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Honest bully vs bureaucratic hypocrite at work /u/game-dilemma CSCQ protests reddit

Honest bully vs bureaucratic hypocrite at work /u/game-dilemma CSCQ protests reddit

So, which type of person you’d rather work for/with?

  1. someone who doesn’t care about your personal feelings/ego and directly points out/criticizes your mistakes? they give opportunity to those who are more capable, not those who never say no to them
  2. someone who knows how to manage people’s feelings and loyalty but you won’t even know why you might be laid off one day? they consider obedience over competency when promoting someone

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​r/cscareerquestions So, which type of person you’d rather work for/with? someone who doesn’t care about your personal feelings/ego and directly points out/criticizes your mistakes? they give opportunity to those who are more capable, not those who never say no to them someone who knows how to manage people’s feelings and loyalty but you won’t even know why you might be laid off one day? they consider obedience over competency when promoting someone submitted by /u/game-dilemma [link] [comments] 

So, which type of person you’d rather work for/with?

  1. someone who doesn’t care about your personal feelings/ego and directly points out/criticizes your mistakes? they give opportunity to those who are more capable, not those who never say no to them
  2. someone who knows how to manage people’s feelings and loyalty but you won’t even know why you might be laid off one day? they consider obedience over competency when promoting someone

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[link] [comments]  So, which type of person you’d rather work for/with? someone who doesn’t care about your personal feelings/ego and directly points out/criticizes your mistakes? they give opportunity to those who are more capable, not those who never say no to them someone who knows how to manage people’s feelings and loyalty but you won’t even know why you might be laid off one day? they consider obedience over competency when promoting someone submitted by /u/game-dilemma [link] [comments]

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What should I prepare when I don’t have any specific Tech Stacks with working experience? /u/wateraccoon CSCQ protests reddit

What should I prepare when I don’t have any specific Tech Stacks with working experience? /u/wateraccoon CSCQ protests reddit

Long story, I have 2.5 years of experience as a “software engineer leader” in a startup company and that company went bankrupt this June. It is the first company I joined. It is very bad management basically our boss doesn’t know how to run a tech company and we used so many different techniques to build our AI software but nothing specific. We basically build everything like a university project. My boss told me what he wanted that was all and then I one of my co-workers (a technique I am his leader and he needs to listen to me) to build our thing. Our “team” only has me and him, and my only boss is the CTO of the company. There are some other parts done by other teams and people but I only did the things he gave me.

And like I said we basically did things like university projects and we used different wired things. There is no system design since I just deliver what the CTO wants to him. We even used different programming languages for the same product’s different parts I don’t know how it worked eventually but apparently, it failed.

To be fair I am not blaming the company they treated me well it just didn’t manage well and it is my fault didn’t improve myself or find another company. I don’t blame anything on them.

But that being said I don’t have a specific tech stack. I did write all the projects I have done in the company in the resume, but I am not an expert on anything, not system design since I almost didn’t do it, not web backend and front end, I didn’t do them. We were building “software” but I actually did it more like doing things my professor gave me in university. I did no SQL things, no embedded thing unless you call Nvidia Jetson “embedded device”.

The only thing I am good at, or probably Ok with is coding. Just coding itself… To be fair the company was very loose so I didn’t work too much time (I only worked around 4 hours a day) when I still had a job so even my coding skills are not very good. (again I am not blaming the company it is my fault).

I haven’t applied for too many jobs yet but did get 5 interviews since I have some working experience and I failed all. I feel like I cannot answer these questions well since I didn’t do them in my loose job but the interviewers expect me to act like someone who worked 2.5 years. I am even afraid of applying for many jobs since I feel like I cannot pass the interviews.

What should I prepare? What kind of jobs should I apply for? entry level or mid-level? What kind of tech stack should I apply since even I don’t know which tech stack I am good at except just coding… I know I should apply for both mid and entry-level jobs but which one should I focus more on? I know I am a bad programmer but I want to improve myself since I lost my job… I started doing leet code every day but that seems the easiest part of being a programmer…

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​r/cscareerquestions Long story, I have 2.5 years of experience as a “software engineer leader” in a startup company and that company went bankrupt this June. It is the first company I joined. It is very bad management basically our boss doesn’t know how to run a tech company and we used so many different techniques to build our AI software but nothing specific. We basically build everything like a university project. My boss told me what he wanted that was all and then I one of my co-workers (a technique I am his leader and he needs to listen to me) to build our thing. Our “team” only has me and him, and my only boss is the CTO of the company. There are some other parts done by other teams and people but I only did the things he gave me. And like I said we basically did things like university projects and we used different wired things. There is no system design since I just deliver what the CTO wants to him. We even used different programming languages for the same product’s different parts I don’t know how it worked eventually but apparently, it failed. To be fair I am not blaming the company they treated me well it just didn’t manage well and it is my fault didn’t improve myself or find another company. I don’t blame anything on them. But that being said I don’t have a specific tech stack. I did write all the projects I have done in the company in the resume, but I am not an expert on anything, not system design since I almost didn’t do it, not web backend and front end, I didn’t do them. We were building “software” but I actually did it more like doing things my professor gave me in university. I did no SQL things, no embedded thing unless you call Nvidia Jetson “embedded device”. The only thing I am good at, or probably Ok with is coding. Just coding itself… To be fair the company was very loose so I didn’t work too much time (I only worked around 4 hours a day) when I still had a job so even my coding skills are not very good. (again I am not blaming the company it is my fault). I haven’t applied for too many jobs yet but did get 5 interviews since I have some working experience and I failed all. I feel like I cannot answer these questions well since I didn’t do them in my loose job but the interviewers expect me to act like someone who worked 2.5 years. I am even afraid of applying for many jobs since I feel like I cannot pass the interviews. What should I prepare? What kind of jobs should I apply for? entry level or mid-level? What kind of tech stack should I apply since even I don’t know which tech stack I am good at except just coding… I know I should apply for both mid and entry-level jobs but which one should I focus more on? I know I am a bad programmer but I want to improve myself since I lost my job… I started doing leet code every day but that seems the easiest part of being a programmer… submitted by /u/wateraccoon [link] [comments] 

Long story, I have 2.5 years of experience as a “software engineer leader” in a startup company and that company went bankrupt this June. It is the first company I joined. It is very bad management basically our boss doesn’t know how to run a tech company and we used so many different techniques to build our AI software but nothing specific. We basically build everything like a university project. My boss told me what he wanted that was all and then I one of my co-workers (a technique I am his leader and he needs to listen to me) to build our thing. Our “team” only has me and him, and my only boss is the CTO of the company. There are some other parts done by other teams and people but I only did the things he gave me.

And like I said we basically did things like university projects and we used different wired things. There is no system design since I just deliver what the CTO wants to him. We even used different programming languages for the same product’s different parts I don’t know how it worked eventually but apparently, it failed.

To be fair I am not blaming the company they treated me well it just didn’t manage well and it is my fault didn’t improve myself or find another company. I don’t blame anything on them.

