Today is my 9 year anniversary of working at AWS. Here's 9 personal takes on what it's like ...
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1. I work in our "Blackfoot" HQ building, named after our NAT platform, named in turn after the penguin. Plural is "Blackfoots".
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2. Favourite benefit is a mailroom with http://Amazon.com 's shipping rates! Great for sending gifts to Ireland.
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3. Opportunities are boundless and barriers few. I could propose, start and tech-lead
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4. Now as a senior engineer, I get to talk to at least five customers a week. Remote site visits once a month.
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5. I work across several large orgs and industry changing projects, but still get to ship code, do code reviews, and on-call.
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6. I'm on-call today! As a "call leader", we lead and coordinate the mitigation of operational events behind the scenes.
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7. Top event management tips: Stay calm, Assess the situation, Focus on mitigation - not root cause, Escalate early! (SAFE).
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8. Organizationally, I could never trade away document-driven meetings, bottom-up culture, or a zest for action.
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Replying to @colmmacc @Amazon_Route_53
What is a document-driven meeting? How does it work?
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beauty-amazons-6-pager-brad-porter … is a great write-up of our meeting style, by @BradPorter_
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