How can I develop my career when my direct manager does not seem to have any interest in helping me? Many of us don't depend on our direct managers when formulating and executing career plans. You can learn new skills on your own. For instance, you can read books, magazines, websites, forum...

My current employer has been running in to financial difficulties and has fallen behind on salary for a month at times. We were not given a lot of information on what the cause of the financial troubles were, or how they would be solved, so I applied for a job with a more financially secured comp...

After reading many blogs and SE questions about giving salary information there seems to be a general rule about not volunteering a salary figure before the company has given their offer. When I speak with phone screens (not actual interview yet) I am always asked about salary information and I ...

When talking about salary negotiation (or any negotiation), it's become somewhat of a conventional wisdom that "the first to give a number loses" (example one, example two). Is this true? Here are some special cases that I think call this advice into question: What about large employers who h...

I am serving my notice period with my current employer as I received a job offer from a very good consulting firm some weeks back. The firm asked me to send them a signed copy of the offer letter as an indication of my acceptance of the offer. They also sent a few documents that talked about the ...

I currently work as Web Quality Assurance or Software developer in Test and has responsible to write automated script test, create test case, and as well manual test. I start as Intern and the company saw me working hard and they promoted me to be full-time and raise my salary. By the way, I wil...

I am planning to leave my current job and therefore I have interviewed with a company a couple of days back. At the end of the day of my interview, during a discussion with HR of the company, I unexpectedly answered her question about my current salary. I gave honestly correct figure of my salary...

Recently, I've been doing a lot of production support that requires off-hour work. Recently, I've been asked a couple of times to get up at 3:00 am and check the status of our data, which only takes 5 or 10 minutes of work (and 10 minutes for my eyes to get used to the bright light on the monitor...

I am suggesting dramatically lowering the custom text characters allowed in any bounty from 3000 to the length of a comment (600). The reasons for this is as follows: There are no no paragraph breaks in bounty texts There is only limited markdown available That many characters in a single para...

Is there anyone have idea by attending developer bootcamps such as DevCamps (http://www.devcamps.org), AppAcademy (http://www.appacademy.io/), etc. can consider real-world experience? Is the company will consider it as education experience? Is there anyone has expereience attend these kind of sch...

I am working for Indian outsourcing organization for 5 years. I got frustrated with the recent situations faced with the management and also not happy with the assignments that I got. Hence decided to leave organisation and searched for other opportunities. I got better opportunity and the new em...

Earlier today, I was offered a position which I accepted. It is supposed to start in about a month. I feel like I've made a huge mistake. Can I do anything about it without coming off as unappreciative to the company? Is it considered rude or inappropriate to change your mind when you've alre...

We have a LOT of meetings at my job. Individual departments have meetings. Then, people from every department have cross-department meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page. Somehow without these meetings the whole building seems to fall into chaos. In my position I represent an enti...