So on top of emailing contacts, I started cold applying to nearly every developer position I've seen. The good news is I already got 1 response that wasn't a rejection. The bad news is the response was to take a hackerrank challenge to decide if they want to move forward ;_;.
Nope. Don't do that.
In fact, if you can find a job that is less about testing your technical skills on the spot the better. The barrier of entry for supremely technical interviews sucks.
In fact, if you can find a job that is less about testing your technical skills on the spot the better. The barrier of entry for supremely technical interviews sucks.
Thanks again for the advice Reilo. Yeah it's super frustrating when I have to deal with that crap and from other devs I've spoken to they all say just read Cracking the Coding Interview or some other crap that makes no sense to me atm.
It's like dammit I'm finally at the point where I know I'm useful and am continually gaining real world work experience with open source but I'll immediately get filtered out if I run into a technical test like that.
It's like dammit I'm finally at the point where I know I'm useful and am continually gaining real world work experience with open source but I'll immediately get filtered out if I run into a technical test like that.
So far I've had 3 companies contact me saying they're interested and asking for my resume or asking follow up questions. Yet now I've yet to get a response email after sending them my response/resume. Now I'm starting to think they see my resume and background and choose not to move forward without saying a word.
By Nelo Ice Go To PostSo far I've had 3 companies contact me saying they're interested and asking for my resume or asking follow up questions. Yet now I've yet to get a response email after sending them my response/resume. Now I'm starting to think they see my resume and background and choose not to move forward without saying a word.was listening to a guy from slack on the techcrunch disrupt live stream who says they hire blind, give them a try
By ReRixo Go To Postwas listening to a guy from slack on the techcrunch disrupt live stream who says they hire blind, give them a try
I actually saw a TechCrunch opening so applied to them the other day. Here's to hoping something comes out of it. But it's just frustrating when you actually see interest and in return get nothing the moment you respond. Like one company emailed me before I even got to emailing them saying they were interested and the recruiting manager was impressed with my background. It's been 3 weeks since I've heard anything from them and I've already sent a follow up email to see what's going on so guessing it's now a dead end.
I would at least appreciate a response saying they didn't want to move forward anymore. Otherwise leaving me in the dark is just the worst thing they could possibly do after sending me a response when I'm just used to automated rejections.
By Nelo Ice Go To PostI actually saw a TechCrunch opening so applied to them the other day. Here's to hoping something comes out of it. But it's just frustrating when you actually see interest and in return get nothing the moment you respond. Like one company emailed me before I even got to emailing them saying they were interested and the recruiting manager was impressed with my background. It's been 3 weeks since I've heard anything from them and I've already sent a follow up email to see what's going on so guessing it's now a dead end.Yeah, could be the hardest part, getting that first job.
I would at least appreciate a response saying they didn't want to move forward anymore. Otherwise leaving me in the dark is just the worst thing they could possibly do after sending me a response when I'm just used to automated rejections.
Stick with it, i'm sure you'll get there.
One thing you might want to consider is starting a project of your own. Just pick something you'd like to do, and start it / work towards it. Gives the employer something tangible to see. Particularly as you're coming in "relatively unproven".
Doesn't even have to be huge. Probably best not to be. Could be something as simple as a stream aggregator. Maybe just listing new video's posted in a youtube channel.
By giririsss Go To PostYeah, could be the hardest part, getting that first job.
Stick with it, i'm sure you'll get there.
One thing you might want to consider is starting a project of your own. Just pick something you'd like to do, and start it / work towards it. Gives the employer something tangible to see. Particularly as you're coming in "relatively unproven".
Doesn't even have to be huge. Probably best not to be. Could be something as simple as a stream aggregator. Maybe just listing new video's posted in a youtube channel.
Yeah that's been my issue, trying to build something useful since I don't have many projects to list but I know I can contribute to a project and work on a codebase. Like most times I don't even know what to build though I have been thinking about a chrome extension since someone on GAF recently made one and I looked at the source code and for most part I was able to figure out what it was doing.
My only substantial project that I'd say would be useful and could use fleshing out is my reddit clone I built with angular and firebase. It's pretty simple but it's mostly only functional and I'm using like default bootstrap stuff for styling. It's not deployed anywhere either. But anyway it was the first thing I learned how to build from scratch and it forced me to learn how to read documentation and figure things out for myself.
