Questions tagged [career-development]
Questions relating to advancing one's career; this could include questions about promotions and training or looking for a job outside of the current company
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How should I explain my plans to exit my new job to my manager and recruiters?
I understand it may seem unprofessional and indecisive to decide to leave a job very shortly after starting, but the situation is relatively messy and was through no action of my own.
I've been ...
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Does managing interns count as managerial experience?
Very straightforward question as stated in the title. I am a mid/senior level individual contributor in a technical field, with experience in creating and leading projects across teams in a company (...
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Full Stack Developer Practice: Where should I start? [closed]
I am currently a junior in high school, and I’m looking into developer careers for my long term future. Initially, I looked into software development, but then I started wanting to do full stack ...
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Am I unsuccessful if I don't get promoted?
My coworker and I joined this company at the same time (about one month apart from each other). I struggled for the first few months and got “Meets Expectations” for my first review. Since then, I ...
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How to describe professional software development experience if I can't share my code as per company policy
I'm seeking some career advice on getting into software engineering. My academic background is in EE and I'm currently in QA testing. I'm working with my employer's client, which is a major tech ...
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How do you resign from a trainee scheme in a way which minimizes the impact on your career?
Essentially, I am planning on resigning from my graduate scheme as I want to focus more on my masters which can be done on a part-time basis. Ultimately, I want to pursue a career in a different field....
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Duplicate project activities in corporate R&D
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work for a large corporate providing HW/SW that often lacks alignment between sites across the world.
In the past three years I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a corporate project where we ...
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Which transcript to submit to job?
I will soon be graduating with my master's degree; I also completed my undergraduate degree at the same institution.
As I've been applying for jobs, several companies have asked for a copy of my ...
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LONG POST Looking for Advice from those with Experience [closed]
I’m 24 years old and just started my final year of college pursuing an IT degree. As the days to graduation count down I’m starting to get anxious about my lack of plan for the future. I’m overwhelmed ...
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I was lucky to get a job out of nowhere, it is killing me now, what should I do now? [closed]
I was working in a high-tech company after my PhD and randomly one day one of my suppliers called me and asked me if I wanted to join them. By that time was fed up with my job.
The supplier company ...
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How did visibility at work help you guys? [closed]
I am very long and early in my career. One of the tips I received from friends, parents, and others is "be more visible to the boss". That means:
Raise questions in meeting no matter how ...
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Want to grow from technical role to management role with no path ahead [closed]
I've been in technical roles as an engineer working in R&D for a couple companies for many years. During the pandemic I unofficially drifted away from more technical tasks to more of a project ...
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Unpaid Internship vs Open source development. Which could be better?
I live in Australia. Recently, I failed a recent interview for a Full Stack software developer job but before the interview, they said I could do a unpaid internship with them. It was the third and ...
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How are high level and creative positions obtained?
I tried three approaches so far, all three kind of successfully in they scope but with only as much results as described:
If you work to rule, minimum they can force out of you through they processes,...
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Could you share your opinion / experience with career coaches? [closed]
My background
I am a (former) molecular life scientist (non-US Ph.D). I have early understood that I have no chance of competing for professorial position, but, owing to strained circumstances, was ...
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How do I make an impact in a new job where I feel the team is not supportive and pulling me back?
I have completed 3 months in a new company. I have over 9 years experience some of them as a lead but I joined here as an individual contributor.
I am finding it difficult to make an impact despite ...
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How to perform and shine in a team when the boss is too busy to manage
When the manager is too busy to micromanage and monitor the progress of the project, he empowers and delegate it to me and my colleagues, who form a small team to work on a project. However, due to ...
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My manager’s continuous negative feedback is affecting me mentally, how can I ask for support? [closed]
I am a new grad (graduated in May 2022) started working at a big tech in June. Team specific tasks weren’t assigned to me until July.
He rarely ever say anything negative during our scheduled 1-1 ...
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Reputation Job Crisis. How to proceed? [closed]
I am at a crisis now. I feel I have been blacklisted from many companies because of my actions. I have job hopped from 15 companies with no notice. I am 35 years old. I have crippling Anxiety and am ...
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Transitioning from specialist to manager role
I have recently transitioned from an individual contributor at senior scientist level to a team lead role, where the first task has been to build my own team from scratch. It has been an interesting ...
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The dilemma of a high-paid junior [closed]
I have 2 years of experience and 1.5 years of research experience. I currently have a dilemma that the job I'm in now is paying me above industry standard (but within the company, my skills are still ...
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How to confirm and handle double standards in promotions?
I joined about nine months ago a company where I started a new position in a computer science R&D department, which itself properly began several months before that.
In this department are three ...
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Term for work outside your management chain?
I've been working a significant amount for another organization within my company outside of my direct management chain. I've heard a term that summarizes that kind of situation, with a connotation ...
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Offered a job that does not exist... yet (apparently)
I recently applied for a position in my current company (UK Based). Due to lack of experience, I did not get the job and instead it went to someone else internally.
Since then (2 months later) they ...
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Nearly Perfect Offer, Except for Title
I'm about to receive an offer that is quite aligned with my experience, and the pay is excellent. However, I'm concerned about the implications of the title change based on my career trajectory.
At my ...
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Is it possible to get a part-time IT job while doing Masters in the UK?
