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The number of engines being used in the FH, being much greater than Delta IV Heavy. The ignition process is complex for a setup and plumbing involved with that. And unknown interactions such as vibrations, etc. that they have yet to see from firing 27 engines at once as opposed to 9.

That's been the experience for me. I have built a portfolio of side projects less related to my job, and have been through the interview process with Amazon. And I've mainly worked for small web shops who build websites for local businesses that don't care about scaling massively.

You really have to be on top of the algorithms knowledge. First time I was tested on HackerRank where the problems were usually a twist on familiar puzzles.

The only big gripe I have is that if you don't pass the interview the company will probably have a required "cooldown period" lasting a few months before you can apply again. This is frustrating when the solution to a problem you failed hits you in the face a couple days later, but you gotta wait several months before you can have a go at interviewing again.

From my experience, whenever a team of Indian developers are hit or miss, it's usually due to management not knowing how to communicate the goals clearly to them. And usually in conjunction with not realizing the people you pick to do the job are just as important as the budget.

I worked for a web development agency. I guess you can call it a typical outsourcing shop. The headcount of the US office is something like, two managers/C-levels for one local designer or one programmer. The majority of the programming gets done by Indians. Communication is very delayed. The management doesn't seem to care about follow-up with their clients after the website is done. A client even gave a bad review of the company saying that their SEO traffic dropped by 40% after the new launch and had to go with another agency to undo the damage.

Most of your statements have been truisms but I'd like to see some concrete examples of self-taught or bootcamp devs moving out of web dev to a radically different field in software. Specifically in things that require an understanding of high performance, critical or real time software. These jobs usually have a higher barrier to entry, but you can still learn them on your own. It was discouraging to hear from a couple people that it's a big "nope" for self taught devs to take these jobs and that they should become a less risky hire by getting a traditional CS education. But that's just been without any examples of why.

It's hard for me to tell. I've expressed interest in working in them in the past, and I have past remote work experience with good collaboration skills online, but they never moved forward for an interview with me :-/

I'm wondering this myself. I'm currently in a part-time contract for indie game development work. While it's been great, as far as I know it's an unusual situation to be in. It hasn't been easy for me to find another good complementary PT software job.

I am not expecting stocks or huge benefits at these sorts of jobs. What I am hoping to get out of these jobs is a stepping stone into more advanced and involved roles with the company. My current PT job is a big departure from my last job in terms of both tech skills and industry.

That sounds like something that I am looking for. I'm interested in a "CS fundamentals" bootcamp. I have years of web development experience and while I could take a React bootcamp that would make me more marketable for that particular area, I'd like to increase my scope beyond web dev or mobile dev. Work on massive systems, and places where they need smart ways to move mountains of data.

In college I graduated in a digital media like program, and took a "super minor" in Computer Science- one Data Structures and Discrete Math class, and two courses on OOP software design. I have familiarity with some structures, understand the general concept of Big O but I'd like to fill in some gaps.

That's a good suggestion to look at the product first and see if I'll like it. I will look westward for those companies because I find more interesting software and other products there. Most of the startup ideas in my city, Chicago, hate to say it, sound mundane. Chicago is big, has many software jobs, but not much in the way of software startups or unicorns. It's not a tech center of USA and entrepreneurs built a different mindset I think. Some have even gone as far as saying, a company like Snapchat will never have grown as big as it did if it started in my city.

I'll probably not work for Google, not because I don't want to, but generally speaking any company that has been doing well for 10+ years hasn't given me any offers or rejects my resume.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Chicago)

Web developer, recently pivoted into commercial game development and interested in moving in that direction or related multimedia work.

Currently part-time, seeking another part-time job (max 20 hrs/week) to pad it out.

Skillsets

Game dev: C#/.NET, HLSL, DirectX, MonoGame

Web dev: LAMP stack, JavaScript, MySQL, MongoDB, CSS, HTML

6+ years in web, < 1 year game dev. 2 years remote work experience.

