i dont feel confident enough to do this yet. it's dense, close to the metal, and extremely difficult to read C. I really only have a good understanding from the user's perspective.

I don't think it makes any real difference either way - I'd be inclined to think of as a slight negative since most people are overly critical but realistically no one's going to look and if they do no one's going to care one way or another about an empty-ish profile with no notable projects. It's more helpful if you're a new grad and also in getting any kind of interest at all in your profile if you're spamming companies with your resume.

candybar,

Of course we are seeing this purely from jmakins pov, but it honestly doesn't take much filter to be explaining a very typical startup that's super technical and not very good at business.

Thanks, that's very helpful. I decided to skip it.

Then learn? Sometimes you have to do/ask for work if you're underutilized or want to make more money eventually.

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I.. am?

Yeah?

What am I supposed to do for 8 hours? Read man pages for the 400th time? I've read and tried to understand the issues. Without direction, there's not much I can do. And since my only project got yanked last week, I mean, I'm just kinda twiddling my thumbs. There's only so much textbook and src code reading you can do in a day.

I ****ed up today too, a crabbier dev who i think is pretty toxic and no one seems to like him, posted some really minor build issue, some clean target wasn't working correctly. i thought I correctly identified the problem, but my fix broke the build. It turned out I had to make a minor modification to a makefile to make my fix work . I quickly deleted my post, but I think he saw it, because when we both were in the bathroom after that I said hello and he just stared at me for a few seconds and walked past me.

I mean this place just seems kind of like a dumpster fire to me. I don't think I'm going to stick around if I'm not going to be doing anything and it kind of feels that way at the moment.

On tuesday I had nothing to do so I read 150 pages of a textbook on Spark. that doesn't seem like a good use of my time.

OK, but you're obviously under utilized right? If you have free time, then you're not being utilized.

I think my boss doesn't know what he wants me to do and (probably correctly) doesn't think I'm qualified to do much atm so he's trying to let me focus on school, idk, that's the best thing I can think of.

Since I've been there (about 4 weeks now) I've been told to do precisely one thing. And that was this test sprint, which didn't work out. It actually almost got done anyway, but there's some small stuff to deal with that I don't think will get taken care of because it depends on my boss reviewing it and he's consumed with this new project they're working on.

last time I had nothing to do I spent 3+ hours every day on my side project which more or less got me my current job.

There are some days like that and I just end up playing puzzle bobble.

We have a coding challenge presented to a whole company during a tech talk. It was an interesting talk and pretty cool challenge. And our director said it’s cool if we worked on it during work hours.

It’s a nice little break from my mundane tasks since it has been pretty boring lately.

i think you have to remember this isn't poker jmakin. if you want this to be like going for 'SNE' or something try to start getting multiple remote jobs. then you'll be happy that you have nothing to do.

I'm tempted to just sit there and do schoolwork - I know this isn't like grinding SNE, i just feel like I should just leave if there's nothing for me to do. But I get hourly still and I need cash at the moment. I'm totally capable of slamming myself into something for 8 hours at a time as long as there's something to slam myself into.

I also want to be productive, my mind and my body are never comfortable sitting still. Like my ****up today was totally because I was just restless.

The more i do this the more I think it probably isn't for me but w/e I'll stay here til they fire me. Hopefully that doesn't happen when I'm supposed to start full time though, if they fired me in june I'd actually be pretty ****ed.

I would start taking a crack at backlog items and find someone nice to review your work and help you.

This.

And also start looking for a different job ASAP. It was obvious from the start that it was a good chance this place is a dumpster fire. You've now confirmed that it is.

i will probably start looking, but i want to see how it shakes out for at least a month while i'm full time to see if things improve.

like i said in a different post, this could totally be a job where i just sit back and collect a paycheck but meh. the stress from school and everything else from the last 2 years makes that a really appealing choice to me but long term it's probably bad for me

the more i get to know this toxic dev the more i think i don't like him too, and i just made myself look extremely stupid to him today.

Examples of why i think he's toxic -

In my interview he was a total douche. Should NOT have been interviewing anyone, as he's extremely awkward socially and I'm still not sure what his position is but there are other people I would've chosen knowing what I know now. He was asking me extremely technical questions that there's no way someone of my background could answer, and was being condescending to every answer I had. I think I wrote about this before.

When I told him DB's were kind of a weak area for me, he said "well, given what we do, wouldn't you say that would be a huge weakness?" to which I replied "Yes, but I was not told anything about the position before I was invited here."

One of the devs on my project this week posted a pull request and tagged me as a reviewer with the other dev. He walked into the office when I was talking about it with them and said "So, we're letting (female dev's name) review now?" and just walked out. So, naturally, I was too intimidated to approve the pull request and let it sit for a few days before I discussed it with them and then I approved it.

I kind of made a face when he said that to her and she just said "that's just how he is."

I've heard the owner/cto make a lot of sarcastic remarks about him in front of other people, which either tells me this guy's complete cancer or there's a severe problem here.

My teammates asked me how my interview went with him and I told them pretty honestly that I thought it was awful and they said the same thing, "that's just how he is."

When my boss assigned me this sprint project, this dev walked into the room and wanted to know what was going on, and my boss got really weird and was like "we left you out of this one because it's just a test run" or something to that nature. He seemed pretty miffed about it. he doesn't seem at all stoked I'm there and won't really say a word to me. He's the only one I'm kind of worried about, as I am almost certain any project I'm involved with will be met with severe resistance from him.

And i just made myself look like an idiot to him. He's super intelligent and talented but obviously aspy. ****in christ man. i guess there's one at every workplace.

Dude, you did not make yourself look extremely stupid.

I had a dev with 30+ years of experience ask me to review a PR that both broke the build and was pointed at the wrong branch.

I calmly let her know and she seemed pretty embarrassed but I reacted like a calm, well-adjusted cool person and not like a flaming douche so the embarrassment left her and she had it fixed shortly after.

You don't look "extremely stupid" you haven't even graduated yet ffs!

oh yea, and i'm pretty sure I've spent more hours in the office than our newly hired, full time product manager. I have only seen him there twice in 2 weeks (i spend about 25 hrs a week there).

what the **** is actually going on?

the thing was i actually did end up fixing it and knew what the problem was but i stated it in a way that was haphazard and not tested completely. and honestly idk how the **** to make great build files, i just knew that what I had worked and i identified the problem but forgot to modify the associated makefile that had the problem.

but he probably had already figured it out or something, idk. I felt really, really stupid, especially after our encounter in the bathroom right after.

i'm just gonna tell someone else how to fix it and let them deal with it.

jmakin,

Starting that post by saying you "think" he is toxic and then the following paragraphs are MLYLT-esque critical thinking.

The dude is a toxic douche, feel free to ignore him at all times, and prosper.

Breaking builds is my claim to fame, dont sweat that **** so much

Btw, I'm curious, what's making you say this?