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- 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
- L5 Non tech Program Manager TC Amazon Will be moving to Alexa International team as L5 non-tech Program, being internally transfer in Amazon. Any idea what to expect for TC in this role/team? #tech #amazon #amazonaws #alexa #pmg
- Any Alexa teams hiring new grads still? I would love to get in touch if any Alexa teams are still hiring or if you could tip me off to the ones who are. I’m a former intern joining Amazon full time.
- Hiring SDE 1 and 2s for Alexa I have openings for SDE1 and 2s for a core customer facing project in Amazon Alexa in Seattle. PM me if you are interested. SDE 1s are internal only #alexa #SDE #jobs
- Uber to Amazon I am expecting an L5 offer from amazon alexa team at sunnyvale. Is moving from uber to amazon step forward? How is work culture in alexa team, sunnyvale? How easy is it to do internal transfer? Do I need to go thru the interview loop again?
- Hiring Software Development Engineers - Amazon I am hiring for SDE1, 2 positions in my team. Please PM me if interested. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS · 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience · Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design · 1+ years o
- Good NLP work places? Im a Machine learning engineer intern in the Apple Siri team and Im looking for good NLP full time jobs. Im considering Alexa, and Google. What other companies I shuld be looking at? Background: Master’s in CS at top 10 school. No publications, but have good research experience at college (with Pro
- Alexa teams at Amazon What are some good Alexa teams that are hiring right now? And what are some that I should avoid at all costs? I got a full time offer after my internship and i get to choose the team. If anybody wants to chat via pm please let me know!
- What’s the process of Internal Transfers in Amazon? Why they say it’s easy? Just curious if someone wants to move to Alexa or Aws do they apply online? Or through an internal site
- Alexa AI higher Band than Aamzon Does Alexa have a different band in Palo Alto. My friend who interned there and got a return offer was offered 250k returning new grad offer, he was a masters from CMU. He had 0yoe.
- 5 years at Amazon. AMA I survived 5 years. Two promotions (Financial analyst intern, Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Manager 2). 6 managers. 3 teams. Teams: Amazon Prime Now Amazon Marketplace Alexa Shopping TC went from 76k to 205k in 5 years. Learned a ton. Launched really cool project. Amazon made me a su
- Amazon on site 1. Tips for Amazon on site 2. What they look for L5? Wanna aim L5 or high L4 3. The on site request questionnaire asks for salary expectations. What should I put? 4. How is Alexa Shopping Team? 2 internships, 1 full year co-op with university Full time YOE - 1 year TC: 180K (gonna be promoted soon
- vote When is it ok to start applying? Hi, hypothetically if you just started when should you plan to either Transfer internally or externally in an area of your passion. Example I am interested in growing in AR VRs or Devices like Alexa/Echo. YOE 7 TC 325K
- vote Lab Acquired by IBM. What to do? Research lab got acquired by IBM. They're offering the same same base compensation, but worse vacation and it seems that IBM stock is worse long term. Along with bonuses conditional on working for 2 years, the TC is about the same. I've had Alexa AI recruiters reach out about career opportunities, b
- vote Product vs Infra engineering Alexa vs AWS? Planning for internal move. I am currently in AWS and I build server less services. Thinking should I try product engineering and build B2C features for Alexa or stick to infra and try something within AWS like containers? What is good in long term career growth? I want to explore a
- Alexa Devices team in SJC Any idea about how the team is? Under Tapas Roy? I am planning to apply for internal SDET-2 opportunity with Alexa Home Automation, curious about WLB/OnCall Load/Promo opportunity.
