Current overnight Amazon datacenter technician here (L3, will be L4 in Q4). Got good forte results and pretty much impossible to be PIPed or laid off in my position, as we're always understaffed. I have an upcoming interview with FedEx to be a Cloud Engineer I but I feel like I don't know how the fuck to work with the cloud except for what AWS services are and some basic Linux networking commands. I also don't want to be PIPed at FedEx and out of a steady job. I don't know the work culture there. Am I wasting my time or should I pursue this? TC: 62K.
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Pursue it for two reasons. 1) interview alone will teach you what skills are needed to be a cloud engineer. If you don’t get this job then you’ll be better prepared for the next interview and can also go acquire the skills that are needed. 2) if you get the job, you’ll get a pay increase. An L3 cloud engineer will be making more than what you’ll make as an L4 in your current job. If you get the job at FedEx, they will likely be hiring you knowing that they will have to train you because your background isn’t as a cloud engineer. if you get PIPed, boomerang back to Amazon in the data center. Just make sure you don’t burn any bridges.
Is it easy to boomerang? I am not a superstar but I am well liked (enough to monitor and repair stuff in my own few datacenters alone). I worry that they'll prioritize somebody else who isn't a job hopper.
Nah it’s pretty easy and you said they’re perpetually understaffed so you’ll be fine. If you do it once it’s probably easy. Two or three times might be much harder