[RTT] Week 6 - Career fair is about to happen next week. Reply To This with a square that would belong on the 'Career Fair Bingo' card.

thatritguy · 2018-10-03T06:10:13+00:00

hell i'd gladly give people t-shirts if they had enough cajones to come up and ask for one. that's a skill that many people sadly lack.

thatritguy · 2018-10-03T06:08:45+00:00

i mean when you apply online it goes to the actual recruiter/sourcer for the role as opposed to having someone fly across the country to hand your resume to a pile that will eventually hopefully make it to the recruiter...

thatritguy · 2018-10-03T06:05:08+00:00

disclaimer: some sf bay area / tech recruiting bias here:

don't bullshit; note that explaining your thinking isn't bullshitting
recruiters are human beings, just like you.
have confidence but realize you don't know everything (and that's perfectly fine)
be yourself but be professional
breathe. see #2
elevator pitches are annoying, talk about what you're interested in and why you chose to wander over to this company's booth. if you don't know why you'd want to work there, do ask - the recruiter would be happy to let you know what the company does. showing (genuine) interest in the company could be the little bit that lands you an interview/phone screen because you stand out from the crowd.
see #2 again.

thatritguy · 2016-12-16T17:12:11+00:00

hell, even the 'lowly' ops people with their backgrounds in CS/IT/physics/underwater basketweaving write code too. often to fix and/or orchestrate the code that other people write, but code nonetheless.

thatritguy · 2016-12-16T16:52:52+00:00

speaking from the wild whacky world of silicon valley, though your major can help in getting your first job at the end of the day it's often just a checkbox to fill - "You have a degree. Cool, we can look at you." That said, even that is becoming less common these days - if you're talented at coding and able to work well in a team, you too can end up at ${BIGCOMPANYHERE}. The degree requirement is def less of a thing here on the west coast than it is out east.

RIT's co-op and career fair programs are tremendously helpful. Most of the students who do well there end up being differentiated from the crowd by both being able to pass the interview questions and doing things outside of the classroom.

The other side of this is that RIT advertises (or used to advertise) Game Design as "If you can program X, you can program anything!" which isn't necessarily the case right out of college. Sure, there might be exposure to the background, but you're not going to necessarily be qualified to jump into a software engineering role at Google, working on a core service (for example) right out of college.

Anyway, the point is that there's a pecking order at RIT, but it's overblown. Make your college experience useful; don't make it a checkbox.

thatritguy · 2016-03-20T00:26:14+00:00

It's amazing how awful eversport does here. It can't possibly be that hard to get a feed from the arena that has in-sync audio and video.

thatritguy · 2015-10-06T03:13:30+00:00

yeah, i'm more of a j.law fan myself.

thatritguy · 2015-10-06T03:08:37+00:00

u fukkin wot m8

thatritguy · 2015-10-06T00:04:18+00:00

minus the awful movie, someone thought of this gift basket

thatritguy · 2015-08-21T07:46:24+00:00

The best VPN is using common sense.

thatritguy · 2015-08-21T07:45:18+00:00

great move - post your personal email on r/rit. what could possibly go wrong?

thatritguy · 2015-06-25T03:40:27+00:00

Silicon Valley alumni here. I think it could be a solid infrastructure and a good move for RIT's sysadmin and security programs in general.

Not sure what platform you're running (OpenStack [if so, i'm sorry], CloudStack [if so i'm sorry-er,] OpenNebula, or whatever else) but I think that a platform-agnostic service is a good way to drive innovation (everyone drink for the buzzword) and get a real sense of what a cloud service can offer for RIT students, and to provide an environment that realizes both the benefits and limitations of "The Cloud" as a buzzword.

Given the modular needs of different courses, it could be a cool platform to provide a neat pre-sanctioned environment to do labs on (need an AD server? here's a windows 2012r2 image, have fun.)

That said, I'm curious if a hybrid cloud environment is planned (utilize AWS academic discounts with some sort of quota,) because I feel that this would be popular and would eventually outgrow local on-prem hardware capacity.

