Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started

Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by agoldis on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:29AM (#18380079)

I worked at IT department of Intel for 6 years. Then for about a year as a DevOps. Then for 3 years as JS developer at a startup. Plus few open source contributions and side projects. I wasn't strong in Java or other fundamental languages. == That is my skillset

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Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by eridius on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:51PM (#18384821)

So it sounds like the role worked primarily with Java? I guess I can see why IT for 6 years plus 3 years as a JS dev wouldn't really prepare you for that and why, as a result, you would get slotted into an SDE1 role (hopefully with the expectation of ramping up quickly and making it to SDE2 in relatively short order). I'm not sure I understand why such a role would be interesting to you, though.

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Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by ap3 on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:47AM (#18380371)

Thanks for the article

How many years of SDE experience do you say you have?

Not sure I would would count devops or IT though

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Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by agoldis on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:53AM (#18380398)

I mentioned "10 years of experience in the industry", is it fair?

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Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by Kurtz79 on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:48AM (#18380825)

Then it's equally fair on part of your employer, which is interviewing for a software dev position, to consider as relevant experience only those where you actually did software development...

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Re:Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started by esrauch on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:55AM (#18380631)

It is a little misleading in this context, even 25 years of experience doing IT often won't clearly mean you have the right skill set to be SDE2 (and vice versa).

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