When you landed your first job programming: 1) Which language was it in? How well did you know that language? Did you know it well enough to write a book on it, or did you barely know how to do "hello world"? I imagine most people graduate from a CS program knowing one language pretty well, and a few other languages just kind of well. I...
How are people finding jobs in today's job market, where there are many applicants per position as opposed to years ago when it was the other way around? ...
I am In a situation where for an interview I have been asked to code For half a day and create a web based gallery with tagging, search, uploading, rating and so on. I'm starting to worry that I can't possibly fulfill the requirements in the alloted time. Does this mean I'm not good enough or is it a test designed not to be beaten? Edit...
Finances are making me take an extended period off of my college education. In my current state, I don't feel fully qualified to be employed by an iPhone software company. While I work on getting things back together, I'd like to try an work for a software company for free in my local area (I'm going to college out of state and have to m...
Is there such a thing as a 30 hour/week programming job? Well, I know there is, because I'm currently working at one. But it's a dead-end job, and I'm looking to move on. I had a recruiter almost hang up on me today when I told her that I'm looking for part-time work. Until I told her that, she was very interested in my resume; I do, ...
I couple of months ago I was jobhunting. Since my resume is still out there I'm getting an average to two phone calls and four e-mailed messsages per day inquiring if I'm still on the market. Most of these are calling for Linux kernel developers. However I've found that the term seems to be over-used; or at least that it covers a some...
My company recently decided to turn their contract web development project (they finally brought their website in house) in to a full time position. As an established employee I have first crack at an interview. I've been deveoping at a semi-pro (some light freelancing and development of web aps for my company) level for a while now, but...
Hi, Soon I'll be interviewing at a company that's relatively new, has a small team. After talking to their CEO on the phone, I think I have a really good shot. This will be my first development job. I'm a little concerned about the pay structure. They're offering a very small base salary, plus profit sharing. What's strange is this po...
What would you recommend to someone whose boss told : "your work planning of 1 month and half isn't acceptable. I need this web app (online employee evaluation system) demo done by day after tomorrow". What steps would you take ? I started this job on monday. I gathered requirements and constructed a product backlog on Monday. on Tuesd...
So I'm looking for a new job. I've noticed that the vast majority of companies are trying to hire A) Fresh out of college (or university) grads, and/or B) Senior-level developers who have a million (or two) years of experience. This leaves out the vast majority of programmers who would classify themselves as "intermediate", myself inc...
I just graduated from college. I only know C, C++, and Java. I've been looking for a job, but I feel my set of languages is not enough. So I would like to learn some other stuff while I'm not working. What do you think it's more important? I was thinking of learning SQL and XML. I don't know, what do you think? ...
I am a Junior CS Major at a Javaschool and I find myself having an easy time and thought there may be some good project or a language to learn or research in this newfound free time. What would you recommend so as to increase my ability to find a good job(somewhere that allows for continuous learning and treats its programmers well)after...
Hi all, Before the standard job sites like Monster, cwjobs and the like, which job boards and company websites would you first look at to find an interesting, or even your dream, IT/programming job? For example, I tend to check the following to see what's available. jobs.joelonsoftware.com BBC (mostly UK) : jobs.bbc.co.uk Microsof...
As I am about to be finish with school here and starting out as a basement coder my syntax usage of various languages is 'Unique' at best. I was curious if professionally I should relearn a better way or just keep trucking. I doubt someone will not hire someone because say in perl while ($loopcounter < 10) { is used instead of while...
I have been perusing a number of job descriptions and many of them refer to 'Must have the ability to write test automation'. I understand what unit testing is, such as NUnit/JUnit, and I'm capable of writing great tests under both... but is that what is meant by 'test automation'? If not, what does it mean? ...
Technology is growing very fast and the most excited field to work for among other jobs. Since there are a lot of fresh graduate students in this years, I think your opinions would help them to look for a job which is the best suitable with the speedy growth of technology now and the future. Thx in advanced. ...
After about a two-year hiatus, I'm brushing up on my .NET skills to find a .NET job (my previous two positions have very little development, or development using legacy technologies, so apart from a few very minor apps I have not touched .NET in close to two years). I'm aware of things like ASP.NET MVC, and I have previously read on thi...
How do you develop references for jobs? I have 6 years of programming experience spanning two jobs, but sadly I don't have a lot of people I can draw on as references. It's been several years since I left my last job, which was at a small company, and I've lost touch with the few people I knew there. I now work at another small company. ...
I just moved back to Europe from the US after living there for 7 years. Apart from major adjustment issues, I'm currently looking for a job over here. I'm mainly interested in (IT) Consulting and, since these jobs typically require programming knowledge, such as Java, I'm trying to think of something productive to write (perhaps to demo ...
Hello, So, I don't want to find a regular job, I just want to earn some extra cash while having summer holidays. I want to earn money for my future project which will definitely need cash for advertisement, that's why I want to find a few jobs online before I start my own website with quite unique idea. I am php+mysql+ajax programmer. S...