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Software Development Manager opening! Check out the link in the post below to learn more.

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𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝘁 📜🧲 🔹 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: Demonstrate clear progression by highlighting how your current role is a step up from previous positions. For example, if you started as a coder and now design system architecture, make that shift visible. 🔹 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀: Stay current by emphasizing newly acquired skills like Big Data, Cloud, or AI/ML. This shows your ability to evolve with industry demands. 🔹 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Even mentoring new joiners or leading small teams reflects your leadership potential. Highlight these experiences to show you’re ready for more responsibility. 🔹 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗜𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻: Use numbers to quantify your impact. For example, mention how your work improved productivity by 5% or reduced costs by 20%. This adds credibility and highlights your results. 🔹 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁: Showcase recent certifications or courses that show you're committed to staying updated and growing professionally. 🔹 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘀: Include blogs, side projects, or speaking engagements to reflect your passion and initiative beyond your job role. 🔹 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀: When mentioning team projects, specify your role and how you contributed, even if it’s within a larger team. 🔹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Save your resume with your name and title for easy identification (e.g., "Piyush_Recruiter_Resume"). 🔹 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Always save your resume in PDF format to ensure consistent formatting and a professional appearance across devices. 🔹 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗜𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁: Focus on relevant experiences, and tailor your resume to the job you’re applying for. Avoid unnecessary details. 🔹 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀: Double-check that your contact information and LinkedIn/portfolio links are up-to-date. 🔹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Carefully proofread your resume for errors, and ask a peer to review it for a fresh perspective. #ResumeTips #ResumeBuilding #CareerGrowth #CareerAdvice #ResumeWriting #ResumeFormatting #InterviewPreparation

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𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞! I've finally landed a role as a private contractor. I'm diving into the world of e-commerce! After months of searching and searching - dodging scammers who prey upon folks looking for a dev job, and navigating the stressful software engineering job market, I've been contracted to build and maintain an online store for a multi-million dollar equipment business (I can't share more at this time). While this won't solve the problem of needing a full-time role with benefits, this much-needed opportunity lets me flex my dev skills by building a full-fledged e-commerce site with a ton of inventory, managing stock, and crafting captivating content with photos and detailed descriptions. I'm thrilled (and a bit nervous) to start this journey and (hopefully) make a real impact on this 40-year-old business. Huge thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement—you guys rock! I will say this to all of those interested in how I did it. I put myself out there. I reached out to people, I struck up conversations with folks, and I leveraged every professional relationship I had (some personal as well -- 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒!). By focusing on building relationships with folks, eventually, someone I was talking to said, "Oh! You should talk to so-and-so!" They made the introduction, and now I can pay the bills for a while. 😉😁 Networking is important. I didn't apply for this gig because there was no job listing for it. I networked and found someone who needed what I could do, wrote a professional proposal, and was nice and fair with my pricing. I'm still looking for a full-time role; however, I'm very excited about this role, as the company I am contracting with has a lot of potential. #softwareengineer #network #networking #techjobs

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We are optimizing Meta's Llama 3.3 70B model refresh, which introduces improvements in reasoning, math, general knowledge, instruction following and tool use. Explore the preview now.

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If you're in LA area, checkout AWS Summit Los Angeles on May 22 It'll be worth learning more about the latest AWS AI offerings. What I want to know is how to get more Startup credit from AWS :) my new startup Loocey is going to need a lot of cloud compute as we will integrate Gen AI, along with cloud based DB for each customer of Loocey, hence the need for a lot of cloud credit until Loocey gets funded. Maybe someone from AWS team can reach out or if you know anyone involved with startup credits, comment the name or pm me. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Community Summit #aws #awssummit #awssummitlosangeles #startup #startups https://lnkd.in/gQA-k5qr aws-summit-support@amazon.com

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We know Amazon Q will be featured at re:Invent. So, you need to make sure you’re up to speed on all its potential. Let’s talk about Amazon Q Developer and all its capabilities to help developers work faster than ever before. Our blog post, "Amazon Q Developer: The Future of Builders," discusses: • Beyond code completion: Q Developer enhances the entire SDLC • Legacy code modernization in minutes, not months • Amazon's impressive feat: 4,500 years of dev work condensed • Our CTO's real-world Python migration story: how Q could have streamlined the process Importantly, Q Developer isn't about replacing developers - it's about amplifying their skills and efficiency. Peek into the future of builders: 🔗https://ow.ly/cShg50TFQUV We're also offering a free 60-minute consultation to discuss your specific Q use case with AWS experts. Learn more: 🔗https://ow.ly/uCKp50TFQUW

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When you need your data, you need it all, and you need it now. Legacy pricing models for log management simply can't keep up. Check out Sumo Logic's Flex Pricing Estimate tool to see how you pay for insights not ingest.💰 📈#loganalytics

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For what it's worth, I don't work at AWS, Google etc because less favorable to contractors(I like working with my taxes + finances/can crank out an extra 50-100k on c2c). That being said, if I did work at AWS and it required me to be there 5 days a week(like it does now), I would quit. So there's that. I worked remote before Covid, I'm special/cracked. Especially if people get to work on their own schedule, asynchronously with good tickets. Things go zoom 🏎️ If any of these orgs have a problem with remote teams let me head one of them and I’ll teach you how it’s done. Until next time. Stay cripsy.

