I used 2 courses on servicenow (admin and development) and 1 on javascript from udemy to learn snow. I had 10 years of service desk and sysadmin experience, so hard for me to judge what it would be like for someone fresh. The platform has varying levels of difficulty depending on what you are doing.
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Yes props to Lend for setting me on the right path about it.
That's because a lot of people who should know about certificates, actually aren't completely comfortable working with them. It's surprising, because it's normally a perfectly fine engineer/coworker otherwise, but just can't grasp the concepts.
I ran through a few scenarios
Well see since I've been doing all my work on Mac for the past several years all you gotta look for is the Edit tab flash in the top left and you know it works.
I have to develop through my work machine so no choice there, I'd be fine with working on a Mac (assuming we're not talking a bout a Laptop with a non mech keyboard), wouldn't want to own a newest gen one. Soldered on drives and all, I have six Macbooks circulating between family that I've brought back from the brink more than a dozen times, turn off their discrete GPU's etc....bought a 2015 for my mom, last year I can fix. Hear the new Macbooks are great for as long as no maintenance is required, but non replaceable SSD, I hear they have swap/paging turned on = accelerated SSD decline? Forbid you don't spend the money on the ram outright and are stuck at 8 gigs permanently.
Yeah, that's them. I guess a better question is, what is it like working for a company like that (a large consulting firm). I'm currently with a mega corporation, but we're a tiny, tiny division that was bought a couple years back. So we still feel like a small development shop. Also our timelines are very flexible so there's little stress over getting releases out on time (although we rarely miss our targets). We're EXTREMELY laid back.
I've worked in big corporate, consulting, and smaller sorta-startup companies. IMO consulting has been pretty easy as you're usually in and out. If they waste time not giving you clear things to build out its just wasting their money and good for you. This leads clients of consultant firms to generally get their ducks in a row before they bring on consultants. I've had minimal interaction with customers and almost always a single point of contact at the company.
For customers (the federal government). They are converting a legacy Medicare/Medacaid application to newer web technologies.
Actually, it's CMS.
Don't worry about the stressing fren. You can get boned in other ways though. Fed consultants often get stuck in a situation where you have to sit on your hands (getting paid) while the Fed unfucks their project management. That is not uncommon at all.
One guy I knew got brought on as an app developer in a SCIF for the DOD except once he started the project kind of died. So he had to go into the SCIF everyday and do nothing while they sorted it out. After 6 months of that he quit because he was bored.
