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by angarg12 4y ago
Since OP works in Amazon he might be familiar with the mental model of "one and two way doors". A one way door is a decision that is impossible or very difficult to undo or change. A two way door is easy to change. The idea is to
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by angarg12 4y ago
Two specific resources for you. First, the Eisenhower matrix of important/urgent: https://www.techtello.com/eisenhower-productivity-matrix/ Use this framework to filter your content. I bet most of it fits in quadr
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by angarg12 4y ago
Honest question, how would you handle hiring at FAANG scale without standard processes? For reference we had an opening in my team and 1600 people applied.
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In the big scheme of things, there are worse things that grinding leetcode in order to land a 6 figure job.
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by angarg12 4y ago
I recently moved to Seattle from England, and when I'm overwhelmed and fed up with the weather I flick through houses in southern California or Spain. So I guess my day dream is how much money I need to make so that I can go to bask in
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by angarg12 4y ago
My father worked for the last few years in a company specialized in graphene technology and products. It's wrong for me to say this but I ended up not thinking much of it. The company pivoted many times trying to find a successful prod
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by angarg12 4y ago
It sounds like you need a bigger pond. I'd recommend either a high performing big tech or a fast growing startup. Each will challenge you in a different way. On the other hand, it might be risky changing jobs now so take it with a pinc
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by angarg12 4y ago
If building, running and evolving very large and complex systems over many years is not a measure of software engineering quality, I don't know how else to compare companies.
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What an oddly judgmental piece of advice from a mentor. I'd take it with a pinch of salt and instead think in terms of problems instead of solutions e.g. what do you hope me to achieve by "not being boring"? I'm in my la
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by angarg12 4y ago
Hey, a few months back I trained a NN to generate MTG cards. I submitted a post to the MTG subreddit but it got blocked as spam and I never managed to get the mods to approve it. My question was whether natural language generating networks
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've seen this idea of trial periods floated around a bit. My honest question is, how do you run this at big tech scale? Honestly, we get dozens if not hundreds of applicants per opening. Are we going to give all of them a trial? If no
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Can you please share the code? Or show the results for other continents.
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> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc. I chuckled at this. Ignoring factors like humidity, rain, wind, and number of sunny days gives you a very distorted vision o
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by angarg12 4y ago
Check https://www.levels.fyi/ . The bimodal compensation landscape is real.
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by angarg12 4y ago
Sadly many small companies don't have the means to support juniors. Some don't hire them at all. For the folks out there, the easiest way to join FAANG is as a new grad. Whether you want to do it or not is your decision to make.
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by angarg12 4y ago
I think a useful generalization of this is Mental Models [1]. As with all models, they might not be perfect, but some are useful. Also for the purpose of this article, I think its ok to have simplified or imperfect mental models of things,
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by angarg12 4y ago
I feel cynicism in your answer. I can still give you an honest answer to your question. Behavioral questions are far from new and not unique to Amazon. They serve two purposes: first, as a cultural match, and second, as a performance predic
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by angarg12 4y ago
I suppose you mean the leadership principles. Yes, that feels cult-ish, but is part of the company culture. I personally like part of them, but that's a topic of its own. For the purpose of the interview, Leadership Principles are dres
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by angarg12 4y ago
That's unfortunate. The fact of the matter is that Amazon interviews thousands of engineers each month, so statistically there will be pretty bad experiences every now and then. I personally like to read candidates feedback every now a
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If it was a while ago things might have been different. Not sure if you are around anymore but there is a continuous push for standardization. There is also a big emphasis on candidate experience lately. I also believe in adding a personal
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by angarg12 4y ago
No it wasn't. Source: I conducted +400 interviews for Amazon. We don't do weird or obscure tests. Your recruiter will explicitly tell you what to expect. It sounds like a mistake.
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There is that too, but you could solve that by having engineers/teams working in new, cool, and useful products. I feel my company doesn't have a good mechanism to maintain services that aren't actively developed. We experien
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by angarg12 4y ago
It gets worse than promo-driven development. Recently we had a chat with a lead from another team. Their product has a lot of similarities with ours so we sync up every now and then to bounce ideas off each other. They recently release a bi
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I used to work there. I don't find it very mysterious. The only difference is our offices had an extra layer of security/access control, and we had to firm NDAs. The team sitting next to us worked on that robot, but I couldn'
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by angarg12 4y ago
I mean offer as in offer and demand. There isn't many people with the engineering skills, ML expertise and on-the-job experience. The barrier for entry means that interviewing for the job, even with experience, is very difficult. As ot
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm not sure how well this generalizes. I'm a Machine Learning Engineer, and that seems to check all those boxes. It is niche, it has low offer, and crazy high demand. Sure, salaries are high, but the interview process isn't
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by angarg12 4y ago
This person's experience is quite sad, but I suspect he has deeper issues that won't be fixed by surgery. I know firsthand. After college I was a prototypical nerd. Overweight, had acne, wore glasses, had a frizzy hair. And I was
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by angarg12 5y ago
I have a background in academia and extensive experience interviewing for FAANG, particularly at the entry level. For me this article highlights the futility of current higher education institutions. From our experience a degree is a mild i
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by angarg12 5y ago
Hey thanks for the comment :) I'm glad someone validates my belief that "location matters". I moved to the US 2 months ago after 2 years in Covid VISA limbo working remotely for a US team. Settling down has been extremely pai
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by angarg12 5y ago
I don't want to derail the conversation, but OPs career path really stood out to me. He graduated in 2016, worked at Google in Bay Area, and now is joining a startup at a VP level. I graduated in 2008, obtained a PhD in 2014 in a no na

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