But that being said I don’t have a specific tech stack. I did write all the projects I have done in the company in the resume, but I am not an expert on anything, not system design since I almost didn’t do it, not web backend and front end, I didn’t do them. We were building “software” but I actually did it more like doing things my professor gave me in university. I did no SQL things, no embedded thing unless you call Nvidia Jetson “embedded device”.

The only thing I am good at, or probably Ok with is coding. Just coding itself… To be fair the company was very loose so I didn’t work too much time (I only worked around 4 hours a day) when I still had a job so even my coding skills are not very good. (again I am not blaming the company it is my fault).

I haven’t applied for too many jobs yet but did get 5 interviews since I have some working experience and I failed all. I feel like I cannot answer these questions well since I didn’t do them in my loose job but the interviewers expect me to act like someone who worked 2.5 years. I am even afraid of applying for many jobs since I feel like I cannot pass the interviews.

What should I prepare? What kind of jobs should I apply for? entry level or mid-level? What kind of tech stack should I apply since even I don’t know which tech stack I am good at except just coding… I know I should apply for both mid and entry-level jobs but which one should I focus more on? I know I am a bad programmer but I want to improve myself since I lost my job… I started doing leet code every day but that seems the easiest part of being a programmer…

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[link] [comments]  Long story, I have 2.5 years of experience as a “software engineer leader” in a startup company and that company went bankrupt this June. It is the first company I joined. It is very bad management basically our boss doesn’t know how to run a tech company and we used so many different techniques to build our AI software but nothing specific. We basically build everything like a university project. My boss told me what he wanted that was all and then I one of my co-workers (a technique I am his leader and he needs to listen to me) to build our thing. Our “team” only has me and him, and my only boss is the CTO of the company. There are some other parts done by other teams and people but I only did the things he gave me. And like I said we basically did things like university projects and we used different wired things. There is no system design since I just deliver what the CTO wants to him. We even used different programming languages for the same product’s different parts I don’t know how it worked eventually but apparently, it failed. To be fair I am not blaming the company they treated me well it just didn’t manage well and it is my fault didn’t improve myself or find another company. I don’t blame anything on them. But that being said I don’t have a specific tech stack. I did write all the projects I have done in the company in the resume, but I am not an expert on anything, not system design since I almost didn’t do it, not web backend and front end, I didn’t do them. We were building “software” but I actually did it more like doing things my professor gave me in university. I did no SQL things, no embedded thing unless you call Nvidia Jetson “embedded device”. The only thing I am good at, or probably Ok with is coding. Just coding itself… To be fair the company was very loose so I didn’t work too much time (I only worked around 4 hours a day) when I still had a job so even my coding skills are not very good. (again I am not blaming the company it is my fault). I haven’t applied for too many jobs yet but did get 5 interviews since I have some working experience and I failed all. I feel like I cannot answer these questions well since I didn’t do them in my loose job but the interviewers expect me to act like someone who worked 2.5 years. I am even afraid of applying for many jobs since I feel like I cannot pass the interviews. What should I prepare? What kind of jobs should I apply for? entry level or mid-level? What kind of tech stack should I apply since even I don’t know which tech stack I am good at except just coding… I know I should apply for both mid and entry-level jobs but which one should I focus more on? I know I am a bad programmer but I want to improve myself since I lost my job… I started doing leet code every day but that seems the easiest part of being a programmer… submitted by /u/wateraccoon [link] [comments]

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Burnt out and unable to keep up, how do you deal? /u/ExpressionOk5435 CSCQ protests reddit

Burnt out and unable to keep up, how do you deal? /u/ExpressionOk5435 CSCQ protests reddit

I’ve been working as a Software Engineer for just over 2 years now, and I feel like I am constantly stressed. I sometimes get tasks worth 4 story points that end up taking weeks due to unforseen circumstances (requirements change, PM changes their mind on the implementation, etc.) 80% of the time it’s manageable, but those 20% I feel like I just can’t keep up.

Technology wise I feel like I am adequate, I keep learning and don’t shy away from languages or tools I haven’t used before, but every role/project I have been on just feels so overbearing. Is this normal? Am I expected to learn more in my free time? Is it the current market that expects a lot?

I know it’s hard to provided feedback when you don’t have a direct view on my experience, but I was wondering if any of you have felt similarly, and how you overcame similar situations. I really enjoy CS, but professionally I feel so burnt out and exhausted.

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​r/cscareerquestions I’ve been working as a Software Engineer for just over 2 years now, and I feel like I am constantly stressed. I sometimes get tasks worth 4 story points that end up taking weeks due to unforseen circumstances (requirements change, PM changes their mind on the implementation, etc.) 80% of the time it’s manageable, but those 20% I feel like I just can’t keep up. Technology wise I feel like I am adequate, I keep learning and don’t shy away from languages or tools I haven’t used before, but every role/project I have been on just feels so overbearing. Is this normal? Am I expected to learn more in my free time? Is it the current market that expects a lot? I know it’s hard to provided feedback when you don’t have a direct view on my experience, but I was wondering if any of you have felt similarly, and how you overcame similar situations. I really enjoy CS, but professionally I feel so burnt out and exhausted. submitted by /u/ExpressionOk5435 [link] [comments] 

I’ve been working as a Software Engineer for just over 2 years now, and I feel like I am constantly stressed. I sometimes get tasks worth 4 story points that end up taking weeks due to unforseen circumstances (requirements change, PM changes their mind on the implementation, etc.) 80% of the time it’s manageable, but those 20% I feel like I just can’t keep up.

Technology wise I feel like I am adequate, I keep learning and don’t shy away from languages or tools I haven’t used before, but every role/project I have been on just feels so overbearing. Is this normal? Am I expected to learn more in my free time? Is it the current market that expects a lot?

I know it’s hard to provided feedback when you don’t have a direct view on my experience, but I was wondering if any of you have felt similarly, and how you overcame similar situations. I really enjoy CS, but professionally I feel so burnt out and exhausted.

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[link] [comments]  I’ve been working as a Software Engineer for just over 2 years now, and I feel like I am constantly stressed. I sometimes get tasks worth 4 story points that end up taking weeks due to unforseen circumstances (requirements change, PM changes their mind on the implementation, etc.) 80% of the time it’s manageable, but those 20% I feel like I just can’t keep up. Technology wise I feel like I am adequate, I keep learning and don’t shy away from languages or tools I haven’t used before, but every role/project I have been on just feels so overbearing. Is this normal? Am I expected to learn more in my free time? Is it the current market that expects a lot? I know it’s hard to provided feedback when you don’t have a direct view on my experience, but I was wondering if any of you have felt similarly, and how you overcame similar situations. I really enjoy CS, but professionally I feel so burnt out and exhausted. submitted by /u/ExpressionOk5435 [link] [comments]

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Next goal: cyber security… good idea? /u/Joker_bosss CSCQ protests reddit

Next goal: cyber security… good idea? /u/Joker_bosss CSCQ protests reddit

TL;DR: applied to small local tech companies for software engineer & web developer, but no response. Planning to transition from web dev to cybersecurity, is this a good idea? If so, how do i get started & what do i do in winter break to get into good position? What certification should i go for? Google cybersecurity or compria security+ ?

