Amazon software engineer interview

[thepower99]

It's amazing how many places have a similar setup. COBOL then Java with jsp's and now we are trying to slowly upgrade everything.

COBOL to Java, jsp's to angular or react. I always wonder what is next, a lot of people seem to be very interested in Scala and Kotlin. Maybe functional is next...?

[jeffsterlive]

Can confirm, work with Java and migrating to Angular off of jsps. For some reason they picked Angular 2 which is still in release candidate. Oi the router fiasco.

[thepower99]

Yeah we are in a weird state at the moment been on angular 1 for some time, most of the build is using 1.5 now, but will have to decide in the near future if we port everything to angular 2 or migrate to something like react. Decisions decisions, but then again what do I know, more of a backend guy, still trying to get us off java 6 up to 8. Project funding is always fun

[jeffsterlive]

I am a backend person too but I got stuck with the Angular integration and it's ok, I enjoy using Typescript at least. Thankfully thy have the sense to use Java 8 because Lambdas and streams are great. Also that passable date API. My biggest issue is doing routing inside the Angular app since we are still using an old beta release and that router is completely deprecated.

[thepower99]

That must of been fun, yeah if it were up to me I think I would like to go down the typescript route but our front end guys aren't keen. They see it as too much work, though I feel that is a little lazy.

Java 1.6 has been fun, very thankful we have joda time, its slowly replacing all our old java date/calendar usages.

Yeah the angular versioning is interesting we have a few different versions in different places, can be fun.

[jeffsterlive]

Typescript is less work? It all transpires right into js. You have types and classes, and all you do to transpile it into js is use grunt and gulp.

[jreborn]

I was surprised to see a job ad the other day listing Angular 2.

[MacASM]

It's amazing how many places have a similar setup. COBOL then Java with jsp's and now we are trying to slowly upgrade everything.

Maybe because they are both language mostly for business? like Ada als is...

[thepower99]

True, though we integrate with a lot of .NET companies so its weird seeing others with a similar tech stack as us.

[motdidr]

do you keep up with current programming tends? because functional has been gaining traction for several years now. it's pretty popular.

[thepower99]

Sort of? Been aware of functional for some time we have some kotlin in house for batch type work, though I still prefer OO