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Carlos Arguelles

On Launching versus Landing

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Dec 28, 2024

On Launching versus Landing

Dec 28, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 3

Thoughts on boomeranging back to Amazon after working at Google. → Part 1 | Part 2 ←

Sep 5, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 3

Sep 5, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 2

Thoughts on boomeranging back to Amazon after working at Google. → Part 1 | Part 3 ←

Aug 7, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 2

Aug 7, 2024

How Amazon and Google view CI/CD in an entirely different way

To Pre- or to Post-, that is the Question

Jul 9, 2024

How Amazon and Google view CI/CD in an entirely different way

Jul 9, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 1

Thoughts on boomeranging back to Amazon after working at Google → Part 2 | Part 3 ←

Jun 30, 2024

How I went from Amazon, to Google, back to Amazon, Part 1

Jun 30, 2024

Career Growth explained as an Amazon Leadership Principle Flywheel

My mental model for mentoring others

May 16, 2024

Career Growth explained as an Amazon Leadership Principle Flywheel

May 16, 2024

Injecting Customer Obsession into a foreign culture

Driving culture change can take many steps, and sometimes a detour or two

Apr 28, 2024

Injecting Customer Obsession into a foreign culture

Apr 28, 2024

How telemetry helped me understand complex human behavior

Tracing my Customers’ Onboarding Journey

Apr 14, 2024

How telemetry helped me understand complex human behavior

Apr 14, 2024

How 3 Big Tech Companies Hire

The subtle little differences in hiring practices at Google, Amazon and Microsoft that make a big difference

Apr 7, 2024

How 3 Big Tech Companies Hire

Apr 7, 2024

The Journey of Rediscovering Myself

The backstory of a little statue with a big message

Mar 30, 2024

The Journey of Rediscovering Myself

Mar 30, 2024

How a few dedicated Amazonians saved Christmas

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Jan 13, 2024

How a few dedicated Amazonians saved Christmas

Jan 13, 2024

My favorite coding question to give candidates

A coding question, from the viewpoint of an Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviewer

Nov 12, 2023

My favorite coding question to give candidates

Nov 12, 2023

How I scaled Amazon’s Load Generator to run on 1000s of machines

Moving from a single-host process to a distributed system

Oct 21, 2023

How I scaled Amazon’s Load Generator to run on 1000s of machines

Oct 21, 2023

Beware of the Big Tech “Bubble”

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Oct 7, 2023

Beware of the Big Tech “Bubble”

Oct 7, 2023

Deduplicating software bugs with Machine Learning at Google

How a little problem became a multimillion dollar problem at Google scale

Aug 22, 2023

Deduplicating software bugs with Machine Learning at Google

Aug 22, 2023

How we use hermetic, ephemeral test environments at Google to reduce flakiness

The complexity behind eradicating test flakiness, Part 2

Aug 5, 2023

How we use hermetic, ephemeral test environments at Google to reduce flakiness

Aug 5, 2023

When sharks chew on network cables at Google

The complexity behind eradicating test flakiness

Jul 22, 2023

When sharks chew on network cables at Google

Jul 22, 2023

50 articles, 100k reads, 15k readers

The backstory of how I started and grew this blog, and what I learned in the process

Jun 11, 2023

50 articles, 100k reads, 15k readers

Jun 11, 2023

The “Coke Paradigm”

Are your customers coming to you, or are you coming to your customers?

May 20, 2023

The “Coke Paradigm”

May 20, 2023

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Blood, grit, sweat, tears and quiet leadership

What I learned about humility, perseverance and subtle influence from a shy man that inspired the world

Feb 25, 2023

Blood, grit, sweat, tears and quiet leadership

Feb 25, 2023

Carlos Arguelles

Carlos Arguelles

Hi! I'm a Senior Principal Engineer (L8) at Amazon. In the last 26 years, I've worked at Google and Microsoft as well.

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