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Hackshed

Don't worry about the formal education side of things. Once you start working at Amazon, you'll be surrounded by people who will encourage you.

The main thing to remember is to ask the questions when you're stuck. If you don't understand the answer, just say so and have the answer worded differently until you grasp it fully.

You won't be thrown into the deep end. You'll spend several weeks learning the "Amazon" way of doing things so you can use this time to absorb as much information as you can.

My final tip is to start building your network within Amazon as soon as possible.
Get to know plenty of other SDEs and stay in touch regularly. Especially at first, everything will seem complicated but everyone else there has been through the same thing.

I hope this helps