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- Accredited college gives training, practice exams, and A+ vouchers for $150?
- Is a bachelors required for a career in IT or is it optional?
- Interviewing for a Cisco SE position - it's been going well but I got a weird comment from the hiring manager today. Need some Cisco people to weigh in and let me know what it means.
- python selfteaching , and angular potential question
- Just became A+ certified, what next ?
- How do I be a better architect?
- Covid19 has basically left me in charge of my department. how and when to use this experience for a pay raise?
- Good starting point to begin learning more?
- I was just offered a really weird part-time I.T. specialist position. Has anyone experienced this before?
- Colleges and Universities having CDFAE, CAE-CD
- What to know/do/say on a Solution Architect interview?
- Degree, Certs, Experience, working support, where to from here?
- Is $140k an unrealistic salary expectation for mid-level Cloud Engineer positions outside of NY/SF?
- How to deal with my boss who wants to reinvent the wheel and use his "proven" source code over the years.
- Alone IT Guy
- Pros / Cons of Contract work?
- Do I need a degree?
- Am I ready for OSCP as a university student?
- Taking the A+ in 2 weeks need some advice.
- Masters vs Coursera
| Accredited college gives training, practice exams, and A+ vouchers for $150? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 04:31 AM PDT Hello, Has anyone heard of WGU? I initially found it to get my degree as most students complete a 4 year degree in 18-24 months. To get into any of their IT programs, you need prerequisites which I didn't have or to go through their academy, which is fine. This is where it starts to get weird. Through a discount website the vouchers for both parts of Comptias A+ are $400 alone. Well this gives you that and training and practice exams oh and college credit for $150 a month. This is an accredited university through the board that accredits BYU and University of Oregon. This seems weird because they also give you countless other certs while full time attending to get your degree which I know can be normal but once again for cheaper than community college. Anyone have any experience with WGU? [link] [comments]  |
| Is a bachelors required for a career in IT or is it optional? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:08 AM PDT I am torn between a bachelors in either Biology or IT. Would having a biology degree disqualify me from many IT roles? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:45 PM PDT I've been working in IT, focused on networking, for about 5 years now. I've had several jobs and for the past year and a half, I've worked as a presales Solutions Architect for one of the leading telco's. I make $115k/yearly as a base salary + $15k in commission - this is in a moderately-sized midwestern city as well. Anyway, I haven't really been looking to make a move, but I saw a Cisco SE job posted and, well, I've always wanted to work at Cisco (plus I'd like to get out of the telecom world) so I applied for it and had a really nice first-round interview with the recruiter. Among other things, she told me that the compensation range for this position was between $100k and $210k... quite the range. I expressed to her that I was seeking $120k base salary with $140k on-target earnings. She told me that the salary/commission ratio was 3:1. With that in mind, I will instead be seeking $115k base + 40k commission... because I absolutely cannot take a base salary cut. Since she wasn't really able to offer any more insight, I said I'm sure the manager and I could work something out within the range... Fast forward to today, I had a meeting with the hiring manager and it went really well. But he made a comment about me being considered "early in career"... I need to know what that means in terms of job title, salary, and responsibilities. Because while I really want to work Cisco, and a 6-month ramp would definitely be appropriate, I'm definitely not going to take a pay cut or downgrade myself to a junior-level title. For those of you who work for Cisco, I would greatly appreciate it if you'd weigh in on the situation. Thanks! Addition: What does the interview process look like? He told me that I'd be shortlisted to the next round, which consists of four 45-minute interviews, but I didn't get that much detail as to what I should expect. I want to be able to convince them that I should not be treated as "early in career". [link] [comments]  |
| python selfteaching , and angular potential question Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:02 AM PDT can someone link me good resources for self teaching python ? im sure there are many but there must be some that are better , just try to keep it cheap/free please XD also while im at it what do you guys think of angular (not angular.js) should i learn it even tho i dont have much interest in web development ? it seems kinda interesting what can be done on it [link] [comments]  |
| Just became A+ certified, what next ? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 07:40 PM PDT Not currently in the field , but plan on transitioning into and IT field engineer position with my current company early next year. My questions is as far as certs go, should I go for NET + next then Sec+ , or go for the CCNA? I'd like some options because I've heard different things from different people. Thanks in advance ! [link] [comments]  |
| How do I be a better architect? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 06:15 PM PDT I work as an Azure consultant. I'm pretty hot on the tools, the area I lack in is design and depth of knowledge when it comes to best practice or how to meet customer needs when it comes to more 'regulatory' type things, eg maintaing a particular security posture as cheaply as possible. Even little things like writing good doco Cheers [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:15 PM PDT So back in March due to Covid19 our entire office was shut down and everybody was made to work from home except for a select few of us who couldn't. This includes me, our team basically manages multiple devices for multiple clients and we provide Tier 2/3 support if our help desk needs it. Due to us having to physically be in the office to build/configure devices and send them out, we obviously all couldn't work from home. I had/have no problem with me coming in like normal and working, I actually like being here alone and just getting things done. I have literally been at the office every weekday since the quarantine started and have done an insane amount of overtime to make sure everything runs smoothly and that there are no delays. I'm coming up on my year anniversary pretty soon and I was very green when I first started, looking back I have learned a lot in just a year and have hopefully proven myself during the pandemic. This is a list of some of the things I have done:
