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People often preface they’re not a lawyer when giving legal advice. So why would CS students not preface their lack of experience when giving career advice? /u/ExpWebDev CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions It would solve several problems, but mainly would answer the question “how did they think that was a reasonable response?” with “ohhh now I see” submitted by /u/ExpWebDev [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  It would solve several problems, but mainly would answer the question “how did they think that was a reasonable response?” with “ohhh now I see” submitted by /u/ExpWebDev [link] [comments]

[Breaking] Amazon to layoff 14,000 managers /u/cs-grad-person-man CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions https://news.abplive.com/business/amazon-layoffs-tech-firm-to-cut-14-000-manager-positions-by-2025-ceo-andy-jassy-1722182 Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025. This initiative from the tech giant is designed to streamline decision-making and eliminate bureaucratic hurdles, as reported by Bloomberg. Jassy highlighted the importance of fostering a culture characterised by urgency, accountability, swift decision-making, resourcefulness, frugality, and collaboration, with the goal of positioning Amazon as the world’s largest startup. How do you think this will impact the company ? submitted by /u/cs-grad-person-man [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  https://news.abplive.com/business/amazon-layoffs-tech-firm-to-cut-14-000-manager-positions-by-2025-ceo-andy-jassy-1722182 Amazon is reportedly planning to reduce 14,000 managerial positions by early next year in a bid to save $3 billion annually, according to a Morgan Stanley report. This initiative is part of CEO Andy Jassy’s strategy to boost operational efficiency by increasing the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 per cent by March 2025. This initiative from the tech giant is designed to streamline decision-making and eliminate bureaucratic hurdles, as reported by Bloomberg. Jassy highlighted the importance of fostering a culture characterised by urgency, accountability, swift decision-making, resourcefulness, frugality, and collaboration, with the goal of positioning Amazon as the world’s largest startup. How do you think this will impact the company ? submitted by /u/cs-grad-person-man [link] [comments]

Daily Chat Thread – October 05, 2024 /u/CSCQMods CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions Please use this thread to chat, have casual discussions, and ask casual questions. Moderation will be light, but don’t be a jerk. This thread is posted every day at midnight PST. Previous Daily Chat Threads can be found here. submitted by /u/CSCQMods [link] [comments] 

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Resume Advice Thread – October 05, 2024 /u/CSCQMods CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions Please use this thread to ask for resume advice and critiques. You should read our Resume FAQ and implement any changes from that before you ask for more advice. Abide by the rules, don’t be a jerk. Note on anonomyizing your resume: If you’d like your resume to remain anonymous, make sure you blank out or change all personally identifying information. Also be careful of using your own Google Docs account or DropBox account which can lead back to your personally identifying information. To make absolutely sure you’re anonymous, we suggest posting on sites/accounts with no ties to you after thoroughly checking the contents of your resume. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. submitted by /u/CSCQMods [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  Please use this thread to ask for resume advice and critiques. You should read our Resume FAQ and implement any changes from that before you ask for more advice. Abide by the rules, don’t be a jerk. Note on anonomyizing your resume: If you’d like your resume to remain anonymous, make sure you blank out or change all personally identifying information. Also be careful of using your own Google Docs account or DropBox account which can lead back to your personally identifying information. To make absolutely sure you’re anonymous, we suggest posting on sites/accounts with no ties to you after thoroughly checking the contents of your resume. This thread is posted each Tuesday and Saturday at midnight PST. Previous Resume Advice Threads can be found here. submitted by /u/CSCQMods [link] [comments]

