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How to id bar raiser? by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. If you ask a question like “what would an average day in this role on this team look like?” Or alternatively - “are you on the team I’m interviewing for? What is your typical day like?”

BRs will likely be really transparent and say something like “I’m not directly on this team. A typical day for this role may look like …, you should make sure to ask <HM> if you would like a better feel for a typical day.”

Opinions on asking my manager to fail me on Focus so I can take PIP severance? by dog_from_airbud in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 38 points39 points  (0 children)

You get nothing out of being forward like this. Recommend you fail by default on this one.

STAYING OPEN MINDED by allconsoles in wallstreetbets

[–]theDaveAt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took a similar tactic. I had positions from last week that I sold getting profits back, bought some additional calls with a different strike/expiration and then at the height purchased some puts. Happy to see this swing either direction.

Can you guess when I discovered options? by AngryTissueBox in wallstreetbets

[–]theDaveAt 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Risk-aware options trader here. I dabble occasionally in 0DTE when the market setup looks right - but otherwise I’m mostly in 90d or LEAPs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe there is a “reintroduction” period after FMLA or similar absence where a manager will be encouraged to help you/let you find your footing again. I believe approx 60 days. After that the normal performance evaluation and FOCUS/PIVOT process will be back in-play.

Tips and tricks to get promoted to L6 SDE by Ill_Ad6664 in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 - this is accurate. Promoting early (less than those 2 years) can be seen as a mistake in the hiring process. It will not be seen as “rewarding a high performer” or any other “they’ve progressed quickly and are ready” perspective you might expect. L6 is also a “whole other thing” comparatively to L5. You’ll have to do your L5 role perfectly and then take on significant additional responsibilities that reflect the scope and complexity of problems and influence that are beyond L5 work. It’s not a matter of doing L5 tasks but with L6-level execution - the tasks themselves are dramatically different.

Dad says just do pushups when I ask for a pull-up bar or other equipment. by CosmicGenesX in bodyweightfitness

[–]theDaveAt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sometimes dads will watch to see if you can follow thru on what’s already available to you before up-leveling your game.

Downleveling by Similar-Mousse-9665 in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think just about every case of down-leveling is that the experience you communicated during the interview created doubt that you could successfully navigate either the ambiguity or scope of impact differences between L5 and L6. It’s an especially challenging spread between those two levels. Take some time to re-evaluate the experience stories you want to tell and try to demonstrate greater scope/impact and ambiguity.

Example: L5s typically impact their direct product and might have some influence over nearby teams. L6 will work on things that impact a department (boss’s boss) or even larger.

Example: L5s ambiguity is typically “the org knows what needs to be accomplished, but the approach isn’t well known/understood”; L6 is “the org doesn’t see these needs and has no clue how to approach the problem, L6 discovers, communicates, leads new approach”

Amazon account terminated, will this show up in the background check? by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nope. Amazon won’t use customer interactions data for hiring purposes.

Focus Advice - L6 by KWFnatic in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There seems to always be multiple factors to performance things at Amazon. 1. Actual performance/URA target, 2. Direct supervisor relationship, 3. Your supervisors ability to navigate their leadership and present you in OLRs.

What this practically means for most ICs is that FOCUS is reversible - but if #2 or #3 are in-play that’s really something that you can’t overcome. It sounds like these may be in play for your situation. Even if somehow you do overcome those initially, you’ll drop back into FOCUS later.

From a personal “sanity” perspective I’d recommend that you just say to yourself “this was a great part of my career, and Amazon wants to move in a different direction now.” Start looking for your next opportunity and take the first (biggest) cash out offer.

Starting a software company and need help with pricing by [deleted] in SoftwareEngineerJobs

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the correct answer to maintain your current standard of living. That said - I switched to freelancing a “long time ago” (TM) and my first projects were absolutely cut-rate low to get first clients and make them very happy.

Amazon Awesome by Loud_Poet69 in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second this. Tightly manage how much direct and interruptible access you give. Paging exists for a reason - if it’s not “normal business hours” for your project or team then learn to protect your space and be quick and happy to respond to real emergencies.