- Data Scientist Phone Screen - Amazon Alexa Shopping I have a phone screen for Data Science role (L4) with Alexa shopping team. I wanted to know if I could expect coding questions as well ? Recruiter mentioned it would be scripting based questions, however I see some posts mentioning LC (easy-medium) coding questions in phone screen as well (mostly fo
- Amazon L6 PMT offer negotiation Got offers for L6 PMT (L7 scoped) positions. It is an internal transfer from a non tech position. What is mid-high range TC for L6 PMT in AWS/Alexa orgs? Current TC: $240k #offers #negotiation #amazon
- Need help of am amazon employee Can someone from internal amzon blind check about the culture and WLB of alexa experience team in bangalore. Joining there next month. Need some clarity. Thanks in Advance #engineering #software #swe. YOE-1 TC-15 LPA
- [India] How is Last Mile Delivery team in Walmart I have an offer from this team. Can someone please share what they know about this team. I want to know about the wlb and growth aspects. I have two more offers and have declined amazon alexa offer. #tech #walmart #walmart-idc
- Amazon Bay Area teams What are the teams working on ML at Amazon in Bay Area offices? I have received an offer from Alexa AI in Seattle but chose Alexa Shopping List in Bay Area to stay here in Bay Area for personal reasons. Alexa shopping list is working on Software Development. I don’t know how good the team is. How
- Amazon WW Ads vs Alexa which of these two orgs has better wlb? both teams are in seattle for me. how easy is it to switch internally in amazon? Im not getting any interviews from amazon retail but getting hit up by recruiters from ads and alexa, but i want to work for retail because of that wlb. how easy is it to switch
- vote Amazon Alexa Shopping Team I got an offer from Amazon recently and was wondering if anyone here has any details about this team? My understanding is that this is more Retail than Alexa. Are on call responsibilities much worse than others? Team politics? Anything else worth noting? Update: Seems like most people agree its no
- Referrals - Need to run from toxic management. PM/Product Analyst. Beautiful people, I am in need of referrals so I can leave my current toxic pseudo-boss who attempts to humiliate me each time we're alone. Worked as a data engineer, research intern, data scientist and most recently as PM on a proof-of-concept product. All of those in transportation. Thank you a
- vote Should i take return offer or not Hi, I interned at amazon this past summer and am fortunate enough to have gotten a return offer for another internship (im a rising 3rd year). That being said, ive been researching whether or not i should look around or take the return offer. I have until october 1 to decide and just some context,
- vote Bloomberg vs. Amazon Offers for both. New grad. Total comp is $145 first year at both not including relocation (extra $10k). Standard Amazon return Internship offer. Not spectacular but I don’t think I can do better. Know my team at Amazon doing ML prediction infrastructure in Alexa. Do not know my team at Bloomberg an
- link Anyone else's company internal website ugly? Amazon is not known for its designs. Whether you look at Kindle, amazon.com retail website, Ring, Alexa, etc., none of them make you think, "wow they really took care to make these things look nice." They're passable at best. Well, the internal sites are even uglier. To some extent, FB also has a
- vote Google 🇮🇳v/s Amazon 🇬🇧 Still confused I still so much confused between Google and Amazon offer, not able to decide at all. Google India offer TC: 60L ( L4 can negotiate more) Amazon UK offer: 115K£ ( L5 cannot negotiate unless show competing offer ) Amazon dept is more high tech like hardware devices such as fire tv, alexa etc. ( not
- Switch to SDE role from CSE while PERM is pending Amazon I’m currently working as a CSE at AWS. I got an internal SDE position under Amazon Alexa. Right now my PERM is in process under CSE role. Can I switch to my new SDE role now? If I switch to a new SDE role, do the immigration team withdraws my PERM application? #perm #i140 #I-140 #greencard #tech #a
- 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
- Good org in Amazon with good WLB? I'm a L5 SDE in Alexa. I'm not enjoying my work. The requirements keep on changing. I've worked on 3 different designs in 2021 only but none of those went to implementation due to constantly changing requirements. Also SDE retention is poor, so struggling to get work support as well. Thinking of an
- Should we take a suboptimal position just to get into a FAANG? Hi gang, I have been applying for a long time now at FAANG companies across the US and Canada, but still only had 2 interviews. I think it's partly because I live in Canada and don't have FAANG experience on my resume. I am happy to report that I do have an offer with Amazon as a Sr. PMT, but it'
- 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
- Offer evaluation Microsoft l61, Google L3 and Amazon SDE2 One of my friend is doing master's and got offers from google, ms and amazon. He had 2 years work ex in ml prior to master's in a unicorn outside US. He needs help making a decision. He is interested in working on ml. Amazon Sunnyvale - SDE 2 Alexa ai - nlp + software engineering work Microsoft