Besides that I recently I haven't been focused on building projects rather I've been contributing to open source and learning how to write unit tests. And of course just learning in general how to read and understand source code I haven't written. Like from what I've learned I'm getting real world work experience and I imagine doing all this is important. But it's looking like employers still want to see a big fancy project or multiple projects even if it's hacked together code. That and the problem is the stuff I'm learning isn't exactly something I can display on a resume.
That's where I think bootcamps would be useful but I'm pretty damn sure I'm at a typical bootcamp or college grad's level. Though don't have the projects to show for it but I'm not out thousands of dollars lol
Yeah. I mean, they don't even necessarily need to see a big project. Something small and well done is usually worth 10x as much.
Think about something that would make your life easier and that you would use.
I've always been meaning too but never got around to writing a new IRC program. Outside of mIRC most of them are out of date, not supported, and only half functioning. If i flesh that out, i would also like it to connect to discord / slack/ twitch chat. Store URL's. And a few other things -being able to get a notification for the channel that a youtube channel has posted a video is something i wanted. Most of my IRC channels are media focused.
Think about something that would make your life easier and that you would use.
I've always been meaning too but never got around to writing a new IRC program. Outside of mIRC most of them are out of date, not supported, and only half functioning. If i flesh that out, i would also like it to connect to discord / slack/ twitch chat. Store URL's. And a few other things -being able to get a notification for the channel that a youtube channel has posted a video is something i wanted. Most of my IRC channels are media focused.
By Nelo Ice Go To PostI actually saw a TechCrunch opening so applied to them the other day. Here's to hoping something comes out of it. But it's just frustrating when you actually see interest and in return get nothing the moment you respond. Like one company emailed me before I even got to emailing them saying they were interested and the recruiting manager was impressed with my background. It's been 3 weeks since I've heard anything from them and I've already sent a follow up email to see what's going on so guessing it's now a dead end.
I would at least appreciate a response saying they didn't want to move forward anymore. Otherwise leaving me in the dark is just the worst thing they could possibly do after sending me a response when I'm just used to automated rejections.
is the market for programmers rough in LA?
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postis the market for programmers rough in LA?In my LA, there are plenty of job openings for anyone that knows C#. :v
So github universe is pretty awesome. Loving all the octocat merch I'm getting lol. I'm a sucker for that damn mascot.
My (very tiny) company got contacted about possibly doing a relatively big project (for us). A payday loan company currently only has physical stores but want to allow customers to submit applications for loans and manage their accounts online. They want a web site, iOS app, and Android app, all with two-factor authentication. They also want it to integrate with the existing system they use to process payments and such at their physical stores.
With only that much information, a single developer (me), and unfamiliarity developing native apps on either mobile platform, unknown API for the company's existing system, I estimated it to take 14-18 months from scratch. Will probably change as we figure out exactly what they need for a MVP.
With only that much information, a single developer (me), and unfamiliarity developing native apps on either mobile platform, unknown API for the company's existing system, I estimated it to take 14-18 months from scratch. Will probably change as we figure out exactly what they need for a MVP.
Also, I always assume a billion things will go wrong, so my estimates tend to be on the longer side of things.
Finally got a follow up email from one of the companies I mentioned before. The good news is they're still interested and I'm now in the system. The bad news is I have to take a hacker rank challenge and from reading reviews on glassdoor if I get to the next part of the process I'll get to do more algorithms and whiteboarding yay :(.
Ugh. Absolutely the worst. You're young and new to the process, but I'd tell a younger self to pass on that. But I also understand if you can't turn down opportunities like that.
By reilo Go To PostUgh. Absolutely the worst. You're young and new to the process, but I'd tell a younger self to pass on that. But I also understand if you can't turn down opportunities like that.
Yep welcome to my life in the job hunt. Happens like every single time. Now I'm thinking ok maybe my resume may be worth something but every single time I keep running into walls like that. I have 7 days so I'm gonna go ahead and try it since this is the best lead I've had in getting a potential onsite interview. Mostly since this is the company that emailed me showing interest and just today getting me into the system after looking at my resume.
