I am a SDE I (fresh college grad) from AWS(been 9 months) and I really love my job right now. I am learning a lot and it’s really fun but I haven’t had much opportunities for customer facing features. I was contacted by Google & Oracle for a position in their cloud services. Should I consider these opportunities ? EDIT Also Snap. EDIT 2 I didn’t receive my OLR ratings in detail (yet) but my manager said everyone was happy on my performance and I should be looking at a promotion once I hit 2nd year. Is it good to wait for the promotion and consider other opportunities ?
This is my #1 problem with AWS as well. Little customer facing feature opportunities. I suspect Oracle and Google are probably similar though. You either have to tell the recruiter/hiring manager that you want to work on customer facing stuff, or go to a smaller company I think.
Absolutely. Google and Oracle are both legit investing in cloud. They will overpay for someone with AWS expedience. And they are both credible organizations. Google is Google (good). Oracle is Oracle (bad)....BuT they also have a seriously existential threat and they are serious about cloud. It’s just other people’s computers — they’ll figure it out.
AWS has more customer facing services than anyone can even remember, and are constantly launching more. Why don’t you just work on one?
Go where the money leads you. I’m sure you will find challenging work at both.
Google's cloud service ain't that much better
Most of the learning I get now comes from working on things in response to operational issues. I am afraid it won’t last long.
Yeah, the role of a SDE I in AWS is to not make a mess of things and learn.