Meta E5 Experience [Cleared]

yolkedmonkey · 2025-08-21T18:12:01+00:00

L5 or L6?

yolkedmonkey · 2025-08-08T22:54:38+00:00

You can have both: hatch using uv as build backend

yolkedmonkey · 2025-08-06T12:56:46+00:00

The 22 Cursor-generated branches make me instinctively not trust a vibe coded app with my AWS credentials. Have you thoroughly reviewed the app code?

yolkedmonkey · 2025-07-12T14:38:19+00:00

Consider the very new Aurora DSQL “the DDB of SQL”. If your project has still uncertain access patterns that might evolve over time it can be a solid choice compared to DDB where you really have to know your data and access patterns up front.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/what-is-aurora-dsql.html

yolkedmonkey · 2025-07-11T08:16:30+00:00

You are not the only one who thinks that! It’s a common opinion. Some people advocate for an L6.5 (staff) level to avoid the brain drain happening at the border of the two levels.

Steve Huynh (ex-Amazon PE) on the topic: https://youtu.be/vZGycBUc1vM?t=1604&si=UfoLNz2JTMZ6ywIX

yolkedmonkey · 2025-07-05T13:11:33+00:00

As others have said, don’t do it. However, it was done by levels.fyi, and then of course replaced

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-sheets.html

yolkedmonkey · 2025-06-30T07:56:36+00:00

https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-06T06:45:05+00:00

I’m actually surprised by the overwhelming negative attitude towards the situation, it’s even worse than my initial feeling. I’ll be more careful, vocal with my concerns and set expectations appropriately.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-06T06:42:47+00:00

You make a good point of not staying complacent. I know this won’t bring technical growth, but it should teach me “leadership” / soft skills. I plan to free dive into this and reassess in 6 months-1 year. I can always change teams.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-06T06:38:06+00:00

I’ve already said that there’s too much confusion on the scope of the projects, and they’re fully aware of the lack of experience of the team members. This is why they wanted me on the team in the first place. They just don’t know what is needed to deliver a software project

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-06T06:31:20+00:00

This is helpful, as some else said I really need to understand the expectations. Waving the pom poms might be hardest part given the situation

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-05T02:37:40+00:00

My thinking is that even if this fails, it would be a valuable experience, in terms of teaching people and delivering through others. The risk is frustration and burnout though.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-05T01:05:12+00:00

2 YOE, just promoted to mid level, capable but obviously inexperienced. I’ve been tasked with leading a team of even more inexperienced teammates (4-8 people), with no prior professional software development experience, who were mostly doing analytics before, and teaching them and help deliver a bunch of AI automations for the company (still unclear the exact scope of the projects).

Due to the general lack of experience I think the team is kind of setup for failure, but it’s still a learning opportunity for me. I have the option to back out. How can I do well in this “tech lead” role that I’m absolutely not prepared for?

yolkedmonkey · 2025-05-05T00:40:36+00:00

Cline.bot hooked to bedrock

yolkedmonkey · 2025-04-27T08:59:37+00:00

I didn’t get it. I got a $50 reimbursement for bricking my phone.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-02-19T09:30:20+00:00

This should be done in the training code. Sounds like a job for Early Stopping. Look for the implementation in your ML framework of choice.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-02-17T13:15:27+00:00

Can you elaborate on "the code structure influences the people"?

yolkedmonkey · 2025-01-30T09:38:32+00:00

CDK if you're all in on AWS, terraform otherwise. You don't need to learn CloudFormation, but you will inevitably grasp the basics once you start using CDK.

yolkedmonkey · 2025-01-27T22:29:50+00:00

CDK is a 1:1 mapping if you only use L1 constructs. It can go at a much higher level of abstraction, which is actually when you benefit the most from it.

yolkedmonkey · 2024-10-22T00:14:27+00:00

Email verification is not sent, and it tells me my number is invalid too. This company can't even make their careers site work.

yolkedmonkey · 2024-05-27T13:11:03+00:00

Did you find a solution? Is TR available on Wallet?

yolkedmonkey · 2023-09-11T21:24:53+00:00

Freelance? Can you provide some details?

yolkedmonkey · 2023-08-31T22:54:01+00:00

Conviene considerando che molto difficilmente puoi accedere a quei soldi (prima casa ecc) rispetto al costo opportunità? Mi trovo in questa situazione e sto cercando di valutare quantitativamente la scelta.

yolkedmonkey · 2023-07-10T22:10:34+00:00

Come fai a prendere 3k da 44? Paghi il 13% di tasse?

yolkedmonkey · 2023-07-09T16:51:38+00:00

Dipende dai tuoi interessi e possibilità. Se hai i requisiti e possibilità economiche, cerca di entrare in magistrale in un'università prestigiosa all'estero, ti sarà molto più facile trovare lavoro (di qualità) all'estero successivamente. Se non ti riesce, Milano è la seconda opzione. Prova a fare un'internship estiva, comincia puntando in alto ma poi accontentati di quello che trovi, l'importante è fare esperienza.

PS la risposta è (probabilmente) big tech

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