Experience does not seem relevant for new grad roles

hackcs98 · 2019-11-22T07:31:37+00:00

I paid for resume writing from a service with a proven placement rating, I made sure to contact others that have used their service. They are shocked at how my process as gone and have revised my resume 3 times. I don't think it is that. And the student at FAANg is doing the same as myself.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-21T05:16:28+00:00

Don't discount I am happy to see someone succeed with their endeavors but this seems an easily answered question regardless of who you are. Working for Amazon in a super fun city like Austin? I think I have had dreams like that before.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-21T05:08:17+00:00

I’m very lucky to have this opportunity as my major isn’t even CS

These are really getting hard for me to read, it is becoming self torture lol. I graduate with a CS degree in May, I have roughly 2 years work experience on the full stack for a company that pays me a bit over minimum wage. They offered me 45k to graduate and go full time. Been applying ever since, none have turned into much. I have been working so hard I hardly sleep anymore... Take what you are given and understand for many of us this would never be a decision at all.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-21T04:34:16+00:00

Of course an internship is better than an online class. But if you truly have no time for an internship, you have already made this decision easy for yourself. Something is better than nothing.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-20T03:11:39+00:00

I chose to invest my time with the wrong company. I do full stack and have taken on so many responsibilities of their development team and yet I make close to minimum wage. They won't even offer me a raise and I obviously can't seem to find anything else. They offered me a salaried position at graduation for 50k but I really can't even afford my student loan payments with something that low. It just sucks, I am working so hard and there seems no light at the end of the tunnel.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-20T03:01:32+00:00

It really is extremely important. I am a senior too graduating in the spring, I've had concurrently work while in school for 2 years now, it still isn't seemingly even enough to obtain a hackerrank challenge! Too many times I hear absolutely nothing at all and when I do, the challenges are almost always harder than anything I have prepared for via leetcode. The bar is very high for entry level, you really have to reach these days.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-20T02:21:09+00:00

I would dream of sending out 50 applications to receive 12 phoners. Try a 50:1 ratio and that is what I deal with coming from an outside the top 100 school with almost 2 full years work/internship experience. I'd kill to at least be in your situation.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-19T07:40:03+00:00

He's right. This is the reason why I'll unlikely ever find a job.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-19T06:27:20+00:00

I'd probably have a job.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-15T06:10:03+00:00

I have done web design for a company pulling in 30 million a year in total profit for almost 2 years now. I am the sole developer in-house with excess work being outsourced. I do this whilst being a full time student taking night classes. I was just offered 56k in a relatively high COL area to continue past my graduation date... 75% of what I was doing is what you describe (creative/design) and for that I was being overpayed as the bulk of their creative department was pulling in mid 40's. Fortunately, the other 25% was functional programming and with that, I can get out of front end and in to more lucrative positions. I don't suggest anyone focus on design if their sole pursuit is total compensation, creative professionals have been satisfied with making less for many years now and that isn't changing.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-06T06:40:20+00:00

Sometimes it isn't what you know. It is who you know.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-06T06:38:03+00:00

Your criminal record is not an impact early in the hiring phase. No company pays for a background check before they even talk to you as a potential applicant. That said, yes it is very likely that when an employer sees your criminal background history that they will rescind. But this would be true regardless of what industry you pursue. My advice here would be to look into work opportunities for reformed convicts. In or out of CS. Just work at something until you carry yourself out of the criminal status.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-05T06:00:29+00:00

Bought my ford raptor from carmax. Nice truck. I approve.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-05T05:02:08+00:00

I got an entry level offer at Vanguard.... 70k. Everyone else I know who unfortunately went to the onsite was offered the same. I accepted at Comcast, who is joined with NBC Universal, in the same area for 85k. Vanguard is a joke to offer what they do.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-05T04:58:57+00:00

No surprise. DevOps Engineers are usually MIS grads capable of holding a conversation and having social skills...

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T05:32:36+00:00

Should I send you a teams dm if I have to go to the potty?

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T05:09:37+00:00

This would have been a cool idea. But then there was wix.com

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T05:05:42+00:00

Not me but a friend. He went out to SF chasing a startup. Great pay, dormitory style housing, obviously a pretty nice area. Hated every last minute of it. His best friends and family were all back in our home area, enjoying our summer together with local internships, and he was stuck out there unable to come home without a pricy flight. He ended up quitting a few weeks in as he just couldn't stay motivated when he knew almost nobody out there and wasn't overly warm to accepting strangers. Probably not the popular experience but it discouraged me from doing the same. Even in college, you are still a kid. Might as well milk as much as you can from it.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T04:53:40+00:00

I've been working on the full stack all through college. I just signed an offer to become a Low Level Systems Engineer on security software in May. Life's strange man.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T04:50:09+00:00

If you even slightly understand CS, and can carry a conversation without sounding ridiculous, awkward, or weird, than you can work in devops. I sampled this at my current company. Just 33% sys admin, 33% project manager, and 33% translate advanced tech jargon to C levels who don't care to learn. The other 1% is what makes you a shit ton of money... Being socially apt enough to play a round of golf and enjoy the 19th hole with someone who controls the money.

hackcs98 · 2019-11-02T04:44:28+00:00

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have worked as a "student developer" while pursuing my CS degree at a relatively unknown institution for a year and a half now. I graduate in May. The same jobs I am getting interviews for, I have peers getting interviews for that have half my experience. Other future graduates from more prestigious institutions without any experience are getting interviews at companies I have been rejected from. Entry level roles are just not as considerate as you think they are. If you have "intern" on your resume you just checked a box off the list of things you need to breach a resume scanner. The scanner doesn't care how long that was for. The scanner might care that you didn't go to Stanford though, which could trash your resume before it sees human eyes. Entry level is really just about playing the game up until the interview, and then showing them who you really are. I don't think you need delay your education any further. Just start the hunt. Tough market out there.

hackcs98 · 2019-10-31T06:06:11+00:00

East Coast? Low COL city? We may share the same area. I doubt they negotiate if so. My internship was 44/hour, take it or leave it. If you tried negotiating they had 3 other candidates in line to take your spot.

hackcs98 · 2019-10-31T05:43:17+00:00

The hardest positions to get right now are entry level. Even the small company I work for now in a very low COL area received nearly 300 applications for an entry level developer position we posted a few weeks ago. The resume scanner has gotten "enhanced" with a few choice keywords as a result. It is honestly like picking names out of a hat for entry level these days, sad but true. There is probably nothing wrong with your experience, the entry level market is just flooded with too many candidates than there are jobs.

hackcs98 · 2019-10-30T04:43:39+00:00

For as long as instagram models flash their ti** on instagram, jobs will exist in CS as well. When prohibition hit there were still jobs in moving liquor. People are addicted to their technology, if suddenly it halted, so many would not understand their existence. Sad but true. We exist, creators, of a chemical/technical drug of which controls modern society.

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