C0D3 Engineering

Intro

This page will document engineering relevant information.

Prerequisites

• JS0-JS6 Completion.
• Unanimous c0d3 engineering team approval: While you are going through JS0 - JS6, make sure you are helping other students, reviewing submissions, and asking questions. This is what we use to evaluate if we want to work with you.

Products

Here are the products that students have built in the past:

• Llip.io - 2017 (Deprecated) - Language learning mobile app. What makes this app different is that instead of flashcards generating static content, it actually generates conjugated words. For example, instead of to run you'll see flashcards showing running or ran. The generation library is also capable of generating sentences.
  • Conjugator Library - used to power conjugation in for different languages.
• C0D3.com - Coding curriculum for students. We use our own curriculum to make sure all our engineers could "speak the same language" when they join the engineering team.
  • C0D3 CLI - CLI for c0d3 challenge submissions
  • C0D3 Curriculum - Contains challenge and tests.

Leadership Principles

We value Amazon's Leadership Principles. Memorize them, they are ordered by priority.

1. Customer Obsession - Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
2. Ownership - Leaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job."
3. Invent and Simplify - Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here." As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.
4. Are Right, A Lot - Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.
5. Learn and Be Curious - Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.
6. Develop the Best - Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others.
7. Insist on the Highest Standards - Leaders have relentlessly high standards — many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and drive their teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
8. Think Big - Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.
9. Bias for Action - Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.
10. Frugality - Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense.
11. Earn Trust - Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.
12. Dive Deep - Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.
13. Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit - Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.
14. Deliver Results - Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.

Think you know these principles? Make sure you have answers to these questions to prove it!