On another note I noticed one CTO/cofounder of a startup I met last year is hiring for interns so I'm gonna try and reach out to him to see if they'd be willing to take a shot on me.
By Kibner Go To PostMy (very tiny) company got contacted about possibly doing a relatively big project (for us). A payday loan company currently only has physical stores but want to allow customers to submit applications for loans and manage their accounts online. They want a web site, iOS app, and Android app, all with two-factor authentication. They also want it to integrate with the existing system they use to process payments and such at their physical stores.
With only that much information, a single developer (me), and unfamiliarity developing native apps on either mobile platform, unknown API for the company's existing system, I estimated it to take 14-18 months from scratch. Will probably change as we figure out exactly what they need for a MVP.
Single developer? One part of that system could take 12 months. 18 months is probably optimistic.
Whelp I'm trying to do hacker rank, interviewcake etc and every problem makes no sense to me. I've tried my usual method of looking up a working answer and reverse learning it from there. Yep totally gonna bomb this company hackerrank challenge :(.
By Kibner Go To PostI'm afraid I'm not understanding your question.
so if someone wrote a microsoft access database using mySQL and published it, would it be possible to see the underlying mySQL of the database?
By Face it Tiger.. Go To Postso if someone wrote a microsoft access database using mySQL and published it, would it be possible to see the underlying mySQL of the database?That sounds like it is still a mySQL database and Access is just using a mySQL data reader/writer to interact with it. Or was something else done to the database after Access got a hold of it?
In a former job, we often used Access to quickly create a front-end for projects that had a MSSQL server back-end. We would then use our normal MSSQL tools to manage the database.
Access was purely a way for users to interact with the database.
Access was purely a way for users to interact with the database.
By Kibner Go To PostThat sounds like it is still a mySQL database and Access is just using a mySQL data reader/writer to interact with it. Or was something else done to the database after Access got a hold of it?
the database was written in Access' built-in mySQL program
By Face it Tiger.. Go To Postthe database was written in Access' built-in mySQL programI don't think natively Access has MySQL built in. It would be MSSQL. MySQL is owned by Oracle, their major competitor in that segment.
But the real thing here is that Access doesn't really use either by default. It has it's own format that is largely designed for small data sets and optimised for interaction with the GUI builders native to Access.
That said, you can typically see the queries and stuff that the UI is pulling / sending. But you have to have full access to the whole thing. There should be a query tab even.
I hate having to do custom reports. At least I figured out a way with Telerik Reporting to use a datasource generated by my services instead of having to write some super complicated SQL to do the same thing. Doing it this way also lets me use my data model objects instead of just fields in the SQL query when creating the layout.
I hate writing these things so much, yet, I am the best report writer everywhere I worked at, so I keep getting tapped to do them and lead training in report writing for new employees.
I hate writing these things so much, yet, I am the best report writer everywhere I worked at, so I keep getting tapped to do them and lead training in report writing for new employees.
By reilo Go To PostWhy aren't you guys plugging into PowerBI?TBH, I haven't looked into that before. For some clients, it appears to not be an option because they specifically requested it to be a completely internal app without anything outside of the local intranet being able to connect to it and Power BI appears to require you to import your data into their cloud servers.
I will have to look into using it for other clients. Maybe for that upcoming project in a few months after I can hopefully wrap up the two I'm currently working on.
You can generate PowerBI reports that are embeddable (they're even responsive!) and live off of a data warehouse. It's all within Azure.
It would be good if I can use it in a somewhat similar manner as to what I'm doing now. I'm not sure if the natural language feature can handle a question like "Return clients and their medical services on claims paid in the year 2016 but not for services with medical codes <x,y,z>. Also, only return clients where the sum of amount paid for all claims in 2016 is greater than or equal to $600".
There's also a lot of assumptions to be made in that phrase, too, regarding what state claims are in and at what time, date of service for services within a claim, and some other stuff, too.
There's also a lot of assumptions to be made in that phrase, too, regarding what state claims are in and at what time, date of service for services within a claim, and some other stuff, too.
