What FAANG Engineers Actually Do in Their First 90 Days

Episode 24 of The Tech Career Podcast breaks down the real onboarding experience at FAANG companies in 2026. Lucas and Luna trace a typical first 90 days for a new software engineer at Amazon, from reading internal codebases to shipping their first feature. They discuss why your first project is often your hardest, how to navigate team documentation that was last updated three years ago, and why building a reputation for asking good questions beats coding fast in the first quarter. The hosts also share the single metric Amazon uses to evaluate new hires at day 90 — and why most engineers miss it. Specific case: an SDE-2 at Amazon's AWS S3 team in Q2 2026. Listeners will learn the five things a new FAANG engineer should do in week one, the right way to ask for help without looking incompetent, and how to turn your first 90-day review into a promotion track. #FAANG #Amazon #AWS #S3 #Onboarding #NewHire #SDE #Engineering #TechCareer #First90Days #CareerAdvice #SoftwareEngineering #CodeReview #Mentorship #RampUp #TechJobs #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo