Questions tagged [software-engineering]
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How to respond to interview question regarding why you left your last job without finding a new one? [closed]
I left my job two months ago. Why? Because of the following reasons:
The work was menial.
The pay was horrible.
The blame was most. We were the frontliners in the IT war without much power in our ...
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How Far Would You Go to Accommodate non-Verbal Colleague?
Started a new job in a company as a machine learning platform engineer, focused on putting several machine learning models on production (taking them from some proof of concept prototypes to scaled up,...
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How to defeat the 'I don't know' [duplicate]
I'm sure we're all familiar with a certain kind of software engineer who, when asked to complete a task, Googles for a solution and takes what they find. When they inevitably get stuck and come to you ...
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How to growth & tackle salary increase when salary is provided "as is"?
For context: I work as a medior (mid-level) full stack developer in a semi large company. In the netherlands.
The last 2 years I have been having almost the same conversation at my yearly review:
&...
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Strategies for dealing with delayed processing of bullying at work [closed]
I'm 36, and I was recently diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD (AuDHD).
One of my traits is delayed processing of negative social interactions. For example, if someone subtly insults me, the incident ...
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What if a potential employer knows that you are working on a stealth startup on the side? [closed]
I am a software developer.
On my linkedin page, I have my most recent experience as being the founder of a "Stealth" startup.
On my resume, I briefly describe a "passion project" ...
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Company Created Position For Me, Tried to Sell Me On It, Then Rejected Me [closed]
About a month and a half ago, I interviewed with Company X for a position as an Engineering Manager. After a typical gauntlet of interviews, I was told that while I performed extremely well, they ...
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Fixing damage to my department due to nepotistic exec [closed]
I'm working with a team of software and devops engineers, and the team has recently been shuffled due to layoffs. Our technical lead, "Alice" (not her real name, of course), who works a lot ...
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How do I influence a hiring decision in a way that increases the likelihood of my new engineering colleague being product-oriented?
I’ve had the misfortune of an engineering colleague on my team (the most senior one) being not product oriented. Despite it being a startup and a small team that hasn’t yet achieved profitability, he ...
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How to deal with performance evaluation of software engineers by non-experts in the field [closed]
I previously have had an experience where my performance as an engineer was evaluated by a non-engineer (forgive the ferocity of the post, I'm still mad)
I'm finding that it is remarkably common for ...
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I'm a web developer but I am being asked to automate testing in Selenium [closed]
I am somewhat a newbie with 2 years of experience in Java backend developing and I want to hone my skills in backend Java developing.
But now my manager and team is asking to work on automation web ...
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Unsatisfied by my progress as a software developer
It's been almost a year since I landed my first job as a developer. During this time the things I have done are: solved minor bugs, solved major bugs, implemented a new feature into a product.
But I ...
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Transition from testing to software development. What can I do to make myself a better candidate for software engineering roles?
My background is in engineering (EE) and testing, and I'm trying to get into software engineering / development. I'm mostly self-taught, and I'm not sure if I'm going in the right direction with this ...
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I am trying to land on a software engineering job. I have 2 degrees: one in hardware (BS EE) and another in software (BS SE)
I am a self-supporting individual whose education is earned through schooling while working. Back in the 90s I entered the STEM job market with an AAS degree in Digital Electronics. I worked in the ...
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advice for a help desk guy trying to break into software development
I work at my company's IT helpdesk, was just rejected from an internal position (entry level C# dev) because I do not have, according to them "hard skills"
But, I have already worked pretty ...