Amazon EC2
Got an interview coming up for an Amazon EC2 position. Could someone share more about the group? - Is this catering to internal infra requirements or external customers too? - Does the team work on new features and products or mostly on cruise control maintaining legacy code? - How important is the team to the company? In times like this, would like to avoid switching to a team that may be vulnerable to layoffs. TC: 300k
1.) Mostly external customers, though there are also significant internal customers too (like Prime Video). 2.) Varies greatly by team and on customer need. I happen to work in a sub-org that has both legacy and new code, and currently I’m working on some new stuff. EC2 is really big so it’ll depend on which part of it you will be on. 3.) EC2 is about as core as it gets in AWS—if anything it, along with S3, *is* AWS. There is no chance it’s going anywhere as a whole. That said because it’s so important, ops work/on-call is going to be heavier than in other places.
Unless you were told otherwise the EC2 job posting seems to be used for general SDE2 hires. I'm sure EC2 is hiring but I haven't heard of anyone getting asked EC2-specific questions about it. If hired you'll enter team-match. But to answer your last question: EC2 is *extremely* critical to AWS. The company will go under before that product/org is ended. However, the team/company being safe does not translate to *you* being safe.
Ec2 is a high oncalload team right?