- Google Offer at Pittsburgh Hi, Need some advice. I have an offer from Google for L4 SW/ML roles but its in Pittsburgh. I also have an offer from Alexa Amazon @L5 in Boston. I am confused between the two. Any advice on WLB, Compensation, etc? I am not sure about Pittsburgh as my location though. I would prefer MTV or NYC. Is
- Amazon location change - possible? I have a verbal offer from Amazon Alexa team in Seattle and considering joining (SDE 2). Has anyone successfully changed locations before accepting an offer? I am from Texas, and would like to stay close to family if at all possible. I know Amazon has a big engineering presence in Austin. Also, wit
- Google L3 vs Amazon L5 First of all, thank you all for creating such an awesome community! From the last few weeks, I have been spending more time on Blind than on any other social sites :) About me: I am currently pursuing MS CS in one of the top US universities and will be graduating soon. This summer I interned at Goo
- vote Please help me choose: Microsoft vs Amazon Microsoft TC: 320k (excluding 15% bonus and refreshers) Location: Bay Area Team: Yammer Level 63 Base: 185k sign on bonus: 100k over 2 years Stocks: 300k over 4 years Bonus: 0 -30% (considering 15%) Refreshers - 30k/year (No idea about vesting period) Amazon TC: 260k Location: Sunnyvale Team: Alex
- 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
- vote Amazon Alexa Smart Home vs VMware-Propel offer Hi! I am currently doing my Masters in the US, graduating in Dec-2020. I got an offer (SDE-1) from Alexa Smart Home team and another one from VMware-Propel program for MTS-2 (Propel program is one where you work in two different BUs in the first year and then finally decide on which team you want t
- AWS to Alexa I didn't wanted to make the move and Blind and everyone says AWS! AWS! But I am frustrated in AWS with the ops hell, I got 25 sev-2s so far and on-call is not over. I tried looking for internal teams and most of the people's CRs are alarm threshold, region expansion, all those garbage work. Other t
- Hiring SDE2 in Vancouver I need to hire one strong SDE2 to join my team in Alexa Vancouver. My manager told me to directly send messages to random people in Slack to ask them to transfer to my team. I do not feel that is the right thing to do, any other advices how to find internal transfer candidates quickly? I created a p
- Alexa AI (intelligent decisions team) vs. Google applicatons engineer vs Micorosft cosine . Which one you would take ? Assume both base pay and sign on bonus are same. Though the job as AE is less sexy, I feel Google brand is good and I can learn a lot by going through their mono repo, let it be their internal review tool or NLP or ML projects. 0) If I contribute to other team projects during weekends , can I becom
- vote Does it make sense to breakdown giant tech companies strickly from the point of view of consumer?? For example: 1. Will consumer/advertisers benefits more when we have Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc etc as different companies and compete with each other?? User can switch platform if they don't like the policy and operations of one company.. 2. Can AWS serve their customer better if they are
- Offer choice, Research Scientist, FB or Amazon? Hi all, I am a fresh grad PhD(0 YOE) in Machine Learning and I want to seek some advice on two offers I received recently. I interned at FB(that's why I have this account) and got a return full time offer, I also received a full time offer from Amazon, both have the title of Research Scientist. Com
- Google to Amazon? I’ve seen a lot of Amazon > Google but not much the other way. I saw Amazon has an office in Santa Barbara, and am considering applying for a role there as I love SB. Google has an office there as well, but not for SWEs. Anyone care to chime in that’s made the switch either way? I’m unhappy with
- Is it bad to interview for 2+ roles at the same time with Amazon? Hi gang, I have two interviews coming up with Amazon. The recruiters seem to be a little miffed that I am interviewing for more than one role. However, there are SO many jobs in Amazon and the rejection rate so high (so I hear).. that I have to apply for a lot of jobs at once. So two questions:
- Help with Amazon relocation Hi all! My fiancé is going to be joining Amazon Connect team in Seattle as SDE1 very soon. But our families are over here in California and we're getting married soon as well, so he was hoping to stay in bay area itself. If you are a hiring manager or you know anyone who's looking to fill SDE pos
- Amazon Burnout? Over 6 yrs as a Product Manager-Tech at Amazon UK and over the last 18 months I have been feeling I'm here only because of TC now. Not many interesting internal teams to move around, compared to the US, and a couple of orgs like Video and Alexa that do not have good reviews. I got my fair share of s
- How to join DeepMind I am a go player, and ever since watching the match between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo three years ago I've been yearning to join DeepMind. Wondering what steps I'll need to take to fulfill this goal. Currently I am SDE II at Amazon with 5 yoe, working on a mobile app for them. I know this is pretty fa