Whole story:

Got CS bachelor’s in dec 2023. 1 month of unpaid internship experience as augmented reality web developer from nameless startup (i got scammed here). Worked on multiple full stack & game dev projects with database management systems with sql.

Thats pretty much what my experience is. I wanted to become a game developer when i started, but i realized the competition and lack of qualifications since my university dont offer that many game dev courses, and me learning online isnt helping without experience. So i switched to web dev in 2022, this is where the job market is changing dramatically.

I got an full-time offer where my boss straight up planning to steal my work with no recognition, paperwork, hire me without mentioning about unpaid section, or future consideration and fire me as soon as i finish the work. I tried to bargain like give low paid full-time, but he said this is the best he can offer, take it or leave.

Im currently working as a substitute teacher to survive, since other places wont take cs degree for some reason. I applied at the local tech small conpanies, no respond.

I have decided to get masters degree in cs from a top university with focus of machine learning & cybersecurity, just finished the first semester with gpa of 3.9 (final grade isnt availabe yet).

My winter break is about to start, so what can i do to sharpen my skills? Do u have any suggestions? I plan to get a certificate in cybersecurity from google or the comptia security+.

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​r/cscareerquestions TL;DR: applied to small local tech companies for software engineer & web developer, but no response. Planning to transition from web dev to cybersecurity, is this a good idea? If so, how do i get started & what do i do in winter break to get into good position? What certification should i go for? Google cybersecurity or compria security+ ? Whole story: Got CS bachelor’s in dec 2023. 1 month of unpaid internship experience as augmented reality web developer from nameless startup (i got scammed here). Worked on multiple full stack & game dev projects with database management systems with sql. Thats pretty much what my experience is. I wanted to become a game developer when i started, but i realized the competition and lack of qualifications since my university dont offer that many game dev courses, and me learning online isnt helping without experience. So i switched to web dev in 2022, this is where the job market is changing dramatically. I got an full-time offer where my boss straight up planning to steal my work with no recognition, paperwork, hire me without mentioning about unpaid section, or future consideration and fire me as soon as i finish the work. I tried to bargain like give low paid full-time, but he said this is the best he can offer, take it or leave. Im currently working as a substitute teacher to survive, since other places wont take cs degree for some reason. I applied at the local tech small conpanies, no respond. I have decided to get masters degree in cs from a top university with focus of machine learning & cybersecurity, just finished the first semester with gpa of 3.9 (final grade isnt availabe yet). My winter break is about to start, so what can i do to sharpen my skills? Do u have any suggestions? I plan to get a certificate in cybersecurity from google or the comptia security+. submitted by /u/Joker_bosss [link] [comments] 

TL;DR: applied to small local tech companies for software engineer & web developer, but no response. Planning to transition from web dev to cybersecurity, is this a good idea? If so, how do i get started & what do i do in winter break to get into good position? What certification should i go for? Google cybersecurity or compria security+ ?

Whole story:

Got CS bachelor’s in dec 2023. 1 month of unpaid internship experience as augmented reality web developer from nameless startup (i got scammed here). Worked on multiple full stack & game dev projects with database management systems with sql.

Thats pretty much what my experience is. I wanted to become a game developer when i started, but i realized the competition and lack of qualifications since my university dont offer that many game dev courses, and me learning online isnt helping without experience. So i switched to web dev in 2022, this is where the job market is changing dramatically.

I got an full-time offer where my boss straight up planning to steal my work with no recognition, paperwork, hire me without mentioning about unpaid section, or future consideration and fire me as soon as i finish the work. I tried to bargain like give low paid full-time, but he said this is the best he can offer, take it or leave.

Im currently working as a substitute teacher to survive, since other places wont take cs degree for some reason. I applied at the local tech small conpanies, no respond.

I have decided to get masters degree in cs from a top university with focus of machine learning & cybersecurity, just finished the first semester with gpa of 3.9 (final grade isnt availabe yet).

My winter break is about to start, so what can i do to sharpen my skills? Do u have any suggestions? I plan to get a certificate in cybersecurity from google or the comptia security+.

submitted by /u/Joker_bosss
[link] [comments]  TL;DR: applied to small local tech companies for software engineer & web developer, but no response. Planning to transition from web dev to cybersecurity, is this a good idea? If so, how do i get started & what do i do in winter break to get into good position? What certification should i go for? Google cybersecurity or compria security+ ? Whole story: Got CS bachelor’s in dec 2023. 1 month of unpaid internship experience as augmented reality web developer from nameless startup (i got scammed here). Worked on multiple full stack & game dev projects with database management systems with sql. Thats pretty much what my experience is. I wanted to become a game developer when i started, but i realized the competition and lack of qualifications since my university dont offer that many game dev courses, and me learning online isnt helping without experience. So i switched to web dev in 2022, this is where the job market is changing dramatically. I got an full-time offer where my boss straight up planning to steal my work with no recognition, paperwork, hire me without mentioning about unpaid section, or future consideration and fire me as soon as i finish the work. I tried to bargain like give low paid full-time, but he said this is the best he can offer, take it or leave. Im currently working as a substitute teacher to survive, since other places wont take cs degree for some reason. I applied at the local tech small conpanies, no respond. I have decided to get masters degree in cs from a top university with focus of machine learning & cybersecurity, just finished the first semester with gpa of 3.9 (final grade isnt availabe yet). My winter break is about to start, so what can i do to sharpen my skills? Do u have any suggestions? I plan to get a certificate in cybersecurity from google or the comptia security+. submitted by /u/Joker_bosss [link] [comments]

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Do you leave Glassdoor reviews about your previous company? Have you ever had any repercussions? /u/Ok_Parsley9031 CSCQ protests reddit

Do you leave Glassdoor reviews about your previous company? Have you ever had any repercussions? /u/Ok_Parsley9031 CSCQ protests reddit

I absolutely look at Glassdoor reviews before accepting a role and negative reviews will definitely make me reconsider my application. Ever since I started referring to it it’s made me want to contribute by leaving my experience but I’m always plagued by the “don’t burn your bridges” mantra, especially when the company is so small it’ll be able to put two and two together that it was you that left it.

Anyone have any experiences with this?

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​r/cscareerquestions I absolutely look at Glassdoor reviews before accepting a role and negative reviews will definitely make me reconsider my application. Ever since I started referring to it it’s made me want to contribute by leaving my experience but I’m always plagued by the “don’t burn your bridges” mantra, especially when the company is so small it’ll be able to put two and two together that it was you that left it. Anyone have any experiences with this? submitted by /u/Ok_Parsley9031 [link] [comments] 

I absolutely look at Glassdoor reviews before accepting a role and negative reviews will definitely make me reconsider my application. Ever since I started referring to it it’s made me want to contribute by leaving my experience but I’m always plagued by the “don’t burn your bridges” mantra, especially when the company is so small it’ll be able to put two and two together that it was you that left it.