Should I continue doing it or drop it and get back to doing what I like to do? /u/armedrossie CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions I am about to complete my 4th sem, enrolled in a specialization program of ML. I am also taking an external course Andrew Ng’s one. As I was going through this course, I realized I am not too excited to open my laptop and start studying it. I started with pace but my interest kind of dwindled along the way. Maybe I realized I’ve too much to do in this domain before I can see any significant progress. Now this was not the case with when I started doing development in my first year, I have done web development, created some good projects. I am still working on one of my projects {Flask, MySQL, Next.js} and I’ve so many ideas regarding this, and want to continue working on it. I feel like doing development or writing up code is more interesting and likeable to me. I want to try embedded systems too, and in the upcoming summer break my friend suggested that we should get our hands dirty with flutter too to see how it feels to be doing native development. I guess my problem is, I like to see my immediate progress that’s why I like doing development where I can write 100-200 LOC and can see the code doing something and get assurance that yes it is working but with ML I am not sure what I am hoping to gain or see. But since I am only in 4th sem, I’ve two more semester to exhaust all my potential domain options, so by the end of 6th sem I’ll be sure about what I want to continue with for the placement or for later on job options. Is this okay approach or I am seeing at everything the wrong way? submitted by /u/armedrossie [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  I am about to complete my 4th sem, enrolled in a specialization program of ML. I am also taking an external course Andrew Ng’s one. As I was going through this course, I realized I am not too excited to open my laptop and start studying it. I started with pace but my interest kind of dwindled along the way. Maybe I realized I’ve too much to do in this domain before I can see any significant progress. Now this was not the case with when I started doing development in my first year, I have done web development, created some good projects. I am still working on one of my projects {Flask, MySQL, Next.js} and I’ve so many ideas regarding this, and want to continue working on it. I feel like doing development or writing up code is more interesting and likeable to me. I want to try embedded systems too, and in the upcoming summer break my friend suggested that we should get our hands dirty with flutter too to see how it feels to be doing native development. I guess my problem is, I like to see my immediate progress that’s why I like doing development where I can write 100-200 LOC and can see the code doing something and get assurance that yes it is working but with ML I am not sure what I am hoping to gain or see. But since I am only in 4th sem, I’ve two more semester to exhaust all my potential domain options, so by the end of 6th sem I’ll be sure about what I want to continue with for the placement or for later on job options. Is this okay approach or I am seeing at everything the wrong way? submitted by /u/armedrossie [link] [comments]

Stuck in career limbo /u/such_it_is CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions Been SWE for 7y now and really I should have moved to another role or management if I ever had the opportunity in any of the companies I’ve worked for. However due to lack of luck or bad company choices I never got promoted to anything or had chance to try another role internally (as there never were any) so I kept job hopping every 1-2y to promote myself. Now I hate grinding LC every year just to end up missing getting in any good company out of bad luck like hiring freezes and at the same time no matter how much I grind I just don’t feel like I’m that good at it, I’m just not genetically predisposed for leetcode. Also I’m getting older so all young new engineers can easily out-LC me. However I find myself stuck now in a company that I’m just a SWE who was hired to support a time zone and write unit tests all day and is very clear the team don’t have intention of promoting me or helping me do anything else because it’s in their interest to keep me where I am so I provide support. Needless to say I don’t see myself staying longterm as it’s basically a dead end job. And I hate that I grinded LC to the best of my abilities just to end up doing this. So the only option I have now is apply as SWE in big tech and then internally move to roles that require less coding, but in order to get there I have to grind LC and most likely fail or do something else? Job market is also absolutely terrible right now, Any advice? submitted by /u/such_it_is [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  Been SWE for 7y now and really I should have moved to another role or management if I ever had the opportunity in any of the companies I’ve worked for. However due to lack of luck or bad company choices I never got promoted to anything or had chance to try another role internally (as there never were any) so I kept job hopping every 1-2y to promote myself. Now I hate grinding LC every year just to end up missing getting in any good company out of bad luck like hiring freezes and at the same time no matter how much I grind I just don’t feel like I’m that good at it, I’m just not genetically predisposed for leetcode. Also I’m getting older so all young new engineers can easily out-LC me. However I find myself stuck now in a company that I’m just a SWE who was hired to support a time zone and write unit tests all day and is very clear the team don’t have intention of promoting me or helping me do anything else because it’s in their interest to keep me where I am so I provide support. Needless to say I don’t see myself staying longterm as it’s basically a dead end job. And I hate that I grinded LC to the best of my abilities just to end up doing this. So the only option I have now is apply as SWE in big tech and then internally move to roles that require less coding, but in order to get there I have to grind LC and most likely fail or do something else? Job market is also absolutely terrible right now, Any advice? submitted by /u/such_it_is [link] [comments]

Has anyone come from sales? /u/pleasedontjudgeme13 CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions Im burnt out as an AE selling cloud. Has anyone transitioned from a career like this? If so, how does your job now compare to sales? submitted by /u/pleasedontjudgeme13 [link] [comments] 

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What to do? Please help /u/AdditionalAd173 CSCQ protests reddit

