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- google cloud vs amazon alexa I have two offers as title said. Let's say pay is in similar range. Google pays little more. Which one would you join? I will do ML/AI related work in amazon alexa team. I will do regular backend work (apis, supports, etc) in Google cloud.
- Amazon Sr SDE or Oracle Principal OCI vs Alexa, Same TC Recommendations?
- Is OCI good for ML? I have been seeing posts about ML Applied Scientist positions in OCI. I am currently at Alexa, in a group I like but few growth prospects (a lot of people fighting for few promotions). Is OCI good? How is the stability and compensation compared to Amazon? #oracle #alexa #oci
- vote Amazon Alexa International Team? YOE: 4 Current: 30B + 3 Amazon: Role - SDE2, Team is working on "creating next-gen voice experiences for Alexa", I remember this from the interview with the manager Amazon TC will be received in 1-2 days (Negotiating based on my below offer) ( won't be accepting if TC < OCI, asked for marginal i
- Next decade goes to Amazon Over last decades ... Microsoft led Personal Computing ... Google led Web Computing ... Apple led Mobile Computing ... Now Amazon with Cloud computing, customer obsession and Alexa devices will lead the transition to Intelligent Computing. Can't wait to see how Amazon will change my lifestyle in
- Amazon vs Microsoft I have offers from Alexa skills team (tc 160k+) and Microsoft cloud services (150k+). Which option is better for new grad to relaunch the career (have 2+ years of work experience back in India)?
- If Amazon is such a bad place for Engineers, how come they are so insanely successful?? Amazon has had a lot of success in online retail, cloud (AWS), Alexa etc etc. In fact Amazon Engineering is top notch. How come they are able to build such great products if the engineering culture is so bad ? Help me understand the paradox, please.
- Which Amazon team to interview for Hi, I have a lot of Amazon teams approaching me for interviews. Alexa, Ring, AppStream, Platform,Intelligent Cloud Control, Kuiper. Can you guys please shed some light on these respective teams and which team has best work life balance. Thanks Current TC - 140k #tech #amazon #interview #SDE #softw
- vote Amazon vc OCI, does AMZ brand matter? TC: 30B + 3 YOE: 4.3 Oracle OCI offer: 40B + 6JB (1st yr) + 6 JB(2nd yr) + 19.5L RSU/year (Security Team -Vulerability Scanning Service) Amazon SE2: 38B + 22JB(1st year) + 14JB (2nd year) + 17 units (Alexa International Team) Amazon's offer is like 8% lower than OCI. I have been with Indian startu
- Google home/assistant teams I am in Alexa and looking to move to Google. I heard that google home devices are now under Google Nest but what about cloud side of the teams? Are they also under Google Nest? TC- $350k #tech #google
- vote amazon vs splunk entry level Asking for a friend to evaluate the following offers. Both roles are for entry levels. Amazon is under Alexa, Splunk is under Splunk Cloud. Which one is better in terms of career growth? They both have similar tc. Any help is more than welcome. Thanks.