Anyways the point of this post is not to show off or anything because I'm still so new in the field and know I have so much more to learn. Which is why I'm okay with doing all this because I know ultimately it's going to benefit me in the long run. My question is when should I be thinking about a pay raise because I personally feel like I have proven I'm worth more now than I was a year ago especially post COVID. And if I don't get it then what's the move? It's also probably important to know that our company has done great and hasn't seemingly been affected negatively by COVID i.e. no layoffs or cutting hours. [link] [comments]  |
| Good starting point to begin learning more? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:33 AM PDT What's a good point to begin learning more about IT? I'm currently in college for it and a bunch of what I done is more on the software/Programming side of things. Would a good starting point be to begin doing things related to the A+ cert such as watching Professor Messer videos? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:04 PM PDT I was just offered a part-time I.T. Specialist position through Miles Technologies after a remote interview. They sent me a "congratulations, you got the job" email and a welcome packet. This seems to be strange though and I don't know if anyone has had experience with this. They pay $30 an hour for remote assistance from home, but don't offer a schedule or hour guarantee or anything. It's like a "we'll call you when we need you" kind of thing it seems like. I already have a full-time job so the money or lack of hours really isn't an issue because I applied to merely gain experience. Is this common? Has anybody else in entry-level I.T. experienced this? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Colleges and Universities having CDFAE, CAE-CD Posted: 27 Jun 2020 01:58 AM PDT Hi All, Some universities and colleges have these designations: National Center of Academic Excellence in Digital Forensics, National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, etc. My question is; do these even mean anything or make a difference? Please share your thoughts. [link] [comments]  |
| What to know/do/say on a Solution Architect interview? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:55 AM PDT I applied to a vacancy as an in-house (Junior) Solution Architect for a local community college, and got an interview for it next week. I'm looking for some pointers on how to stand out given I'm not 100% sure what such a position entails on a day-to-day basis. I have an academic Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering, a Master's in Business Administration specialising in Management & IT and got both a certificate as a Cyber & Computer Crime Professional and Certified Ethical Hacker (got to apply with a huge discount as part of the CCCP program). How should I tackle this? Where should I put my focus? What does a day in the life of a solution architect look like? [link] [comments]  |
| Degree, Certs, Experience, working support, where to from here? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:54 PM PDT I just finished Bachelors degree Networking Operations and Security, Associates in IT. I have A+, Sec+, Net+, Linux Essentials, Cloud Essentials, Project+, CCNA, and can soon take the ISC2 CCSP exam but don't have the required experience yet. I have about 1.5 years experience as a IT Support Technician and implementation tech. I have experience with web dev, mobile dev(self taught), Java, HTML, XML, etc. I went through a bunch of different programming languages and taught myself quite a few other languages. What jobs/salary range should I be looking to go for? [link] [comments]  |
| Is $140k an unrealistic salary expectation for mid-level Cloud Engineer positions outside of NY/SF? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 08:14 PM PDT I know this ranges depending on the location, but is the ballpark of 140k still reasonable for someone with 3-5 years of experience working with AWS/Azure? I've read through some posts and comments here regarding this topic, googled the salary ranges, and looked at tech salary reports. The numbers all seem to vary wildly. I currently work with an AWS consulting company in the Chicagoland area making $120k and was looking at new opportunities. I'm wondering if I'll be wasting my time job searching for something higher if it doesn't exist. Would it benefit me to pivot towards a more DevOps focused career instead? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:40 AM PDT He's working for over 10 years now but he keeps on reinventing or using his old code that he said it works great but there's so many things that missing like better error handling. He has this big switch case for everything. He doesn't even know how to use abstract pattern. The problem here is that, I've worked for almost 3 years now so most of what I say is BS to him. I even talked about trying to use a clean architecture rather than just flying MVVM everywhere. But he said no because his library MVVM works so great. Now our app is not testable. Even for unit testing. He said it's BS. No one does that. UI testing is BS too. I also remember the time he said strategy pattern is BS. It's slow my code is faster. (if else everywhere) Now our app is crashing and all those state handling is like magic and hard to debug. Oh god, I dunno what to do now. He's working for over 10 years and this close minded is kinda ridiculous now that I want to quit but fk this virus. Anyone here experienced this too? I dunno maybe I'm wrong but it's quite different on my previous company. Most of what we did was planning first rather than just jumping into the code and finish it so damn fast (yeah he thinks he's so amazing because he did the feature so damn fast) without thinking the repercussion later down the development. Who knows. I only have 3 years of experience. Maybe those big switch cases are the future of development. