confusedgeek

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by confusedgeek 11y ago
To your first point (management) - could you tell me more about how or point me to people who've made the transition themselves? To your second point (research lab)- I began my career in research and have worked at two world-class indu
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
Thanks, your analysis is spot-on. I'll work on the 'to do' items you suggested, particularly the last one.
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
That's correct. I am in the US but not from the US. Like I mentioned in my response to karmajunkie's comment, that does make career changes slightly tricky for me.
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
Thanks for your detailed response. 1. I don’t ‘feel comparable to a Google senior (L4/Level4, to use Google terminoloy) engineer’ - it is a fact that my role at my company is equivalent to that. If anything, I feel an imposter, having
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
"It sounds like you're unwilling to ride through the phase of uneasiness, of I-don't-know-how-to-do-anything-with-this-stupid-new-tool, of feeling dumb and clumsy, for long enough to become proficient. Look, I don't like
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
To add to that, reading new code is unnatural too. So far in my career, I've only built new things, and refined them based on my colleagues' input. But unlike my colleagues, who can dive into a piece of software and augment/c
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
Thats a good question - I can't really articulate it well, but here's an attempt. (a) Design / Scaling: I guess I like solving small coding problems that translate math or logic into code. It is building software at a non-tr
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by confusedgeek 11y ago
I had a McKinsey offer - rejected it to take up my first job which was in technical research in California. Most consultants spend time building powerpoint - some of them are exceptional and eventually do well - like the ones who are now to
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Career options out of programming?
18 points by confusedgeek 11y ago|24 comments