Learnings From Amazon
- Do more regular code reviews - this can be done by creating much smaller checkpoints, and doing test-driven development - as soon as you have a basic skeleton created for some work, create a couple tests for it, and immediately it’s ready for some review.
- Part of the mistake I made is assigning very vague project checkpoints (just “working on lambda” for 2 weeks). This made it very easy to just be like “oh I’ll work on lambda for 2 weeks, and push it out at the end”, rather than reinforcing more regular code reviews.
- This code review thing has come up in Theorem too! This is something I absolutely need to get better at!
- Something that Sachin mentioned - customer obsession and results are the 2 foremost leadership principles for a reason.
- There are two important things - will and skill
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