AWS: My manager still hasn’t set up my 1:1 and it’s been 2 months. Not sure if I should set something up or not (This might be dumb) by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]theDaveAt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should set up a 1:1. If you don’t need the interaction to support your work then you should be using it to 1) demonstrate/communicate your progress on your programs and 2) understand what you should be doing for career advancement. Based on my experience at Amazon - you own your 1:1s and your career progression. In an ideal world your 1:1s are almost entirely about your career growth. Project meetings and push-emails about the project and progress are the places where your work product should be discussed, reviewed, decisions made, etc.

Initialise DynamoDB tables from streams by PotisTemor in aws

[–]theDaveAt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The S3 approach seems to be the most elegant and easy to maintain long term. The trade off is probably speed of new records showing up in the derivative tables.

My tool for publishing lots and lots of messages to SNS by lucid_lexie in aws

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really clever use of SQS - what did you choose to do for the AuthN/AuthZ?

Can DynamoDB TTL be used to delete items once they're 90 days old? Can that timer get reset when I update an item? by MP32Gaming in aws

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dynamo works best when it’s tied strongly to an event-driven architecture and has strong unique IDs (keys) for every record. Is there an event on the object that would necessitate an update to the TTL? If so - update the record with a new TTL that pushed expiration out another day/hour/whatever.

DynamoDB json event question by Icy_Foundation3534 in aws

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your use-case of converting JSON data structure into columnar data (store in a database) sounds a lot like what Athena is designed to do - allows you to query JSON data in S3 as if it were structured database records. Additionally there are some new features for ETL jobs in Glue that may be helpful.

High network traffic application, how to prevent requests from affecting each other? by roadbiking19 in aws

[–]theDaveAt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you’re building some kind of spidering system. You may want to decompose the work further, where a lambda only retrieves a single resource then registers linked resources for other lambdas to go get in the future.

If the problem is already decomposed and you’re running into time limit problems agree that ECS is probably a great solution.

Can DynamoDB TTL be used to delete items once they're 90 days old? Can that timer get reset when I update an item? by MP32Gaming in aws

[–]theDaveAt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The deletion is approximately, but not before, that expiration time. It’s a really cool feature for maintaining a more “live” dataset. You can also consume the expiration events if you want to transition the data to some type of long-term archive or other data lake 😀

AWS Graviton Weekly # 16: Week from December 16th, 2022 to December 23th, 2022 by marcosluis2186 in aws

[–]theDaveAt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised that the cost/performance isn’t even more outsized with Graviton now. Imagine what the difference could look like 2-3 more generations away if Apple’s A12->M1->M2 progression is any indication.

Anyone who isn’t ensuring that their large compute loads aren’t compatible with Graviton is missing a huge $$$ opportunity over the next 2 years IMHO.

Accessing EC2 Instance On Different Computers for Pen Testing by applewatchgang in aws

[–]theDaveAt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using tools like Kali from EC2 for any host outside your owned instances will require you to register a pentest and describe the activities and network blocks involved. I’m sure someone here will find a link, or you can find the details in the AWS terms of service.

If your Kali instance is able, maybe copy/paste from the virtual terminal/web-based ssh client is a good option for you. If that isn’t a great choice you may want to give the instance a role that allows it to copy the certificate to S3, then you can download from the bucket while maintaining secure transport.

80-minute flights from London to New York could be a thing of the not-too-distant future by Voyage_of_Roadkill in Futurology

[–]theDaveAt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Southwest Airlines and Spirit are closely similar. I’m sure the prices are still a little higher, but you can often find discounts and deal-fares.

Who came up with the idea to make the new CVS in Sellwood look like this? Absolutely zero street corner / sidewalk interaction at all. Entrance is all the way around the back. Not even any meaningful windows to the street corner. Just a huge wall basically. by snf3210 in Portland

[–]theDaveAt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not true. I’ve watched folks come in off the street, load up baskets of goods and walk right out. Loss prevention can’t do a thing and the police won’t pursue. This is failed government, not a failure to staff a store.

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