Job Responsibilities
My major responsibilties included about 2 hours a week in
strategy planning meets with management to determine the
resolution of problems. I spent the rest of the 38 hours a week
looking through the programming code to determine where a problem
might exist and attempting to resolve that problem.
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Job Requirements
I had a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems
with mediocre grades. The reason why I was hired was primarily
because of my passion for Information Technology. I had been
programming in one language or another since the age of 7 and was
able to accurately convey that to the interviewers. The majority
of my fellow co-workers had at least a B.S in Computer Science
with a majority of co-workers having a M.S in CS.
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Uppers
The best parts of the job centered around finding the answer to a complicated
problem. Determining where a problem may lie and finding a resolution to that
problem could be pretty satisfying. Additionally, the lifestyle of the position
was quite nice and the pay was pretty decent as well.
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Downers
Not much autonomy in the position. Management constantly was
making demands for resolutions of problems that were
unreasonable. Management was also not technically trained, so
they did not have the requisite area of skill to be able to
assist you with any technical problem that arose. Further, they
had no indiciation to how long a problem should take to resolve.
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Lifestyle
The lifestyle of the position was pretty nice. The work hours were 9-6 with an
hour for lunch. The dress code was business casual and the overall atmosphere
was pretty laid back. There was great diversity amongst the programmers, both in
background and ethnicity. There was not much business travel and not much in the
way of company social events.
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Compensation
The pay was pretty nice as paying an entry level programmer
around $55,000 year. There was no opportunity to earn bonuses,
however, each year a person's salary was adjusted for cost of
living. The benefits were also nice covering Health/Dental and
Life insurance.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Just be weary of advancement inside the company. Technology is
constantly being outsourced to India so stability is a definite
question mark for any programmer analyst. However, if you can
deal with the instability the pay is nice as well as providing
for a pretty comfortable lifestyle.
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