u/coldoil

Than Palestrina's? You're dreaming, dude.

Obviously that's subjective, but irrespective of whether you think that or not, Lassus was not nearly as revered a figure as Palestrina.

Lassus also does not answer the OP's question of "earliest", since Palestrina was born earlier.

Bah, he's over-rated

Yet there must have been a period in at least the 19th century in which Tallis and Byrd fell out of favour, because R R Terry famously had to "revive" the music of both composers at Westminster Cathedral in the early 20th century.

The earliest composer I can think of who has never needed a "revival" is Palestrina.

I don't believe Orfeo and the Vespers received much performance attention in the 18th and 19th centuries. Both have experienced a revival since the 1960s, but I don't think they could be considered part of the "standard repertoire" in the two centuries before that.

The Cappella Sistina has been singing Palestrina for more than 50 years longer than Allegri. And I don't think a one-hit wonder that wasn't officially released in score until the 19th century is necessarily the answer OP was looking for. (Allegri did write other music, but virtually none of it is standard repertoire.)

Palestrina is the obvious answer. His music has consistently been performed in catholic churches for nearly five centuries, his music was studied by Bach, Mozart, Handel, Wagner, and many others, and his approach to counterpoint was formalized in Gradus ad Parnassum and as such has been the basis of formal teaching of species counterpoint for hundreds of years.

There was never a point at which the music of Palestrina had to be "rediscovered".

The contracts between AWS and the region sponsor will cover operational parity issues like this. 60 day parity with commercial is typical.

It appears to be repeated fragments stitched together, rather like wallpaper or wrapping paper. I don't believe it is a single coherent piece. However the fragment that is visible is very reminiscent of one of the Fugues on the Magnificat by Johann Pachelbel.

That feels like a classic trick question. They may have been looking for an answer along the lines of none - passwords should never be stored, only hashes.

I feel I should be an SDE II at this point in my career

Why? In what ways do you feel you are already demonstrating SDE II leadership?

and I don’t have clear signs from my manager

It is not your manager's responsibility to get you promoted, it's yours. Talk to your manager in your next 1:1 and be direct - "am I operating at an SDE II level, what gaps are there that I need to work on in order to be ready for promotion", etc. If promotion is your goal then you need to drive that goal, not wait for others to do it for you.

It'll probably be because the stock price at grant was (historically) high. I received nearly 1k when I joined in 2023, but the stock price was much lower then. So I suspect, as others in this thread have suggested, that the number of RSUs is based on overall total cash value. As such, your TCO will be broadly in line with other SDE2s.

You'll only be missing out if the stock price goes down from where it currently is.

The vest rates look normal.

Also, how much room is there generally to negotiate

Honestly, I wouldn't be looking to play games in the current market.

Answers from an SDE II currently based in London:

Are SDE IIs expected to be highly independent from day one?

As an external hire, no, you will not be expected to be immediately independent; there will be an onboarding process lasting anywhere from 1 - 3 months depending on your team and your skill level.

• How much ramp-up time is normally given to understand the codebase and internal systems?

1 - 3 months, as mentioned above. I would guess depending on the team there would be some latitude on this, but after 6 months you would be expected to be broadly familiar with the tooling, if not necessarily every single detail. You would also be expected to enter the on-call rotation for your team around that time, which would necessitate some understanding of the code bases owned by your team.

• Is it realistic to learn AWS, production ownership, monitoring and system design on the job?

Yes.

• How much guidance do new SDE IIs typically receive from senior engineers/tech leads?

During onboarding you will have both a mentor and an onboarding buddy to assist you. After onboarding, you will of course have others in your team who will be happy to answer questions.

• How quickly are you expected to own projects independently?

This will depend highly on the state of the team but I would think between 6 - 9 months. If you were not demonstrating leadership in feature delivery after 12 - 18 months, I would expect there to be conversations.

• Can someone strong in backend development but weaker in end-to-end ownership realistically develop those skills at Amazon?

Yes.

• How common is it to struggle during the first few months?

Quite common. However, the company would not have extended an offer if they didn't think you could handle it.

I have the lightest and smallest mac I can get. If your team is developing on AWS then all your dev work will be on remote dev desktops (so the capabilities of your local device don't matter at all) and lugging a heavy laptop to and from the office every day really got old quickly for me.

Currently on an air 13 inch and it's perfect. I noticed some other comments in this thread saying the small screen size makes working from home harder - I guess they must not have other monitors they can plug into at home?

Right? "American exceptionalism" is the greatest piece of propagandising in history. Complete brain-washing of an entire nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXU2Ob8gYY

Wrong sub

For any other politician, this would be the death knell

What a terrible day to be literate.

Absolutely. Classic Utopia Planitia industrial complex behaviour.

To date it has remained a mystery to me if he wanted to insult me

Because you insulted him (probably by accident, by the sounds of things)

I'm not saying it was right of him to do that, of course, but telling an artist their work is in the bargin bin is one step from telling them it's in the garbage.

it's pretty common to do this in older scores

Do you mean it's common that this was done in older scores, or that it's common to do this in modern editions of older music? Because I disagree that this approach is common in modern editions. Modern editorial practice is very clear: different rhythmic durations in different voices should have separate noteheads and stems, irrespective of the genre or musical period of the source.

That said, if you really want to do it, I'm sure you can using overrides or custom scheme functions.

Well, that's certainly quite a string of utterly subjective, and therefore largely meaningless, sentences. Why did you post it?

"Send in the Sentinels" is genuinely chilling. Absolutely peak fascistic propaganda.

I have a soft spot for Vaughn Williams Symphonia Antarctica