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​r/cscareerquestions So I was interviewed at a small hft firm for the role of a CPP dev last year through on campus placements. Although there was a bond of 1.5 yrs(including 6 months internship) but since I was interested in cpp development, I was okay with the bond. I did great in the interview and was selected. When I joined the company in Jan this year, I was informed that I’ll be joining the devops team(a team which consisted of just one intern before I joined). I had some apprehensions which I informed to my manager and hr and they told me that I am free to leave if I want and they can discuss about the bond amount. This was my first job and there aren’t many CPP dev roles, so I continued with the job in devops. I was learning new things but the work was quite boring(little to no logic building and very less coding). I used to work independently of my mentor(or as I used to think). I helped them setup their backup process, sonarqube integration, Jenkins pipelines, monitoring servers, etc. I wasn’t very happy but I was working for money. Recently I was told by my manager(who is an AI enthusiast and thinks that chatGPT can solve everything) and HR(who is always rude to me maybe because I don’t do boot licking and also because of the initial confrontation regarding the role) that my performance is not upto the mark. This came as a surprise because last month only my mentor(an intern) told me that I was doing good and being newbie to devops, my performance was good. They told me that my work is not upto the mark and that I do not work independently. I tried to talk to him but he wouldn’t listen a word, so I kept shut. Now they have told me that I have 15 days and after that they will decide my future with the company. I got to know that this is how this company functions. It is a hire and fire company. They hire many interns(cheap labour), get their work done and then fire most of them. Only people who are extra ordinary and are ready to get exploited are retained. They expect you to work 24/7(there are people in here who do that) and the culture is really toxic with lots of politics. I had very few friends over here and I used to talk less(I am very talkative with my friends in general but the environment is really depressing here). Now most of my friends have been fired. I feel kinda depressed. I want to leave this shit hole but my family is forcing me to stay(money and gap on resume). I was always interested in development. I don’t want to stay but I am a bit scared seeing the current job market. I am decent at leetcode and cp. I haven’t done a lot of development but I have started learning and developing projects. Many of you might think that if manager wants to fire me and I also wish to leave then what is the problem? The problem is that ik that if I give my 100%, they’ll keep me, I can do good work. But I don’t want to not in this domain, where everything is so repetitive. What if I leave and don’t get a job? Please guide me what to do as I am feeling a bit lost. Please help a brother out🥺 TLDR – manager wants to fire me, I also want to leave but will it be fine? submitted by /u/AdditionalAd173 [link] [comments] 

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[link] [comments]  So I was interviewed at a small hft firm for the role of a CPP dev last year through on campus placements. Although there was a bond of 1.5 yrs(including 6 months internship) but since I was interested in cpp development, I was okay with the bond. I did great in the interview and was selected. When I joined the company in Jan this year, I was informed that I’ll be joining the devops team(a team which consisted of just one intern before I joined). I had some apprehensions which I informed to my manager and hr and they told me that I am free to leave if I want and they can discuss about the bond amount. This was my first job and there aren’t many CPP dev roles, so I continued with the job in devops. I was learning new things but the work was quite boring(little to no logic building and very less coding). I used to work independently of my mentor(or as I used to think). I helped them setup their backup process, sonarqube integration, Jenkins pipelines, monitoring servers, etc. I wasn’t very happy but I was working for money. Recently I was told by my manager(who is an AI enthusiast and thinks that chatGPT can solve everything) and HR(who is always rude to me maybe because I don’t do boot licking and also because of the initial confrontation regarding the role) that my performance is not upto the mark. This came as a surprise because last month only my mentor(an intern) told me that I was doing good and being newbie to devops, my performance was good. They told me that my work is not upto the mark and that I do not work independently. I tried to talk to him but he wouldn’t listen a word, so I kept shut. Now they have told me that I have 15 days and after that they will decide my future with the company. I got to know that this is how this company functions. It is a hire and fire company. They hire many interns(cheap labour), get their work done and then fire most of them. Only people who are extra ordinary and are ready to get exploited are retained. They expect you to work 24/7(there are people in here who do that) and the culture is really toxic with lots of politics. I had very few friends over here and I used to talk less(I am very talkative with my friends in general but the environment is really depressing here). Now most of my friends have been fired. I feel kinda depressed. I want to leave this shit hole but my family is forcing me to stay(money and gap on resume). I was always interested in development. I don’t want to stay but I am a bit scared seeing the current job market. I am decent at leetcode and cp. I haven’t done a lot of development but I have started learning and developing projects. Many of you might think that if manager wants to fire me and I also wish to leave then what is the problem? The problem is that ik that if I give my 100%, they’ll keep me, I can do good work. But I don’t want to not in this domain, where everything is so repetitive. What if I leave and don’t get a job? Please guide me what to do as I am feeling a bit lost. Please help a brother out🥺 TLDR – manager wants to fire me, I also want to leave but will it be fine? submitted by /u/AdditionalAd173 [link] [comments]