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:22 AM PDT Hello guys, how are ya all? Let me share a little about me before starting questioning, TL;DR at the end. I am a 20-year-old, pursuing my degree in Computer Engineering (2.5 of 5 years already gone). I have a job in a midsized company (like 500 workers) with the position of TI Support Assistant, which is much more like a Junior Sys Admin. This is exactly where things get trickier: my company has been bought by a much larger one, and the last month has been hell, through and through, with the migration to their system, with their ERP and network. Probably after all of this, in the next few days, I'm going to be all alone in the office, the only IT guy for all of this company (the original one, now a subsidiary). Okay, probably not all alone, the corporate guys will handle some of the things, like the switches, servers, printers (I had to take care of those things before, with the help of my supervisor) and maybe I'll have help from another guy, but that's still a big maybe. Combined with all this, the last 14 days I were on sick leave, with the possibility of Covid-19 (haven't done the exam, but my mom whom I live with got a positive, so...), got back this Thursday, on time for helping with the finishing steps. My questions, at last, are: What do you all think about this? Is it crazy to let a 20-year-old handle a company IT? My probable tasks will be handling PCs and calling corporate for help. Another thing I'm worried about is that I won't going to be learning anything more, but maybe it's probably the best option right now with the pandemic and still being in college. Please tell me your opinions about all this. TL;DR: 20-year-old being responsible for company's IT, without even finishing college, give opinion. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:08 AM PDT I'm currently working as an IT Infrastructure / Support Engineer doing contract work and I'm thinking of buying an apartment with my girlfriend of 5 years and it came up in conversation that I wouldn't be able to get a mortgage because of my contract work which really made me think. Any contractors out there or anyone with knowledge on the subject? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 06:34 PM PDT I'm currently in school doing a degree in computing (i.t) but due to COVID-19, I'm unable to get the documents I need for my financial aid leaving me unable to pay for school for the upcoming fall and spring. Would my time be better spent by continuing to study for different certifications and get an entry-level i.t job such as help desk? I'm currently studying for rhcsa cert I just don't want to waste my time. [link] [comments]  |
| Am I ready for OSCP as a university student? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:45 AM PDT I am entering my last academic year at UC Riverside. I decided during my internship this Summer that I want to pursue cyber security as a career. I've achieved so far: -Internship at Amazon this Summer as an IT Engineer (Mostly networks related work) -Help Desk Internship last Summer as a first way to get my foot in the door -Work at my university IT department for 2 years I am thinking about taking this next year to dedicate myself to the OSCP. I really want to do this for several reasons. Obviously the first being to gain the skills necessary to pass the exam, and have the cert to my name before entering the job market. The second is that I want to be able to reach my real goal of being technically skilled, which I guess just also correlates to my first point. Thank you so much for any real advice from professionals in the field [link] [comments]  |
| Taking the A+ in 2 weeks need some advice. Posted: 26 Jun 2020 11:47 AM PDT Currently enrolled in an IT Program at a community college and everything has been going perfect up until I started this class 2 weeks ago. This is a 8-week class and we HAVE to take the first part of the exam on week 4. It is completely self taught. My question is, is this even doable? How long did you guys study for your A+? Any ideas on what I should do? We are using Examcram for our textbook and Testout computer pro for some extra study material. Should I spend my time watching Professor Messor? Any study tips or tips in general are much appreciated thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 11:24 AM PDT 26F- Hispanic- USA (FL) bachelor's in mechanical engineering. Looking to move into either ux/ui design or data analysis. Graduated Dec 2017 and have been working in utilities the past couple of years for extremely small companies. Anyhow I have been desperately trying to get out since the pay is low and there is absolutely no growth. Not to mention the work environment is awful. I've tried applying to a broad range of jobs. But no luck. Some steps I took to improve my standings: •Revamped my resume using purchased templates. Resume has been looked over by family and friends (including a lawyer and hiring manager in the family). •Added even more "hit" words all over my LinkedIn profile to appear on more searches. •I have about 50 cover letters tailored to different fields and companies •I purchased and completed courses in MySQL, Python programming and Git and GitHub on Udemy. Then added these skills to resume and LinkedIn •I created an account on Hackerrank and began solving MySQL problems. (I still need to study ux/ui topics, I've only studied data analysis so far) Unfortunately after a few months of study and work, still no luck in the job market. There are always other candidates they prefer. Now I feel like what I have done is not enough. I feel like I may need to go for a masters to progress and actually get job offers. Since there are too many bachelor's degrees to compete with these days. However I also feel like a masters may be a waste of time and money. I have read many mixed reviews on masters degrees. For example I once met a girl with a masters in architecture and 3 years of experience and never made more than 30 or 35k a year. Coursera has many excellent classes and flexible, affordable online learning. But of course hiring managers don't view classes and programs with the same legitimacy as a masters. What do you all think would be the best way to break into the ux/ui design field or the data analysis field? Is it more classes, a masters degree or to keep applying? Thanks for the opinions. Apologies for the long post. [link] [comments]  |
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