- vote Oracle OCI SMTS or Amazon SDE2 I've got offers from both the companies. The compensation is comparable. What are the pros and cons of both. How to decide which one to choose? Amazon team is Alexa(I can change this, haven't accepted), Oracle it's some infrastructure team. Current TC: 🥜🥜 New TC ~ $260k Bay Area #oci #amazon #
- vote Which is the most valuable stock to invest among FMAG? I would vote for Amazon because they have no competitors in their core businesses(Retail&Cloud),and Amazon delivered so many great businesses in other areas in last few decades, like Kindle、Alexa &Go Store. Google is also smart and monopoly, but I think Google is too smart to deliver a good product
- Amazon SDE3 Vancouver. Please help selecting the team Hello, I just cleared Amazon SDE 3 interviews for Vancouver, and the next step is team selection. The recruiter has sent below list: Alexa, AWS, Cloud, Transport & Logistics, Consumer & Retail, Payments, Kinesis Data Streaming. Please help me selecting the team? which team will be the best to start
- vote Twilio vs Amazon Have offers from both of them. From work, manager, and team perspective Twilio is exciting but Amazon TC is 25% higher than Twilio and no more negotiation with Twilio. Don't know more details about work, manager, the team at Alexa yet. Being early in the career, care more about learning opportunit
- Best / Cheesiest SWE Recruiting Emails Please post your favorite email subject lines and company name if it’s relevant. Creativity counts! Here’s a few I’ve seen (from best to 🧀) — 1/ “Alexa, find me a Software Engineer” 2/ “Whatsapp, {firstname}” 3/ “AWS vs Oracle Cloud // LA Hiring Event // Software Engineers Needed” 4/ “You and you
- Does Facebook have new innovative products? I am tired of constant pings from Facebook recruiters and have been saying no for months. I don’t use FB, am not excited by that product. Am I missing something? Are there teams working on interesting things - something more like a new device, something like Alexa, better story on AR than their cam
- vote No motivation to work I have no motivation to work. My team and project sucks and I have no interest in it. Honestly, I think our usage is also extremely low. I am in AWS. I want to go and try CDO (Retail/Alexa/Ads) over AWS but everyone keeps telling me cloud is future. AWS sucks and half of my time is fighting fire, w
- Inventing and wandering I've been pretty inspired recently by reading Jeff bezos' investment letters. One quote that struck me was that breakthrough innovations like ai assistants or cloud require letting go from the grind and letting your mind wander on things that interest you. No one was asking Alexa or AWS to get built
- OCI COMPENSATION IC-3 Recently got a verbal offer from Oracle OCI. Location : Seattle downtown Base : $150k Stocks : Approx 90k per year [ 6500 vesting across 4 years (25 % at each anniversary) ] Sign on bonus : $ 20k Total TC : 150 + 90 = $240 k No target annual bonus or guaranteed refreshments. 3 Years of work
- vote Introducing FAAAM (FAANG is out) FYI - FAAAM stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft Big papa Microsoft is touching $2T soon. And I'm glad my TC is touching $500k L65+. The great part? I work 30 hrs/week, have zero work stress and get so much time off every month I have friends at Linkedin, who
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- vote Google L4 vs Amazon L6 Offer I have two offers in hand, one for Google @T4 SETI (Cloud) and another for Amazon SDE @L6 (Alexa). Amz offered ~300 stock with ~225 signing. Goog offered ~400 stock with ~50 signing. My concerns are that Goog will not refresh at anywhere near the level of the initial grant and long term comp will
- #AmazonInterviews I believe AWS is the org to be at Amazon. How are the AWS interviews compared to Devices (Alexa), Retail and other orgs? Gave interview for senior dev position in Marketplace, 6 months back. Getting ready to re-interview. Currently, dev in Cloud infra and operations group at Microsoft. Any suggestio
- FAANGs are conquering everything Looking at so many startups laying people off I have come to realize from an buisness point of view FAANGs and Googe/Amazon in particular are basically conquering the world by having so many different revenue streams Amazon is invested in cloud, e-retail, retail(Whole Foods), Alexa, Kindle, Prime T
- Is Amazon worth the hype? I keep getting harassed by Amazon recruiters every week, spamming my inbox and linkedin begging me to apply. I was just wondering how many employees are actually working on high-end technologies at Amazon? I know a lot of folks who work their but they all work in teams like A9, goodreads, etc. Mostl
