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RE: The MM Network - Deceus - 08-06-2019
(08-06-2019, 02:10 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: My new company is hiring very aggressively right now. The following positions are what are most sought after right now.Oh baby sign me up. JK as much as I'd love to move to React/Node I don't think any company is going to take me seriously enough to make an offer worth going to NoVa for.
Software Engineer – JavaScript/Node.js
Software Engineer – React
Software Engineer – JavaScript
Software Engineer in Test
Reston office or Remote, doesn't matter. Let me know if you're interested. I assume the pay is good since they definitely pay me too much. The culture is really relaxed compared to my old job and the office is nice. No timesheets, which is nice. Great benefits as well. Unlimited time off (I have like 15 days requested off for this year already). Yes, there is a referral bonus for me.
https://sciencelogic.com/company/careers
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RE: The MM Network - V1GiLaNtE - 08-06-2019
(08-06-2019, 02:55 PM)Deceus Wrote:(08-06-2019, 02:10 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: My new company is hiring very aggressively right now. The following positions are what are most sought after right now.Oh baby sign me up. JK as much as I'd love to move to React/Node I don't think any company is going to take me seriously enough to make an offer worth going to NoVa for.
Software Engineer – JavaScript/Node.js
Software Engineer – React
Software Engineer – JavaScript
Software Engineer in Test
Reston office or Remote, doesn't matter. Let me know if you're interested. I assume the pay is good since they definitely pay me too much. The culture is really relaxed compared to my old job and the office is nice. No timesheets, which is nice. Great benefits as well. Unlimited time off (I have like 15 days requested off for this year already). Yes, there is a referral bonus for me.
https://sciencelogic.com/company/careers
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What about the whole remote thing....
RE: The MM Network - Senor_Taylor - 08-06-2019
Chris, I thought you were going to Cap One?
Our product is historically PHP and Python, our new UI is React. I actually laughed when I found out our product was PHP/Flash based.
Also, what Cabell said. 100% remote if you want. Half of our company is remote, including my manager and half of my sprint team's devs.
RE: The MM Network - Deceus - 08-06-2019
(08-06-2019, 03:22 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: Chris, I thought you were going to Cap One?
Our product is historically PHP and Python, our new UI is React. I actually laughed when I found out our product was PHP/Flash based.
Also, what Cabell said. 100% remote if you want. Half of our company is remote, including my manager and half of my sprint team's devs.
I'm definitely considering my options. Capital One essentially down-leveled me to just above a new grad in both title and pay because of some "skill gaps". They said they were going to work with me and bring me up to speed quickly. I took the offerknowing I had a lot to learn and thought I was going to be mentored and actually learn things for a change rather than be thrown to the wolves and given the bare minimum to get by. Buuuuut that's exactly what I got, I should've known better. "Just figure it out" has been the only real guidance I've gotten. I'd have no issue with that if it wasn't for down leveling. Ryan's been great but entirely too busy to really help me most of the time since he does like 70% of the team's work. Long story, short this has been the slowest and messiest onboarding process I've ever experienced and hopefully ever will experience. I actually talked with my old employer about coming back as a senior dev to help them through all the growing pains they're experiencing under the new government oversight. They were really excited about that and I was too ... until they told me I'd have to come back at my old salary (lol)
Not sure I could hack it as a remote React developer though especially with PHP/Flash thrown in there. I've got little experience with all that. I have done a lot with Angular on my side gig though and that's been about the only good thing career-wise I've experienced out of this whole debacle. Amazon told me to try again in 6 months since I bombed one of their Online Assessment questions. I'd kill to come in as an L5 SDM but apparently they rarely do external hire for those and I'd have to pass the L6 bar which basically requires 2+ years leading at least a small team doing large scale work.
The MM Network - Senor_Taylor - 08-06-2019
Well, if you want to give it a shot, lmk. Not a huge company and for some reason I work directly with both directors of engineering and had lunch with them yesterday. Wouldn't be hard to get you an interview.
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RE: The MM Network - Deceus - 08-06-2019
(08-06-2019, 07:55 PM)Senor_Taylor Wrote: Well, if you want to give it a shot, lmk. Not a huge company and for some reason I work directly with both directors of engineering and had lunch with them yesterday. Wouldn't be hard to get you an interview.
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I sent you a PM
RE: The MM Network - HAULN-SS - 08-06-2019
Just to play devil's advocate..but didn't you take that job to learn some new skills? It sounds a little like you want to fall back on what's comfortable. nobody anywhere I've even is going to teach you {X}...and you learn a lot more by jumping in and doing it anyway.
