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Working at Amazon is an extremely intense and consuming experience, but it is also a unique opportunity to learn how to operate software at the highest scale. While there I suggest you focus on learning as much from your day job as possible and do not obsess about your potential side projects in the interim.

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That's definitely a reasonable way of looking at it. I expect that if I enjoy the work and am absorbed in it as much as I'd expect probably wouldn't work on new side projects that much, but I do already have existing open source projects and side projects, and I'm worried about that.

I was able to negotiate a blanket exception for existing projects. They are open to it.

Feel free to email me if you want to chat more about my own experiences on AWS

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