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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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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How to approach an unresponsive potential employer after signing a contract and waiting for my Visa
I signed a contract in January for a company in Europe (I'm from Latin America), and since then, they have been handling my relocation and visa process through a relocation agency.
The problem is that ...
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Is this too much for one developer? [closed]
Background: my company makes IoT devices. All the data generated by the IoT devices gets sent to the cloud. I would like one developer to be responsible for everything after the data leaves the device....
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I was hired to create a department but I do not get more people
I have been working in my current company for over a year, I am the only one doing activity X and the only expert at it.
I was told I would lead a department regarding activity X after a year or so ...
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Choosing the managerial or specialist path - does that really matter if you're senior in IT?
I'm wondering if me choosing the managerial or specialist path really matters.
I'm at the senior manager level (I mean the career level, not a function). I want my next job to be on the director level....
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At what stage of my career should I get certifications?
I have been in an administrative support role for approximately 10 months. I've been looking for some options compatible with my area of expertise considering that I'll be graduating in the middle of ...
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How to transition from front-end to back-end as a developer? [closed]
I'm not sure if this site is fit to ask such a question, but still gonna ask.
So I'm currently working as a Front-end engineer, I have around 1.5 years of professional working experience. For a year I ...
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Big promotion offer but am I hurting my career with the title?
I'm the data team lead at a company of 40ish people. I've been in data/analytics for 7 years total, 5 years as a Data Scientist, the past 3 as lead here. The CTO is retiring and he told me today he ...
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How to express interest in career progression without sounding threatening
I am a senior backend engineer with 10+ years of experience in the industry, mostly working on web applications.
I have been working for my current company for 2 years now, and I'll soon have a ...
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I am a full-stack engineer but my manager wants to make me do frontend development exclusively
I will soon have a meeting with my manager, in which she will want to assign me to exclusively frontend development. I am a full-stack engineer and enjoy both frontend and backend development. But the ...
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SWE achievements
I have heard about Google's XYZ résumé formula but I struggle to describe my experience with it.
Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z].
The hardest part is ...as measured by Y... but ...
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Career advice: changing from Data Analysis to Software Development
I'm currently working as a Data Analyst (10 years xp) where I do a lot of Data Visualization and PowerBI development but considering pursuing Software Development. I enjoy the technical aspects of the ...
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How can I change my attitude towards my colleagues and my carreer? [closed]
I just read this question and it hit hard.
I'm in a small team of developers (mostly RPA, general AI, and scripting in VBScript, Python, PowerShell and so forth and so on), some of them don't ...
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What categories of projects outside of embedded are there for a C++ developer nowadays? [closed]
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I have experience in C/C++ development (mainly on the "old" C++03) in a Linux-based embedded environment in telecom equipment, but I don't want to continue working in the ...
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Career advice : changing gears from devops to coding
I have two decades of working with all aspects around devops, before it was called that! I have written and reviewed a lot of code and helped design and deploy a number of enterprise projects and ...
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Advice about struggles with new role
I had turned down this role last year, and stepped down from a management role. I took the time to get better in my old role and become more confident. The opportunity came around again, so this ...
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Reasons someone would avoid working on career growth
In my team I wanted to dedicate time for people's growth. I gave each of them some material and actions to do, to start working together on a development plan.
All my team members started on this and ...
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Would working reduced hours or part time something that senior engineers would be interested in? [closed]
I work for a tech company and we're trying to see if there is interest from senior engineers who want to work part time. Now that we're a remote first company, we want to know if there are engineers ...
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Changing field but same job as Data Analyst - red flags in new job?
I've done an interview with a consulting company for a full remote Data Analyst PowerBi (body rental) in medical field for a big medical company.
First interview was with HR and happened yesterday.
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Risk of taking another job
I am curious how do people make decision in such situations.
Say I am Software developer (Front end), with say 4 years of experience roughly.
Now, on my current job, I handle all the tasks well.
Pay ...
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Stuck in a bad team. How to make the best of a worst situation?
I have been in a team for more than a year and I am stuck. The company works on proprietary software and I don't have much guidance. I waste all my time going round in circles and I can barely get ...
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