Looking for a senior applied scientist positions. Amazon website lists tons of them from obscure "global learning and development learning abusive" teams, to aws, Alexa etc. Which teams/orgs hire best talent, have most impact and visibility and have growth potential? PhD + 5 yoe Currently at fang ...Read more
They acquired souq a long time ago which is e-commerce website in middle east. Now they are posting positions with its name but actually hiring for Alexa team and other teams in poland. that's too desperate for a company that fires that many people.
Blind seems to be one of those obscure websites nobody openly admits they use IRL. It's like admitting they use something like 4chan. Global Alexa rank reddit.com - 21 4chan.org - 1081 teamblind.com - 3724
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 ...Read more
I predict that Amazon will cease to be as big as it is today by the end of this decade. At max, they will be worth 50B but bankruptcy is possible as well. Reasoning: Amazon is a GIANT. It operates in a lot of industries and continues to expand every year. From ecom to cloud to iot to Healthcare, th...Read more
For those of you that have an Amazon Echo, you know that the way to engage with the device is to say the word "Alexa". Amazon also owns the web analytics website, www.alexa.com, which Amazon acquired in 1999. Does anyone know if there is a connection between www.alexa.com and the name of Amazon'...Read more
and in some ways it is a great improvement over the old search. I asked "thai restaurants" near my area, and it gave a nice list of restaurants, each link goes straight to the website, also a nice map with locations. and follow up questions that I can select, like hours of operation etc. Very nice u...Read more
Hey Blind! L6 PM-T at Amazon, spent last three years in Alexa. I've been applying to MSFT (PM positions) through the website without success over the last three months. There are two PM roles currently open on MSAI: one is a Principal, one is a Sr. They both mention natural language interface and ...Read more
Saw this on LinkedIn. Copypasta: -Telegram and Signal, privacy-first comms apps, are #1 and #2 on the app stores currently, knocking out WhatsApp. A global trend. -At one point today, Newsmax and OANN apps (āalternativeā news networks) were outpacing CNN in the stores. -Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey fr...Read more
How do you guys deal with being lonely? I'm not looking to date or be in a relationship just to be around people, because for those, I want to seek out the right person. But in general, I'm socially isolated. I have literally no one to talk to about anything in my life. At work, I'm professional, m...Read more
Hello Blind. I receive an offer as a SDE I during December last month. Due to holiday period and everything, things have been dragged till now. I was initially interviewing for the Amazon Alexa role. However, due to me not having a degree, itās impossible for me to relocate to the USA/Canada at th...Read more