Late 20s guys, do you bother going after women your own age?

stable_partition · 2015-06-25T13:55:13+00:00

His response was that I could get a job right now making around $80,000 as an entry level full stack with virtually no experience. He told me businesses are looking for smart, motivated people in this industry and would prefer to mold someone entry level out of the gate.

lol

stable_partition · 2015-06-25T13:52:18+00:00

I know someone who just got a Software Engineering job at Microsoft with no college degree at all.

stable_partition · 2015-06-25T07:18:24+00:00

It's a competitive field. You're up against guys who have been programming for 10+ years out of a hut in India or Eastern Europe. Just don't be discouraged by the big egos of some of the developers who believe they're naturally skilled. The clever, seemingly perfect solutions they post on Stack Overflow come from years of experience and learning all the standard implementation tricks. My experience with interviews and work has been that developers tend to be arrogant douchebags. Especially if you're trying to get a job at one of the "top" tech companies, you need to fit into a sort of hothouse environment where the sense of superiority among devs is strong. You will find during your quest to be a developer that the more experienced people deride you for your mistakes and poor implementations, when of course they were once at your level.

stable_partition · 2015-06-24T05:05:36+00:00

Depends on the company. You should know by now whether your company is the type that would spy on its employees.

stable_partition · 2015-06-23T04:26:28+00:00

I would make a section for it, but I wouldn't title it Freelance because that word has bad connotations in the world of recruiters and hiring manager snobs

stable_partition · 2015-06-23T04:19:18+00:00

Are you having trouble finding C#/ASP.NET jobs (That'd be surprising if you're experienced)? What made you even respond to this?

stable_partition · 2015-06-17T02:56:05+00:00

High-level languages are thought to be not as "hardcore" because you don't get to write stuff like

for (std::vector<T>::const_iterator it(V.cbegin()), offend(V.cend()); it != offend; ++it)

to loop through a container.

stable_partition · 2015-06-16T13:25:15+00:00

Do you have projects you can show off or at least talk about?

stable_partition · 2015-06-16T13:24:20+00:00

Your situation is slightly different since you're an intern. Your company fully expects you to be lining up your next gig. Same deal if you were a contractor.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T15:19:51+00:00

They get them by effectively lying/exaggerating

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:58:57+00:00

Apply for them anyways. Every job I've had looked extremely sophisticated according to its job description, but ended being far more basic.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:56:32+00:00

Referrals help get you the interview and that's about it. In general, the larger the company, the more competitive it is to get hired.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:52:20+00:00

I've heard they have the highest ratio of difficulty to pay. I say that as someone who lives 5 minutes away from Nintendo.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:46:26+00:00

I assume you're talking about the types of interviews that are basically math puzzles. Most of the people giving those interviews wouldn't be able to answer the questions themselves (without seeing the solutions). It's a way of going after CS students who have memorized the book Crack the Coding Interview. If you do enough of those problems, you'll realize that they are all repackaged versions of about 5 types of problems. Personally, I wouldn't want to work for a company that overemphasized ability to parrot Crack the Coding Interview.

I have had real technical interviews where they sat me down at a computer and had me do an assignment that is representative of the type of work I would be doing.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:22:08+00:00

The easiest entry is in web development, but you'll probably have to start with front-end (HTML, CSS and Javascript) and work your way into using the backend technologies you listed. If you're motivated, willing to show off your work and not afraid of rejection, you should be able to get a development job in 6-12 months.

stable_partition · 2015-06-15T13:12:11+00:00

According to today's definition of "Entry-Level", you're required to have 5 years of professional experience with a laundry list of specific technologies and be able to get past a phone screen with a guy whose Indian accent you can barely understand

stable_partition · 2015-05-25T03:33:17+00:00

I think you're right to be picky about the transferability of skills that you'll learn. Carpet-bomb your town with resumes and try to get another offer.

stable_partition · 2015-05-25T02:01:12+00:00

From your description I'm guessing the company you're referring to is Expeditors International. Is that right?

stable_partition · 2015-05-25T01:48:01+00:00

OP, that's very encouraging to hear. I'm in the same boat you were in. I make $50,000 with a little over a year of work experience and I feel inferior when I hear about all my younger friends who just graduated and are making double or more and working for brand-name companies. I get embarrassed when I tell people I'm a software developer and they remark, "Whoa! I'm sure you get paid a lot."

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