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> brave souls diving into a strange codebase As someone who made a career out of being loaned out to other teams as an 'away resource' at Amazon, I've struggle
by canttestthis 3y ago
> brave souls diving into a strange codebase
As someone who made a career out of being loaned out to other teams as an 'away resource' at Amazon, I've struggled to find a similar level of mental stimulation after leaving for other Big 4 companies. Being a loaner engineer meant something new to work on every few months, no maintenance or oncall burden, making lots of new connections, and just generally there being always something interesting/intense to do.
- NBJack 3y agoI won't dispute your level of enjoyment from it, but I'd have to ask: did your fellow engineers feel the same way about it? What was your time commitment like to deliver? Also, if you're looking for a thrill, I would highly recommend going after cloud-based infra providers. There's never a shortage of unique problems there.
- canttestthis 3y agoTime commitments were generally aggressive but reasonable with a 10-20% buffer to account for ramp up (realistically closer to 10 than 20). The reasonable-ness of most things eng-culture related at Amazon is probably a function of the competence of your management chain. As for my fellow engineers- I don’t know anyone else who did this regularly so I’m not sure