I graduated last year and joined Amazon right out of college in July 2020. A few days ago all 3 friends who joined Amazon with me got promoted to SDE 2. And here I still don't know shit, haven't achieved anything significant till date. I feel like I don't have enough understanding, all I do is refer to other people's code and write something similar. This is enough for my day to day sprint tasks but I'm not having any impact. How do I deal with this? My friends keep saying they are frustrated with work but still manage to perform exceptionally. What am I missing? PS - Posting from my roommate's account. Blind tax ~ 20 lpa Yoe - 1.25
How do people get promoted in a year ?
Depends a lot on team and timing. If you’re fortunate you will get hands on with an highly visible and impacting project. Lots design and CRs and reviewing and communication with stakeholders, etc. enough data point to get promoted.
I would just repeat what my dumb fcuk manager in previous company said "think of your career as a marathon, not sprint". I cursed him like anything when he delayed my promo for 6 months. But I appreciate it so much now.
There is some luck involved in this. Don't worry. You'll be fine
It's all luck, 1) getting a team with good projects 2) Your manager actually giving you good projects 3) your manager ready to apply for your promo after 1 year, in most teams manager does not even gets ready to apply before some X months 4) TPA alignment It's all possible if your manager is ready to vouch for you.
Is that why you left Mr. Babbar ?
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Generally it takes 2 years to get sde2 promo. After 10 years if you look back what difference will it make whether you got promo at 1.25 YOE or 2 YOE. It’s just few months difference.
Hmm what is your yoe?