Questions with this tag should be specific to the Software Industry, or to workplace elements commonly associated with said industry. The Software Industry deals with the creation, maintenance, and distribution of software. In addition, the creation of any associated training/documentation, as well ...
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How can I effectively request to reduce the number of Hours I work per week
I am employed as a software developer with a software company in India. I have 5 years work experience.
I have a baby whom I leave at a daycare for 6 hours. I would like to get back home 2 hours ...
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Management are demanding a commitment I cannot give. How can I handle it? [closed]
I have been working for an Indian outsourcing organization for more than 5 years. My aspiration is to work in the USA. I have valid work permit to work in USA which will expire after 6 months. I have ...
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Am I eligible for MNC companies? [closed]
I have a strange feeling that I won't get interview calls or job in any of the top software companies due to a long gap in my career.
I have done my BE from 2002 to 2006 and was doing Java/J2EE and ...
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Will I be too old to be hired? Thesis? (Software Industry) [closed]
So I have a few disorders which have kind of made it hard to be consistent with my education/work endeavors. I am 26 and will be 27 soon.
1) I have a (2nd Honors)B.S. in Applied Math and 2 B.A.s in ...
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Including an academic reference for a job in the industry?
Would it be beneficial to include an academic reference for a job in the industry? What if that reference is a senior like the head of a department or a principal? When I talk about an academic ...
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1answer
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How can I evaluate an offer of equity in a company?
The last few months at my company have made me worried. I work for a small software development company, there were 5 of us: 2 techy's, 2 developers and my boss. 1 tech left leaving me to cover her ...
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I'm not getting enough work assigned from my supervisor. Should I try to find more work or leave the company?
I recently (6 months ago) got my first job as a Software Developer (before I spent 2.5 years as tech support with some programming/software support). About 20% of the time I don't have any work to do. ...
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What projects can I write in my resume if all my company projects are confidential?
I am a software developer. I am a little worried about my future as my company doesn't allow its employees to reveal anything about their projects, even after they have left the company. Currently I ...
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How should I go from social science major to tech company? [closed]
It's too late for me to graduate with something technical. I am a political science major, and I have several options:
Endure through an econ second major
Fulfill a double minor in econ/CS
Overload ...
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3answers
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Can I get a software development job with an EE degree? [closed]
I am a junior at a university with a REALLY selective CS program, and because of a 3.2 in a math class, they didn't admit me. I will reapply, but this is my last shot. Being a programmer has always ...
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1answer
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Is further education and training only my responsibility? [duplicate]
Some time ago I read an article like "Your career is your responsibility and yours alone" and I wonder if this is true.
I work as software developer but the company I work for never spend any time ...
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What benefit is there for IT professionals to develop people skills beyond those needed for their current position?
The IT field has created many positions that enable people to achieve high quality technical skill sets without ever learning the social skills necessary to be successful in non technical fields. ...
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how to handle the “tell me a joke” interview question
How does one handle this question in a typical software firm interview scenario ? I think something off the hook from Bill Hicks (love him to death) or Mitch hedberg would be a very humorous ice ...
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What is the best (and quickest) way to change my career strategy from linguistics into IT/software development? [closed]
I'm living in NW Russia and have my university background in theoretical and applied linguistics.
My strongest point is my talent for languages; I speak Russian and a bunch of other languages, ...
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How does a non team player answer questions about team playing [closed]
I am asking a question for my friend; he is searching for a position in the corporate world.
Let's call him "Joe". This Joe guy does not think working in a team necessarily means the best product ...
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3answers
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How to handle interviews for a requirement, on which I don't have hands-on experience but have learnt and interested to work upon? [closed]
I am attending an interview with a requirement on some technology which I haven't worked upon but I have read and learnt this technology. I am interested to work on this technology. How would I put ...
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Are Employers more likely to hire someone with “developer bootcamp” experience vs. Self-Learning? [closed]
Can attending developer bootcamps such as DevCamps, AppAcademy, be considered enough real-world experience for employment? How useful is attending these types of schools as preparation for employment?
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How can I encourage my team to give me tasks to work on?
I just joined an IT-project which has started a few months ago. On my first days, it was as usual: My team colleagues showed me the software they are developing, explained things about the ...
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2answers
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Is it unethical to promote startups in the company? [closed]
I am employed in a mid-sized multi-national software company with 500-1000 employees. In our company, we have several employee organizations (clubs) of different natures (e.g. basketball, swimming, ...
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How would you define invoiceable software R&D and likewise? [closed]
New development e.g. Java/C(++)/MIPS/Python/Scala/Kotlin/Lisp/Scheme/Haskell and so
Corrections e.g. bugfixes
Deactivations e.g. old versions must get removed in a proper manner
Education and ...
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2answers
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Is a Motivation Letter for Employment different from the letter used while applying for a student visa?
I am a non EU person, a third country national, and if I want to convert my student visa into a salary one, I have to write a Motivation letter for Employment to the Embassy of the concerned country ...
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1answer
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How common is an open dress code in the software engineering industry? [closed]
In the UK software engineering industry, how common is it to find a business with an open or casual dress code? What is the norm in these businesses?
I'm currently job hunting and finding that most ...
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2answers
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How would an MBA benefit my Career in IT
I already have a masters degree in Computer Science. I am currently working in the IT industry as a Software Engineer, but I want to move towards management.
I already have a Masters in Computer ...
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1answer
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Is there any benefit to receiving LinkedIn recommendations from colleagues/class fellows?
