Questions tagged [software-industry]
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 as any consulting work, is included under the auspices of Software Industry.
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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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Weird circumstances surrounding feedback interview after on-site interview
I recently had my on-site interview loop with a major international tech company where I was interviewing for several possible positions and I thought it went decently well. Later, I got a flurry of ...
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
My friend is a grad student at an US institution studying Computer Science. During the internship season, they got an opportunity to work at a mid-sized company in the cyber-security domain. ...
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What are your thoughts on hourly based full time job? [closed]
I joined a fairly prominent company as a contractor in early 2023, and throughout the hiring process and subsequent meetings, I expressed my interest in transitioning to a permanent employee role.
At ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I failed two subjects in uni in my first year, one computer science and one maths (they were first year courses). My GPA is fine. Will this affect my employment opportunities down the track?
I am a ...
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I’m being assigned basic work, how do I respond?
Details have been changed.
Short version of the story is simple: I’m a software engineer, and now I’ve been given IT administration tasks. It’s a major step down in terms of responsibilities, to the ...
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How can I give feedback about unproductive one-on-ones with my manager?
I've been working at a large Fortune 500 organization for about 2.5 years. Everyone in the company has weekly one-on-ones with their manager for at least 25 minutes.
Over that period of time I have ...
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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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Is it legal for my company to force me to use my personal computer for work? [closed]
I'm a software engineer with 4 years of experience. I landed a job while in college as a junior dev for the same company I'm with now (3 years total at this current company) making 39k. I now make ...
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How can I get my engineers to accept being on call?
I am manager of several software engineers. Recently our CTO mandated that all engineers must be on call at least once a week, including the work day and evening, once a month, including the weekend ...
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As a software - developer are you able to code 8 hours flat out? [closed]
I am working a "professional" software developer for about 9 months now and I realized that I have troubles coding on a 8 to 5 job when there is nothing else but coding to do (no testing, no ...
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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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Should I Ask for a Lead Title if I Expect to be Manager?
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This year, I was transferred to a struggling software project as a developer. My time with the team has been difficult due in large part to shortcomings with management. During my time with ...
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How to give feedback to stubborn colleague?
I am senior software developer working on a team of 6 engineers, one of them is very difficult to work with, especially when trying to change his mind during a debate or an engineering discussion.
He ...
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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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Should I deliberately work less to reduce expectations if my manager is giving me higher work load? [closed]
This question is a followup of another question I asked a month back: How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
What has happened since then?
As expected, I have been given a ...
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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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How do I convince my team to use modern technology?
We don't use logrotate in our legacy servers. So, I want to use logrotate with a cron job. But my team insists on doing something else. i.e. just writing a cron and a random one line script that finds ...
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Make sure both parties uphold the contract in remote work
My client referred me to another potential client living in North America. We had a call and agreed on a project to work on. However, as far as I can see, there is no guarantee that he honors his end ...
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Practical, day-to-day differences between contracters and W2 software engineers
What practical, day to day differences are there for work between contractors and W2 employees, specifically for software engineers?
I know that contractors are paid differently and they don't get ...
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How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
I joined a new job two weeks ago where I was hired after an interview based on generic JavaScript programming knowledge with my past work experience close to two years. For the initial 12 days, I was ...
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How can I become more business savvy as a Software Developer to contribute better solutions?
I have 4 years of experience working as a developer in the consultancy space and have had the privilege of working for several industries; mostly for the private sector - Oil & Gas, FinTech, ...
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How to respond when companies ask me why you are applying for a different role job when you're already employed in another role job?
I currently work as system administrator in fintech company. Recently I applied for QA trainee role in another top company of Nepal(better than current one-if it matters, but I don't really care about ...
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Being workplace bullied - would it be a career damaging move if I sought out an increased WFH accommodation? [closed]
I am being workplace bullied both verbally at meetings and in git comments. My colleagues also feel I am being bullied by the one specific individual who is causing all of this. They feel the trigger ...
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Concerned about scrum master trying to take credit for my work, how to approach boss?
I am writing a document for our team. Our team is supposed to submit feedback on it, and I am supposed to upload my work to a shared drive for it to be read/reviewed. Under the guise of turning the ...
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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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Negotiation for new grad offer as a graduate student with 3+ years of prior relevant industry experience
I'm an international graduate student in the US and my internship has converted to a full-time offer, offering a new grad role as an SRE. I have 3+ years of experience in the field before I enrolled ...
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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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What Websites/Newsletters/Organizations/Methods Are Recognized for Keeping Up With And Gaining Experience In New Software/Technology? [closed]
I apologize in advance if this question is not relevant or against the rules, but I'm really hoping you can help me with this as I'm really not sure where else to turn to. If this is not the place for ...
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Discover all possible stakeholders in a pile of (legacy) systems
I have been assigned a team that seems to have been "abandoned" in the following sense: Hadn't had a direct manager for a long time and has been getting more and more responsibilities of ...
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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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Listing company on resume where NDA prevents company name
I have a company that I worked for where I am not allowed to mention that I worked for this company. How would I list this experience on my resume?
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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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Should I mention an exploit during the hiring process that I took advantage of?
At my current workplace the last part of the hiring process for a junior developer is an on-site programming task. As far as I know, in the last couple years all applicants at this stage end up ...
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Mandated into the office as a software engineer at a startup despite being on a remote team. How do I minimize distractions?
I've been mandated into a shared open office multiple times a week since I happen to be near where the CEO and the office are. I find that it's generally more distracting than working remotely, ...
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Is it OK to pass hiring manager info to old boss?
I work in software. I have recently switched jobs, from Old Company to New Company, a few months back.
Old Company, among other things, hires out consultants. I am on good terms with Old Company, and ...
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My manager warned me about absences on short notice
In the morning about two hours before a meeting I messaged by manager to tell them I was going to a doctors appointment and I would miss the morning meeting, and asked to reschedule it (it's a small ...
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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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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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Is it appropriate to ask for an hourly compensation for take-home interview tasks which exceed a certain time limit?
I work in the software industry and a lot of companies send take-home tasks to complete as a part of the interview process. Some of these take-home tasks can take a long time to complete, especially ...
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discussion with manager regarding salary disparity
I was hired a few years ago as a Senior Engineer and was excited to accept the offer, the pay was much better than my previous job so I accepted the new offer without negotiating salary nor did I ...
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Is it useful to split a CV into a HR section and Tech team section?
Since the HR team looks for cursory information (role name, years of experience, gap in CV and technology names like C++ or Java) to filter out CV's and since the Tech managers or tech leads would ...
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How can I get calls for the interview without experience?
There are a number of coding practice websites that allow users to solve coding challenges.
E.g., Excersim, Codeleet, BeeCrowd, etc.
Suppose, I have profiles on those sites and I provide links in my ...
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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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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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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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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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What would my industry-wide job title be, seeing as I don't code enough to really call myself a developer?
What would my actual title be if I were to apply it industry-wide? The term used at my company (Application Analyst) don't seem to apply elsewhere.
A similar title is 'Software Architect', except I ...
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Boss keeps restricting my work
TL;DR bold text is the important bits.
I work at a small company (<20 people) and I've noticed what appears to be a gradual worsening of favor with my boss. I do programming work primarily now but ...
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