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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
You mentioned that you failed the 2 courses during your first year in college. So, you still have 3 more years to improve your GPA. Good luck.
You don't need to have a perfect GPA to get a job in the ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
This probably doesn't apply to the industry as a whole, and this is united-states based.
As someone who has had the unfortunate experience of interviewing a lot of Covid-19 graduates.
I have found ...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
If it is a Civil lawsuit, then passing a criminal background check should be fine...
But let me be frank: if your name comes up in a Google search and I see that people died and you were negligent...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
In the US, no. All that matters if you can do the job. Many employers will do the contract to hire thing, that is hire you as a contractor, and let you go early if you prove to not have the skills.
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Apply to 2 job at the same company, inquire about job 1 status and was given status of job 2 instead
Yes. That's the most efficient way to get the status update you want.
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
Answering from the UK.
In 2005 I was in my second year of a BA in Philosophy and Computing.
The first year of my degree did not count towards my final degree, and in my second year I failed my Data ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
Want to eventually go for a software engineering job with some defense
companies
The work that defense companies do tends to involve more scientific programming, so they may care about the ...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
I did not have a required licence for the business and some people died in a fire in the building.
I think you're focused on the "people died in a fire"; but, the real issue is that you ...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
As the other answers mention employers google (other search engines are available) potential employees all the time - and while this doesn't relate to your work as a software engineer it is definitely ...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
They may or they may not, it depends if the background check includes online searching. There's nothing you can do about this so it's best not to worry about it.
Whether if found out it will affect ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
First-year classes may be ignored, since you were still learning how to be a college student and passing subsequent classes provides some evidence that you did, in fact, eventually learn the material. ...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
I wanted to provide you with something that might be an option if you live in Europe: the Right to be forgotten. This may not be entirely applicable to your situation considering the fairly extreme ...
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Regarding application of job through agency.Is it necessary
Is there anyway I can apply for the job directly to the company instead of going through agency ?
You can go to the company website to search for jobs (visit their career page, etc...) Also, you can ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
It's not quite as simple as "I failed a class", there are lots of different ways that can happen and they can be handled differently. Here's what I've observed from both sides of the ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I've been working as a software developer for the past 11 years and have had numerous jobs, spending an extraordinary amount of time looking for work. I also spent most of the 15 years before that (...
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Job Prospects with Damaged Online Reputation
It's impossible to tell if you would pass a background check. Like others have suggested, if you do, or if there's none, and you get to an interview and end up being questioned, own it.
That being ...
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Apply to 2 job at the same company, inquire about job 1 status and was given status of job 2 instead
You can’t see how that happened. Isn’t it obvious? You gave your name, someone found an application for the name, and returned its status. Which is more than many people get.
The easiest (and only) ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I'm going to answer this from the perspective of someone in Australia who has been working a software job for 8 years now. I failed 3 subjects throughout my course and had to retake them (yes that ...
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