How is the work culture? Is Alexa team overworked office team underworked? How is the work life balance? ( I mean working hours and working on weekends)
Anyone have experience interviewing for them? What was the interview like? Also what is team culture/wlb like?
I have been reading in blind that Alexa Shopping is one of the worst orgs in Alexa. A recruiter reached out for a potential role with the org in their PA office. Any insights?
Please share the TC you were offered in the recent past for L5 at Amazon Seattle office - Alexa Org.
Which team would be better to join? Amazon Prime Video in Santa Monica or Amazon Alexa in Irvine? - Career growth? - WLB/Team culture? - Office? - Tech Stacks? Got an offer as a SDE1 and request SoCal role to be close to long term partner in LA. Moving from Sydney, Australia.
Anyone working in Alexa team in EU office, i.e. site in Gdansk or Cambridge in Alexa Engine or Alexa Data Services team? How is the wlb? Challenging work? Is TC competitive to other FAANGs in Europe ? If it comes to RSU and bonuses - does it work the same as in US offices? (vesting, num of RSUs at i...Read more
Which Amazon team to join in London office. Alexa, Prime or Book repository? I’ve an option to choose one of these team.
I interact with 3 smart assistants on a day-to-day basis - Google on my phone (search, weather, time, send a message, place a call, etc), Cortana on my work laptop (it's integrated well into office products and email), and Alexa Echo, which sits pretty on a counter in my living room. For all the hyp...Read more
Seems like Alexa Shopping has an office in Menlo Park. Is it in the A9 building or separate? I could not find an address. Is there anyone here who works out of the Menlo Park office? Do they work on things that people in HQ dont want to work on?
I'm about to start an internship at Amazon in Cambridge, and curious if anyone knows that office or the team I'll be on; I was told I'm working on the "Dig Prod Mgmt - BS - 7120 - BOS" team (illuminating I know), that describes itself as "building the machine learning platform behind Amazon Alexa, C...Read more
Hi, amazon london is hiring a lot of engineers at London office especially for prime videos and alexa team. Can I get a referral? I have worked as a backend engineer, frontend engineer as well as data engineer during my career. I have >2 years of experience. Currently in India, working with India'
Currently working as ML Engineer at Uber India. Have got verbal offer as Applied Scientist at Amazon (no numbers yet). The team (part of Alexa) is split across Cambridge office in UK and Aachen office in Germany. Which office would be better for an Indian immigrant looking to settle long term? Comp...Read more
Joining amazon Alexa soon, my office is in the downtown area however for now the role is remote but immigration wants me to be around the 50 mile radius of the office. The places I have in mind to live is Issaquah Bellevue Kirkland Issaquah is my first preference however not sure when the offices ...Read more
2023 seems to be the year of LLM craze .. every single company is scrambling. So probably it’s safe to say that the meta verse craze is behind us. What’s the product that most big tech is trying to integrate GPT like services into? MSFT : We know .. bing, azure, office etc Amazon: probably scram...Read more
I worked in Msft Outlook and Office, on AI pipeline and all lifecycle included. Saw a job posting from Alexa. Searched my LinkedIn and don’t see anyone who’s currently working there. Would anyone from Amazon help me with a referral?
Hello community, I've been trying to get into FANG recently. Did interview with Google in September, was rejected in HC and after that tried Amazon and got offer in Alexa team but I want to have more options and want try for Facebook but resume not getting screened. It'd be awesome if anyone can r...Read more
Confluent Solutions Architect Level 3: Base: 155k Stocks: 150k over 3 years Idk about sign-on yet Remote Amazon Alexa SDE level 2: Base: 165k TC: 305k (up from 270) Sign-on: 45k Boston office HEB: 🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜 Obvious choice for money is Amazon. Culture is as we all know, not good. Confluent r...Read more
Hello, I've received an offer from Amazon UK for SDE Intern starting from Dec 2022 for a period of 6 months and have been provided 3 locations (Bristol, Cambridge or Edinburgh office) to choose from. Can someone guide me on which location to choose ? As far as I've researched these are the teams lo...Read more
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
Currently in the midwest at a small startup that has been growing its client list but not revenue. Current TC 110k. YOE: 3ish years. Received an offer to go work at the Amazon Santa Barbara on the Alexa team. Initially interviewed for SDE2 but I was told the interviewers felt like I was more of a r...Read more