Re:Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k
by jedberg on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:45PM
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> Jeebus man. What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?
I worked at the N in FAANG for four years. It's not that we did anything so much differently, it's the people we did it with. When I worked for non-FAANG, there were some people who I'd have to work with and think, "boy, how does this person get/keep their job?". They just were not great to work with, had a hard time understanding hard concepts, and didn't produce great work.
I never had that at Netflix. Every person I worked with was someone I'd want to work with again and could trust and depend on. When a hard problem presented itself, everyone had a great solution, and we'd discuss the pros and cons, and then someone would implement that solution.
Also, many of our internal tools were best in class. Sure they had their warts, but not like the ones other companies had. Even our corporate directory had cool features and was actively developed.
So that's really the difference. It's the people you get to work with and the tools you get to use.
> Is there like some open source project or code samples that give an idea of the complexity of code that 510k developers are writing?
https://github.com/Netflix is a good place to look. Again, it's not that it's more complex, it's just the way it came about.
I worked at the N in FAANG for four years. It's not that we did anything so much differently, it's the people we did it with. When I worked for non-FAANG, there were some people who I'd have to work with and think, "boy, how does this person get/keep their job?". They just were not great to work with, had a hard time understanding hard concepts, and didn't produce great work.
I never had that at Netflix. Every person I worked with was someone I'd want to work with again and could trust and depend on. When a hard problem presented itself, everyone had a great solution, and we'd discuss the pros and cons, and then someone would implement that solution.
Also, many of our internal tools were best in class. Sure they had their warts, but not like the ones other companies had. Even our corporate directory had cool features and was actively developed.
So that's really the difference. It's the people you get to work with and the tools you get to use.
> Is there like some open source project or code samples that give an idea of the complexity of code that 510k developers are writing?
https://github.com/Netflix is a good place to look. Again, it's not that it's more complex, it's just the way it came about.