- Big tech companies don’t know what to do except one Google - invested heavily in G+ to catchup with fb and failed. AI efforts are progressive rather than game changing new area. Self driving car not here yet. Ad business cash cow. Cloud business is catch up aws and azure. Will likely turn out as G+. Android thanks to Schmidt on Apple board. What next
- Why are google interviews so hard? Product wise google has been pretty stagnant. They were late to the party for Alexa like speaker. They are catching up to the cloud. Their messaging strategy seems like an utter mess. They failed at social networking. Why then so much arrogance in their interviews? Why would someone put up with thei
- Is Amazon really that bad to the extent Blinders have been showcasing it here? I think Amazon has a tough WLB and a very Darwinian culture. However, it has pioneered a lot of cool tech. At least it has brought some really awesome innovation to scale. E-commerce at a gargantuan scale to pretty much sell everything and anything, Prime delivery and Prime business model, Cloud/AWS
- Quit Amazon Now. After 5 years and 6 months, goodbye to the company which doesn't appreciate talent. Oct 2015 - Alexa team as L4. Built things from scratch and handled oncall like a senior engineer. March 2016 - HV1 (Manager said he fought for TT) March 2017 - TT and Got promoted to L5. March 2018 - TT, March 2019
- SCOT team at Amazon? Is the SCOT team (Supply Chain Optimization Technologies) team good at Amazon? Got an offer from there (SDE), but it seems a step down in all aspects (63 -> L5, TC goes down, Azure -> SCOT). The only reasons I am considering? 1. Not happy with current manager. Have made a lot of noise about that
- Amazon Alexa SDE2 vs Google Eng Prod SWE1 Hey all! The top offers I have are from Amazon Alexa (L5 - SDE I) and Google Cloud Engineering Productivity (L3 - SWE I) in Seattle. I have 3.5 YOE. The compensation is about the same for both roles (250k per year + benefits). I'm really confused about which to pick coz I like Google culture better
- link Catalog of FAANG interview information Hey Blind, I'm currently interviewing for SWE positions at several companies and periodically read Rooftop Slushie to help with my interviews. I made a reading list and I picked out some posts that were helpful for me which I organized by company. There aren't tons of posts about SWE for every comp
- Google vs Amazon Alexa AI vs Uber Freight vs Microsoft Got offers from those 4 companies. Advice needed. PhD 2.5 yoe with some ML background. Google L4, MTV, still matching the team. Potential teams Google ads infra, cloud data center supply chain optimization, still exploring more. Amazon Alexa AI, Boston, Applied Scientist L4 (interviewing for L5,
- vote SWE Offer selection - Google vs FB vs Amazon I have these three offers (final offers) as an L4 / E4 Software Engineer generalist in Bay Area. Looking for some advice with picking one not just based on TC but in terms of - * High growth. (I've been a bit complacent recently). * SWE to MLE transition, opportunities to work on ML starting as a SW
- vote PM (India): 6 months, 26 applications, 10 rejections, 4 offers (Poll) Yes, 26 applications :) I was literally on a hunt for the right PM job in the last 6 months. Applied to all the vacancies in good companies that I know. [To be honest, In my mind, Microsoft and Google are the targets but planned to use other companies as interview practice because this is 1st time I
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch
- vote Do you trust Wealthfront retirement projections? I was planning retirement at 55 but Wealthfront says I'll have more than enough at 50 which is only 7 years away for me. I'm leaning toward rest and vest at this point because I'm running out of funks to give! Do you trust Wealthfront?
- Expected TC change after potential Biden’s presidency? So basic economic theory says that if the government raises the tax on some goods, the price will rise and how much it’ll rise would depend on the elasticity of the supply&demand curve (which side is more sensitive to the price change). Given that, do you think TC of overall tech companies will ris
- link What websites do people use to find jobs in India? Monster.com?
- Part Time Degrees worth pursuing I have a BS, MS (in Computer Science), MBA - all from top schools in the US. I currently do Product Management which gives me the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and business - and I really like the job! I have found that both my advanced degrees (MS and MBA) were a great way
- Elon's Presidential Vote Given his strong support for re-opening the country, we know who he's voting for, right? For... the raise ur hand all the damn time student..., no I'm not looking for a poll, opinions only. Data and logic are not allowed in this response. Simply opinions based on nothing but how you FEEL. TC: $1