Anyone have any experiences with this?

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[link] [comments]  I absolutely look at Glassdoor reviews before accepting a role and negative reviews will definitely make me reconsider my application. Ever since I started referring to it it’s made me want to contribute by leaving my experience but I’m always plagued by the “don’t burn your bridges” mantra, especially when the company is so small it’ll be able to put two and two together that it was you that left it. Anyone have any experiences with this? submitted by /u/Ok_Parsley9031 [link] [comments]

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Is Our Industry Falling Apart? (feat. MBAs) /u/OneMillionSnakes CSCQ protests reddit

Is Our Industry Falling Apart? (feat. MBAs) /u/OneMillionSnakes CSCQ protests reddit

Sorry for the (only partially) clickbait title but currently my experience in web dev is that during downturns micromanagement become rampant. People who have no idea what they’re doing will just straight up lie to people and rise the ranks. It’s like a big confidence scheme in some places. I’m gonna tell a story about my recent career. This isn’t meant to be ranting although it is a long story which you are free to skip, where I express some frustration but it’s an example that I think epitomizes what I’m seeing at least in more moderate sized enterprise shops right now. I have questions for industry veterans and experienced devs. Is this normal? Have downturns always caused a race to the bottom with regards to metrics?

As somebody who comes from a perhaps weird background of having 2 bachelors degrees (one in Computer Engineering and one in Applied Physics) and having worked many many odd jobs (union labor, barista, defense industry engineer, controls systems lab researcher, computer vision dev, educational remote lab worker) and has spent about 4-5 years in web dev the environment is undergoing a pretty severe regression right now. I started with company about 2 years ago as a hybrid controls and web dev working on the web and mobile control of some embedded/IoT devices. So I may not have the most normal profile.

About 1.5 years ago my manager who was an engineer who had spent a lot of years in embedded and web dev retired and was replaced with an MBA from some rando and an undergrad from Elon University. This man has 3 years of start up experience which he claimed was highly technical but from what I can dig up was not really that technical. He has an engineering degree with a computing concentration and worked for 1 year at a crypto startup and 2 years at another that made some weird embedded wallet that have both long collapsed. Then took a couple years off to get an MBA from random place. That seems to be the sum total of his experience. I was moved away from embedded work on our trajectory planning groups to help sort out some web pages that allow users to make custom trajectories for some things and also sort out some CI issues with running on test devices. Fine. No big deal. But for the last year the company has been having us go to skip levels and having 7:00 AM alignment meetings where the importance of everything being uniform across the company and the need for ’employee-level observability” has been emphasized. They’ve had an outside contracting firm install spy software on our Github Cloud environment. They’ve mandated pair programming and the use of Jira and Swarmia for performance monitoring. We have weekly meetings to discuss individual productivity and go over delivery speed and how our “line rates” and “lead time” looks.

During the last 6 months I was given the task of fixing peoples NGINX conf and similar web server configs since a lot of our confs were copy pasted from old projects and had weird issues. Broken redirects, weird endpoints. Shitty API design etc. I have a reputation for fixing things quickly and I was recommended highly for the job by my tech lead and by a senior on a different team. It’s something I really don’t like doing, but my boss and skip level manager emphasized that this was important to certain execs who had some outside firm audit our quality and found a bunch of weird web page behavior on our internal sites. I asked if it was valuable since these pages were mostly internal and none of them were really web app breaking or insecure just annoying redirects and weird parameter issues. I was reassured the execs asked for these to be resolved by next year and was considered highly valuable.

Some stuff is hosted raw on AWS and some were on our k8s platform which is self-hosted on-prem. So I wanted there to be a comprehensive guide so people don’t make similar config mistakes again. I made such a guide on our confluence. I touched like 300 .conf files and several hundred more k8s yaml files and helmfiles. A few project specific ones for flask and such. I made a github app that could alert you to common misconfigs proactively. All along my boss encouraged that the execs were asking for uniformity and what I was doing was super valuable.

End of year review comes. My boss comes in and says that my productivity is the lowest on the team (that I’m still tehcnically on I guess?). I’ve contributed nothing to my teams web apps. I say yeah because you wanted me to fix our web apps at the enterprise scale. Literally 3 days earlier at our weekly review my boss and I had discussed yearly reviews and he had told me he really appreciated me stepping up and it was shaping up to be a good year. He says “Yes, that’s before I knew you had made only 14 valuable contributions and 0 jira tickets.”.

Puzzled I ask how this can be? He shows me a few configs that I changed and most of the code for my github app. And suddenly it dawns on me that any commits I made that didn’t have mutli-file changes are not included in his big word doc. I say “Hey you’re not including most of my commits. Most of our configs are rather small one file changes. Also you never started a Jira for this project since I’m currently operating solo.” To which my boss responds that’s an invalid excuse for not having valuable commits in my report. He understand Jira not being present, but he “knows programming” and “knows” that isn’t how things work. He asks me what I’ve been doing the last 6 months I explain once again doing the config changes you asked for like we discuss every Thursday of every week. That if he looks at my PRs many PRs have numerous commits that are collectively mutliple files I just don’t squash before I merge that often for these large enterprise programs. Again my boss explains to me “That isn’t how programming works. I would know I spent years at start ups this would be inexcusable.”

He tells me “I’m not letting you go this year mostly due to the earlier 6 months being good, but you’re on thin ice. You need to prove to the stakeholder your providing value and give me a story to tell.” I ask him about how we agreed the execs really needed these web app behaviors fixed by next year and I’ve gotten essentially every web app working in a proper web like fashion often times involving hours of debugging working with the owners of these apps. Going at an absolutely rapid pace fixing other peoples apps and adding github apps so we can be proactive in the future.

He begins questioning my credentials, talks about how I’m acting like a ghost engineer (that set of articles was all over the MGMT slack channel at that time), asking me if my typing speed is a problem, threatening consequences if I don’t shape up next year. I guess the outside firm uses some esoteric mesurements supposedly involving some AI somewhere and checks by commit who is doing what and ignores commits beneath a certain line number and amount of files and sends them to managers in word docs. Literal LoC metrics in some places. It’s absurd. Swarmia we bought but barely use I guess because it has a much better looking track record from me.

A lot of my commits are credited to web app owners because I’ll tell them and walk them through how to patch it since they are the owners of the actual application. My old manager would never have accepted this. But here is this rich kid who brags about his parents owning a winery in New England who as far as I can tell has never worked a real job not even 2 years my senior telling me that I’m not competent at my own job. A job he’s derailing sending me on some web server config goose chase the execs have to have while also telling me it’s not valuable work. After reassuring me every week I don’t need Jira tasks and don’t need stand-up it feels very intentional to be suddenly confronted with the opposite opinion.

