How can you expect a non software engineer thats never done software to do simpler code? Lol i find it so funny when experience professionals think u can do everything like them.
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I recently switched to salary, and my workload exploded. Suddenly, everything is "urgent," so I'm working 2–3 hours of unpaid overtime at home every night. The company is billing the client for my extra hours, but I'm not seeing any of it. How do I bring this up with management? I'd rather not keep working for free.
Is it normal for coworkers to completely ghost you after a layoff? I was recently laid off, and my former coworkers that I considered friends have just vanished into thin air. I haven't received any calls, texts, or messages from anyone. Is this normal for everyone after being laid off, or should I take it personally?
I graduated in 2023 currently living in Florida with 3.5 years of experience in aerospace. I got my engineering degree in electrical and I’m wondering if I’m screwed trying to land a job within electrical power or energy? The closest experience I really have within my degree is basic circuit board building, basic circuit design in programs like Pspice, and using a digital oscilloscope. To this day, the closest I can think of that I have experience in is reading low level c code and logic design.
My manager takes my work (which takes hours), feeds it to AI, and tells me to match the AI's output. Except the AI version makes zero sense for the actual project. I'm so annoyed and checked out that I'm skipping crucial steps in my workflow, making things worse. I used to love this work, but now I’m losing all passion. Has anyone dealt with a boss like this, or is it time for me to quit?
Companies expect all sorts of things. Companies will ask for 5 years of experience in a technology that has only been around for a year. Your job is to say yes and collect the paycheck as long as you can.
I mean, I was a non software engineer as well (optical engineering), but computer programming was part of my undergraduate curriculum and I could do simple coding (I learned Python, MATLAB, and C). So I don’t think it is an unreasonable thing to assume. If you can’t meet that expectation, then just be honest about that. From there though, I think the onus is on you to learn and try to meet the expectation. It is not unusual for the job you end up doing to not match your academic background. I had very little background in electrical engineering when I was first hired as an engineer and had to learn a lot on the job to fill the expectations of my job role. Now almost 15 years later, I can do a lot more EE work comfortably.
It’s a balance, there’s always going to be some learning in the job, but if you’re not meeting the expectations of your coworkers some additional training may be required
Claude!
Second the AI call, even if you don’t use it to do all the code you can definitely learn from it as well