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Hey, I have been recently converted to FTE SDE(L4) position and this is my 3rd week. Previously I have worked as an intern here at same team. I thought FTE going to be easy after the internship but damn it is tough. I feel overwhelmed by so much stuff that I don't feel life doing anything like OpEx task, On-call prep, deep dive in so many code bases and all those long meetings ahhh they $u¢k. I think my manager also felt the same after our 1:1s and now he is on my back to deliver results and be more focused with sprint planning stuff. Not sure what to do. Any tips will be appreciated. Also, btw how long it takes to get PIPed?
Op, you're the 3 years back me. I too was a intern convert and even after the internship when I joined as a FTE, I really struggled for the first 5-6 months. My standup updates were really short and it was mostly around reading some piece of code and making small changes. It didn't help that I had to work on some obscure legacy crap code on Retail Amazon in Mason(a dumpster fire of a Perl framework). Attending meetings, OE reviews, design review meetings by other folks, getting bombarded with tech jargons left and right, I almost thought Amazon is above my skillset and I would probably not survive long here So much so it was quite visible in my body language, one day a manager from a sister team with whom I was in good terms, just randomly asked me in the washroom that "hey dude, why do you seem so depressed always, do you feel you're not doing enough ". I sort of blurted out the truth and said "yeah I feel I don't belong here" He patiently smiled and said that happens to almost every new hire at Amazon, irrespective of what level and it'll pass, as long as I keep making a honest effort to learn. I've owned designed inplemented and delivered quite a few projects by now, have made L5 now, thanks to some really helpful teammates and a supportive leadership (*touchwood*) however in hindsight, I do believe what made the difference is developing the ability to read code. Deep dive and being able to make sense of existing code without any wikis or docs, is the single most important skill that you can learn as a beginner in Amazon. That will help you jumpstart your ability to deliver results incrementally by making changes to the existing codebase. In all honesty, I'm a pretty average SDE at best, and I always feel there's still so much to learn and imbibe from folks around me, but if I could make it this far, pretty sure you'll do great. As I said, keep up that effort on reading code, that will make the difference and before long you'll be reading AND writing code.
This is what I needed to hear. Thanks.
Start leetcoding. If your manager is on your back, you're definitely gonna be pipped in the near future
Damn I was expecting nicer comment 😶