Is this drive towards relatively arbitrary metrics precedented in this industry? Is this normal? In more traditional engineering technical jobs this wouldn’t be acceptable or at least I’ve never seen it get so voracious. I have friends having reasonably similar experiences with Swarmia, LinearB, and GetDX being installed at a bunch of my friends companies. Suddenly dev productivity is #1 as long as the way dev productivity looks is like a good graph on some charting software. It feels like Office Space but IRL. I feel bad for all those who don’t even have jobs right now, but even if you have one things feel like they’re going down the drain. I’d prefer industry level advice and discussion about similar experiences. I can handle myself I have enough savings to cover my rent and bills for ~1.5 years my story was primarily a demonstration about what I see happening right now. I think mine is a rather extreme example of a previously very nice-to-work-at company going metric hungry, but I’m curious if other people have insight.

tl:dr – Is it normal during these economic downturns to move to metric based performance evaluations? How should these things be rolled out? Experiences with being evaluated by Jira/Commits/Swarmia/GetDX/LinearB?

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​r/cscareerquestions Sorry for the (only partially) clickbait title but currently my experience in web dev is that during downturns micromanagement become rampant. People who have no idea what they’re doing will just straight up lie to people and rise the ranks. It’s like a big confidence scheme in some places. I’m gonna tell a story about my recent career. This isn’t meant to be ranting although it is a long story which you are free to skip, where I express some frustration but it’s an example that I think epitomizes what I’m seeing at least in more moderate sized enterprise shops right now. I have questions for industry veterans and experienced devs. Is this normal? Have downturns always caused a race to the bottom with regards to metrics? As somebody who comes from a perhaps weird background of having 2 bachelors degrees (one in Computer Engineering and one in Applied Physics) and having worked many many odd jobs (union labor, barista, defense industry engineer, controls systems lab researcher, computer vision dev, educational remote lab worker) and has spent about 4-5 years in web dev the environment is undergoing a pretty severe regression right now. I started with company about 2 years ago as a hybrid controls and web dev working on the web and mobile control of some embedded/IoT devices. So I may not have the most normal profile. About 1.5 years ago my manager who was an engineer who had spent a lot of years in embedded and web dev retired and was replaced with an MBA from some rando and an undergrad from Elon University. This man has 3 years of start up experience which he claimed was highly technical but from what I can dig up was not really that technical. He has an engineering degree with a computing concentration and worked for 1 year at a crypto startup and 2 years at another that made some weird embedded wallet that have both long collapsed. Then took a couple years off to get an MBA from random place. That seems to be the sum total of his experience. I was moved away from embedded work on our trajectory planning groups to help sort out some web pages that allow users to make custom trajectories for some things and also sort out some CI issues with running on test devices. Fine. No big deal. But for the last year the company has been having us go to skip levels and having 7:00 AM alignment meetings where the importance of everything being uniform across the company and the need for ’employee-level observability” has been emphasized. They’ve had an outside contracting firm install spy software on our Github Cloud environment. They’ve mandated pair programming and the use of Jira and Swarmia for performance monitoring. We have weekly meetings to discuss individual productivity and go over delivery speed and how our “line rates” and “lead time” looks. During the last 6 months I was given the task of fixing peoples NGINX conf and similar web server configs since a lot of our confs were copy pasted from old projects and had weird issues. Broken redirects, weird endpoints. Shitty API design etc. I have a reputation for fixing things quickly and I was recommended highly for the job by my tech lead and by a senior on a different team. It’s something I really don’t like doing, but my boss and skip level manager emphasized that this was important to certain execs who had some outside firm audit our quality and found a bunch of weird web page behavior on our internal sites. I asked if it was valuable since these pages were mostly internal and none of them were really web app breaking or insecure just annoying redirects and weird parameter issues. I was reassured the execs asked for these to be resolved by next year and was considered highly valuable. Some stuff is hosted raw on AWS and some were on our k8s platform which is self-hosted on-prem. So I wanted there to be a comprehensive guide so people don’t make similar config mistakes again. I made such a guide on our confluence. I touched like 300 .conf files and several hundred more k8s yaml files and helmfiles. A few project specific ones for flask and such. I made a github app that could alert you to common misconfigs proactively. All along my boss encouraged that the execs were asking for uniformity and what I was doing was super valuable. End of year review comes. My boss comes in and says that my productivity is the lowest on the team (that I’m still tehcnically on I guess?). I’ve contributed nothing to my teams web apps. I say yeah because you wanted me to fix our web apps at the enterprise scale. Literally 3 days earlier at our weekly review my boss and I had discussed yearly reviews and he had told me he really appreciated me stepping up and it was shaping up to be a good year. He says “Yes, that’s before I knew you had made only 14 valuable contributions and 0 jira tickets.”. Puzzled I ask how this can be? He shows me a few configs that I changed and most of the code for my github app. And suddenly it dawns on me that any commits I made that didn’t have mutli-file changes are not included in his big word doc. I say “Hey you’re not including most of my commits. Most of our configs are rather small one file changes. Also you never started a Jira for this project since I’m currently operating solo.” To which my boss responds that’s an invalid excuse for not having valuable commits in my report. He understand Jira not being present, but he “knows programming” and “knows” that isn’t how things work. He asks me what I’ve been doing the last 6 months I explain once again doing the config changes you asked for like we discuss every Thursday of every week. That if he looks at my PRs many PRs have numerous commits that are collectively mutliple files I just don’t squash before I merge that often for these large enterprise programs. Again my boss explains to me “That isn’t how programming works. I would know I spent years at start ups this would be inexcusable.” He tells me “I’m not letting you go this year mostly due to the earlier 6 months being good, but you’re on thin ice. You need to prove to the stakeholder your providing value and give me a story to tell.” I ask him about how we agreed the execs really needed these web app behaviors fixed by next year and I’ve gotten essentially every web app working in a proper web like fashion often times involving hours of debugging working with the owners of these apps. Going at an absolutely rapid pace fixing other peoples apps and adding github apps so we can be proactive in the future. He begins questioning my credentials, talks about how I’m acting like a ghost engineer (that set of articles was all over the MGMT slack channel at that time), asking me if my typing speed is a problem, threatening consequences if I don’t shape up next year. I guess the outside firm uses some esoteric mesurements supposedly involving some AI somewhere and checks by commit who is doing what and ignores commits beneath a certain line number and amount of files and sends them to managers in word docs. Literal LoC metrics in some places. It’s absurd. Swarmia we bought but barely use I guess because it has a much better looking track record from me. A lot of my commits are credited to web app owners because I’ll tell them and walk them through how to patch it since they are the owners of the actual application. My old manager would never have accepted this. But here is this rich kid who brags about his parents owning a winery in New England who as far as I can tell has never worked a real job not even 2 years my senior telling me that I’m not competent at my own job. A job he’s derailing sending me on some web server config goose chase the execs have to have while also telling me it’s not valuable work. After reassuring me every week I don’t need Jira tasks and don’t need stand-up it feels very intentional to be suddenly confronted with the opposite opinion. Is this drive towards relatively arbitrary metrics precedented in this industry? Is this normal? In more traditional engineering technical jobs this wouldn’t be acceptable or at least I’ve never seen it get so voracious. I have friends having reasonably similar experiences with Swarmia, LinearB, and GetDX being installed at a bunch of my friends companies. Suddenly dev productivity is #1 as long as the way dev productivity looks is like a good graph on some charting software. It feels like Office Space but IRL. I feel bad for all those who don’t even have jobs right now, but even if you have one things feel like they’re going down the drain. I’d prefer industry level advice and discussion about similar experiences. I can handle myself I have enough savings to cover my rent and bills for ~1.5 years my story was primarily a demonstration about what I see happening right now. I think mine is a rather extreme example of a previously very nice-to-work-at company going metric hungry, but I’m curious if other people have insight. tl:dr – Is it normal during these economic downturns to move to metric based performance evaluations? How should these things be rolled out? Experiences with being evaluated by Jira/Commits/Swarmia/GetDX/LinearB? submitted by /u/OneMillionSnakes [link] [comments] 

