Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[null]

Maaaan, I think I might try my hand at starting a tech startup. Job searching in NYC been kind of frustrating and the current job is making me lazy as a developer.

Doing what ?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

These candidates mentioning shyt i don't have a clue about, "docker", "laravel", "angular".. I really got to research this bullshyt before an interview.

Docker and laravel sound like some networking or system admin stuff. Angular is a library for coding Single Page Web Apps.

"Here is a PWA that i built with React, our CMS is built with Symfony..." I'm sitting there like

I'm guessing PWA is Single Page Web App. React is another library for coding Single Page Web Apps. CMS is content management system. Basically a web site that allows you to make other web sites or wikis.

I have no idea what Symfony is.

 

[Regular Developer]

Doing what ?

I'll probably talk about it a little more once we've solidified our userbase, but its some type of social media app that sits along the others. I'm almost done with the iOS prototype, the android prototype has some of my closed beta users using it now though.

 

[Serious]

I'll probably talk about it a little more once we've solidified our userbase, but its some type of social media app that sits along the others. I'm almost done with the iOS prototype, the android prototype has some of my closed beta users using it now though.

If I ever get good enough at this shyt, thats the first thing I'm doing.

 

[Regular Developer]

If I ever get good enough at this shyt, thats the first thing I'm doing.

I'm kind of just a tinkerer, and wound up just kind of getting excited by an idea my friend came up with. He, as many others I've done some development work for, wound up focusing on other things. But I pretty much been messing around in Xamarin native for the past year (rather than forms, so I can understand iOS development architecture vs Android development architecture).

Definitely stick with it. I think its advantageous for a tech startup to have a developer on board as a cofounder or something, rather than having to send out all development needs to a development firm

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

I'll probably talk about it a little more once we've solidified our userbase, but its some type of social media app that sits along the others. I'm almost done with the iOS prototype, the android prototype has some of my closed beta users using it now though.

Go ahead and start it up.bro..I'm currently trying to start my own thing up as well. I work for a A.I. company in NYC and I love my job but seeing how the ceo lives and the connects he has just motivates me to attempt to doy own thing...

It's scary getting started though..well at least for me

 

[PikaDaDon]

The onsite had a coding + debugging + systems design + product demo + hiring manager round

What in Jesus' name? That sounds so absurdly, retardedly complex. My idea of a job interview is a single 30-45 minute session where they talk to me about general things (testing soft skills), ask me about my past experiences, and giving me some leetcode problems. These super intense 5+ hour interviews where there's multiple rounds makes it sound like a fukking boxing match. This is probably some pretentious silicon valley company.

Edit: Yup. 'Headquarters location: San Francisco, CA'

Why would anyone want to work there.

 

[PikaDaDon]

Free for developers

 

[DJSmooth]

What in Jesus' name? That sounds so absurdly, retardedly complex. My idea of a job interview is a single 30-45 minute session where they talk to me about general things (testing soft skills), ask me about my past experiences, and giving me some leetcode problems. These super intense 5+ hour interviews where there's multiple rounds makes it sound like a fukking boxing match. This is probably some pretentious silicon valley company.

Edit: Yup. 'Headquarters location: San Francisco, CA'

Why would anyone want to work there.

2 rounds of phone/video interviews and half a day of interviewing onsite is the normal.

A 45 minute interview is abnormal and I would be concerned they brought me into interview just to meet diversity quota.

 

[PikaDaDon]

2 rounds of phone/video interviews and half a day of interviewing onsite is the normal.

A 45 minute interview is abnormal and I would be concerned they brought me into interview just to meet diversity quota.

wtf are you going to talk about for 2 hours?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

wtf are you going to talk about for 2 hours?

Technical and behavioral questions. Same as always.

 

[Apollo Creed]

What in Jesus' name? That sounds so absurdly, retardedly complex. My idea of a job interview is a single 30-45 minute session where they talk to me about general things (testing soft skills), ask me about my past experiences, and giving me some leetcode problems. These super intense 5+ hour interviews where there's multiple rounds makes it sound like a fukking boxing match. This is probably some pretentious silicon valley company.

Edit: Yup. 'Headquarters location: San Francisco, CA'

Why would anyone want to work there.

Lol I applied to them a while back but it went nowhere

 

[Pyrexcup]

Think i've came up with a way to potentially automate a long and boring task at work. basically the tasks consists of someone QA'ing your work which is basically the QA exporting the set of work you have done to csv and them then opening up the task which is in xlsx and basically doing a CTRL C from your work in the xlsx file and a CTRL F in the task in the csv to make sure you've done it. Currently my team is wasting tons of time to do this as you have to wait for someone to do it which can take a while. I just thought of using the command line and using differ to compare these two files for it to show you whats different in these documents.

Only problem i've thought of so far is that the files are not in the exact same format things are in different columns in both files so i need to find a way to parse split and compare even if they are in different columns.

Anyone got any tips? currently browsing stackoverflow thinking of what to do will end up doing this in bash or maybe ruby

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Think i've came up with a way to potentially automate a long and boring task at work. basically the tasks consists of someone QA'ing your work which is basically the QA exporting the set of work you have done to csv and them then opening up the task which is in xlsx and basically doing a CTRL C from your work in the xlsx file and a CTRL F in the task in the csv to make sure you've done it. Currently my team is wasting tons of time to do this as you have to wait for someone to do it which can take a while. I just thought of using the command line and using differ to compare these two files for it to show you whats different in these documents.

Only problem i've thought of so far is that the files are not in the exact same format things are in different columns in both files so i need to find a way to parse split and compare even if they are in different columns.

Anyone got any tips? currently browsing stackoverflow thinking of what to do will end up doing this in bash or maybe ruby

Export the xlsx as a csv, to start. Then you could grep the work file for each line from the tasks.

 

[Pyrexcup]

Export the xlsx as a csv, to start. Then you could grep the work file for each line from the tasks.

thats been done already when i meant as in not exact same format the sentences all over the place in both files so technically i could grep but the problem is i wont be the only one using this script if i get it working so i want to keep it as simple to use as possible. since i need to learn ruby anyway i might try it in ruby and see if i can use any cool functions