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Mid To Staff Engineer In Two Years By Job Hopping

How an SDE-II at Amazon got two promotions by hopping jobs in just two years.

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Steve Huynh
Oct 30, 2024
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This week we’ve got a special treat. Kevin, a former colleague of mine, is going to go over his journey from mid-level SDE at Amazon to staff engineer through a series of job hops, and in the process nearly tripled his salary. His story is insanely valuable to anybody that may be in a similar situation.

Over to Kevin.

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