Got a bite for a short four week winter internship at a smaller mid-tier consulting firm in Brisbane. It is paid, but the work looks mostly like basic QA testing and Excel automation rather than actual software engineering. Should I take it just to have something on my resume, or will it look bad if I am trying to target a proper dev internship over the summer?
I work in the plumbing and bathroom section and the amount of people who get filthy at me because I can not give them step by step advice on how to replumb their entire house is a joke. I am a retail worker on casual rates. I do my absolute best to help you find the right plastic pipe or brass fitting but I am not a licensed plumber. If you want professional trade layout advice you need to actually pay a tradie
My uni lecturers keep telling us that the best way to bypass the graduate recruitment bottleneck is to go out and network at local industry meetups in the CBD. I am a bit introverted and the idea of rocking up to a corporate office to pitch myself to senior developers while eating lukewarm pizza sounds incredibly intimidating. Has anyone actually landed a casual role or an internship interview just by turning up to these events?
Trying to get anywhere from places like Box Hill or Marsden Park without a car is a nightmare. You are either stuck waiting ages for a connecting bus that may or may not even show up, or you are forced to drive and sit in traffic on roads that clearly were never designed for this many people
I’m already doing a CS degree, but I’ve been thinking about doing a part time masters online while working so I can move more towards data science later on.
For people already working in tech locally, do employers actually view online degrees from places like UNSW or QUT differently from on campus ones, or do most companies mainly care whether you can pass the technical interview and demonstrate practical skills?
I am a tech student currently sitting on a pass/credit average. I spend a lot of my spare time working on personal projects and learning practical stacks because I find uni assignments pretty theoretical and dry
I am only doing 20 hours a week at a supermarket while finishing my degree, and the leasing company says I am eligible, but I am worried the tax savings won't even cover the admin fees. Is it actually worth it if you aren't in a high tax bracket?
What’s one thing you wish you actually focused on earlier in your degree that ended up mattering a lot more for getting hired than you expected?
Feels like uni teaches a lot of theory, but the job market seems to reward a pretty different set of skills
CS student here starting to look at internships and grad roles, and I’ve been talking to a few recruiters in Sydney lately. Even for junior or grad positions, the process feels super drawn out now, multiple interview stages, long gaps between updates, and sometimes weeks just waiting for budget sign-off or internal approvals.
It kind of feels like companies are being really cautious about hiring right now. Is this just a Sydney thing, or are people in Melbourne and Brisbane seeing the same slowdown in hiring timelines?
Every brochure shows the Cheese Grater building with all the binary code on the outside. Does it actually feel like a futuristic tech hub inside, or is it just a lot of stairs and people crying over C++ code?
I’m trying to decide between UTS and Macquarie for IT or computer science and keep going back and forth. UTS seems a bit more industry focused from what I’ve seen, while Macquarie feels more like a traditional uni with a different kind of campus vibe, but I’m not sure how much that actually matters once you’re in it. I’m mainly trying to figure out how different they feel day to day in terms of workload, coding, teaching style, and job outcomes, and whether one stands out or if they’re pretty similar in the end depending on what you make of it