I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20
That's almost impressive; you did 3x worse than random!
Edit: nope, I have no idea. I forgot the number of options and type of questions varies quite a bit.
I was the primary maintainer for one of the services they asked about, and I still got that question wrong. 4/20 for me, but three were lucky guesses
are you saying 420 is reason for not doing well?
They got 4 out of 20 correct on the quiz
Re:AWS Icon Quiz
by kasztelan_ on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:09AM
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420 is a meme name for weed
Re:AWS Icon Quiz
by TheHappyOddish on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:29PM
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I think most of us get it, but those sorts of low quality/non-discussion comments are frowned upon at HN.
3/20 and two correct ones were guesses here; I was actually wondering what's wrong with me, asking "Dude, have you ever even seen the AWS console at this point?" (I have in fact stared at it way too much). Goes to show a lot of these icons just aren't very distinctive and don't seem to matter much.
3/20 by purely guessing, out of the big 3 cloud providers it's the only one I have no experience with.
Shockingly, one of those I got right was "select 4 out of 6".
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I thought I did poorly with my 3/20 as an Associate Solutions Architect.
Holy shit this is hilarious
Re:AWS Icon Quiz
by paulddraper on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:39PM
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To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are only relevant 20% of the time. If that.
Worth noting that also from experience that applies to the amount of effort they put into services. Most of the non-core ancillary services are buggy garbage. I'm wondering if we're going to cause an integer overflow on the support ticket system the way we're going.
Re:AWS Icon Quiz
by jamesfinlayson on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:28PM
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Probably 20% of the services power the other 80% under the hood too.
Re:AWS Icon Quiz
by TheSoftwareGuy on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:33PM
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It’s funny you say that. I work at AWS. The URls for tickets just rolled over to have a new digit this week
Well at least I won't have to open a ticket for that :D
Is this a marketing campaign for Antimetal? If so it’s a great idea
To be fair, the majority of professional interaction with AWS should be via text interfaces - infrastructure as code, SDKs, commandline - where icons don't matter.
To be fair I can't remember half the product names other than the core ones either. Elastic Banana or whatever. Maybe Dynamo Donkey. I just don't know any more.
Edit: I'm also an AWS Architect Professional or whatever it's called now. Shows how a monkey can pass the certs eh?