RE: The MM Network - Deceus - 08-07-2019
"You have a strong background in java but we'll have to hold your hand a lot at the beginning so here's a junior developer offer"
"There's no time for hand-holding, you're smart and have 7 years of experience figure it out"
One of these is not like the other and it's what doesn't sit very well with me. I don't really want to fall back at all but at the moment this doesn't feel like a step forward. Case in point: I was trying to work with another team member to connect to a sdp stream, something I've never done before.
Hey can I get some basic step by step instructions on how to do this properly?
"No, we don't have any of this documented. Make your own plan and I'll review it"
Here it is.
"Looks good, just start coding"
But you just skimmed it for 30 seconds.
"Doesn't matter just start coding and I'll review that"
Here it's done for the most part but I have a few questions on how the configuration is done.
"Don't worry about that just put whatever for everything. As long as it compiles."
That uhhh doesn't seem like a good way to do it. Can you at least just look at my code or answer my questions?
"I'll look at it when it's done and you open a PR. Just put whatever for now."
Hey it's ready for review.
"Well it's not really our team's codebase so send it to the other team for review"
I'd really like someone from the team to make a first pass so we don't waste their time. Can you do that?
"Nope, just send it off"
Spoiler: it wasn't configured right and there currently isn't a way to configure it properly either until the other team addresses it. This was originally his work to do. I only picked it up to work with him and learn a lot but he just sits on Reddit half the day and gives me these "answers".
I wish this was an isolated incident but it's pretty standard at this point. No one bothers looking into anything before answering anything for whatever reason. The exception is Ryan but he's in meetings from 10-5 almost everyday. It's taken 3 months to schedule 3 knowledge transfer sessions with him. We're talking about a platform that's been built by 20-30 engineers over the last year and I'm suppose to come in and just reverse engineer the entire thing with little to no help? I'm fine with it and making good progress but don't pay me like an intern if that's going to be your expectation.
The bright side is it should be pretty easy to get a promotion at the end of the year and I'll be able to switch teams shortly after that. I've also been able to add at least a dozen buzzwords to my resume so that's kinda nice.
RE: The MM Network - .RJ - 08-07-2019
Sounds like you need to go back to HR and tell them you're not happy and ask them to shift you to another team.
This has nothing to do with hiring process and everything to do with a shitty team - all of that behavior is bullshit. Its a big company, I dont think thats the norm there.
RE: The MM Network - Deceus - 08-07-2019
(08-07-2019, 08:32 AM).RJ Wrote: Sounds like you need to go back to HR and tell them you're not happy and ask them to shift you to another team.
This has nothing to do with hiring process and everything to do with a shitty team - all of that behavior is bullshit. Its a big company, I dont think thats the norm there.
Yeah this has been an on-going discussion with the Sr Manager. He's been pretty receptive the few times we've actually had our "weekly" meeting. I've been trying to be flexible about making it work too since I did come in at a very awkward time (in the middle of a major release). He's been out of the country for the past 2 weeks but when he gets back I'll have to schedule a meeting to figure out the next move. I've looked into it and standard protocol is to wait 9 months before transferring but with VP approval that can be bypassed. I want to get his blessing before trying to reach out to other hiring managers.
The MM Network - rherold9 - 08-07-2019
Before my previous team got disbanded and I was forced merged into this team. My lead and what I sought as mentor said "just be aware when you join this team you'll have to be able to work hard on your own" and I can definitely see why and that's what I have unfortunately had to do
1. 2 Contractors who work primarily on decommissioning work
2. One engineer who is just lazy and doesn't help
3. The original lead for the team left within a few months of me joining the team, so now it's basically me and two new people on the team.....
