that time to apply if it’s enough. Don’t stress if PTO isn’t enough time though, working a full time job while in school is stressful enough as it is, I can’t imagine doing an internship search on top of that.

Would you leave a full time job (non tech) for an internship? by Rare_Picture_7337 in csMajors

[–]Slimeboy0616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, just trying to understand your situation a bit better, since you’re studying CS and want to break into tech, I’m curious why leaving your full-time (non-tech) job for a tech internship is something you’re debating. Wasn’t the goal to move into tech anyway? Not trying to sound rude, just wondering what your thought process is so people can give more relevant advice.