I am a software developer with 3 years of experience and planning to move to the UK for an MSc in the next September session. As you know students are allowed only 20 hours per week of working, I was ...
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Impact of a 'bad' tech stack on my career?
I recently switched job (I used to be a tech lead working with recent technologies such as Java 11, AWS, Spring boot, Kubernets (EKS), Terraform, etc). Now I work for a startup as a software engineer ...
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Demotivated after getting support project even with 2 years prior experience [closed]
I had prior experience as a Full Stack Developer in Information Technology in a startup. Meaning, I had built two projects from the ground up, and other few projects with significant contributions.
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Should I put C, C++, Java and Python projects in my resume if I want to go into web development?
I have been learning C, C++, Java and Python but I want to go into web development and I will soon start learning its languages and technologies. Would it be useful to put projects made in the above ...
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General letter of recommendation for intern?
I am a senior engineer at a large well known US company, and oversaw an intern this past summer for a comp sci related internship (programming focused). He did a great job, and I was very happy with ...
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Team relies too much on me for devops, which isn't what I want to do
TL;DR: My team's planning and software development practices are awful. I want to do ML research but painted myself into a corner by taking the lead on development instead. Things are improving too ...
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Becoming Software Engineer from non-Tech background [closed]
Currently a Tech Recruiter with a Bachelors in Human Resources. I have signed up for a Node.js full stack bootcamp via Udemy.
Has anyone experienced a bootcamp as a limiting factor later in their ...
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Is it a bad idea to build a complex portfolio website?
I'm a recent CS grad.
I'm currently building a portfolio website with ASP.Net 5. So far, I've completed registration with email confirmation, login, and partially completed the profile page. The ...
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What & How are Migration Projects ? Are they good for long term career growth?
I have 2 years prior experience as a Full Stack developer (Front end and back end).
I recently joined a company, and a team-lead wants to allocate me to a Migration Project. A project is to be ...
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How do I ask my manager if I will be converted to a full time employee?
I'm currently doing an internship, which has a week left to run. A few weeks back I asked my manager regarding my performance and all but he said the general stuff like "enthusiasm is great" ...
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Can I ask my company to let me take my online training course during office hours?
As a data scientist in Germany, I have to constantly keep myself updated regarding the tech-tools and new concepts in the field. Some of them are easily done by spending a couple of hours reading some ...
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What to do about change in position? [closed]
Due to changes I've had no control over our team was dissolved after ~half of a year of slow agony.(several managers, more and more understaffed, hiring freeze etc.) Now I find myself in a company ...
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How can a software developer absorb details from day to day work?
On a given day as a developer, relatively quite new to my company, I encounter a lot of small details that I have to figure out or ask someone about. Ideally, I’d remember these and do the correct ...
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Being a solo Junior Developer. Any advice? [closed]
I've been left alone (for my stack - native iOS) as a junior mobile developer in the Squad.
Less than 5 months of programming experience in my life.
I have to continue the development of an ongoing ...
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Terminate a contract with a German employer before starting working. Any consequences if I'm living abroad?
I'm from Latin America and signed a contract with a German company in February. Since then, the company has been handling my relocation to Germany.
I'm still waiting for the pre-approval of my work ...
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Scope and responsibilities change after starting at a new job
I started a new jobs a few months ago. I signed up to run a business group at the company which has three departments.
Two months after I joined, the company wanted to spin off my business group as a ...
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How to get an Internship in the US or Canada without being enrolled to university?
I will graduate from university in 1-2 months in Computer Science (focus on Computer Architecture, CPU Design) in Germany. Actually, my plan is to do a PhD but I want to take a break for half a year ...
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What's my job name? [closed]
I am actually finishing my internship at a company. Right now I am trying to find the name of the jobs that I am doing right now !
I graduated with a masters degree in computer graphics. For the last ...
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Can I make a career at my current job? [closed]
I am currently working as a frontend software developer, but after 2 years working at the company I work for I feel like they are just keeping me at stock, backup or assistance.
I didn't say much, but ...
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Should I leave the job I just started to work for Amazon (Europe) [closed]
I am a software engineer in a western European country. I started working for a local medium-sized tech company here last week, but now I also got an offer from Amazon. Amazon is offering to pay much ...
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What all is covered under the term employment particulars? [closed]
Don't know if this question belongs on this site, but I'll still post anyway...
I am currently employed and looking for higher education opportunities. One of the universities where I am applying has ...
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How to answer HR question, "Why did I leave my latest company after 7 years"?
I worked as a software engineer in a big internet company for 7 years in total. For the first 6 years, I had been working at the department of desktop applications. I really loved working there. ...
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What can I do when I feel stuck at work?
I have 15 years of experience in the industry, the last 7 years in leadership roles. I have many amazing colleagues who are extremely smart yet very humble.
In the last 6 months, I have that feeling ...
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Should I attach this working place to my CV?
I’m working on my current company for about 3 months as a junior developer. But problem is I don’t want to work here anymore because of some myself career path and seeking for full-time a remote job. ...
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Should I leave my job now or after promotion even though I already tried to resign? [closed]
I want to leave my current job as the pay is not good enough and it was my first full time job which I initially took on to gain some experience.
I am planning on going on leave for 1 month from mid ...
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