I recently noticed that I no longer see Alexa promos on Amazon app. No more deals on Alexa Ring or Microwave? Anyone notice the same? #amazon
Good team to join? Good visibility from promo? Wlb? What tech stack? #amazon #alexa
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.
Hello Amazon managers, I am seeing too many L5->;L6 promo on LinkedIn. Is the bar getting lower or all of them who got, deserve it? Seeing posts from people at Amazon, Alexa, AWS etc. I got SDE2 despite Senior everywhere else. May be need to reinterview for Senior. TC offered - 410 #engineering
hi guys my manager fave me the project. i need to measure the accuracy and error analysis of alexa system. Is it a good project to appeal for the promo later or just non visible work? im very new to industry and still dont have an idea what is the visible work for the promo🐛🐛🐛
I'm declining a high L5 offer ( met L6 bar but did not raise it, and potential promo to L6 within a year based on feedback) due to being lower than my current comp, the requested # is within L6 range. The Sr managers all agreed on exception but finance team rejected the request due to the budget....Read more
Hi all, I have an L4 offer from Uber for ~$350k. I heard this was top of band offer from recruiter? My concerns are: 1. the future of Uber seems uncertain, ive heard lots of people leaving 2. Currently L4 at Amazon, manager promising L5 promo in the next few quarters. I’ve been here 2 yrs already s...Read more
[posting for a family member as they couldn't register on blind] My wife works for Amazon Music as SDET. Her role got impacted recently. Unfortunately, this happened just before she got promoted. She was rated outstanding during the last promo cycle and was in promo discussions. She got a couple of...Read more
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...Read more
I have recently completed my one year after promo in SDE II role here in Amazon Hyderabad. I wish to explore some good career opportunities in Seattle. 1. What are some of the good teams (preferably AWS/Alexa) to give interviews in? 2. What are the typically asked questions? Do they ask DS Algo in d...Read more
I haven’t updated my Blind info in quite a few years, so for the purpose of this post assume I am an industy hire SDE1 who started at Amazon Alexa in Boston 1 year ago. This is my second pure software gig and I have 5-7 relevant YOE non-dev before then. I interviewed for L4, tried to push it to L5 ...Read more
Got this final #offer from #Google for #seattle based L4 SDE role. I don't have any competing offer. Base: 170K Bonus: 15% Sign-on: 20K RSUs: 260K (33%, 33%, 17%, 17%) TC for 4 years: 300K, 280K, 251K, 251K Questions: - Please select poll on how is the offer for SDE Seattle without any competing ...Read more
I have an offer (Software Engineer) from Amazon and Meta , both in the Bay Area. Amazon: • Base - $148.4k • Sign on - $56.1k year 1/ $38.1k year 2 • Stocks - $128,166 (5/15/40/40) TC: $210.9k year 1, $205.7k year 2, $199.67k rest My Amazon team is under the Devices, Digital, and Alexa Support o...Read more
Dear community of Blind, please help me make a decision I am completely stuck. I have been on the same team in Amazon for 2 years now as SDE2 in Alexa org. Previously I really liked my manager, he was amazing and overall good. I also really enjoy the work on the team and the people. However, recent...Read more
Amazon employees can use a phonetool extension and new old fart tool to see how many managers we have under each leader at each level. The bloat is unbelievable and wasn't touched in the past layoffs. We need more L5 ICs and L6 ICs, we have too many managers that were given teams or promos because ...Read more
I look around Amazon and see some ridiculously big teams for features that I could imagine a startup with a hundred people building. I worked at a startup with a hundred people: we did a lot! We really did. But then you look at some org doing something similar to the startup and see thousands of pe...Read more
I’m planning to leave Google and join Amazon as an L5(SDE-2) as Amazon is offering me 2x of what I’m currently making at Google. I’m up for promo (L3-L4) in next 2-3 months at Google and that too won’t increase my compensation by much as I’ll get the lower band of what an L4 makes. My plan is to j...Read more
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 ...Read more
I wanted to share my experience, it has ben some time I left Amazon but never shared this on public Blind channel. Many of the things I will say may identify me, but I give a damn. I joined Amazon as L5 Research Scientist, Bay Area in the Alexa team working on screen devices. I wanted to work on c...Read more