@oraro or you know, an sde at Amazon, close enough? My point was more some of us have actually had to do that kind of high performance multi-threading.

My last job our code base scaled linearly to 48+ physical cores... I doubled its throughput. Beg to differ!!!

Unlimited data. Problem solved.

It's Saturday now. Not sure if to upvote or downvote...

@stisch it's pretty good so far thanks! I've mainly just been learning aws/cloud stuff, near 4 years at my last job I didn't touch it, so that's interesting. I was doing computer vision type stuff at my last place, I'm on a team doing machine learning type stuff now and they're all really clever but not a huge amount of experience, so I've been able to give advice and contribute in meaningful ways already, which I'm really pleased about.

I mean, as a language I think it's good, but can be used in ugly ways. As with any language, I'd question the dev!

Freedom of speech means you don't go to jail for saying whatever you want to say, it doesn't mean people have to listen.

Strange how often those get confused...

Or uninitialized memory if you're in a language that supports it!

Make the "right" way to do something the easiest way to do something, automate as much of the process as possible and if anyone refuses to follow, they are a grown up, management needs to have a grown up conversation about why they won't follow procedure...

I like the learn to draw 😂

Another thing I've wondered... What happens when you get a new laptop? Remove the old screen and mount it as a piece of art?

@Nanos first, I wouldn't say I got the job "over" others, there are a lot of teams open, and they were interviewing 10 or so candidates each week. I still haven't quite grasped the scale of it all! They basically have a bar, if you meet it you're in.

They have a lot of emphasis on personality/culture fit, literally half of each interview was on that. This is a really good read: https://medium.com/@scarletinked/...

The technical side of things isn't too hard, I do "hacker rank" and "Google code jam" for fun, my worst problem is that my current job uses a functional programming style in an OOP language (c++), as its easier to parralelise (50 core server real time video processing, so that's important for us), and so there are a couple of things that I know I could have done better, but I think because I'm a good culture fit, I got the job. Those things wouldn't be a problem when working day to day anyway, code reviews and all.

@marcom thank you!

@fullslack alas, I'll be working in amazon video, but if there is anything specific I'd be happy to try to help! Although it's worth mentioning I've never touched aws so far, so loads to learn!

@serverconnected it's also nice to talk to people that have a deeper reaction than "congrats on the new job!"

@heyheni hopefully not, I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 6.5 years, so I'm moving from a quiet town with nothing to do and nobody my age to the big city. So if nothing else, my social life will improve! And in my current job I've been a bit isolated, there have only been 3 algo engineers, the other 2 are department heads and super busy, so I've not had much support. And the development practices aren't always great and hard to change. It's ment I've had a lot of responsibility and lots of opportunities to teach and support others, but a lot of work for someone relatively fresh out of uni.

@ScriptCoded not totally sure how much I can actually say at the moment, what with NDA's, but ML type data processing/time series analysis of unstructured data, at amazon scale. Building on DSP/ML/series analysis basics I've learned so far, but broader problems learning more generally applicable skills, really looking forward to it!

@Boogie hopefully not too many rants! I've spoken to the manager I'll be working with, he sounds great, we were talking quite a lot longer than allocated, so that seems like a good sign!

Thank you very much everyone! I'm really pleased and really looking forward to a new challenge with interesting people around. I'll get to individual comments, but have to say, this community is awesome.

@rajj this is pretty good:
https://medium.com/@scarletinked/...

My advice for life: live as close to work as possible. I currently have a 3 minute walk. If the commute is an hour each way, that's 10 hours a week. That's a lot of dead time!

Of course, it's not always possible, what with family, etc.

Well, the process has dragged on a little bit, but today I received the official offer letter. I've got a job at amazon! 😀 Thanks for the support!

Phrasing

Mainly just work out what I'd do, work out what they did differently, work out what is wrong.

Usually something...

I have no github projects...

https://course.fast.ai/index.html gives a tutorial for this, I've not done it but looking at it for me now

@Kage high performance number crunching is faster in c++, don't see javascript beating that any time soon.

Going through the same.

Traveling, am interviewing at amazon tomorrow, they're putting me in a hotel overnight. Then prep for that!

I'd happily check it out, well done for trying to finish your project!