Vikash Agrawal shares his developer journey from startups to Amazon

<p>Vikash Agrawal talks about his developer journey from college to working for startups and then currently working for Amazon.</p> <p>He currently works as a front-end engineer at Amazon. Prior to that he was working as a team lead at Housing.com and engineering lead at Dream &nbsp;11, both of which are prominent startups in India. He also did Google &nbsp;Summer of Code in 2011, 2012, and 2013.</p> <p>We discuss topics such as what made him get into programming, the role of communities and mentors in his life, and how to reach out to approach mentors with questions.</p> <p>We also discuss about resources that he uses to keep himself updated about the latest know-how's of the development world and how he approaches depth vs breadth when consuming content as well as his approach to generalization vs specialization in general and how it varies according to the stage of the career that a developer is in.</p> <p>Vikash also shares his experiences working at startups and compares them to his corporate experience at Amazon. And we touch a bit more on &nbsp;Amazon's leadership principles and their importance.</p> <p>Discord server link: https://discord.gg/cE7q4qr8tY</p> <p>0:00 Intro</p> <p>1:01 About Vikash</p> <p>2:01 Motivations to get into Programming?</p> <p>6:36 Factors that led to success</p> <p>9:35 Role of mentors</p> <p>12:28 How to approach mentors</p> <p>15:14 Resources you consume for learning</p> <p>19:18 Breadth vs depth when learning</p> <p>23:00 Experience working at startups vs corporate</p> <p>27:33 Amazon's leadership principles</p> <p>31:04 Move fast and break things vs perfection</p>