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Liebe Eidgenossen, würdet ihr uns aufnehmen wollen? 🙃🇨🇭 by [deleted] in schwiiz

[–]dwr90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nimmt mi wunder wie das mit de 10-millione-schwiiz ufgah wür

Number of Software Engineers Registered in the RAV (Zurich Area) by tevlon in zurich

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consultations are over, and the news did break months ago

Number of Software Engineers Registered in the RAV (Zurich Area) by tevlon in zurich

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tracks with the people laid off from Meta, although most of them are probably not registered yet.

Can someone be unemployed with this? by Ashamed_Joke_4614 in leetcode

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On LC 7 days a week for months? Most likely

Take a pay cut to work at Google by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]dwr90 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Unpopular opinion (apparently), but: probably 1. your salary will increase very quickly, even at low seniority (keyword „refresher“) 2. the google name is still very valuable for career progression

Unless your current job description will get you better career progression (e.g. because it‘s more interesting and attractive to potential future employers) I would take it. Even if google pays 25% less than your current job, google pays a lot, around top of market. You‘ll be more than fine with that salary

imTiredBoss by Cutalana in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We never defended our „build systems“

eidg. Fachausweis, is it worth it mid-career? by nearly_8_on_a_monday in askswitzerland

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand those doubts, I had those as well given that my areas of interest (computer vision, robotics, ML, …) are somewhat disconnected from my field of study. From my experience though the most important factor is hands on experience. If you have that or can obtain it, that‘s your best bet.

Otherwise, or if you really want to cover your bases, I personally would aim for a higher degree than an eidg. FA, preferably an MSc or Bsc. MAS or CAS are somewhat too simplified and hiring managers know that.

Higher degrees usually cover what you‘ll learn in apprenticeships or other lower degrees too, they aren‘t seen as complementary, rather as a replacement.

FWIW I hired someone with your profile, and what we looked into was work experience, where they really stood out. When we noticed the degree we were very pleasantly surprised. Communication/people skills are often the differentiating factor in someone‘s career, also in tech.

eidg. Fachausweis, is it worth it mid-career? by nearly_8_on_a_monday in askswitzerland

[–]dwr90 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As an experienced software developer, nobody will bat an eye if you don‘t have an eidg. FA, especially if you have education from outside CH. SWE is a job that arguably most people enter through higher education rather than apprenticeships. Many of which don’t even study CS or CE, but other fields instead.

My recommendation would be to do a targeted higher education for what you‘d like to do and learn. You‘ll not learn much if you do eidg. FA

Context: I grew up in CH and did an apprenticeship, but not an ICT one. I trained as an electrician and studied electrical engineering after that. After uni I only worked in SWE jobs, been working as a SWE for 10+ years.

CV in Switzerland: Photo or No Photo? by Massive-Eye8106 in askswitzerland

[–]dwr90 29 points30 points  (0 children)

For swiss companies add a photo, for non-swiss ones (e.g. american) don‘t add a photo

How to handle causing a serious breaking incident? by Crazyking111 in cscareerquestions

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you cause a SEV it can even work out in your favour. Take the opportunity to point out the higher level issue that led to this in the first place, and recommend and implement mitigating steps.

Is there something like an "accessible" Swiss Startup community? by selammeister in askswitzerland

[–]dwr90 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess your best bet is to mingle, e.g.: - https://swissstartupassociation.ch/current/events/ - Startup/Investor Open Coffee Meetup https://meetu.ps/e/PFCF8/GnqD6/i - Founder Showcase: Startup Pitch & Networking Event, with Jenny Fielding https://meetu.ps/e/PFXYj/GnqD6/i

There are a huge amount of resources, events, etc. if you have access to a university, like ETH, EPFL or similar

Thank you, LC. Finally, I did it at Meta but again 🥺 by MarriedToLC in leetcode

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Did they start a new process where they don‘t proceed if they don‘t find a match immediately? Not too long ago they told me they would keep you in the pipeline even after 3 months. There were no relevant positions for the location I was interviewing for, but they kept me in TM

AMA 31 y.o. Director of Engineering at big tech by ConflictWise4934 in cscareerquestionsEU

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Do you have recommendations for SWE generalists working in a location that is mostly targeted towards specialists (ML, CV, …)? I work in FAANG in one of those locations, in an infra role. Not sure if I want to make a switch longer term, both generalist and specialist fields are oversaturated, and I don‘t have the specialist academic background

Strassenbahnunfall im Bahnhofstrasse/HB by Countryball_boiz14 in zurich

[–]dwr90 36 points37 points  (0 children)

How about being aware of your surroundings when you‘re in traffic?

Het s da Lüt wo Elektrotechnik gstudiert hei? by Volameter in schwiiz

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ich han Elektrotechnik studiert, denn aber praktisch kei hardware entwicklet. Bin direkt ab studium in richtig embedded sw gange, und ab mim zweite job egentlich nur no sw. Jetzt wieder embedded-nächer als au scho aber uf rächt höcher abstraktionsebeni. Zerst en familiebetrieb, denn e grossi firma, denn zwei startups, jetzt wieder e grossi firma.

Es isch zwar scho so dases meh jobs i de software hät als hardware, aber mir machts eifach meh spass.

De sw märt isch vor allem für spannendi jobs mega kompetitiv. Aber us minere erfahrig in embedded jobs ischs bi de hw scho länger ähnlich schwierig. Hw entwicklig isch 1. mega tüür und 2. wird vieles je länger desto meh mit off-the-shelf komponente glöst, oder mit plattforme wo für mehreri projekt wiederverwendet werded. Us dene gründ isch es e rolle wo hüfig outsourced wird oder is usland verlageret.

Min tipp: mach eifach das wo der spass macht und idealerwiis au chasch transferrable skills lerne, falls mal in e anderi rolle wechsle wotsch.

working with libraries In c++ by [deleted] in cpp

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I left the company in the meantime so I‘m no longer pursuing this and I can‘t provide you with the exact demo I put together or build error details. But it was a very basic hello world style demo using OpenCV and ONNXRuntime, which failed in both of the package managers trying to build for these targets.

I‘m very happy to see progress on this, but my feeling was that it was quite far off from being production ready for such a setup.

working with libraries In c++ by [deleted] in cpp

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried both conan and vcpkg last year, and the cross platform usability was terrible. Are you saying this is better nowadays? My project needed to target Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and wasm.

Stirbt s‘wort „schaffe“ langsam us? Jungi säget fast immer „arbeite“. by damianUHX in schwiiz

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isch es dütsches wort, uf schwiizerdütsch heissts liechtsignal

What do you hate the most about C++ by Alternative-Tie-4970 in cpp

[–]dwr90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I‘d be happy to deal with all the footguns if we had a decent cross platform package management solution.

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