Re:How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer
by scarface_74 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:11PM
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But then you have to work at Amazon. Been there done that got the T-shirt.
Honestly that’s not bad advice though. I did something like you recommended. A recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me about applying for an SDE position in mid 2020. I wasn’t about to sell my big house in the burbs of Atlanta that I just had built in 2016 to work at Amazon in Seattle “when Covid lifted”. Besides I hadn’t had to do a coding interview - ever. As an enterprise CRUD developer who knew AWS, had a network and knew how to talk to people.
After I kept talking to her, she suggested I apply for a remote role at AWS ProServe specializing in app dev + cloud. There was no coding interview.
I’m far from naive. I was 46 at the time on my 7th job and new from reputation and second hand experience that eventually Amazon is going to Amazon.
Honestly that’s not bad advice though. I did something like you recommended. A recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me about applying for an SDE position in mid 2020. I wasn’t about to sell my big house in the burbs of Atlanta that I just had built in 2016 to work at Amazon in Seattle “when Covid lifted”. Besides I hadn’t had to do a coding interview - ever. As an enterprise CRUD developer who knew AWS, had a network and knew how to talk to people.
After I kept talking to her, she suggested I apply for a remote role at AWS ProServe specializing in app dev + cloud. There was no coding interview.
I’m far from naive. I was 46 at the time on my 7th job and new from reputation and second hand experience that eventually Amazon is going to Amazon.
I was well prepared when I got Amazoned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969302