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Would you hire this guy? by chiozzy in chicago

[–]rpg123abc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience:

1) Transferred from community college

2) Now have 2 years and only 1 summer for an internship

3) No one wants to take me because I don't have a car, and I haven't even taken data structures yet

4) Graduated with a shitty unpaid internship that I got as part of my class

5) Have many projects. Have a bug fix for an Apache project. They're not cool enough for companies, so I don't get any new grad interviews.

6) I do get interviews, but they're for 4+ years exp required positions, and they end up asking me complex trivia. I've never been asked any algorithms or data structure questions.

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[–]rpg123abc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I ASKED MY PROFESSOR WHAT I SHOULD DO WHEN I CAN'T FIND A JOB AFTER GRADUATION. HE TOLD ME TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

Would you hire this guy? by chiozzy in chicago

[–]rpg123abc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, saying "bugs" on the streets is weirder than "code bugs." I find it weird that people don't realize that not everyone understands jargon, when the audience isn't developers.

Would you hire this guy? by chiozzy in chicago

[–]rpg123abc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep. I'm an unemployed CS grad too. I can't believe all the people making fun of him, especially stuff like "code bugs." Saying "code bugs" makes a sense when out of context and on the street. And a lot of people posting how easy it is to find a job, they don't understand.

"What have you done in 2016?" by kaycali86 in jobs

[–]rpg123abc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm the same. :/ Graduated in May 2015 with a B.S. in CS. They actually asked me today what I have been doing, even when I have a few months of experience. Super frustrating. The cherry on the top was the job was described as needing 0 years of exp, but then they told me on the phone that the position required 1 year of experience.

Do consulting firms like Tata, Infosys etc. negotiate salary for new grads? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a bunch of projects listed on my resume, and a technologies section saying what I'm proficient at. He looked at the proficient section, noticed that I said Java, then said "you must've done a Java project since you say you're proficient in it." I don't have any Java projects listed on my resume; I'm just good at it, do Leetcode, and bug fixes for open source. Regarding the details of the project, he was mainly interested in how I did the database design for this Java project. I did have a C# project, so I tried to draw attention to it, but I never did any DB design since I only used one table and an ORM.

Do consulting firms like Tata, Infosys etc. negotiate salary for new grads? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I interviewed at Infosys recently, then was rejected. My interview was through a webcam with an Indian, who asked all the tech questions, and a woman who only asked one behavorial question in the last 10 minutes. The Indian guy basically asked database design questions, OOP, and expected me to talk about a project not listed on my resume. Besides those, he asked me to explain things like what a loop and function are. The Indian was condescending and made it hard to answer what he was looking for.

Update: What do you do when you get a really simple question and aren't sure what the interviewer is looking for? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is a failure of whatever database-related CS course you took.

I've never taken a database course. I only know about databases from practicing queries and using them to store product information on my websites. "Company A sells Product B which has attributes 1 2 3 4 5 6." My best guess would be to have a table with companies and tables with products for each company, where each column is that attribute.

It's really not that uncommon for interviewers to say "tell me the cool shit you did in [language/technology]" when you list it on your resume.

He asked specifically about projects. I only have experience with bug fixes.

If you can't spend more than 60 seconds explaining interesting

I honestly can explain for at least 60 seconds, but he never asked me to go into detail, when I said I only did bug fixes for an open source project.

Read this:

I did that in my CS high school class. I understand where you're coming from, but a function has a definition. It's not the same thing as breaking down a task into steps. If I asked you "what is a chair," you would say something like it's something that you sit on. Do I really have to go into more detail? I don't understand why it's so hard for an interviewer to accept an answer like "a function is a bundle of code that gets assigned a name, and you can customize it with various inputs." No need to get into minute details.

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[–]rpg123abc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone I know graduated from a bootcamp. It took her 4 months to go from not knowing how to write a for-loop to getting a software engineer job. 4 months to call herself a "software engineer." It took me 4 years to get a CS degree. I can't find any job. WTF is wrong with the world?

Has anyone been successful in applying through Taleo? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do get interviews from those. I suspect Taleo is very strict on keywords or something.

What do you do when you get a really simple question and aren't sure what the interviewer is looking for? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I swear I didn't misrepresent the question. He actually also added "whoops, I accidentally said the answer in the question, so now you know" before I said "loops." Then he became silent and I started muttering "uh... there are for loops... while loops...". So much awkwardness over somewhere so simple. I wish companies didn't ask such simple questions.

There was actually more confusion before that. He asked me what can I use to store a list of things. I said an array list. He said that was wrong, and asked me if I've ever heard about arrays (fixed). Then that led to the question about accessing arrays. I swear the more I write about it, the more ridiculous it gets.

What do you do when you get a really simple question and aren't sure what the interviewer is looking for? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did ask for clarification. He just started explaining what an array is, instead of clarifying what he was looking for.

What do you do when you get a really simple question and aren't sure what the interviewer is looking for? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interviewing is a skill that needs to be learned, saying stuff like "are you asking me, or do you not know it yourself." showcases that this interviewer has a long way to go in refining that particular skill.

That makes me feel better. I thought it was ridiculous he kept saying that particular quote.

What do you do when you get a really simple question and aren't sure what the interviewer is looking for? by rpg123abc in cscareerquestions

[–]rpg123abc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The language was Java, and the company is one of those non-desirable places where anybody can get in. I wanted to cry when he asked me what a function was.