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Anyone have experience working CWX side of Facebook (Meta) ? These are the full time contract roles that potentially turn into permanent roles directly with Facebook (Meta). Had a recruiter reach out and offering me comparable TC and such, just curious if anyone has experience in these roles and success/failure of transitioning into permanent role. Thanks in advance!
So I've had 2 hiring managers and several recruiters from Amazon reach out to me about applying for some open positions with the company (android). I completed the coding assessment and now they want me to go through a round of 5 hour interviews next week. Is there a good chance I'll be hired if engineering managers are reaching out to me? I'm really not sure how badly I want to work for them and I don't want to be laid off months after being hired on. Anyone know what Amazon hiring is like?
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I'm not entirely subscribing to the doom and gloom position, but I'm worried about the path ahead. What sticks in my mind was the NY Times story in the fall about AI augmenting work at Amazon. There was a quote about how the coders feel they're now treated as badly as the warehouse workers. That's pretty memorable, and it does make you wonder if AI augmentation will really turn things upside down for a lot of people.
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I’ll check out the article thanks for the plug. I think there will certainly be more output expected in those roles but hopefully they’re equipped to use the tools to deliver
If the majority of software engineers' days are numbered, then so are the managers, directors, most of the way up the tree.
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You have a point there
I’m right there with you! I’ve told the same thing to my friends who are panicking about whether we’ll have jobs in the future. I don’t worry about it one bit.
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Glad I’m not alone!! Easy living all the way 👐🏼
And yet there's the whole MIT research paper on how 95% of all enterprise AI projects fail.
Sure that leaves 5% working, and maybe those 5% are really good at everything? Or maybe enterprise is going about AI all wrong?
It could be a mix of all of the or none of them.
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I’m wondering how that applies here. AI adoption is everywhere and it’s wildly successful
Yeah, I just had the company-approved AI assistant assure me that my certificate that expires daily has almost two years left. I had to tell it the date and ask if it knows what year it is. I'm not too worried.
I think we're going to lose that entry-level ladder rung, though. Generative AI is excellent at translating between programming languages, writing tests, and other things that were standard first tasks for newbies.
I work in a niche area that has poor, often incorrect documentation if there is any. There's not much on internet forums on it either. I get some help from AI, but it's very often that I get some wild hallucinations, as tends to happen when the assistant doesn't actually have the information it needs. I use company approved AI assistants that are set up to not train on the data I provide, so no one else benefits when I find a novel solution. These kinds of roles will probably be safe for a while.
I don't know what we're going to do about the junior->senior pipeline. I suspect leadership is banking on seniors doing all the work until they can be replaced too, but I don't see that happening large-scale.
That said, I'm living well below my means so I can retire early if I need to. That has more to do with Quality Assurance's observation and that it may become an industry I no longer want to work in.
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I’m definitely worried about the entry level roles as well but I’m sure they will come in as prompt engineers and training programs will be created to skill them that way. That last paragraph is totally me as well. But we’re only saving 25% after taxes because we live in a HCOL area.