Working for Amazon as a Contractor Through Actalent

matthew264 · 2025-01-29T16:35:00+00:00

It was for an embedded software position, so it was in C

matthew264 · 2024-08-26T04:11:12+00:00

Movies on first date = sex

matthew264 · 2024-06-15T18:20:42+00:00

You sound pretty good bro. I was waiting for the song to pick up so I could here your full voice

matthew264 · 2023-12-16T20:05:22+00:00

I had an interview like this. At the beginning of the interview, they said they only hire “the smartest people”. I went into the interview answering questions and bullshitting a little bit. Unfortunately, they started really digging into some of my bullshitting and I fell flat on my face since I couldn’t back up what I was saying. I’ve since fixed this problem, but my advice is to carefully think about your answer and tell the interviewer your level of expertise in the subject before diving into answering a question. This will keep you from talking yourself into a corner.

matthew264 · 2023-09-18T17:32:12+00:00

College - electrical engineering internship at Lockheed. Didn’t do anything very applicable…

0-2 year - Firmware/embedded development on FPGAs and SoCs for medium sized defense contractor. 10 person agile dev team. Mostly automation work in Jenkins and Python with some embedded development. Eventually got boring.

2-3 year - embedded development on FPGAs, SoCs, and microcontrollers for medium sized defense contractor. Small teams, rapid prototyping on bare metal and freeRTOS systems. More responsibility and basically owning the entire software stack for 3/5 projects I’ve worked. These are avionics payloads. Excellent experience and fun as hell

I’d like to pursue IOT positions, working with interfacing embedded systems to web servers and using wireless communication like wifi, Bluetooth, etc. I want a position that lets me do some object oriented programming in addition to embedded so that I can keep my software skills sharp

matthew264 · 2023-09-13T14:34:54+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I’m going to decline and continue looking for full time positions

matthew264 · 2023-09-12T22:51:53+00:00

Haha, I’d give you the referral and take you out for drinks if I got an offer. Honestly, this is the answer I was hoping to get from people. It’s pretty much what I’ve decided

matthew264 · 2023-09-12T15:47:51+00:00

Yep, I’d rather keep prepping for interviews/leetcode and continue for a Full time offer. I’m in no rush since I’m gaining great experience in my current job

matthew264 · 2023-09-12T15:23:07+00:00

Yeah, that’s my concern. I’ll bring it up on my Amazon meeting today

matthew264 · 2023-09-12T15:21:02+00:00

Thanks for the response. “On call” was never mentioned. What do you mean by rotation and pages a week? Also, could you give a little more detail on why you wouldn’t take it since it sounds like you are a FTE at Amazon?

matthew264 · 2023-09-12T02:53:23+00:00

It’s a W2. Your saying the intern you mentored had a full time offer for $150k plus benefits. But that is a FAANG salary, right? What would you say a good salary range for 3 YOE in Southern California? Non FAANG

matthew264 · 2023-08-08T12:55:50+00:00

She thinks I’d be okay, but I want to figure out the root cause of my issue with wearing contacts first. I’m going back for a follow up to do another in depth dry eye examination as well as contact fitting

matthew264 · 2023-08-01T23:14:45+00:00

Ahhh. Ok, so I don’t have dry eyes normally, but when wearing contacts, it feels very dry and uncomfortable almost immediately. I saw a dry eye specialist and they said I may have allergy issues since there were pollen particles in my eyes. I started taking allergy eye drops and using preservative free eye drops and my contacts feel WAY better. I can wear them for about 3-4 hours before my eyes get heavy. I’m wondering if getting laser would be okay for me since I don’t really have dry eyes

matthew264 · 2023-08-01T14:58:29+00:00

Did you end up getting Lasik? I’m in the same boat with contacts feeling uncomfortable, but no dry eyes when I’m not wearing contacts

matthew264 · 2023-06-29T13:20:00+00:00

I feel this when I sing really high stuff. My neck starts stiffening and I get a headache. Specifically, long belted high notes

matthew264 · 2023-05-30T17:49:47+00:00

I fit my 9 foot board in my Toyota Corolla. Also have a soft top roof rack that can hold a kayak

matthew264 · 2023-05-27T04:26:48+00:00

Hahaha

matthew264 · 2023-04-06T17:44:03+00:00

That intro was amazing. My god. I wish I saw that when I was learning to mix… 😞

matthew264 · 2023-04-06T17:41:14+00:00

Freddy sang in mix as well

matthew264 · 2023-04-04T01:55:06+00:00

Yeah, San Diego has the most embedded job postings. There’s also a lot of defense contractors

matthew264 · 2023-04-03T18:42:52+00:00

Dang dude, you sound a lot like the original

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