Sorry for the (only partially) clickbait title but currently my experience in web dev is that during downturns micromanagement become rampant. People who have no idea what they’re doing will just straight up lie to people and rise the ranks. It’s like a big confidence scheme in some places. I’m gonna tell a story about my recent career. This isn’t meant to be ranting although it is a long story which you are free to skip, where I express some frustration but it’s an example that I think epitomizes what I’m seeing at least in more moderate sized enterprise shops right now. I have questions for industry veterans and experienced devs. Is this normal? Have downturns always caused a race to the bottom with regards to metrics?

As somebody who comes from a perhaps weird background of having 2 bachelors degrees (one in Computer Engineering and one in Applied Physics) and having worked many many odd jobs (union labor, barista, defense industry engineer, controls systems lab researcher, computer vision dev, educational remote lab worker) and has spent about 4-5 years in web dev the environment is undergoing a pretty severe regression right now. I started with company about 2 years ago as a hybrid controls and web dev working on the web and mobile control of some embedded/IoT devices. So I may not have the most normal profile.

About 1.5 years ago my manager who was an engineer who had spent a lot of years in embedded and web dev retired and was replaced with an MBA from some rando and an undergrad from Elon University. This man has 3 years of start up experience which he claimed was highly technical but from what I can dig up was not really that technical. He has an engineering degree with a computing concentration and worked for 1 year at a crypto startup and 2 years at another that made some weird embedded wallet that have both long collapsed. Then took a couple years off to get an MBA from random place. That seems to be the sum total of his experience. I was moved away from embedded work on our trajectory planning groups to help sort out some web pages that allow users to make custom trajectories for some things and also sort out some CI issues with running on test devices. Fine. No big deal. But for the last year the company has been having us go to skip levels and having 7:00 AM alignment meetings where the importance of everything being uniform across the company and the need for ’employee-level observability” has been emphasized. They’ve had an outside contracting firm install spy software on our Github Cloud environment. They’ve mandated pair programming and the use of Jira and Swarmia for performance monitoring. We have weekly meetings to discuss individual productivity and go over delivery speed and how our “line rates” and “lead time” looks.

During the last 6 months I was given the task of fixing peoples NGINX conf and similar web server configs since a lot of our confs were copy pasted from old projects and had weird issues. Broken redirects, weird endpoints. Shitty API design etc. I have a reputation for fixing things quickly and I was recommended highly for the job by my tech lead and by a senior on a different team. It’s something I really don’t like doing, but my boss and skip level manager emphasized that this was important to certain execs who had some outside firm audit our quality and found a bunch of weird web page behavior on our internal sites. I asked if it was valuable since these pages were mostly internal and none of them were really web app breaking or insecure just annoying redirects and weird parameter issues. I was reassured the execs asked for these to be resolved by next year and was considered highly valuable.

Some stuff is hosted raw on AWS and some were on our k8s platform which is self-hosted on-prem. So I wanted there to be a comprehensive guide so people don’t make similar config mistakes again. I made such a guide on our confluence. I touched like 300 .conf files and several hundred more k8s yaml files and helmfiles. A few project specific ones for flask and such. I made a github app that could alert you to common misconfigs proactively. All along my boss encouraged that the execs were asking for uniformity and what I was doing was super valuable.

End of year review comes. My boss comes in and says that my productivity is the lowest on the team (that I’m still tehcnically on I guess?). I’ve contributed nothing to my teams web apps. I say yeah because you wanted me to fix our web apps at the enterprise scale. Literally 3 days earlier at our weekly review my boss and I had discussed yearly reviews and he had told me he really appreciated me stepping up and it was shaping up to be a good year. He says “Yes, that’s before I knew you had made only 14 valuable contributions and 0 jira tickets.”.

Puzzled I ask how this can be? He shows me a few configs that I changed and most of the code for my github app. And suddenly it dawns on me that any commits I made that didn’t have mutli-file changes are not included in his big word doc. I say “Hey you’re not including most of my commits. Most of our configs are rather small one file changes. Also you never started a Jira for this project since I’m currently operating solo.” To which my boss responds that’s an invalid excuse for not having valuable commits in my report. He understand Jira not being present, but he “knows programming” and “knows” that isn’t how things work. He asks me what I’ve been doing the last 6 months I explain once again doing the config changes you asked for like we discuss every Thursday of every week. That if he looks at my PRs many PRs have numerous commits that are collectively mutliple files I just don’t squash before I merge that often for these large enterprise programs. Again my boss explains to me “That isn’t how programming works. I would know I spent years at start ups this would be inexcusable.”

He tells me “I’m not letting you go this year mostly due to the earlier 6 months being good, but you’re on thin ice. You need to prove to the stakeholder your providing value and give me a story to tell.” I ask him about how we agreed the execs really needed these web app behaviors fixed by next year and I’ve gotten essentially every web app working in a proper web like fashion often times involving hours of debugging working with the owners of these apps. Going at an absolutely rapid pace fixing other peoples apps and adding github apps so we can be proactive in the future.

He begins questioning my credentials, talks about how I’m acting like a ghost engineer (that set of articles was all over the MGMT slack channel at that time), asking me if my typing speed is a problem, threatening consequences if I don’t shape up next year. I guess the outside firm uses some esoteric mesurements supposedly involving some AI somewhere and checks by commit who is doing what and ignores commits beneath a certain line number and amount of files and sends them to managers in word docs. Literal LoC metrics in some places. It’s absurd. Swarmia we bought but barely use I guess because it has a much better looking track record from me.

A lot of my commits are credited to web app owners because I’ll tell them and walk them through how to patch it since they are the owners of the actual application. My old manager would never have accepted this. But here is this rich kid who brags about his parents owning a winery in New England who as far as I can tell has never worked a real job not even 2 years my senior telling me that I’m not competent at my own job. A job he’s derailing sending me on some web server config goose chase the execs have to have while also telling me it’s not valuable work. After reassuring me every week I don’t need Jira tasks and don’t need stand-up it feels very intentional to be suddenly confronted with the opposite opinion.

