Archive for the ‘amazon’ Category
Friday, June 6th, 2008
I've never felt like this about a job.
I'm confused, frustrated, and my head hurts from banging against the brick wall of our build system... and yet I'm having a blast. Not just with the work (there was plenty of cool work at Amazon over the year I was there) ...
Posted in amazon, summer 08, vmware | Comments Off on The Job
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I've been through three first weeks with various companies (Proficient, Amazon, and now VMware) so the experience of joining a new workplace has become somewhat old hat[0]. I've found, in my vast experience[1], that the first week (or so) does a lot to set the tone of my tenure ...
Posted in amazon, navel gazing, procrastination, random, summer 08, vmware | Comments Off on Reflections on the onboarding experience