Do LinkedIn recommendations from your colleagues or class fellows matter to hiring managers? And does it matter that it would be from classmates or colleagues instead of from seniors or people with ...
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Convincing a technically inexperienced boss to not interfere?
My boss does a few things very well, such as keeping her team happy. Unfortunately, she is not quite as strong with the technical skills relating to the technologies we work with. Her inexperience ...
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3answers
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Should I include a copyright notice on job application submissions?
A job for which I am applying has, as part of the application / interview process, a test which requests real source code. Should I include a copyright notice on this code?
I'm guessing the ...
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2answers
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Why would any employee file a patent for their employer (software focused) [closed]
I have worked in the software industry for almost 10 years. At almost every company I've worked at there have been financial incentives given for patents filed by employees. I understand that patents ...
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How can I stop my colleague from copying my work?
I have a problem with my colleague. The problem is, he just copies my code and uses it on Stack Overflow and his own blogs. It hurts me a lot. I can complain to my boss directly, but that could create ...
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1answer
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Call seniors by their name or sir [closed]
Which is the recommended way to call senior by directly name (Mr. john) or sir (sir john).
Important when senior is your boss.
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What non-lawsuit remedies do I have for a boss who seemed to just not get accommodation for disability? [closed]
I had one boss who heard an accommodation for disability of 40 hours workweek per week, and tried to steamroll over limiting my hours per week. First he expected a full day plus significant work that ...
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4answers
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Is this an acceptable reason to provide when looking for a new job?
I want to change jobs. I am an app developer for a large company and we create apps that contain images I find objectionable.
I'm tired of being exposed to this type of imagery all day long at my ...
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7answers
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Should I propose a big change as a newcomer?
I have been working in the IT department of a (relatively) small company for 2 months.
Recently the boss of another department (who is a former developer) told me that it would be nice if we started ...
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What should I do when I've been verbally told I would get an offer letter, but still haven't gotten one after 4 weeks?
I live in Europe and have had some interviews with a very big MNC based in Belgium. They said they will give me an offer letter in a few days, however I am still waiting for it. The date that they ...
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How to respond to overly specific technical questions in an inteview?
During a recent job interview I was asked what I consider to be overly technical specific questions. These questions are too specific because generally it is knowledge I don't need to store in my ...
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Where do I search for resources to gain a basic understanding of writing software programs [closed]
I am a young entrepreneur with a partner who is very experienced in building software and coding. He, however, has never had much to do with the planning and creating requirements side of the ...
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Should I err on the side of overdressing for my first day of work?
I have accepted a job offer as a software developer after two phone interviews, and they told me that they have a relaxed dress code. Specifically, they mentioned wearing jeans. However, I'm not sure ...
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How can I improve my verbal communication to make it simple and crystal clear?
I have a lead role in my organization. My role demands high impact and crystal clear communication from me. I have been told that I am able to successfully communicate verbally anything to others, but ...
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Why do IT departments still dictate what IT employees can use for hardware? [closed]
Are there legitimate business arguments for skimping on hardware and software for IT employees vs. say, giving employees an annual allotment to maintain their own hardware? Or is this just an old ...
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1answer
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Voluntarily Asking Manager about my performance [closed]
I have been working as a software developer in a company for 8 months. I joined relatively as a newcomer and have been learning quite well. The work assigned to me till now is not difficult since the ...
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How to keep busy during slow times, without looking like I have nothing to do?
I do a lot of tech support work and sometimes I find myself waiting on people or generally going through a slow time. I get a phone call something like once a week. I mainly setup virtual machines and ...
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What's the best way to go about renegotiating my contract?
I started working as a contractor out of college because with my relative lack of professional experience it seemed like the only kind of work that I could find. Now I'm coming up to month 8 of my ...
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3answers
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Agreed price for agreed work to be done, but now asking for more work to be done?
About 2 months ago I was asked to make a charity website for a friend, it was only going to be a html/css website ie. No need for PHP, JavaScript etc, being a friend I offered £60 for the website, we ...
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Wearing earrings to office
I am male working in a medium sized company as software developer. I am wearing ear rings on both ears for spiritual and religious reasons.
I find this change in me has been taken negatively as one ...
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How can I accept a promotion after knowing that there are too many problems with that position?
I'm a software professional working for a start up and I have worked on many different technologies and platforms at that company. I am working for them for 1+ years and they are impressed with my ...
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3answers
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How can I help a team member who feels threatened by collective code ownership? [closed]
I run a team of software engineers where I try to instill the practice of collective code ownership. One team member is continuously threatened by an individual he feels is meddling in 'his code'. ...
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2answers
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Should I know what work/tasks/projects are next?
I've recently started working at a software development company where the style seems quite different to my previous experiences. Mainly, the work comes infrequently and after I finish it, I don't ...
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3answers
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Reciprocating technical questions to interviewer [duplicate]
I would like to make sure that my future coworkers are as good of programmers as they are testing me to be, assuming that I have ascertained their technical background. So when they ask me if I have ...
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How can I fire an incompetent friend?
I've seen similar questions to this, but I feel this has sufficient and subtle differences that warrant a separate discussion.
As part of a University Project, myself and two other Software ...
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How can we protest a deadline that is too short?
Our Project manager made a project's presentation and assigned it to our team. The amount of work was estimated at 3 weeks.
Our team members discussed the project and we calculated that the amount ...
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1answer
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How to build a relationship with a remote team?
I am working as a UI developer in India for an MNC. Previously I worked as a developer in another organization. There are no issues with UI development or back-end programming. I really enjoyed both ...