By reilo Go To PostYou can generate PowerBI reports that are embeddable (they're even responsive!) and live off of a data warehouse. It's all within Azure.Telerik Reporting can do the same thing, actually. Though customers typically want their reports as .pdfs or .xls. I'm sure Power BI can do just the same.
e: for background, I've worked with Telerik Reporting, SSRS Reports, and a couple proprietary medical database reporting systems
By Kibner Go To PostMy (very tiny) company got contacted about possibly doing a relatively big project (for us). A payday loan company currently only has physical stores but want to allow customers to submit applications for loans and manage their accounts online. They want a web site, iOS app, and Android app, all with two-factor authentication. They also want it to integrate with the existing system they use to process payments and such at their physical stores.
With only that much information, a single developer (me), and unfamiliarity developing native apps on either mobile platform, unknown API for the company's existing system, I estimated it to take 14-18 months from scratch. Will probably change as we figure out exactly what they need for a MVP.
Any more detail on what "integration with their existing system" means? If it's all paper and checks what software is it they are using?
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostAny more detail on what "integration with their existing system" means? If it's all paper and checks what software is it they are using?They have an API from a third-party that already handles payment and other things of that nature for them. They use that and a front-end for it in their physical stores already, but none of it is customer facing.
By Kibner Go To PostTelerik Reporting can do the same thing, actually. Though customers typically want their reports as .pdfs or .xls. I'm sure Power BI can do just the same.
Particularly in finance, those reports aren't for internal use to that company, they're for going to an underwriter or re-insurer somewhere. Someone you don't really want to have access to your internal systems. So a PDF report / excel report is the best most compatible way to send them around.
To clarify, the reason being, you'd normally do many manual checks to confirm that a report is correct. Particularly a graphical one. And you generally only want to send checked reports on to anyone.
It also allows for integration into their data collection at their end.
Power Bi seems p.cool though.
It also allows for integration into their data collection at their end.
Power Bi seems p.cool though.
The NBA held a hackathon recently.
Detail of the event: http://nyloncalculus.com/2016/09/24/nba-hackathon-team-nylon-calculus/
Reflections from the second place team: http://nyloncalculus.com/2016/09/30/reflecting-time-nba-hackathon/
Detail of the event: http://nyloncalculus.com/2016/09/24/nba-hackathon-team-nylon-calculus/
Reflections from the second place team: http://nyloncalculus.com/2016/09/30/reflecting-time-nba-hackathon/
Ay I just wanna say, I admire the fuck out of Nelos grind. Tbh I wish I had that kind of motivation. You'll probably land something soon.
By Smokey Go To PostAy I just wanna say, I admire the fuck out of Nelos grind. Tbh I wish I had that kind of motivation. You'll probably land something soon.Yup. On the plus side, once he gets that first job, every subsequent one will be super easy in comparison.
Anyone use Vue before? They just had a big new release: https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-2-0-is-here-ef1f26acf4b8#.kcwpbdm7g
By Smokey Go To PostAy I just wanna say, I admire the fuck out of Nelos grind. Tbh I wish I had that kind of motivation. You'll probably land something soon.
By Kibner Go To PostYup. On the plus side, once he gets that first job, every subsequent one will be super easy in comparison.
Thanks guys. Yeah so far I've realized my resume was terrible as far selling myself. I was about ready to pay a startup for their course that's supposed to help me learn algorithms and doing well in tech interviews. But I completely bombed their technical aptitude test and I looked like a complete idiot trying to explain the algorithm they gave me. Felt like complete shit and a total fraud too :(.
Anyway point is my friend said he did the course which is why I attempted it and he's now getting interviews like crazy mostly due to his revamped resume. So luckily he sent me his resume and I'm currently in the process of revamping mine to make it look more like his. So here's to hoping I actually get hits. In the meantime I'm gonna try learning some algorithm stuff and I just thought of a useful app idea that I'm gonna try and work on.
Anyone participating in Hacktoberfest?
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
I just made 3 PRs in the past 2 days so only need 1 more for that free shirt. Though tbf they were just simple fixes like replacing broken links or rewording something on a site. Been looking through the Hacktoberfest tags and I'm gonna try and tackle some more challenging issues.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
I just made 3 PRs in the past 2 days so only need 1 more for that free shirt. Though tbf they were just simple fixes like replacing broken links or rewording something on a site. Been looking through the Hacktoberfest tags and I'm gonna try and tackle some more challenging issues.