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Top 3 things I’m hearing software engineers want… (aside from money & flexibility) 🎯𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 & 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 🎯𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬  🎯𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 If you’re hiring for software folks… A good place to start is highlighting these in job specs. Then as part of your interview process. And once they’re in the door. Put it into practice and your retention will improve. Otherwise I might be speaking to them again 😊 Anything I've missed? #softwareengineer #retention #talentacquisition 

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Has anyone attempted to look at Amazon Q in AWS Console while being on the Free Tier and without utilizing any of the Amazon Q services you start getting charges a month or two later adding up to roughly $100 per month? #AWS #AmazonQ

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- Can't write IAM policy document from scratch - Needs to use AWS web console to provision services or check reports (can't do everything using AWS CLI) - Cannot prove that AWS CDK is turing complete

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Read what I've been up to on my latest blog post at my new position. If you've ever experienced this issue, or were planning to use RDS in AWS Outpost, this article is a must-read! https://lnkd.in/gSG9tjEe #aws #rds #outpost #devops #sre

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I would like to revise my years old statement on when to use the On-Demand pricing model. "Use it until it hurts, then just keep using it until they cut the prices."

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Elastic is committed to contributing Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) features or components upstream into the OTel community. Read more about our portfolio of OTel components, OTel collector, and language SDKs that give SREs and developers improved infrastructure and application monitoring with Elastic Observability: https://gag.gl/orTzUz #Observability #OpenTelemetry

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🚨 Check it out - hot off the press! 📰 Sudeep Das, Pradeep Varma and Ying Yang are all hiring as we continue to scale! 🙏 If you have a passion for Machine Learning and expertise within Deep Learning, Computer Vision and/or NLP domains, let's connect! #experimentation #DoorDash #hiring #machinelearning

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“There’s no jobs for Jr Software Engineers out there!” NOT TRUE…But there are some major issues in today’s hiring market. 1. MISALIGNED FOUNDATIONAL EXPERIENCE: The majority of aspiring SEs are either: Recent CS grads (less hands-on exp); OR, Bootcamp grads (less theory). Meanwhile...Most enterprise companies who hire a ton of SEs are looking for CS grads that ALSO have hands-on experience already. 2. MISALIGNED TECH STACKS: The majority of aspiring SEs are only experienced in NodeJS and/or Python. Meanwhile…Most of the companies who hire a ton of SEs are using Java or C# backends. Companies using NodeJS or Python backends are often smaller and can't hire as many SEs. That’s why our Enterprise Accelerator is making a difference. We identify diverse CS grads who are hungry, and we teach them the hands-on Java skills that companies are using in the real world over 3 months. Best of both worlds 😎 If you're interested in seeing some of this kind of talent--send me a DM and we'll get you connected. Want to join our next Enterprise Accelerator cohort? Stay tuned for the next webinar in early August.

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A few years ago, I wrote a post on Quora about interview process for Principal Engineer role at Amazon. In that post, I shared my own experiences as the recruiter owning that hiring process, as well as tips from other Principal Engineers who had been through the process. Even today, I get weekly emails and messages from senior engineers who saw that post and want to learn more about the Amazon interview. We often end up talking about more than just Amazon. We discuss career development and interview skills in general. I really enjoy those conversations! Since 2017 (when I wrote the Quora post), Amazon has created several helpful resources to prepare candidates for their interviews. Here below are those "official" interview prep materials. I hope you find them useful. Feel free to share them with your friends who are getting ready for job interviews. The Original Quora post: https://lnkd.in/gGVBsJfn Amazon Interview Prep Repo: https://lnkd.in/gnnanGCz Now that you have a starting point, in coming weeks, I plan to write about the "softer skills" that are hard to measure but can really make a difference in interviews. I will expand on those topics. I will breakdown topics like "technical leadership assessment in interviews", authenticity, dealing with ambiguity, "active listening during interview", and other topics. I will write about 'interview preparation' itself! DM, email me on what other 'non-obvious' topics you want me to write about? PS: I'll try to keep my writing practical and broadly applicable, even though my experience is mostly with Amazon. 😀 #interviewing #careeradvise #careergoals #careertransition #interviewpreparation #interviewtips #principalengineer #amazon #amazoninterview

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Every time 10x engineers come up I think of the times I was briefly considered a 10x engineer by management. There are times I have come through and apparently pulled a big, complex solution out of thin air. I say "apparently" because that's what they thought. They didn't see the weeks of preparation and teamwork that went into a sudden, surprising outcome for them. They started expecting miracles every other day or week. This leads to burnout on the developer's part. Managers tend to think that the developer is holding back after this. They refuse to acknowledge the silent work and painstaking little habits that lead to large success. This situation never ends well. If you want 10x engineers it's likely you would not know what to look for, nor would you be able to handle them if you happened to stumble into one.

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🚀 There is too much talk of being a "10x engineer". 10x engineers make a lot of money, usually 1.2x - 2x as much (disproportionate effort to gains tbh), but they're tech nerds who understand computers well but don't understand human nature, especially women, and therefore lose a lot of their money in relationship subsidies and especially divorces later on. The true 10x person is the woman who invests a little in seeing you through some difficult times when you're young in your 20-30s struggling to make it big and then cashes out on you 10-100x in the divorce later on once your stock has risen after years-to-decades of your sacrifices and hard work. 💰 She is the true 10x engineer. She engineered you. #tech #10xengineer #sociology #humannature #feminism #divorce #feministlaw

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