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- Amazon request: family gift feature My spouse and I order gifts for each other within the same family Amazon account. The downside is we can see each other’s orders. That makes us order only the cheap stuff from each other on Amazon and we order more expensive stuff in other apps and sites which is annoying. Can you make it so only ce
- Amazon Fire stick feature decisions Who in engineering or product thought it was a brilliant idea to remove screen calibration from the device? It's present on the Fire Stick 1, Fire TV 1&2... But not the Fire Stick 2
- amazon food delivery feature big tippers amazon should introduce a feature where longtime customers and big tippers get priority for food. why should people get deliveries when they are small tippers? let the delicery people decide who gets food
- LinkedIn feature request - no requests from Amazon recruiters How can I stop this endless flow of connection requests/messages about available positions from the same company? 12 in 3 days, including "you ignored me 4 times, let me check if you reply now", from recruiters and random hiring managers from different teams at Amazon. I don't want to stop messages
- link Amazon PIP Christmas Carol 2021 - Featuring Charlie Bell The holidays is coming, it is the special time of the year for Amazon PIP Christmas Carol 2021. Here is my gift to all Amazonians. Audio link https://ufile.io/7duzsmn3 Lyrics ---------------------------------- Driving through the snow. In an amazon delivery van. Bezos went to space. Laughing al
- Blind feature request: Allow to block companies (Amazon) I have observed that most of the posts made from folks at Amazon are absolute 💩 and toxic, there should be a way to block them all at once PS: Not trying to offend anyone just a personal opinion
- @ Amazon! Why is there no proper sort feature and the filter is so bad on the Website/app!? Can you please fix this and have a proper sort by price / relevance etc. A proper filtering too? TC 110k
- What are some cool features/services specific to AWS/GCP/Azure? I’ve only ever used AWS so I’m curious what are some cool services/features only offered by specific cloud providers? Or do any of the 3 do certain things much better than others?
- link Amazon "Buy with Prime" vs Shopify and other checkout startups. Amazon announced the "Buy with Prime" feature today. https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23035192/amazon-buy-with-prime-initiative-shipping-benefits SHOP is down 10% today to pre-pandemic levels. Is this a $SHOP buying opportunity? Amazon has other problems with merchants that Shopify solves, but as
- Dealing with regret hire Have you ever hired someone thinking they will really help you develop good product features and ended up finding the engineer to be a junior even with a PhD in computer science? I need some guidance as to how to navigate and help the hired engineer to be successful. We are behind schedule on delive
- Amazon!! What the heck!!!!!??? What the heck with Audible??? I can't see prices and I'm only allowed to by throught credits!!!!!!! Is that same for you???? Or am I a lab rat for a dumb UX experiment? #tech #audible #amazon #features
- vote Are Walmart employees are delusional? #TIL that Walmart employees think their company can conquer Amazon lol. https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/walmart-employees-think-they-can-dethrone-amazon
- What do Netflix engineers actually do? Netflix looks to be a fully finished product. All the complexity is handled by AWS since the service is fully cloud powered. People have Netflix for newly released shows not for the engineering features… makes you wonder what their engineers actually do? I feel Netflix can be effectively run by cons
- vote High TC with Boring Team or Low TC with Awesome Team 250k working on a brand new internal test infrastructure at Company A, or 180k working directly on core app features shipped to millions at Apple? (team worked on features that appeared in WWDC and iPhone reveals for example). Both are new grad offers. Both are MAANG (not Amazon). Not sure what is
- vote Amazon SDM vs Apple QE Manager Which one would you choose. Apple position has bigger team and more ownership (in terms of features but still limited to quality/tooling) Comp roughly the same. Leveling will be lower at Amazon
- Boring roadmap at FAANG? New engineer at Amazon here. I expected my team to work on groundbreaking features, but all I see on my team’s roadmap are one or two new features and a bunch of campaigns, security, internal migrations etc. Seems like the move fast and break things adage is a lie. Is it like this at other FAANGMUL
- ROI calculation by PM at Amazon How do product mangers calculate ROI to prioritize features at Amazon? Which are the most important factors?
