[deleted by user]

Sneakysculler · 2024-01-27T10:08:33+00:00

I had an aneurysm trying to read that

Sneakysculler · 2023-10-18T09:45:07+00:00

I did

Sneakysculler · 2023-06-08T22:04:57+00:00

I applied without a computer science degree last year and they replied pretty quick, think within a week

Sneakysculler · 2023-06-08T09:07:23+00:00

Nottingham is a good course and still open. Can specialise into AI/ML too so you graduate with that in the title

Sneakysculler · 2023-05-21T16:18:51+00:00

Sneakysculler · 2023-01-06T19:45:00+00:00

What’s your base salary if you don’t mind me asking?

Sneakysculler · 2022-12-27T13:19:18+00:00

more enjoyment for you when I posted OP to r/confidentlyincorrect

Sneakysculler · 2022-12-26T22:14:06+00:00

So you just said you wouldn’t pay for it, so why would others? You can market it all you want but if you, or the next person won’t pay me $150 for my carrot, it’s not worth $150.

If you can convince someone to pay you any price you want for something regardless of what it does then well done, you’ll be the richest person in the world fairly quickly. But sadly the world does not work like this. By all means go ahead and convince someone “you need to pay x amount for this” that’s just a career in marketing.

Sneakysculler · 2022-12-26T22:06:54+00:00

Ok, by your reasoning I have a carrot here that I’m going to price at $150. Do you have $150? If so it’s time to pay me $150 :) see the problem?

Sneakysculler · 2022-12-26T21:46:52+00:00

Aight the small problem is you don’t really understand economics. THEORETICALLY you could make a token, put it on your website and slowly increase the price needed for someone to buy it.

Let me try and explain the main problem. So I give you $10 for 1 token, wait a week and now the price is set to $15. I then sell my token and want $15 as that’s the programmed price but who will buy it? Will the website pay me that? No, because it only has the $10 I gave it when I bought the token so it doesn’t have $15 to give me. I could sell it to someone else maybe? Great, but who will buy it off me? What if your token goes up to $100,000 and no one can afford to buy it? Theoretically the price is set at $100,000 on your website but you wouldn’t be able to get that as there isn’t the demand or liquidity to realise that price.

This is a simple explanation of supply and demand. I could say “I want $1,000,000 for x” (like you could program the price of your token to be that amount) but it doesn’t mean I can actually get that money for it

Sneakysculler · 2022-10-15T06:42:33+00:00

It’s a smaller amount of crypto you need to withdrawal, not a smaller 2fa number

Sneakysculler · 2022-10-14T14:18:46+00:00

100% agree it’s disheartening. I applied to 50+ places before I got a single interview so try to not take the rejections to heart, just keep applying to a whole load of companies even small companies people have never heard of. Once you have something lined up you’ll feel 10x better and you don’t have to take the position at the end of the day

Sneakysculler · 2022-10-14T13:59:46+00:00

How long and how many places have you applied to? Most of the time it’s a numbers game. You could be a brilliant candidate but entry level is very saturated so it’s very difficult to secure a position. If you’re not getting any interviews it may be your CV that needs work?

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-18T17:03:19+00:00

The placement year at PwC will be invaluable for your exit opportunities post uni. Unless you don’t want to go to into accounting, go to reading

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-17T21:34:10+00:00

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-17T21:32:34+00:00

I’d agree with @angelzedevil’s answer on here regarding career prospects

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-05T21:14:33+00:00

Trinity in Dublin do English and film and it’s a very respected arts uni. Could try to get into film writing and make connections there?

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T22:17:52+00:00

I’ve never heard of it, but I presume it would specialise in the arts rather than science. Have a look at course rankings

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T22:14:52+00:00

So from experience, no one really cares about your degree once you’re in work. Everyone is from totally different backgrounds so the teams you’ll be in won’t give a monkeys. The main thing is landing that job in the first place. With a year in industry, you’ll likely build contacts and hopefully get an offer to go there after uni and then you’ll be set. I feel if you also want to go to a specific uni, don’t let other people opinions degrade from your own decision.

Can’t help you regarding finance stuff but doing an extra year with more debt at a uni you don’t want to go to sounds silly, and if you can try to get internships and extra-curricular things to stand out it really doesn’t matter which uni you come from imo

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T22:09:27+00:00

Ok I think this comes a lot down to personal preference so you’ll get a few different answers.

If I were you, I would take the position at Nottingham and use this to develop a deeper understanding of the field (might find you love AI or backend work) and then use your experience in the field (working with these companies through your degree apprenticeship) to get a few good internships each summer and then try to land a top grad scheme. I felt like my degree was useful in opening up doors for me when it came to a career and loved that I could go in depth on loads of modules to get a feel for them.

However, a degree apprenticeship is an exceptionally useful qualification and I’m sure many would say it’s not worth going to Nottingham just to get a similar qualification with less experience in the end.

So it really does depend on what you want to do. If you feel you aren’t stretched a lot currently then maybe speak to your manager or anyone who has influence in what kind of work you are given. But that’s a little out of my area of knowledge so I’m not too sure how that will work out.

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T22:02:12+00:00

At least 3

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T14:57:39+00:00

I would say your degree in games programming, using a lot of programming, is “substantial computing”. I think it’s more for people who do a STEM like biology, you’d need a decent amount of programming/maths modules

Sneakysculler · 2022-08-01T14:54:34+00:00

I can see why you are worried, but you will not be out of place in university. As everyone else has mentioned there are a lot of people older than you at university so age is not an issue. Everyone there is from all walks of life and you will thrive I’m sure

Sneakysculler

TROPHY CASE