4. I'm basically the owner of two services and have a huge knowledge of the platform in general since I've been there 2 years. So I basically get pulled in a lot of different things
There's also the fact a timing issue where with a major release I was being pulled a ton to help with multiple issues/incidents. I've personally tried my best to help new people get onboarded, but everytime I try to do something right there is another incident, this is a higher priority, blah blah blah. So, I've suggested several things for the team to do. Some hopefully will work. It's a vicious cycle that I've mentioned and started to try to break out of recently
I think the main thing here is talk to our manager. I can't be the only one pushing for helping onboarding as it's not enough weight in comparison to an incident. Next is give it more time. If you aren't happy then, I'd leave too, I get it
I figured they were hiring for a different team I was going to be on. This same team has been said it will be spun for a couple months and still hasn't because we don't have the people. I didn't know about the terms of your hiring until you told me recently and it's definitely shitty, but something our manager/director should be handling. This is a brand new platform just released so we are still getting everything pieced together for structure, etc. So, to give promises like that is bad. This is definitely not the norm across the company. You could've joined a more veteran platform and been up to speed more quickly
The positives I'd say is opportunity growth since it's a new platform and lacking people if you can stick with it
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RE: The MM Network - Jake - 08-07-2019
For those in the DC area, my company (Slalom) is looking to hire full-stack developers, as well as some good BAs/PMs/Product people. We don't do a ton of entry-level, so 5+ years experience is where we'd baseline. It's consulting, but a local-only model with no travel unless you really want to work on a project in X city. I've been incredibly happy/impressed with how things are run. Message me if you're looking to make moves, we are winning a lot of work and need good people to expand all of our teams!
RE: The MM Network - V1GiLaNtE - 08-07-2019
(08-07-2019, 09:05 AM)Jake Wrote: For those in the DC area, my company (Slalom) is looking to hire full-stack developers, as well as some good BAs/PMs/Product people. We don't do a ton of entry-level, so 5+ years experience is where we'd baseline. It's consulting, but a local-only model with no travel unless you really want to work on a project in X city. I've been incredibly happy/impressed with how things are run. Message me if you're looking to make moves, we are winning a lot of work and need good people to expand all of our teams!
PM inbound.
RE: The MM Network - GTBrandon - 10-02-2019
Just as an update after the summer, I finished up the internship with Booz and honestly had a blast. I'm sure that working with the company will be different from their 10-week internship, but the connections I made and the responsibilities I had were something I actually looked forward to every day. I really enjoyed the consulting world, and because of that I want to dive back in. So, I accepted a full-time offer with Booz Allen, back in their Alexandria location at a starting salary higher than I even asked for!
I made sure to negotiate a starting date much later than graduation, in order to have some decompression time between college and starting my career. So my question is what did you all do between the time of graduating and starting your job? What do you wish you had done?
RE: The MM Network - Sijray21 - 10-02-2019
(10-02-2019, 11:38 AM)GTBrandon Wrote: Just as an update after the summer, I finished up the internship with Booz and honestly had a blast. I'm sure that working with the company will be different from their 10-week internship, but the connections I made and the responsibilities I had were something I actually looked forward to every day. I really enjoyed the consulting world, and because of that I want to dive back in. So, I accepted a full-time offer with Booz Allen, back in their Alexandria location at a starting salary higher than I even asked for!
I made sure to negotiate a starting date much later than graduation, in order to have some decompression time between college and starting my career. So my question is what did you all do between the time of graduating and starting your job? What do you wish you had done?
Great news on the offer and salary! Nice going with the starting date, too.
I drove cross-country with my mom and visited national parks along the way. Took about 2-3 weeks doing that. It was a blast; something I wanted to do for quite a while since I like road trips. I wish I took more time to travel a bit more, but I didn't have the money.
RE: The MM Network - V1GiLaNtE - 10-02-2019
Go travel. As far and wide as you can. Especially in an ever changing political and global climate. Places that were once accessible may not be in the future.
RE: The MM Network - Senor_Taylor - 10-02-2019
Congrats on the job! Accepting this early on should take a lot of stress off of you during your senior year.
RE: The MM Network - Sijray21 - 10-02-2019
Another thing to note: if something better comes along (may be hard to see that may happen given the circumstances), don't be afraid to take that. You may have committed, but it doesn't mean you can't take a better opportunity if that arises.
The MM Network - Senor_Taylor - 10-02-2019
The most impactful thing I've ever heard was when Mike Long (CEO, Realtor.com, WebMD) came to speak in my networking class. I asked him what his number 1 key to success is and he said to take any opportunity you have that is better than your current situation. Ride the way and always keep moving.
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RE: The MM Network - Jake - 10-02-2019
Congrats! I took two weeks off because I didn't really have the money or time to do more. My internship with AOL also rolled into a full-time position. Joey and I took the first few days to decompress at JMU with other friends, then moved up to our apartment in Fairfax together and spent the rest of the time getting unpacked, settled in, random runs to Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, etc. and so on. Was really nice to feel very settled before going in for Day 1 of work.