mrstefan

There is a man in my team who I don't like very much and I have to work with him a lot. He is a dozen or so years older, but he has less programming experience than me and, unlike me, he did not study computer science, which can sometimes be felt. From the very beginning I have the impression that I do not fit him. Every code review looks like it criticizes my code very strongly and often makes unprofessional and unpleasant comments, e.g. "I got a headache when I read it". Often these remarks have no substantive justification, but I do not have the strength to argue with this man all the time. I am non-conflicting and I am an introvert. I am very demotivated by the vision of working with him, I stop liking the work of a programmer.

Other team members are fine and I like them. The project is very cool (we rewrite the monolith for microservices), financial conditions in the company are great. But working with him makes me sad.

Should I quit?

What topic could I choose for my Master's thesis to learn a skill that will help me get a job at Google?

I'm not asking you to come up with an exact subject for me. I'm asking for some kind of guidance.

I know that Google tests the knowledge of graph theory quite strongly. Maybe it would be a good idea to write on something related to this topic?

I'm a computer science student.

I would like to keep improving my webdevelopment skills (I'm a Java/JS developer), but at the same time I would like to create a pet project - 2D game (let's say it would be a simplified Factorio, desktop/web).

What trendy technologies do you recommend for creating such game? I don't want to use a C/C++ for this, I'm not a fan of these. Or maybe Java/JavaScript would be suitable for it?

I found this https://corejavainterviewquestions.podbean.com but I would like to listen to specific questions and answers.

Which is more valuable for interviewers: having couple of working and deployed projects or be good at doing coding tasks?

I have 3 year programming experience but feel lack of confidence when I think about interview. And I wonder if having couple of projects on Github can replace whiteboard coding.

There are days when I have literally nothing to do at my current work (I'm a Java/JS programmer). Or there are moments when the project is building/ starting (15 minutes usually) and I have to wait.

Do you know some reliable websites/applications/other ways where I can prepare for a technical programmer's interview in such moments?