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by NBJack 1082 days ago
I 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.

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Time 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