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- Netflix streaming vs Amazon video streaming A few years back Netflix was the dominant streaming video player. Over the last couple of Amazon's offering seem to have improved. Also I really like the idea of being able to buy a recent movie which I want to watch. Is Amazon going to do to Netflix what Netflix did to blockbuster? Thoughts on t
- link Amazon joins the game streaming club https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/amazon-announces-streaming-gaming-service-luna-launching-next-month/ #gaming
- Amazon LMIA processing stream? Does anyone know if Amazon applies for LMIA under Global stream or High wage stream for L5 SDEs? Has anyone from Amazon get LMIA approved this year? What are the timelines like? Planning to move from US to Canada.
- Amazon live streaming team I have a call from the live streaming team that belongs to the prime video org in Seattle. Wanted some feedback on the team, if the work is interesting (heard they live streamed Saturday night football), WLB, ops load, management, growth opportunities etc. Any feedback would be helpful, thanks! T
- Mapping of Amazon and Disney streaming services management career levels? Can someone advise on how the management levels at Amazon (L6, L7) map to Disney+ (streaming services) ? I can't find anything online
- Constant stream of recruiters from Amazon, what's going on? over the last 7 months 10 Amazon recruiters from all different orgs have emailed or sent me a message on Linkedin. I've been polite with all of them and told them that I'm not looking for anything new, but they just keep coming. they do NOT talk at all to each other do different parts of Amazon (Al
- AWS help: DynamoDB Streams to S3 (via Lambda) Trying to build real-time analytics around DynamoDB data. Created a DDB stream that feeds to Lambda. Lambda writes each new record into an S3 object. Athena queries S3 to provide the insights. Problem: we have ~25M records that already exist in DDB. How do we do a “one time” import of these records
- vote I was asked top k elements in a stream problem in phone interview at Amazon. Was the interviewer hinting hire & fire? 7 years/250k #tech
- vote Netflix isn’t a tech company. Change my mind. A tech company in todays world implies a few things. Namely that you work with technology (synonymous with anything touching computers these days, which I think is a fallacy, but I digress). But also that you are high growth and “innovating”. When we look at Netflix, it should be obvious that all th
- vote Speculation: Amazon acquires Netflix possibility? Amazon still need to increase their streaming sectors and most Netflix contents are stored in AWS, so...
- vote FAANG is dead With the current market volatility it is clear that the new top tier of companies is ready to be named. Out with the 2010’s model of speculative growth stocks paying absurd compensation based off of improbable forecasts and passion project investors. I declare the new Tech Top Tier. It is based on
- vote Youtube is an engineering marvel Youtube is a very underrated platform. - Top notch streaming - Amazing recommendation algorithm - Best platform to listen to music - Beautiful UI - Never ever lags, streams like a butter. - Has every fuckin content available I'm always in awe of Youtube, hope some day I get to work there. #tech #
- vote Ranking of FAANGMULA interview bar Not talking about difficulty of individual questions, let's rank the bar to pass interview in general for FAANGMULA. Talking about SWE stream. I'll start. 1st tier (most difficult): Google >= Facebook 2nd tier: Netflix = LinkedIn > Apple 3rd tier: Airbnb > Uber = Microsoft > Amazon Do
- vote Netflix vs Apple vs Prime Video vs Disney Best streaming service to work for in tech? WLB / comp / growth opp #Netflix #amazon #primevideo #appletv+
- Music streaming service Ideas for a new music streaming service? Objective is to solve the pain points of the top music streaming providers like Spotify, Pandora, Apple, Amazon, Google while keeping the business model profitable.
- How much car you can afford?? Just curious what percentage of annual income folks are spending on buying a car? Pls share ur tc in the responses! TC 550k(multiple streams) 35 Married, Seattle, YOE 10 #Google #apple #amazon #Netflix #tesla #money #finance #car
- Stop the shaming BS I hate when people who work at FAANGs morally try to shame others when they are moving to another FAANG. One is not ethically better than the other. All are trying to make money and maximize market share. Facts: Facebook only cares about engagement. Apple uses slave labor. Amazon sells counterfe
- Anyone stream, or share a wishlist? Just launched www.wishpanda.com For now targeting Twitch streamers. Benefits over Amazon Wishlists are: - integrates with OBS, so you’re notified on stream when someone purchases a gift - you can add items from other retailers — not only Amazon (coming soon!) If anyone streams, has a wishlist th
- vote Help with Amazon Team match I have an SDE1 offer (Downlevel) , and currently in team matching stage. Have these two teams to choose from: 1) Customer Experience and Business Trends - Seems to have IoT, Automation, ML. 2) Amazon People Engine - Seems to be more Big Data, Data Streaming I am looking for someplace with good grow
- non coding tech jobs what are some non-coding technical career streams at Msft with good potential for career growth and advancement? @microsoft @amazon
- Am I missing a technical aspect ? Why can’t Amazon have a common app for shopping and video streaming ? I need a separate app to watch prime video :-/
- Streaming issues? Title says it all… Everyones home watching tv and streaming all the services… Impacted services for me - Amazon prime Netflix Peacock Disney plus I’m on xfinity comcast - I guess 300mb plan. Anyone affected?
