Coding Work - SWE at Faang

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Tk797

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Tk797
Apr 16 15 Comments

I am interested in knowing what the Junior/Intermediate SWE’s do at Faang. Are they involved in hardcore coding or is they would just do some changes here and there in the codebase or minor feature enhancements?

Would like to know the intensity of the coding. Thanks

Background:
Cloud engineer
Overall experience: 4 years
TC: Contractor ($90/hr)

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  • Google / Eng
    dogfoodie

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    dogfoodie
    It's really dependent on the team. L3 and L4 are the levels that do the most coding overall here though.
    Apr 16 6
    • Amazon / Eng
      pip amzn!

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      pip amzn!
      I know Amazon Canada has devops position. But go for SWE if you don’t have strong preference.
      Apr 16
    • TD
      Tk797

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      @pip amzn: Would you suggest the same if I have never done hardcore coding or never done application level coding in depth?

      I have only done shell scripting and IAAC deployments with Terraform, Jenkins and supported pipelines but never involved in deep level backend stuff and honestly I don’t like doing the intense backend stuff.
      Apr 16
  • Amazon
    ihYH88

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    ihYH88
    As a junior eng I rewrote a big part of the frontend of a pretty popular AWS service… for better or for worse lmao
    Apr 16 1
  • JPMorgan Chase / Eng
    noob@LC

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    noob@LC
    juniors are the 🙉 that code the most
    Apr 16 0
  • They spend the most amount of time writing code, pretty much everywhere I've worked at.

    Not necessarily the best code - but they spend the most time doing it.
    Apr 16 1
  • TD
    Tk797

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    I have only done shell scripting and IAAC deployments with Terraform, Jenkins and supported pipelines but never involved in deep level backend stuff and honestly I don’t like doing the intense backend stuff.

    Should I forget about SWE or still pursue it or go for SRE/DevOps positions in Faang ( which will still require leetcoding)

    Or should I focus on getting into Cloud Solution Architect stream?
    Apr 16 0