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vodkat posted:A good friends brother, who is probably the best programmer I have ever met, currently works for amazon and he seems to find it ok, but he works for their bluesky/skynet research lab or something, so your millage may vary considerably. yeah, one of my best friends growing up seems to like working there because he's been there for years, and he even brought his dad on as an engineer as well.
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an old coworker recently joined the alexa team and seems to like it. from what I hear it depends a lot on what division you're in so there's a lot of variance of experiences
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a good barometer for a team at amazon (i'm not including the generic questions you should ask every job) might be asking something like * what is your infrastructure like, and how much of it is on public aws? how much do you plan to move to public aws in the next 6-12 months? * how frequent is your ops rotation? how frequent are high severity events for you team? w/ that last question, you also need to think about how on the critical path you want to be. there's a big difference between working on parts of EC2 and working on a bunch of widgets on amazon.com in terms of * what kind of infrastructure you own * what kind of problems you focus on * what kind of solutions you end up building * how big an issue it is when you're service has issues we also have the exact opposite issue of google wherein we almost never kill of anything ever while still needing an owner; even aws still offers m1s and simpledb if you're a legacy customer or ask nicecly. so asking about the age of current services/how much new work is done vs. maintenance is always a good thing.
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Maximo Roboto posted:Glassdoor, LinkedIn Careers, Stack Overflow Jobs. Hacker News Who's Hiring? pages but it seems like the listings are heavily int'l and in American non-tech cities these days SO is the one I will unequivocally recommend every time. Most of the companies on there will be smaller but there's usually a number of good options depending on what sort of position/location you're looking for and they make remote opportunities very clear. HN has a ton of companies posting now but after you've seen a few months' worth of threads you'll start to notice that a very large number of the same companies will post the same positions month in and month out, meaning they're not hiring and trying to keep up appearances or maybe they're just expecting too much because it's the HN crowd and they must all be 100x developers.
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HN who's his hiring + the yc alumni job posts are all pretty good. Weworkremotely is good for remote. No job sites have zero poo poo-tier jobs tho, so do your homework. No pun intended. 
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wtf when did we start allowing nazifurs in teh 'pos
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triple sulk posted:SO is the one I will unequivocally recommend every time. Most of the companies on there will be smaller but there's usually a number of good options depending on what sort of position/location you're looking for and they make remote opportunities very clear. HN has a ton of companies posting now but after you've seen a few months' worth of threads you'll start to notice that a very large number of the same companies will post the same positions month in and month out, meaning they're not hiring and trying to keep up appearances or maybe they're just expecting too much because it's the HN crowd and they must all be 100x developers. alternatively they are hiring and they nobody is willing to take the job i remember when zerocater had jobs posts for VP of engineering lol
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VOTE YES ON 69 posted:HN who's his hiring + the yc alumni job posts are all pretty good. Weworkremotely is good for remote. A lot of the alumni posts are rehashes as well that are just more publicly visible. WeWorkRemotely is okay but most of the dev jobs are still Ruby/JS/PHP the last I was aware and SO is way better now on remote listings. FamDav posted:alternatively they are hiring and they nobody is willing to take the job This too is possible if not likely
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i just got a resume from someone who lists "anime studio" amongst the programming languages that they know
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Dr. Honked posted:i just got a resume from someone who lists "anime studio" amongst the programming languages that they know I'm not going to google that from work
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Jan 12, 2017 18:26
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anime studio isn't even for making anime, they just called it that because the same company published manga studio, which wasn't even originally called manga studio, they just called it that because it's a drawing program from japan
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*nods condescendingly* uh huh
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if I see p-langs on a resume it goes straight into the trash
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is there any way to get paid as much if not more than a dev, but not be a tech. generally the alternate suggestions are * engineering management * product management * project management * sales engineering * technical writer * recruiter how do you even become a PM without going to school for it first
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just wing it
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GameCube posted:anime studio isn't even for making anime, they just called it that because the same company published manga studio, which wasn't even originally called manga studio, they just called it that because it's a drawing program from japan it's actually on version number 200, it just has a gui that looks like a pre-release beta
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BONGHITZ posted:just wing it
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Maximo Roboto posted:is there any way to get paid as much if not more than a dev, but not be a tech. generally the alternate suggestions are pm is about convincing the parties involved that your planning is right. this can be by bringing evidence to back your timelines based on resources and past performance, or it could be lying though your teeth in the most convincing manner until you get put on a different project.
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Maximo Roboto posted:is there any way to get paid as much if not more than a dev, but not be a tech. generally the alternate suggestions are there's school for PMs?
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the bar is so low to be a good pm that as long as you can bullshit management and get along with tech people you're probably better than 70% of pms. I guess the problem there though is getting your foot in the door. the pms I worked with at my last company were all initially techy people in the company (one was qa, one was data science)
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Maximo Roboto posted:is there any way to get paid as much if not more than a dev, but not be a tech. generally the alternate suggestions are PM School, now offering courses in jira janitoring, phone dialing and buck passing
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Aquarium of Lies posted:data science you can just say "business analyst," a data scientist is just an analyst that doesn't use excel for windows
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most product managers have mbas since "doing budget arithmetic" can only be taught for 50,000/year
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ADINSX posted:PM School, now offering courses in jira janitoring, phone dialing and buck passing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Professional
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Maximo Roboto posted:* technical writer the others in the list pay well but lol @ these
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also generally to be a sales engineer you need to be technically literate enough to bullshit devs occasionally so I wouldn't go so far as to call it non-technical
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Dr. Honked posted:i just got a resume from someone who lists "anime studio" amongst the programming languages that they know please dont discuss my resume in public
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this + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL will make you senior-dev-level-bucks
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lol at needing 4500-7500 hours of pm work to be a pmp
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PCjr sidecar posted:lol at needing 4500-7500 hours of pm work to be a pmp pmpin ain't easy but it's necessary
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PCjr sidecar posted:lol at needing 4500-7500 hours of pm work to be a pmp looks like they sell a different exam if you have less experience why bother specifying that you need a high school diploma though?
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pmp is in many places a red flag that that person should not be allowed to pm
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I worked with a PMP and he was a colossal rear end in a top hat so now I assume they all are
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ADINSX posted:I worked with a PMP and he was a colossal rear end in a top hat so now I assume they all are probably a pretty safe bet
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Rex-Goliath posted:the others in the list pay well but lol @ these ya. when i was hired as a technical writer i got 42k a year, and that's considered a lot for a technical writer as usually they're freelance with all the fuckery that comes with that.
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today's recruiter nonsense: "which phone number would you prefer I leverage for this call?"
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The Management posted:today's recruiter nonsense: please utilize my cloud based google voice number at +555.5555
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Maximo Roboto posted:is there any way to get paid as much if not more than a dev, but not be a tech. generally the alternate suggestions are i became a product manager by doing qa and becoming friends with some of the pms and used that to switch departments. i went to music school. try getting a music degree, op. fart simpson fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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fart simpson posted:i became a product manager by doing qa and becoming friends with some of the pms and used that to switch departments. i went to music school. try getting a music degree, op. agreed, music is cool + good
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