Questions tagged [software-development]
Questions regarding the Workplace interactions and considerations that are involved in the process of designing, implementing, testing, deploying, etc., a software product. Please refrain from posting coding questions, as those belong to Stack Overflow instead.
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I am part of a team while not officially reporting to its manager, and I think this is causing tension between us. How should I address this?
I am a mid-level software engineer at a large-ish tech company, having slightly above 5YOE.
My team is comprised of 8 developers. The previous manager for this team left the company a few months back. ...
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Navigating Career Ambiguity in IT: Lost in Transition Software/DevOps Engineer - Seeking Guidance on Next Steps [closed]
I've been working in IT consulting for the past 10 years, collaborating with clients on team projects lasting 6-12 months. My focus has predominantly been on building Cloud solutions and handling ...
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Colleague making up excuses for lack of knowledge
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We are a small team of developers working on a single multiplatform project (Web, Mobile and PC). One colleague in particular is in "charge" of the mobile application. I quoted that ...
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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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Non-compete clause in scientific programming, and course of action [closed]
I have a job offer from a company that produces simulation software for engineering applications, I am an applied mathematician.
They ask to sign a non-compete clause of a 1 year period, and worldwide....
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Please advise on how to navigate upcoming 1:1 meeting with boss, given circumstances? [closed]
I have documented my difficult work situation in this question and this question
Where things stand is that I am actively looking for a completely different group to be on in the large company I am a ...
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How to become more diligent and accountable?
I work as a newly hired junior software developed in embedded system. My boss critiqued me during a review telling me that I should work on my organisational talent, my accountability and adhere more ...
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My journey learning programming. Looking for guidance ~ where do I go from here? [closed]
I started to learn to programming sometime in May about 4 months ago, I had tried to learn before, but this time was with real college courses. I feel like this is the perfect career for me, but I ...
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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
I am the most senior technical employee at a small company providing software as a service to other businesses.
The company only has about 10 employees, so one of the directors does a lot of the sales ...
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Manager banned tests and Linux [closed]
My manager demanded I stop writing tests and instead start using manual testing like before I joined the company. After I mentioned I couldn't find something using the package manager, they also ...
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Doing a job in obscure way
I would ask a simple question.
When employees do their job in obscure or loosely explained way, or with scarce or ineffective documentation, out of worry their work would be underestmated if it ...
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How do I contract a remote work arrangement?
I am a scientific software developer with close to zero experience (only university projects and an internship). A company is interested in hiring me. They are in European country X, while I want to ...
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Explaining to engineers the importance of writing clean code
I've been working in the industry for a bit now and I lead a small team of developers (those are not always the same depending on the project I work on). When writing code I normally receive feedback ...
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Unpaid leave - how much I can realistically ask for?
My current position is, unfortunately, not a good match for my skills and previous experience. Seeing everything in the retrospective, it seems that this position is quite a few steps back for my ...
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Company reluctant to use good development practices; rejecting all my proposals. How can I handle this?
I'm a mobile developer. I work in a service company developing internal tools for different areas of the company. There is an so-called modernization project where I am, which is supposed to define ...
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How to deal with invasive scrum master who is nitpiking my MR to the tune of 135 comments?
I started a new job a little less than six months ago as a Software Engineer and it has been nothing but an uphill battle. I have the most experience in our team, and from what I have experienced and ...
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Can i move to Europe as an ios developer from Pakistan?
I am a 25 year old pakistani with education upto Intermediate which is equivalent to A levels. I am currently working as an iOS developer for 1.5 years. Is it possible for me to get a job anywhere in ...
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How to help my stubborn colleague learn new ways of coding?
I work for a small wholesale company as a developer. It is just me and one other. I am way younger than him and he is considered my "senior". I put that in quotes because I soon realized ...
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Can I leave after signing the offer letter?
I want to seek some advice I have 1 offer for the SDET role and I received an offer letter today HR is calling me again and again to make sure that I have confirmed and signed the offer letter because ...
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How to handle merging separate expert teams while avoiding bus factor?
When there is a situation that 2 small teams merge to form a bigger one, in the start there will be within the team two different sets of domain experts.
This situation has the advantage that specific ...
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Why do I get the feeling that my colleagues do not understand some aspects of the project that we code, despite being experienced ones
Sometimes I feel like that my colleagues or my manager, cannot get a hard feeling about some technical aspects of the current project that I work.
My colleagues mostly are experienced developers (...
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Assigned to a senior role without salary raise
Situation: I am working as a product manager on a product that is designed and implemented by our software engineer contractors.
Due to insufficient delivery quality of the contractors and given that ...
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How to maximize the monthly 1:1 meeting with my boss?
I have recently transitioned from being a contractor for many years for well known companies, to working at a very well known company as a full time employee.
I have always self-managed, and never ...
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How to inform a co-worker about a lacking technical skill without sounding condescending
I work in tech and have a co-worker who does not know how to correctly use asynchronous programming. He's otherwise a fine developer, but this is getting on my nerves a bit because he keeps writing ...