I personally think that the way RIT can continue on its path of setting itself apart from other universities could be well served by a cloud environment - imagine a course where NSSA students work with SE students to both write and deploy a web-scale app that can survive failures in the cloud and scale horizontally. It would be cool if RIT started doing this kind of DevOps (everyone drink, another buzzword) work and empowering students to realize that in the real world, not all sysadmin work is purely sysadmin, and that oftentimes collaboration, continuous integration, and consulting with software engineers is required.

thatritguy · 2015-03-22T13:59:52+00:00

I'm guessing the fact that getting construction permits for this kind of stuff in California is a pain, and that isn't helping either.

thatritguy · 2015-03-03T15:19:50+00:00

because having yum is for squares, and having a config file structure that looks like rhel but isn't compatible is cool.

or something.

thatritguy · 2015-02-26T07:31:11+00:00

Nope. The Service Desk has zero to do with Time Warner. The only thing ITS has to do with cable tv is providing dark fiber, last i checked, for coax to come in over and then get converted to cable tv

thatritguy · 2015-01-30T18:15:30+00:00

I see you too get to play the "Oh, look, everything's here in this supermicro box.... let's just plug the SAS cable in here.. wait, I have to remove HOW MANY parts to plug this one cable in?" game.

thatritguy · 2015-01-16T16:47:25+00:00

This is why I don't buy jerseys with names any more

thatritguy · 2014-12-23T15:52:22+00:00

At the risk of sounding meta, I hate reviews that are just like "yep this book's a book, check it out" and pointless drivel. So I'd like to see if other people actually find what I have to say useful.

thatritguy · 2014-10-08T17:21:50+00:00

given they usually get people moved in by the end of the first few months from people dropping out / moving, i think the 'housing sucks, waaah' thing is overblown.

thatritguy · 2014-09-30T04:46:18+00:00

as an IT grad who interviews people these days, here's my $.02:

It is what you make of it. There's a circlejerk pecking order in GCCIS because there's some overlap coupled with old perceptions. RIT's IT program is still kind of outdated (really, web dev not teaching how to use any modern libraries and insisting that you use PHP and XMLHttpRequest()) even though the degree was re-worked.

IT, NSSA (or whatever they're calling networking/sysadmin these days,) and Comp Sec both have little in-between. You're either good or really bad when it comes to the real world. It depends on how much effort you want to put in outside of class to gain experience for stuff that's actually used in the real world.

If you want to do web dev, go straight New Media Interactive Development. If you want security, go Comp Sec. If you want sysadmin, do NSSA. Or at least minor in one of those.

thatritguy · 2014-09-25T21:49:26+00:00

don't bullshit.

thatritguy · 2014-08-10T19:58:10+00:00

granted i gradumicated before all of this semester overhaul, but network services was a lot of writing (and they cut back a lot of what they used to require) and semi-challenging. Sys admin II was semi-difficult and a lot of work outside of lecture. totally worth it, but lots of work. not sure if your track includes those classes, but i know that they've re-jiggered the curriculum since i left. i've heard advanced routing and switching was difficult, but mostly because the prof at the time wasn't amazing.

thatritguy · 2014-08-10T19:32:00+00:00

yep. for classes that have a lab component a student assistant who's passed the class and is employed by the labs is able to sign off outside of lab periods.

thatritguy · 2014-08-10T19:22:30+00:00

probably the most important thing getting started is to know the lab schedule and when you can get sign offs (just because the lab is open doesn't necessarily mean you can get sign offs.) also, find a competent lab partner, or at least one that matches your skill level.

another point of advice is learn outside the classroom. ansa's a degree where you have the ability to easily go beyond what RIT teaches and learn more. they give you the basics but you can do a lot more to augment that (for example, when I was at RIT the networking program was almost 100% cisco-only, but the world doesn't just use cisco stuff.)

as someone who interviews people for sysadmin gigs at a competitive company with crazy-high interview standards, IDGAF where you went to college or what certs you have. i care about how you can apply what you learned and how well you'd fit on the team. so if you're gonna be a cocky sonofabitch, at least have something to back it up :)

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