How can I learn technical things faster?

• Coding must be learned by doing, so focus blocks are crucial. Minimize your meeting load and stack them on certain days, so you can have long stretches of time where you get into a flow state.
• If applicable to your stack, you can "hack" technical learning by building relevant projects using your stack. Since I worked on consumer product with Android, this was very easy for me to do.
• Leverage your peers very aggressively to understand the codebase. Don't be afraid to schedule 1:1s just to deep dive into code and push your peers to really expand their feedback on your code reviews, so you 100% understand the technical ideas behind it.
• The SDE 2 -> SDE 3 promotion is also notoriously difficult at Amazon, so I recommend building up a strong relationship with your manager and charting a clear growth plan to that senior level. For that, check out these 2 masterclasses:
  • How To Get Promoted Faster In Tech
  • How To Navigate Your Performance Review In Tech

Here's a bunch more resources on how to pick up a new tech stack and learn to code faster:

• "How can I write great code faster?"
• "What’s the most effective way to switch domains in tech?"
• "How can I become more independent and better at unblocking myself with tricky technical issues?"