Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Just placed top 3 in my first hackathon!!! shyt was literally a movie, heavy javascript, css, and html, so a nice website with some machine learning in there as well. Went in with no expectations, coming into learn, didn't even join up with a team until about an hour or two before hacking began. Couldn't ask for much more for my first one, definitely going on the resume

When you get ready to do another one, let me know. Maybe we can team up.

 

[Mike809]

All the messages I get on linkedin are either people that live in India or Africa.

 

[Regular Developer]

Question: Have any of you encountered imposter syndrome? What is it, cause I don't think I understand it. Like, there's been time I've doubted I'd be able to get work done in the planning phase, but I've never felt like an imposter. Even the jobs I got laid off of didn't make me think that poorly. Is there a certain type of person this happens to?

 

[Doop LeJoy]

I'm feeling pretty burnt out these days after layoffs feels like the workload increased and I'm doing more than ever. Lowkey wanna get laid off but the market worries me

Be worried breh. It's hard out here. I went from blue chip work to no work with no warning. Not tootin but ya boi ain't no slouch either on the code. Problem is I'm self taught, mostly C(99,++), R, LAMP, Assembly and all the game engines since Y2K. Now, well, I'm bout to F around and wash dishes ain't no jobs rn.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Question: Have any of you encountered imposter syndrome? What is it, cause I don't think I understand it. Like, there's been time I've doubted I'd be able to get work done in the planning phase, but I've never felt like an imposter. Even the jobs I got laid off of didn't make me think that poorly. Is there a certain type of person this happens to?

I feel it's more of a timeframe of panic where you feel out of your depth, drowning a little, and youre scared someone's gonna pull your card and escort you from the building for being incapable. Probably hits people with less confidence than you. I think it's a matter of getting up to speed and feeling comfortable to mitigate it.

Has all your work felt like it was within your knowledge or capability to do? Have you been put in a situation where you don't know where to start, or where to even go after you've started? That's when imposter syndrome kicks in. Maybe a useful analogy is when was the first time you felt like you were doing adult shyt with no guardrails, nobody to check you from making a mistake? You just out there trying to act grown to see if everybody agrees. Similar type of feeling.

 

[DJSmooth]

I just had a Karat interview today. Karat is basically an outsourcing company for tech interviews for other companies and some random person interviews you on their behalf.

I kept asking the interviewer follow up questions on the original question he asked and he kept ignoring me.



This is the only industry where it's a damn game to get hired.

 

[Mike809]

Anybody here an SRE ? I just realized that's where my carrer choices are taking me . I keep hearing it's pretty stressful but I don't mind as long as the pay makes it worth it.

Just got my aws cloud practitioner certificate, and I'm about to take my k8s one soon , plus I only work with Java/spring boot .

 

[Ish Gibor]

Anybody here an SRE ? I just realized that's where my carrer choices are taking me . I keep hearing it's pretty stressful but I don't mind as long as the pay makes it worth it.

Just got my aws cloud practitioner certificate, and I'm about to take my k8s one soon , plus I only work with Java/spring boot .

Career.

Btw, congrats on the certification.

I’m familiar with DevOps, not SRE. But SRE sounds interesting.

 

[Regular Developer]

Anybody here an SRE ? I just realized that's where my carrer choices are taking me . I keep hearing it's pretty stressful but I don't mind as long as the pay makes it worth it.

Just got my aws cloud practitioner certificate, and I'm about to take my k8s one soon , plus I only work with Java/spring boot .

Not sure what an SRE is

 

[Mike809]

Not sure what an SRE is

site reliability engineer

You mostly work with a primary language like Java , but also need to know K8s , docker , AWS/DevOps stuff.

Site Reliability Engineering

Running reliable production systems

www.gremlin.com

I was just asking cuz I was reading this thread over at reddit.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I ...... whu...... but how?

 

[morris]

I ...... whu...... but how?

Respectfully, @iceberg_is_on_fire show team how it’s done

 

[Secure Da Bag]

 

[Regular Developer]

Just giving a small update/opinion:

The more I use AWS based tools for data, the more annoying it gets. Our datalake is Athena and we use AWS Lambda to run our python scripts. Both have hard limitations and we're starting to hit them in various spots. AWS Lambda has a 15 minute time limit and a certain upper limit for memory and drive space. This isn't so bad, as it does force you to keep your code a bit cleaner and modularize the code, but it gets a little silly at times. But its cheap as hell. I created a powerbi report to get an idea of what the cost associated with our lambdas, its like $20 month total, with all the jobs we run daily and the ones we run hourly, lol.

Athena, omg, athena is goofy as hell. Query timeout limit of 30 minutes...I can run a select statement to get 600M records, but I can't insert it into a table because of the damn time limit. What happened to the parallel processing and shyt? We might be bringing on databricks, but converting some of the jobs that Im having isues with to databricks is so far down the line.

AWS Glue, I admit i don't really understand it, but I dunno if this is my favorite spark environment. We'll see

Edit: Met with my manager, and realized that the query I'm converting over to Athena/Glue takes like an hour to run, lol. So now that I'm a little more patient, Glue is the right way to go in our environment. Just been doing this by hand (not by our standard structured job methodology) in order to just get an idea of what path works. So now I gotta standardize it and deploy it.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Try to have ChatGPT generate some project ideas based on my level of experience and it keeps wanting me to put together a cloud based idea with real time collaboration .