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Another tactic for an undergrad looking for a leg up in their career might be to do a double major of CS + some other engineering field or finance. You can real
by codebolt 7y ago
Another tactic for an undergrad looking for a leg up in their career might be to do a double major of CS + some other engineering field or finance. You can really outperform your peers and become a unique asset in a given industry by having an expert understanding of the domain paired with expertise in software development.
- asdfman123 7y agoI majored in geophysics and it doesn't really help me as a software engineer in Houston (although I haven't tried to really exploit it for the most money, because I felt guilty about working in oil and left). What's killer though is having a master's in a field and programming experience.
- selimthegrim 7y agoDid you have to leave Houston too?
- asdfman123 7y agoNope, happily employed here. What prompted you to leave?
- selimthegrim 7y agoNope, haven’t arrived yet. Just scoping it out.
- asdfman123 7y agoNah, Houston is fine and there are plenty of enterprise jobs, and they are constantly hiring. If you need a reference, send me a PM and I'll give you my email address.
- selimthegrim 7y agoI’m not sure how to PM you on here...
- asdfman123 7y agoYeah, sorry, I'm used to reddit. Leave your email? Leave a temporary email? I would list mine but I don't like linking my online identities to my real one.
- selimthegrim 7y agogmail is my HN handle
- jt0 7y agoI'm not in Houston or oil/gas, but trying to find a niche with the same background. I'm not seeing a great demand for this combo commercially unfortunately.
- asdfman123 7y agoIt's super easy to get a general programming job, though.
- brookhaven_dude 7y agoGood combinations - CS + Finance, CS + Operations Research, CS + Economics, CS + Physics
- MiracleUser 7y ago>CS + Operations Research this is me. I can't recommend it enough.
- andy_ppp 7y agoI loved doing OR for my final project at Uni, it was great solving the travelling salesman problem for a taxi network routing it to the correct people and picking people up in realtime around an imaginary map of points. I remember thinking as I took a cab into halls from the station "wouldn't this be amazing if I could have a device that told me exactly where each cab was at any point and maybe hook into the satnav somehow". In 1999 [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB720GB720&sxsrf=ACYBGNRalVeeyMJjrU49N2rYgvvNwar24Q:1574458503337&q=phones+1999&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje97f-4v7lAhUFUhUIHWrFAboQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1441&bih=1066 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB720GB720&sxsrf...
- MiracleUser 7y agotalk about having the right idea at the wrong time!
- andy_ppp 7y agoAh, I would never in a million years been enough of a shitbag to build Uber so it's a moot point. But still.
- riffraff 7y agoIn my school all CS students took at least one OR class. It was one of the best classes I've taken and some of the things still feel like magic.
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoThis is true. My first job as a dev was in fintech, but I know literally nothing about finance, nor do I care to. I was not a very good developer in that arena, because you really need domain knowledge to be truly effective in some fields.