I’ve felt the same way for 25 years. I haven’t programmed as a hobbyist since graduating from college in 1996.
BTW, I would never want to be an SDE at Amazon. I don’t do on call. I work in consulting. We are told that we are “in charge of our own calendar”. Meaning that if we are putting in more than 40 hours regularly, we aren’t managing our projects correctly.
On a day to day basis, my actual manager only has a high level idea of what I’m working on. We as consultants guide our project implementations.
