@tinker_james
@programming.devHello all! I'm a senior dev at a bank and am considering making my second attempt at Amazon's interview process. My first attempt was almost two years ago. Made it through the code challenge but not the four interviews.
I wanted to hear from current Amazon devs what it's like there right now. Pros? Cons? Any insight given current market dynamics?
I have a young family now and so going through the process again would truly be an investment for me. My main motivation is the comp package, having the big A on my resume, and seeing what it's like in the big leagues.
Do sane people still try to get jobs there? Are you walking on egg shells waiting for the layoff hammer to drop?
Who here has gotten a dev job in the last few months and is excited about it?
Did you bump your pay? Improve your work life balance? Get a better manager or team? Are working on something you enjoy?
I want to hear all the positive career news you folks have to give!
I'm a full stack web dev that uses Node on the server-side. When I see job postings for a NodeJS developer I'm not really quite sure what that means.
Node is just javascript + a standard library/API + an ecosystem.
When someone is looking for a Node developer, are they just wanting someone who knows the ins and outs of the standard library?
What is your opinion about full-stack teams? I'm referring to teams where the desire is for every member to competently contribute at every point in the stack.
I'm a senior engineer (web full-stack) at a bank. I've been doing this for about 5 years.
When I write code, I find it similar to authoring a book or even writing a poem. I love trying to write code that reads really well, has beautifully designed boundaries between dependencies, great structure and so on. I also find that I write code with a big focus on making it a joy to work with for developers that touch it later on.
I struggle with the emphasis on collaboration and quick iteration approach in this field. "Co-authoring a book" with 6 other "authors" in two week chunks just seems crazy to me. And what I've seen that passes as shippable code is also crazy to me -- but hey, "it works".
I also have never been a guy that gets overly excited about using technology to solve problems or using software to satisfy business needs. I really just like writing code, setting up development environments or CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure or whatever...just for those things themselves. (Again it's like an art form to me. And I really really like reading other's well thought out code and appreciate for just that rather than the use-case or problem that the code is actually solving)
Anyone else out there like me? (Not arguing the merits one way or the other...just curious if I'm a weirdo)