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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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Dealing with coworker's junk science?

Background: Econ (MA), self-taught Data Analyst (python + a little of R, SQL). Like working for health/development NGOs/think tanks etc. The entity im currently at operates on the pipeline of grants=&...
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How can I stay relevant in the Network Engineering space if I took a 2 year gap?

I’m 23 and have just finished a network engineering apprenticeship where I have 3 years professional experience along side a Bsc degree. This was completed in the UK. I also have CCNA Routing and ...
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Is it normal for a junior programmer to be alone in a project?

So I have been accepted into a small-mid size company for a month. In a month, I've been asked to make an app using a library that I don't know and kinda old / rare to be used. Mind you I spent 1 ...
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How to address contrast between current and past employment?

This is during interviews. I'm presently employed and it's not a good fit for various reasons. I'd like to work at something more interesting, challenging, with project work as time goes on versus ...
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Can the language you select when registering on LinkedIn affect your account's algorithms? [closed]

I live in Russia and LinkedIn is blocked in here. So I tried different ways registering a new account: Using various VPN's causing endless captcha Always asks for a phone number but never lets to ...
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Can I grow in my current company or am I wasting my time?

I’ve been at current company for over 4 years . In my current department , I’ve been here over 2 years. The current issue is where in those 2 years , I have had no promotions and it seems like other ...
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Getting back into Software Engineering after an almost 2 year hiatus

I’m a 33 year old software engineer from Chile, and I’m also a professional rugby player (since 2020) and I’ve represented my country for the past 8 years and just recently competed in the Rugby World ...
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Is it reasonable to request working remotely from Ecuador?

I'm currently a Lead IT Engineer that works remotely %100 of the time in the United States. I want to move back to Ecuador though to be closer to family. Going to approach my work about this next ...
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Have I made myself unhirable?

Edit: It appears that my fears were unfounded. It took a while, but I am now holding three job offers with two more in the pipeline. I guess I was hirable after all. :) The key was to give as many ...
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How do I tell my work I don't want to do the project that I've been put on?

I've been a structural engineer for a few years. My tasks are usually design calcs/reports which are office or remote based, i.e. I am NOT a site engineer. I have recently been placed on a project ...
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Manager wants to hire an additional resource with experience in a skill that I do not have

I am new to Python, but have experience in other technologies like NodeJS ,PHP and Cloud Services of AWS. Recently we got a project requiring Python + AWS. I have experience in AWS, having worked with ...
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How do I ask to switch teams?

For context, I am an engineer in the US for a small (<100 people) sized company and am in my mid-career, so it is theoretically possible for me to pivot roles. I am on a team of <20 people in a ...
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How or where can I get in contact with a coach or mentor to help me form a strategy to direct my career as Software Engineer?

I am currently evaluating many steps in order to further my career. I am currently working as a Fullstack Developer but I want to prepare myself to become a Senior Fullstack developer. I have so many ...
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CS career - frustrating PR review [closed]

Edit: I don't understand why I'm being downvoted, all I am doing is asking for advice. I have been a developer for nearly 10 years, though it's the first time I am in a "tech" company. My ...
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How to Efficiently Learn Proprietary Information in a Challenging Work Environment?

I work as a Linux System Administrator in a fintech company in Nepal. My responsibilities involve working with mobile banking architecture, understanding the flow of events in mobile banking, and ...
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Should I tell my manager I did not like her tone and demeanor when she told me I did something wrong?

I work in the US in loan servicing in a bank in the corporate office. I am one year new to the industry and about 6 months new to my role. Several of my tasks are transactional. Yesterday, my Manager ...
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Can I start an IT career after the age of 30?

My age is 30+, currently I'm doing a non IT job but I want to switch to software testing field. I'm learning manual testing along with api testing. Is it really possible to start as a fresher now? ...
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Switching careers/roles with overlapping backgrounds - how to determine reasonable seniority level

I have a simple question I haven't been able to find much advice on. Imagine I want to switch careers or roles within my sector as an experienced professional. There's a big overlap between the ...
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Leaving a job to do postdoc

I have recently graduated with my PhD in chemistry and have joined as an application scientist in a material analysis instrumentation company in India. The main role in this job is assisting the sales ...
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Advice for someone who took a long sabbatical?

I (late 20s) last worked around January 2022 as an automation engineer and have since been out of work. Part of it was to clarify career direction through self-reflection and trying stuff out, most of ...
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Asking For Career Advice in Tech [duplicate]

Hello Everyone. I need some career suggestions. Due to the current enhancement in AI, starters like me are confused, will there be a demand for fresher web developers after 1 year? Should I continue ...
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How hard is it to change industries as a software engineer? [closed]

I'm considering accepting a software engineering offer at a large defence company. I'm not a software engineer and don't know much about software engineering, however I can code in Matlab and python ...
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Is a course in user experience useful to a software engineer

I've been a developer/engineer now for quite a long time. My career progressed well in the beginning but has reached somewhat of a plateau. I do find myself giving increasing input into overall design ...
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My new coworker may become my boss, and he is terrible

I work in a team of 5 persons in a medium sized company. This service is new within my company and was formed by taking people from different services. So in my team, the knowledge of our processes, ...
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As my first job, how can I gain the most out of my mentor, a senior engineer?

I am three weeks into my first software engineering job at a software company in Canada working on a windows desktop application in C++. My work consists of fixing newly reported bugs in the software, ...
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As a junior developer, how can I improve if I work with legacy code? [closed]

I graduated in Compsci related course. I was not great at coding during gradschool, but had some basic OOP knowledge, C programming, Java, Python (with django framework), SQL, and front-end with web ...
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How Much Stock to Put into a "Meets Expectations" Review from Manager?

I've recently started a new job. I've just had my first formal end-of-cycle review from my manager after about 4 or 5 months, where we are given a performance score. They were thankfully very ...
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Is changing teams at this point bad for my career?

I work in a big tech company. I was promoted to be a people manager a year ago. It's the first time I manage people. With all the layoffs madness happening, some other managers got fired, so I ended ...
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Handle a career switch to Software Engineering, most likely starting as Junior, while keeping the same salary

After 8 years in the same company in a role growing from helpdesk to software support to project management, I recently found out I really like programming and decided I would spend the rest of my ...
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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

I 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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