Is this drive towards relatively arbitrary metrics precedented in this industry? Is this normal? In more traditional engineering technical jobs this wouldn’t be acceptable or at least I’ve never seen it get so voracious. I have friends having reasonably similar experiences with Swarmia, LinearB, and GetDX being installed at a bunch of my friends companies. Suddenly dev productivity is #1 as long as the way dev productivity looks is like a good graph on some charting software. It feels like Office Space but IRL. I feel bad for all those who don’t even have jobs right now, but even if you have one things feel like they’re going down the drain. I’d prefer industry level advice and discussion about similar experiences. I can handle myself I have enough savings to cover my rent and bills for ~1.5 years my story was primarily a demonstration about what I see happening right now. I think mine is a rather extreme example of a previously very nice-to-work-at company going metric hungry, but I’m curious if other people have insight.

tl:dr – Is it normal during these economic downturns to move to metric based performance evaluations? How should these things be rolled out? Experiences with being evaluated by Jira/Commits/Swarmia/GetDX/LinearB?

submitted by /u/OneMillionSnakes
[link] [comments]  Sorry for the (only partially) clickbait title but currently my experience in web dev is that during downturns micromanagement become rampant. People who have no idea what they’re doing will just straight up lie to people and rise the ranks. It’s like a big confidence scheme in some places. I’m gonna tell a story about my recent career. This isn’t meant to be ranting although it is a long story which you are free to skip, where I express some frustration but it’s an example that I think epitomizes what I’m seeing at least in more moderate sized enterprise shops right now. I have questions for industry veterans and experienced devs. Is this normal? Have downturns always caused a race to the bottom with regards to metrics? As somebody who comes from a perhaps weird background of having 2 bachelors degrees (one in Computer Engineering and one in Applied Physics) and having worked many many odd jobs (union labor, barista, defense industry engineer, controls systems lab researcher, computer vision dev, educational remote lab worker) and has spent about 4-5 years in web dev the environment is undergoing a pretty severe regression right now. I started with company about 2 years ago as a hybrid controls and web dev working on the web and mobile control of some embedded/IoT devices. So I may not have the most normal profile. About 1.5 years ago my manager who was an engineer who had spent a lot of years in embedded and web dev retired and was replaced with an MBA from some rando and an undergrad from Elon University. This man has 3 years of start up experience which he claimed was highly technical but from what I can dig up was not really that technical. He has an engineering degree with a computing concentration and worked for 1 year at a crypto startup and 2 years at another that made some weird embedded wallet that have both long collapsed. Then took a couple years off to get an MBA from random place. That seems to be the sum total of his experience. I was moved away from embedded work on our trajectory planning groups to help sort out some web pages that allow users to make custom trajectories for some things and also sort out some CI issues with running on test devices. Fine. No big deal. But for the last year the company has been having us go to skip levels and having 7:00 AM alignment meetings where the importance of everything being uniform across the company and the need for ’employee-level observability” has been emphasized. They’ve had an outside contracting firm install spy software on our Github Cloud environment. They’ve mandated pair programming and the use of Jira and Swarmia for performance monitoring. We have weekly meetings to discuss individual productivity and go over delivery speed and how our “line rates” and “lead time” looks. During the last 6 months I was given the task of fixing peoples NGINX conf and similar web server configs since a lot of our confs were copy pasted from old projects and had weird issues. Broken redirects, weird endpoints. Shitty API design etc. I have a reputation for fixing things quickly and I was recommended highly for the job by my tech lead and by a senior on a different team. It’s something I really don’t like doing, but my boss and skip level manager emphasized that this was important to certain execs who had some outside firm audit our quality and found a bunch of weird web page behavior on our internal sites. I asked if it was valuable since these pages were mostly internal and none of them were really web app breaking or insecure just annoying redirects and weird parameter issues. I was reassured the execs asked for these to be resolved by next year and was considered highly valuable. Some stuff is hosted raw on AWS and some were on our k8s platform which is self-hosted on-prem. So I wanted there to be a comprehensive guide so people don’t make similar config mistakes again. I made such a guide on our confluence. I touched like 300 .conf files and several hundred more k8s yaml files and helmfiles. A few project specific ones for flask and such. I made a github app that could alert you to common misconfigs proactively. All along my boss encouraged that the execs were asking for uniformity and what I was doing was super valuable. End of year review comes. My boss comes in and says that my productivity is the lowest on the team (that I’m still tehcnically on I guess?). I’ve contributed nothing to my teams web apps. I say yeah because you wanted me to fix our web apps at the enterprise scale. Literally 3 days earlier at our weekly review my boss and I had discussed yearly reviews and he had told me he really appreciated me stepping up and it was shaping up to be a good year. He says “Yes, that’s before I knew you had made only 14 valuable contributions and 0 jira tickets.”. Puzzled I ask how this can be? He shows me a few configs that I changed and most of the code for my github app. And suddenly it dawns on me that any commits I made that didn’t have mutli-file changes are not included in his big word doc. I say “Hey you’re not including most of my commits. Most of our configs are rather small one file changes. Also you never started a Jira for this project since I’m currently operating solo.” To which my boss responds that’s an invalid excuse for not having valuable commits in my report. He understand Jira not being present, but he “knows programming” and “knows” that isn’t how things work. He asks me what I’ve been doing the last 6 months I explain once again doing the config changes you asked for like we discuss every Thursday of every week. That if he looks at my PRs many PRs have numerous commits that are collectively mutliple files I just don’t squash before I merge that often for these large enterprise programs. Again my boss explains to me “That isn’t how programming works. I would know I spent years at start ups this would be inexcusable.” He tells me “I’m not letting you go this year mostly due to the earlier 6 months being good, but you’re on thin ice. You need to prove to the stakeholder your providing value and give me a story to tell.” I ask him about how we agreed the execs really needed these web app behaviors fixed by next year and I’ve gotten essentially every web app working in a proper web like fashion often times involving hours of debugging working with the owners of these apps. Going at an absolutely rapid pace fixing other peoples apps and adding github apps so we can be proactive in the future. He begins questioning my credentials, talks about how I’m acting like a ghost engineer (that set of articles was all over the MGMT slack channel at that time), asking me if my typing speed is a problem, threatening consequences if I don’t shape up next year. I guess the outside firm uses some esoteric mesurements supposedly involving some AI somewhere and checks by commit who is doing what and ignores commits beneath a certain line number and amount of files and sends them to managers in word docs. Literal LoC metrics in some places. It’s absurd. Swarmia we bought but barely use I guess because it has a much better looking track record from me. A lot of my commits are credited to web app owners because I’ll tell them and walk them through how to patch it since they are the owners of the actual application. My old manager would never have accepted this. But here is this rich kid who brags about his parents owning a winery in New England who as far as I can tell has never worked a real job not even 2 years my senior telling me that I’m not competent at my own job. A job he’s derailing sending me on some web server config goose chase the execs have to have while also telling me it’s not valuable work. After reassuring me every week I don’t need Jira tasks and don’t need stand-up it feels very intentional to be suddenly confronted with the opposite opinion. Is this drive towards relatively arbitrary metrics precedented in this industry? Is this normal? In more traditional engineering technical jobs this wouldn’t be acceptable or at least I’ve never seen it get so voracious. I have friends having reasonably similar experiences with Swarmia, LinearB, and GetDX being installed at a bunch of my friends companies. Suddenly dev productivity is #1 as long as the way dev productivity looks is like a good graph on some charting software. It feels like Office Space but IRL. I feel bad for all those who don’t even have jobs right now, but even if you have one things feel like they’re going down the drain. I’d prefer industry level advice and discussion about similar experiences. I can handle myself I have enough savings to cover my rent and bills for ~1.5 years my story was primarily a demonstration about what I see happening right now. I think mine is a rather extreme example of a previously very nice-to-work-at company going metric hungry, but I’m curious if other people have insight. tl:dr – Is it normal during these economic downturns to move to metric based performance evaluations? How should these things be rolled out? Experiences with being evaluated by Jira/Commits/Swarmia/GetDX/LinearB? submitted by /u/OneMillionSnakes [link] [comments]

