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Curious: Where do you feel the SWE people they churn through generally end up? I'm a bit concerned about this one guy on one of my previous teams who moved fro
by tpmx 4y ago
Curious: Where do you feel the SWE people they churn through generally end up?
I'm a bit concerned about this one guy on one of my previous teams who moved from Europe to US to work on AWS. I don't think he was aware of the company culture.
- vmception 4y agothey end up at other companies of similar size, its part of the circuit, colloquially called FAANGs.
- lamontcg 4y agoa lot of them head to startups or smaller companies.
- oneepic 4y agoIf one starts in Seattle, I'd expect them to end up at Microsoft, Expedia, other FANGs maybe, among other co's. Assuming they're not burned out.
- tekknik 4y agoBurned out at amazon is on point elsewhere.
- aynsof 4y agoThe CEO of Cloudflare has said that he enjoys taking burned out SDEs from Amazon and giving them a happy life at his company. It's how, in his words, Cloudflare can compete at an engineering level with AWS.