- link Fucked up Amazon culture! https://www.crn.com.au/feature/aussie-urges-caution-after-transfer-to-aws-us-turns-sour-567972
- Looking to grow as a PM in 2022 I had a really fantastic year at AWS. Joined as an L6 PMT-ES. Wrote 2 PRFAQs from scratch and launched 2 big products (launched at re:Invent) and a few iterative features as well. I am now feeling that I won’t be able to grow more next year. Too early for promo to L7. This makes me want to look for
- why does amazon work on mainline instead of creating branches? how do people working on multiple features work on their items parallely? why is amazon promoting such technical path? why not branching and merging??
- Can people explain how the Amazon Prime Video site is worse than Netflix? I keep seeing this thrown around everywhere (blind, reddit, etc.)? Are people talking about aesthetics only? navigation? recommendations? the video player? It can’t be page load times because doesn’t Netflix run a lot of its stuff on AWS? Personally I think the sites are pretty comparable usabili
- AMAZON AWS PINPOINT Who is responsible for this? I hate it and have a feature request. #tech #aws #amazon #bezos #besos TC: 130K YOE: 2
- link Aussie urges caution after transfer to AWS US turns sour https://www.crn.com.au/feature/aussie-urges-caution-after-transfer-to-aws-us-turns-sour-567972
- Is oracle cloud really better than AWS. Whats your thought if you are working in Oracle cloud Infrastructure Larry ellision cliamed that it is better than aws in terms of price and feature.
- link Fire Tv Recast Announced today at the Alexa event. Thoughts? https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/20/17883860/amazon-fire-tv-recast-hands-on-photos-features-dvr
- Is there a way to view Levels of people/peers on Google internal pages Noogler here. Recently joined from Amazon. We were able to see each employee’s level, tenure & their job history at Amazon on Phonetool. Is there similar feature available on Google internal pages? I couldnt find anything on Moma.
- Amazon Sidewalk Just posting here to remind folks to opt out of the features if you do not want to share your WiFi with your neighbors. This applies to owners all Amazon devices such as Alexa and Ring. #amazon
- link PIP is finally automated! Guess the first company to PIP people with AI? Managers are soon becoming useless 🍌. (Not mentioning company to avoid triggering PR bot deployed by Sanchez's bf) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out Full articl
- Need motivation to change job Currently sde2 at Amazon (TC 250). Have been here for close to 18 months. Growth opportunities are receding in my team and I see teams fighting over ownership of features. I am involved in the design, dev of several features. What should I focus on for equivalent or higher positions at other compani
- What exactly do the high churn companies work on? Maybe my question is naive but I’m really curious. I’ve been seeing/ hearing that companies like Amazon, Uber, Meta, TikTok work crazy hours but I don’t see much new features in products I use like e-commerce site or instagram. What exactly do you guys keep building??
- Amazon OA Leetcode I remember there was a list featuring all the Amazon OA questions, but it seems to have suddenly disappeared. Any clue what happened? Also, does anyone have a copy of it?#tech
- Amazon that disorganized??? Multiple times Amazon recruiters asking me if I am interested in considering a role at Amazon while I am already late in the Amazon interview process. Maybe for the system design interview I can suggest designing a system for recruiters regarding new hires? There can be a really cool feature that l
- What’s your “Amazon is so Amazon” moment? Project management rolled a new feature out without beta testing or notice and it resulted in 10x Jeff B escalations. They are now rolling out the same product tomorrow - again - with zero beta testing or notice. Amazon is so Amazon
- vote SDE attrition is real? I should probably state first that I'm not an SDE. But I've seen a message in our roadmap room yesterday that worries me greatly. I'm paraphrasing to remove all the team/service/person-identifying details. That is just not cool. In essence, the team isn't able to hire enough L5 and L6 SDEs to acco
- Amazon Canada Currently at Azure. Got an opportunity to interview for SDE 2 Last mile team at Amazon. How is the scope of work there and is it worth moving from Azure -> Last mile. PS: I like to have high impact features and handle large scale products YOE: 5 TC: 🥜
- What makes GCP worse than AWS? People always say gcp is lacking features compared to AWS and azure. I'm not a cloud expert, but from my point of view gcp has all of the important services I would need. So what specific features is gcp missing, or is it that their services are just less reliable? Not asking about market share, I
- link Thoughts on crn article? https://www.crn.com.au/feature/aussie-urges-caution-after-transfer-to-aws-us-turns-sour-567972 Wish she got some help and got recover soon..
