I have accepted amazon L6 offer and need to decide between ec2 and s3 org. Any suggestions and data points to consider? TC ~380k post covid @Amazon
S3
Can you please elaborate a bit based on your experience or observation?
S3
Yoe? Also, S3
Both are big, old and stable orgs with extremely big scale challenges. This translates into a stable teams with a lot of experience and good practices but with lot of legacy code and maintenance/ops work. Good wlb when not on-call (and possibly nightmarish on-call, but this would be team dependent). Also, because of the immense scale, a lot of opportunities for big wins doing small improvements and a lot of space/necessity to think big and have a lot of impact. For example, the sub org for EC2 containerization produced “Firecracker” and that opened a lot of possibilities and improvements in Lambda. Also the sub-org of EC2 networking that own AWS hyper plane did some nice changes and that allowed lambda to reduce cold starts (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-improved-vpc-networking-for-aws-lambda-functions/). Hyper plane in itself is an awesome product. Of course, I am more familiar with the work of EC2 than S3, that is why my examples are related to EC2. But for sure, given that It is a product really liked by AWS customers (read it like the amount of traffic handled by S3 as a whole is mind blowing), S3 has a lot of interesting projects and challenges.
Thank you so much. By talking to both hiring managers I do get a sense that both products are huge and there is lot to learn. The other thing is it looks like both have good principal engineers so am really excited about learning from them. Also more importantly both HM seems level headed and grounded.
So the question is whether compute or storage?
Yeah you can say that
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~500k
Congrats OP! Is this Seattle or Bay Area?