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Rejoining after 1 year of gap in Software industry in India
One year ago I took a voluntary resignation out of a product based company. I wanted to explore government job opportunities, but couldn't succeed.
I wanted to rejoin IT industry, but not sure about ...
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Challenge: As a programmer, I face the dilemma of being asked by my boss to provide market direction without specific guidance
First, let me introduce the situation of the company as background information that will help understand the difficulties I am facing. Our company is an internet technology company with two projects: ...
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External consultant hired to help on small project in big corp, but colleague there might not want me to be "too good" of a help
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Alright, even to write the post title was quite of a challenge cause this is such a bizarre situation I never ever encountered that it's quite hard to explain with few words.
I ...
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Do I have copyright for uncharged work when being on contract
I am a contractor working for a client in EU. In order to cover the requirements of the application we are building I wrote a small implementation of a framework. At least for half of the work on this ...
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Is it worth the effort to invest in building a team culture
I work in a company that is slowly but surely transitioning out of the startup phase. I am in charge of a dev team that creates and manages a supporting software product to the main hardware product ...
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What is my share of a SAAS startup that I developed the whole software from scratch as a partner? [closed]
A friend suggested an idea to me so we could use it in a startup company. The idea is to develop a SAAS and sell it online.
I will do the development from A to Z. He is responsible for marketing, ...
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How serious is it that my new teammates didn't show up to a meeting I set up that they agreed to attend?
I started a new job as a senior developer five weeks ago. I have worked with a one of my colleagues and two of my managers at a previous company, so I'm not a totally unknown quantity at this new ...
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How do I earn work experience to get a job if I need a job to earn work experience? [closed]
I am a software developer with experience in the Dart programming language and the Flutter framework. My major was in Electronics Engineering at George Brown College during the COVID-19 emergency.
I ...
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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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Gracefully resigning from an unmaintainable project I was hired to work on urgently
I was hired by a big company, but lately I found myself in a delicate situation. Big companies have more formal processes, adopt methodologies, are up to date/speed. I have enough experience that I ...
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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 evaluate my performance?
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I recently got a job (first job ever in the field) as an entry level software developer after pursuing a master in data science. I have been in the workplace for about 5-6 months.
The ...
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Should I tell a leaving coworker I'm replacing his process
There is this process that a leaving coworker wrote using (I feel) outdated software. The issue is anytime there is an error I have to consult with said coworker to get it fixed because no one else ...
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Worried deeply about my criminal record. Can someone tell me If I should be this worried? [closed]
I just turned 24 a few weeks ago, and it's starting to worry me more deeply. When I was 19 I committed a serious crime. I can tell you that I wouldn't have done this ever, but it was due to a ...
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Small projects for improving development
TLDR: How big and what kind of programming projects do you create just to learn new things as a software developers?
Recenlty, I realized that due to some legacy projects I worked with, my programming ...
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How much handholding can a Junior Software Developer expect in a very small company?
After my masters degree I am now at my first job as a software developer a little over 3 months and am seriously questioning if this job and software development in general is suited for me.
My ...
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How to politely decline a take-home test task
I recently applied for a software engineering job and the company responded back with a take-home test task which, in their words, should take between 2 to 3 hours.
Currently, I'm about 2 and a half ...
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Do new software developers get fired if they can't solve a certain bug? [closed]
I'm going to start applying to software developer jobs. I have a fear that if I can't solve a bug I'll get fired.
There was this port bug for a personal project I spent hours on and couldn't figure ...
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What can I do to stand out as a remote software engineer from an unpopular part of the world?
I actually already worked for several multi-billion dollar US companies, but I did that through local companies, who would just put me in touch with their clients, then stuff their own pockets and ...
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How can I make my point that the amount of time I consumed was justified?
I work as a Ph.D. researcher.
My supervisor told me to implement a web application in Flask that:
take inputs (project name, protein sequence, secondary structure, email-id) from the user
save those ...
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Is it acceptable to prepare for the requirements interview? The preparation can block the open mind and approach
I am software developer and from time to time I am required to participate in the requirements interviews with internal or external customers for the product the we develop and maintain.
I tend and my ...
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I am wondering what went wrong during a software design phase? [closed]
I need your advice about my career situation. My typical performance review feedback/complaint (for years now) is my tendency to take a long time to deliver my pull requests. Despite potential ...
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I'm a Senior computer science student and want to apply for an internship, but I'm not sure where I'm messing up [closed]
I would say I've been exposed to more internships and jobs then my friends, but I'm finding it harder to find an internship now. Previously I interned at a company in Lebanon for a basic technology ...
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How to go about managing a client's hosting and infrastructure [closed]
I'm just getting into freelancing!
I see that a lot of clients are mom & pops stores. Often, they'll want a dev to set them up with a website. Simple static marketing pages can easily be done with ...
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I think a coworker "doesn't listen" but that's difficult to quantify. How do I move this forward productively?
I've been working at my current company for several years now and there's always been an impedance mismatch between me and my technical lead. Some of our communication problems include:
Their ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]
Here are a couple of things about myself:
I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year.
I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley.
I ...
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