- Sde experience I have been working at Amazon as sde1 for almost 2 years. Most of the issues are with migration or config issues running into while developing a feature. Most of the time is spent searching in Sage and internal search. Do people at other tech companies work on stuff like this? Tc - 150 #amazon #g
- vote Is Windows a crąppy OS? I worked 4 years at Google using Linux. Then, I spent 3 years at Amazon using Mac OS. Now I’m using Windows at MSFT and the reliability sücks. Apps freeze, features stop working (need to restart it), the hardware sücks, etc. Those are just my opinions/experience. Thoughts?
- Amazon PMT interview Except for leadership principles what can I expect in Amazon Principal PMT onsite interview. My recruiter said be prepared for questions around product pricing, general product definition, tech depth and feature delivery. Any insights anyone can share on kind of questions to expect #tech #amazonaws
- bizzare Amazon interview The interview as discouraging me from joining Amazon. Why do you want to leave ML space saying that is the future and we are more or less done and just adding features. I was told it’s a green field project by hiring manager and now the interviewer says otherwise.
- Alexa team, by the way… How does it feel knowing whenever you prompt users to enable some cool new features you built (that are genuinely good!) like follow up mode, or personalized lists, multi-user, etc, most users just say “shut up Alexa!” #alexa #amazon #bezos
- vote Are projects at FAANGMULA actually interesting or are people just TC chasing? I’m not talking about exceptions where you get to work on exciting new R&D projects. I’m talking about the majority of the FAANGMULA software engineers who just add features and fix bugs to existing code. For reference: FAANGMULA = Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, A
- Amazon Prime Video X-Ray I’m loving this feature. Makes me wonder how it’s implemented. Did a Google search, found nothing. Obviously it’s doing some image analysis based on the video frame. Is it though? Is Amazon using info from IMDB? The latter’s also owned by Amazon. I think these kind of algorithms are fucking cool.
- Thoughts on Snap’s Visual Search feature? Snap’s feature of scanning physical objects and getting Amazon url for the same is pretty cool. Other products like Google Goggles and Amazon Fire Phone have tried that in the past but maybe the tech wasn’t upto the mark then. What else do you think could be different?
- Anyone at Amazon hiring L5 PM’s? looking for referral US citizen, looking for L5 Product/Program management roles at Amazon. Currently a SWE, but I do have experience with feature roadmaps and deployments, as well as metrics and interacting with various stakeholders. YOE :- 2.5 TC :- 140k
- Amazon (AWS) SDE 1 what is your day to day like? Recently accepted an offer. How did the first weeks / months look like for you? Did you only work on bug fixes and general maintenance? Lots of meetings? Did you build new features? How was your team? * understand everyone wants to talk about pip here, but serious answers pls. Thanks #amazon #aws
- AWS EC2 - DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager) Team Hi Blind, Anyone have any experience with the DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager) team within EC2? Input from other teams within EC2 is welcome! Wondering about day to day work (new features vs maintenance), career/knowledge growth, culture, etc.. This is for SDE2 in the Bay Area #amazon #aws #EC2 #cu
- vote What is your Leetcode Mock Assessment Score? Hi! I'm preparing for tech interviews. I do leetcode regularly. Total solve: 300, contest rating: 1800 (participated 10). Do you guys have any idea of the Leetcode Mock Assessment feature? According to it my score is 6.76 after attending 25 assessments. Leetcode shows, this score is way higher than
- L5 promised in 6 months Hey all, L62 at Microsoft ($200k) accepted offer L4 ($209k) from Amazon under the condition that I will be promoted in 6 months (upon release of a sub-feature). How can I keep pushing for this from day-1? I had to move due to a bad manager and reorg. Any help would be great.