Possible Duplicate: One piece of advice I always end up saying, I wish I knew this when I was making a career decisions. So can you share your advice about how to make good career decisions? From your experience what is the most important when it comes to choosing your next employer? ...
I'm wondering: on day 1 at a decent intermediate .NET developer position, what kind of tools or resources can you expect? (decent has variable definitions so we'll loosely define it as not your dream job but something you'd stay at for a long time). Things like (but not limited to): MSDN membership VS Edition? Are tools like resharper...
I'm new to stack-overflow but it seem like you people are a bright bunch and have the knowledge that I lack as an almost college grad. I have one semester left and am looking forward to working as a programmer. I started out as a QBasic programmer at the wee age of 9 and made a couple of games that were really buggy but it kept me ente...
Hi, I'll soon (in an year) be graduating with an undergraduate master's (four years) in computer related field. At my university campus placements will start the coming semester. This will be the last semester on campus as we would be going off campus for industry internships in the final semester. Generally the Placement Division gets ...
I'm currently looking for an entry level software engineer job, and I've found that the career page for a lot of companies gives you the option of submitting a cover letter along with your resume. However, the hiring manager's name is nearly always missing, so I don't have a specific person to write to (and thus I guess I'm supposed to u...
I seen this in a want ad. "NET Web Developer, VSB, SQL, QA, object-oriented frameworks" What is "VSB" and "QA" in this context? I am then asked to answer: "Please detail your experience with object-oriented frameworks and rapid application development" Experience with "Object Oriented Frameworks?" Is OO a "framework?" I am a C# a...
Because of the economic crises in this country, getting job has been more difficult. Because of that I am looking for good suggestions for ways to build a portfolio on a hobby basis, so that I can show it on a possible interview. Type of job I'm looking for is basically IT consultant / system administrator area. I’m not sure what of s...
I graduated in June from Ohio State with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and I'm frustrated with figuring out what to look for in a job. I haven't had much help from Engineering Career Services. I've had a couple appointments at the school but they've mostly only helped me with mock interviews, going over my resume, etc. The ...
Hello, This isn't quite a technical question, but I've noticed a lot of job postings that ask for experience writing production level code. I assume this is just opposed to testing code for instance. Is this just a buzzword I should be looking out for, or does this mean anything specific? Thanks! ...
I have a secure offer from Booz Allen Hamilton for a cybersecurity developer position that looks to be pretty interesting work. The BAH offer only pays a few hundred more than my current job at Lockheed Martin, but has a sizable clearance upgrade from my current clearance level. I have about three years of served time with LM though and ...
I have a blog that I use mostly to record solutions to problems I have had, that I had some trouble finding an answer to. Mostly problems where the online doc I googled provided too much info, and I found the answer to my question on the fifth page of my third goggle hit. (Or if I asked the question here, I either didn't get an answer ...
Hello, I'm finishing up my Computer Science degree within the next year. For the past couple of years I've been doing Web Development on a freelance basis. I'd really like to be able to get a decent job doing Web Development after school. My "professional" experience so far has been with PHP, MySQL, and various frameworks. I live in t...