Email: chris.cajas.m@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/ccajas

I found Upwork.com too restrictive but I might give Freelancer and Bonsai a shot again. I'm hoping I can at least find a good client in a smaller niche. To be more specific my contract job is working on a commercial indie game title. I've been mostly doing speed optimization and computer graphics work.

I plan on doing that towards the end. I'm just looking for a way to get another contract job concurrently with this one. Don't think the local CoC would work as this is a remote job and every developer in the team works remotely.

You also get the flexibility of how you want to implement certain matrix math, eg. if it's calculated on the CPU or GPU depending on your needs.

This is one of those things where you usually have to go through the school of hard knocks to experience the "fun" parts of working for a small company. When I was a new grad and my first job was at a company of 10-20 people, I only thought about how I'd be interacting with almost the entire company all of the time, and the idea of small, younger companies being a bigger risk to employees never came across my mind.

The warning signs I started to pick up were employee churn, company seemingly not growing in staff size as well. People found their company's practices questionable and they jumped to better places to work at. Managers were sometimes hush-hush with projects being carried out. When I worked there as a consultant, I was working on websites that most of the company's programmers, designers, and managers didn't even know existed on the agenda. I don't know if that is normal for consultant work, but this division of knowledge felt strange for a company small in size.

He's saying yahoo.com is on his whitelist of websites, so he allows JS to run from Yahoo.

CodeIgniter was great back in its time but has been supplanted by Laravel in its organization of code. However what CI did well, in my opinion, is it lets you spin up a MVP in a really quick turnaround time and effective enough for small businesses.

What's great about Slack too is that you can create additional channels to split up discussion into different broad areas or concerns.

It's quite interesting to me that you can find homeostasis in physiological systems, but not in social systems, where runaway effects prevail. And seemingly a more robust social system would create a tendency for people to reach a more stable social state rather then continue to descend in a downward spiral.

(BTW the "negative feedback" loop mentioned in this topic is technically still a positive feedback, because the effects of the cause produces more of the cause. True negative feedback creates a counteractive force that promotes equilibrium- it has nothing to do with emotional negativity)

I'm starting to feel this effect, having just bought my first new laptop in 9 years. It's supplanted my desktop for almost all my needs- only thing missing is moving all my old files from there.

I have a couple of work colleagues. I don't know if it makes a dozen. All but two of them have left the state since I've worked with them, so I can't meet most of them face to face anymore. They all do seem to have better careers than I do, though, so the potential to find a good position through them seems high. I have them on LinkedIn and have let several of them know that I'm currently looking for software engineer work. Currently they just don't know of any open positions.

Yeah. I usually ask if they also know anyone that is hiring. So getting into second-degree connections. It's weird considering I live in a big city. I felt like I was dealt a bad hand, but just made it worse.

Oh I'm playing the numbers game. Hitting up companies of all sizes. But I don't think it's something I should be doing for all your career.

>While applying for internships and new grad positions, overall I applied to more places 'as total stranger' as opposed to via referrals from friends and received responses.

I'm not a fresher, though. I have been working in the industry since '07. And yes this is how my network looks like. Zero fellow programmers, zero leads (apparently) to get work.

I never thought of the career as a chain of jobs where one job leads to recognition that helps you more easily get the next job. I thought one could do fine just looking for work in a vacuum every single time. But guess I was wrong...

That the devil is always in the details. How well you can explain your problem to someone is not an indication of how easy it is to solve. The difference between "simple" and "easy".

Well, I did already post an announcement on Facebook saying that I'm looking for web development/software engineering work, and it got reposted by a friend. It didn't get any replies.

I also occasionally PM some of my friends on Facebook and on Hangouts if they are hiring or looking for web development help. None of them have any idea. I've been going on regular rotation with the PM's for about a year (I've been unemployed that long) and they always say sorry, they don't know anything about jobs for me.