(12-04-2018, 08:27 PM).RJ Wrote: My wife worked at that amazon office in Herndon for a bit. The work culture there blows, I hope you like working a lot of hours. It doesnt carry the same clout around here for having it on your resume, either.
If you want to commute mon-thurs to work in this area for mo' money there are better options.
Most of them seem to either A) require a current active TS/SCI or B) require I have 5 years experience in some enterprise software stack that's only been out 5 years. A lot of them seem to be more of the same thing I've dealt with for the last 7 years. I want to break away from supporting shitty government run programs with endless maintenance due to shitty government oversight that requires every fix be a band-aid fix. Even jobs that are pretty relaxed on the specifics I won't have enough javascript experience for the front end roles or enough SQL/API experience for the backend roles.
If you got some specifics on those better options I'd love to hear them but I'm more than willing to dive into long hours if it's doing something that's going to dig me out of this trench I've made for myself.
The main selling point for Amazon for me is how they handle interviews. From what I've heard from quite a few sources I just need to commit to learning their leadership principals and have a deep understanding of general problem solving, algorithms, data structures and scaling. A lot of their previous interview questions are all over the place and the process is pretty well documented so there shouldn't be any surprises unlike the last 2 "adventures" I've had so far.