While I get working on what you enjoy is important you may also consider branching out. Firmware programming is a very niche field so you'll always be suffering from a lack of options. If you enter one of the more prolific fields and languages like Java, C#, C++ and doing business development it is far easier to swing around to climb the ladder.
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let me reworded as =) For someone at noodle's level it will take some time. For noodle, it will take alotmore time.
PS: im just calling u stupid... esse
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Yeah I get I could branch out. I wouldn't be happy doing some of the stuff you guys do, and that's not a jab at what you do just a personal thing. If someone offered a great job in Java or whatever, then sure I guess. Ideally I'd like to stay in my current field though.
I got this recruiter pushing me hard. Told him 91k was the absolute lowest I'd go and he said no problem - but the guy is emailing me every 3 fucking minutes and his emails have spelling mistakes and shit. Not very confident.
Plus a lot of these jobs are in Cambridge (Boston).. fuck.
I got this recruiter pushing me hard. Told him 91k was the absolute lowest I'd go and he said no problem - but the guy is emailing me every 3 fucking minutes and his emails have spelling mistakes and shit. Not very confident.
Plus a lot of these jobs are in Cambridge (Boston).. fuck.
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Aren't you glad you have your problems? 2 days after posting your resume, you are getting lots of calls. #firstworldproblems
If you like what you do, keep doing it. No one is asking you to branch out. I'm just having fun with you, but no one gets my jokes.
Drivers, embedded software, BIOS, has a very good market as well. Just be patient, some recruiters are not as knowledgeable as you think and osme just do a word match against the job requirements.
If you like what you do, keep doing it. No one is asking you to branch out. I'm just having fun with you, but no one gets my jokes.
Drivers, embedded software, BIOS, has a very good market as well. Just be patient, some recruiters are not as knowledgeable as you think and osme just do a word match against the job requirements.
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Oh I like your jokes, I'm just trying to figure out how to dox you like you doxxed me via PMs!!!
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The tradeoff being niche developers make more money than stack developers (Java, C#).
I set up Glassdoor alerts finally on the city I work in (I had previous alerts for Seattle and Portland) and I get spammed with jobs from other cities and hardly anything from where I'm at lol
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Rx is rough. I can see it's usefulness though so going to keep at it until things sink in. A lot of the code I inherited reacts to certain events but it's all procedural so I've literally got methods with hundreds of lines of code that duplicate work in another method(s).
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Spoke to one company today. Their phone was really shitty so I had trouble understanding the guy (chinese, too). Commute is longer, but i can take the T (train) in at least which is better than driving into Boston from the south.
Seems like compensation is similar with better and worse benefits. Something about profit sharing, $10k bonuses for something, only 1 week parental leave (4 weeks here), salary he didn't really know about.
I have to talk to an engineer for a phone interview next week and hoping he's a little more clear on this stuff.
I also got slammed by about 20 recruiting agencies. One guy was really pushy and even insulted my current company and told me he could hook me up if I "gave him my word" that I would only use him - see ya lol. The only one that has seemed really professional is a guy from CyberCoders so I told him if he hooked me up I'd just let him throw jobs at me.
Job hunting is really shitty. At least people are interested in what I do - the one place I applied looking for a BIOS engineer called me back nearly immediately.
Seems like compensation is similar with better and worse benefits. Something about profit sharing, $10k bonuses for something, only 1 week parental leave (4 weeks here), salary he didn't really know about.
I have to talk to an engineer for a phone interview next week and hoping he's a little more clear on this stuff.
I also got slammed by about 20 recruiting agencies. One guy was really pushy and even insulted my current company and told me he could hook me up if I "gave him my word" that I would only use him - see ya lol. The only one that has seemed really professional is a guy from CyberCoders so I told him if he hooked me up I'd just let him throw jobs at me.
Job hunting is really shitty. At least people are interested in what I do - the one place I applied looking for a BIOS engineer called me back nearly immediately.
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Sorry this is reading like Noodle's personal blog. The company called me in a panic and wants to do a phone interview tomorrow and wanted to "squeeze it in before the long weekend."
Maybe I can use that to my advantage.
Maybe I can use that to my advantage.
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Make sure to ask any potential employer what their stance on telling fellow coworkers to "get raped" over minor disagreements is. Don't want to have any misunderstandings down the line.
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Can anyone else recommend any good reading for coding interviews? In bios we don't really employ crazy algorithms or data structures, but reading this companies previous interview questions has me worried. None look like they're aimed at firmware specifically, so it's probably a small team.
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And cracking the coding interview book.
Also some rape.
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Thanks, I picked up the cracking the coding interview book as it seems like something just good to have in general.
Also merry rapings to you.