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About to be new grad, job desperation /u/Background_Meeting58 CSCQ protests reddit

About to be new grad, job desperation /u/Background_Meeting58 CSCQ protests reddit

Hey guys,

I’m a senior in computer science with a 3.86 GPA. I know C, C++, Python, HTML. That’s it. In terms of major projects I made my own GBA game in C++, did undergraduate research (built a high end system +, researched thermal efficiency), and as my capstone project plan to make a phone application + using a microcontroller in the PC build I did (which I’m sure I will learn new skills in the process). Yet I’m seemingly incapable of finding even an internship. I have attended career fairs, tried tirelessly to build my linkedin network, worked on personal projects, and yet hundreds of applications and nothing. I know the market is rough. At this point, I’m seriously worried that I won’t even be able to get a job after I graduate. I’m planning on going straight into a masters so I don’t waste months/years sending applications into essentially a black hole. I’m quite literally so desperate for any experience, ANY breakthrough into the industry that I’m willing to work for pennies or even for free. Does anyone have advice on how to secure myself a job that I haven’t already done? I feel like most of my friends who have internships or jobs got one through a family member. Unfortunately, I know 0 people in tech other than the connections I have made at job fairs and in school.

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​r/cscareerquestions Hey guys, I’m a senior in computer science with a 3.86 GPA. I know C, C++, Python, HTML. That’s it. In terms of major projects I made my own GBA game in C++, did undergraduate research (built a high end system +, researched thermal efficiency), and as my capstone project plan to make a phone application + using a microcontroller in the PC build I did (which I’m sure I will learn new skills in the process). Yet I’m seemingly incapable of finding even an internship. I have attended career fairs, tried tirelessly to build my linkedin network, worked on personal projects, and yet hundreds of applications and nothing. I know the market is rough. At this point, I’m seriously worried that I won’t even be able to get a job after I graduate. I’m planning on going straight into a masters so I don’t waste months/years sending applications into essentially a black hole. I’m quite literally so desperate for any experience, ANY breakthrough into the industry that I’m willing to work for pennies or even for free. Does anyone have advice on how to secure myself a job that I haven’t already done? I feel like most of my friends who have internships or jobs got one through a family member. Unfortunately, I know 0 people in tech other than the connections I have made at job fairs and in school. submitted by /u/Background_Meeting58 [link] [comments] 

Hey guys,

I’m a senior in computer science with a 3.86 GPA. I know C, C++, Python, HTML. That’s it. In terms of major projects I made my own GBA game in C++, did undergraduate research (built a high end system +, researched thermal efficiency), and as my capstone project plan to make a phone application + using a microcontroller in the PC build I did (which I’m sure I will learn new skills in the process). Yet I’m seemingly incapable of finding even an internship. I have attended career fairs, tried tirelessly to build my linkedin network, worked on personal projects, and yet hundreds of applications and nothing. I know the market is rough. At this point, I’m seriously worried that I won’t even be able to get a job after I graduate. I’m planning on going straight into a masters so I don’t waste months/years sending applications into essentially a black hole. I’m quite literally so desperate for any experience, ANY breakthrough into the industry that I’m willing to work for pennies or even for free. Does anyone have advice on how to secure myself a job that I haven’t already done? I feel like most of my friends who have internships or jobs got one through a family member. Unfortunately, I know 0 people in tech other than the connections I have made at job fairs and in school.

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[link] [comments]  Hey guys, I’m a senior in computer science with a 3.86 GPA. I know C, C++, Python, HTML. That’s it. In terms of major projects I made my own GBA game in C++, did undergraduate research (built a high end system +, researched thermal efficiency), and as my capstone project plan to make a phone application + using a microcontroller in the PC build I did (which I’m sure I will learn new skills in the process). Yet I’m seemingly incapable of finding even an internship. I have attended career fairs, tried tirelessly to build my linkedin network, worked on personal projects, and yet hundreds of applications and nothing. I know the market is rough. At this point, I’m seriously worried that I won’t even be able to get a job after I graduate. I’m planning on going straight into a masters so I don’t waste months/years sending applications into essentially a black hole. I’m quite literally so desperate for any experience, ANY breakthrough into the industry that I’m willing to work for pennies or even for free. Does anyone have advice on how to secure myself a job that I haven’t already done? I feel like most of my friends who have internships or jobs got one through a family member. Unfortunately, I know 0 people in tech other than the connections I have made at job fairs and in school. submitted by /u/Background_Meeting58 [link] [comments]

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What kind of CS career has you actually using math /u/Dissilusioned-Ni_er CSCQ protests reddit

What kind of CS career has you actually using math /u/Dissilusioned-Ni_er CSCQ protests reddit

From my admittedly limited perspective, most SWE jobs seem to be just gluing other people’s software together with very little math. Throughout my degree I mostly liked the theoretical stuff. Does this mean I should remain in academia or are there other options that actually have you using math?

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​r/cscareerquestions From my admittedly limited perspective, most SWE jobs seem to be just gluing other people’s software together with very little math. Throughout my degree I mostly liked the theoretical stuff. Does this mean I should remain in academia or are there other options that actually have you using math? submitted by /u/Dissilusioned-Ni_er [link] [comments] 

From my admittedly limited perspective, most SWE jobs seem to be just gluing other people’s software together with very little math. Throughout my degree I mostly liked the theoretical stuff. Does this mean I should remain in academia or are there other options that actually have you using math?

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[link] [comments]  From my admittedly limited perspective, most SWE jobs seem to be just gluing other people’s software together with very little math. Throughout my degree I mostly liked the theoretical stuff. Does this mean I should remain in academia or are there other options that actually have you using math? submitted by /u/Dissilusioned-Ni_er [link] [comments]

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