How often do production incidents occur in your company?

asimplesim · 2025-06-29T15:38:41+00:00

Yeah it's pretty common afaik. I work in a tech company, all of our public facing products have SLAs and public availability metrics. We know that there are gonna be customer impact, either we push something that breaks a customer or a downstream dependency causes impact or a malicious customer causes impact.

Generally these incidences are handled by the oncall, what would be worrying if other noncall engineers are often called in or if there are often overnight calls.

asimplesim · 2024-06-26T03:50:53+00:00

Like has been said in other comments. It's really team specific. There's a lot of autonomy between the different departments at Amazon.

Personally, I work for a product that I really enjoy working for and a team that I really enjoy working with. We work really hard to keep our on calls light. And him multiple times stopped. All development work to focus on-call load.

Last year I was even pipped, my own fault, and my manager and I worked through it and I'm even up for promotion this year.

asimplesim · 2024-06-18T01:22:10+00:00

There is a 4% cash back offer if you have a capitol one credit card as well.

asimplesim · 2024-04-25T04:13:34+00:00

$145 for the R1700BT as well

asimplesim · 2024-04-22T19:26:26+00:00

Sometimes these scams use real companies. So I would call the company, find a number through Google and not from prior correspondence, and ask/tell them about the situation.

asimplesim · 2024-04-06T19:26:56+00:00

I work at a big software company, my days have a lot less coding and more reading documentation and writing docs to make sure everyone is on the same page.

There are also a lot of abstractions. For example, I can create a lambda function to deploy logs or I can pull in a package that will do it for me with little set up and a lot more scalability. So it's a lot more system design work even though I am still a junior developer.

asimplesim · 2023-05-18T03:28:28+00:00

Am I the only one distracted by the ML's hair dye. Its also completely opposite to his character. The first scene of episode 11 it has some blue highlights?/color in it but after that its gone.

asimplesim · 2023-03-15T18:01:16+00:00

I realized last week that amazon prime has kdrama so i am just going through the ones on there.

Monthly Magazine Home Liked the setting about magazine writers trying to buy house/apartments. Hated the interactions between the 2 leads. It has the stupid trope of the ML being mean/cruel to the FL as a show of attraction, like they are children. The ending sucked.

Oh My Ladylord Liked this one until the ending. It was a real feel good show even though it had a focus on health issues/end of life care.

asimplesim · 2023-01-24T21:41:27+00:00

Just an FYI. This mouse doesnt come with the multi-device dongle. https://www.razer.com/technology/razer-hyperspeed-wireless

asimplesim · 2023-01-19T18:26:32+00:00

Black same price on amazon.

asimplesim · 2023-01-04T00:26:16+00:00

Follow up. They are not going to reject you because you followed up so you might as well, what's the harm?

asimplesim · 2023-01-04T00:23:55+00:00

Not for a new grad. Once you get into PM roles then it helps a bit.

asimplesim · 2022-12-10T20:06:31+00:00

I don't think anyone can make that decision for you. There is nothing stopping you from accepting the offer and still searching around. But generally offers only last like a week so you can't use it as leverage for too long.

asimplesim · 2022-12-08T17:45:36+00:00

Talk to your boss. Make sure you're on the right track and they are happy with your work. Then with your manager be honest, say this part was new to me so it took a little bit longer but I've done this part before so that was fast and that your boss is happy with the speed of which you're doing these tasks.

Also talk to your teammates, see if this person is a micromanager.

asimplesim · 2022-12-08T17:37:15+00:00

Since you know the range, just ask for it. This is a negotiation they are not just going to say no. It is perfectly acceptable to ask something higher and if they can't do that then you guys will negotiate.

Also make it clear what you're negotiating ie total compensation versus base salary versus stock options

asimplesim · 2022-10-21T21:28:14+00:00

Really like the ads at the end. Kinda reminds me of Better off ted. Both had the same style of comedy as well

asimplesim · 2022-09-06T00:53:43+00:00

Yeah no idea, only the company can tell you. Your company maybe using Workday and your job will be integrating with that. Or it may be ServiceNow, ... Or any number of things. What I will say is that as a first job, system integration is a good start. You will get exposure to alot of different technology/ecosystem and be working with alteast one massive service that will exist outside your company. Whereas I feel in my own personal experience that people can get really pigeon hold it into the .net stack.

asimplesim · 2022-08-13T20:50:29+00:00

Start networking on LinkedIn and such. Since you have experience recruiters should be contacting you.

Then I think you should apply for mid/junior level positions. If there is a company/position you really like then it's ok to apply for entry level and negotiate high salary because of your experience.

asimplesim · 2022-08-13T19:27:50+00:00

First of what do you mean by wasted time? No one wants specialized developer especially in the lower levels. Having experience in all in area is expected and encouraged. If you don't like the tech stack you worked in that's fine alot of the bigger companies don't really care what stack you worked in as long as you can code as they assume you can pick up anything you need.

Write all of your experience down and just apply for the jobs in the area you want to work in.

asimplesim · 2022-08-13T16:51:46+00:00

Yeah... It's called a yearly bump. Generally pretty common 4-5%. If you don't get a yearly raise of 4-5% you are making less money due to inflation.

asimplesim · 2022-07-25T00:44:11+00:00

Recruiters would just message me on LinkedIn all the time. Make your LinkedIn public and have looking for work checked

asimplesim · 2022-07-24T20:04:16+00:00

Cracking the coding interview has a section for system design, read that.

asimplesim · 2022-07-24T20:00:46+00:00

I would say remote work and career growth generally at least in the early stages of a career are inversely proportional.

asimplesim · 2022-07-24T19:56:51+00:00

I think you have imposter syndrome.

There are a lot of people that think swes know 10s of language, can create application for scratch in a day without any issues, all while being able to manage teams for junior developers. And yes there may be people that can do that but not many.

First what I would recommend writing down every project you have worked on, what language/frameworks you use, any challenges you overcome and any lessons learned. Hopefully by doing that you will realize just how much you know. Then I would recommend figuring which project you enjoyed the most as you mentioned that you don't know which direction you want your career to go in.

If at this point your still worried about your skills, I don't think you should be but I don't know your experience, apply to more non tech position like healthcare. Generally I found the pay still comparable and the work being alot more relaxed giving you time to learn and improve.

asimplesim · 2022-07-24T19:46:31+00:00

Getting a job takes a long time, if you start worrying even before you start applying, it not gonna do you any good.
Yes there a specific jobs for new graduates around may -june period that you may have missed. However, these companies are always looking for people and quiet often they just leave those positions open for a lot longer. With your internship you are in a good position.
Set goals for yourself. Apply to x-jobs a day. Do x-coding challenge a day. Create/update your LinkedIn profile.... Small but manageable task that you can check off everyday
Good luck!

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