- Hiring Sr. Front end devs and an SDM Not Amazon. Streaming business. WFH right now. Office in Bellevue (WA). Will reevaluate wfh strategy post corona. DM me. #hiring #jobopening #recruiting #frontend
- vote Confluent Potential Folks who are working/worked at Confluent what do you think of the potential valuation in 5 years from now considering the streaming landscape ? Would love to see your comments #Confluent #google #microsoft #amazon
- Hulu, HBOmax, Netflix referral needed| senior SWE@msft| ex Amazon Hi Netflix/Hulu/HBO Folks. Looking for referrals at the streaming tech, 400 LC(100 hards 220 meds) in last 3 months Solid system design L64 at msft and ex amazon. Ex competitive programmer Thanks
- Looking for Netflix referral for sde Hi, I am working in Amazon Prime Video now, would love to have a referral for netflix to explore something new in another streaming company. Anyone can do me a favor?
- Work/Office VPN to different region Will you connect your work/corporate VPN to different region to enjoy streaming content like Netflix etc? Preferably after finishing my work and during non-office hours. #wfh #amazon
- Why Google been struggling to diversify its income streams ? They have smart people, money and everything to make a bigger impact on world and build good products. I just don't see them making profitable income streams like Amazon. What are your thoughts on this?
- Amazon Offer (FE) Worth it? Location - Bay Area. YOE - 6 Team - AWS Messaging and Streaming (MAST) - If anyone works or knows who works for this team please let me know how's the culture. Thanks Offer: Base - 210000 Sign-on - year1 - 127k, year2 - 90500 Stock - 90rsu (5%, 15%, 40%, 40%) Position - L5 #engineer
- Discovery - Sr product Manager/ Principal salaries Been in Amazon for about 3 yrs now in product (L6). Thinking of evaluating options outside. Any insights on salaries for either Sr. prod or Principal prod mgr at Discovery (streaming)? Current TC- 240k.
- Another tech bubble? I wish I'm paranoid but I feel Netflix is a beginning of tech bubble. All those unicorns seem to reveal that they are not necessary. Netflix, HBO or any tv streaming service: There are so many of them and people need to subscribe and unsubscribe to find tv shows they want to watch. Is this more conv
- Any hulugans can give insight about company future? I will join Hulu soon and like the location , product, pay. But I am little bit worried about hot company future compared with amazon video Netflix and Disney will also release their streaming. Lay-off in future?
- vote New grad choosing between an EV startup vs AMAZON Hey Blind, I am graduating and starting a career as a software engineer. I am weighing my options to start my career between an upcoming EV startup and Amazon. Amazon profile - Cloud security team, based in NYC. 150 TC Startup - Data streaming team, based in Bay Area. 145 TC. As a fresher I am eva
- Are LinkedIn and Netflix actually interesting? People say good perks and salary. But isn't it super boring there? LinkedIn just has the website. Netflix just has streaming sitting on top of AWS. Both already up and running. Where is the challenge.
- Amazon SDE3 Vancouver. Please help selecting the team Hello, I just cleared Amazon SDE 3 interviews for Vancouver, and the next step is team selection. The recruiter has sent below list: Alexa, AWS, Cloud, Transport & Logistics, Consumer & Retail, Payments, Kinesis Data Streaming. Please help me selecting the team? which team will be the best to start
- What are your side hustles? I want another stream of income but my ideas seem tech focused (goes against my intellectual property agreement). What are other ways you generate income and how much? And if you’re still doing tech, any IP loopholes you want to share? #apple #facebook #Amazon #tesla #Netflix #google #tech #healt
- Twitch? I really love the product and want to work on large scale video streaming, but I can’t seem to get an interview ☹️ it’s kind of weird because I get FAANG recruiters in my DMs and even used to work at Amazon. Any advice? Yoe 5 Tc 230 after recent drop
- Does Amazon Studios have the same rep as Amazon? Few posts here about Amazon Studios and obviously much hate for Amazon in general. Interested in making the jump as media/film had always been my passion and finding a job where tech and film intersect seems like a dream, though I'm reluctant due to the poor rep Amazon has. Am I crazy for considerin
- vote Amazon Prime Video App Of all of the streaming apps, why does Amazon’s feel so outdated? Am I wrong? Doesn’t it need an overall? Maybe more people will engage with the app and Amazon doesn’t have to go out and buy movie studios. Just sayin. TC: 120k #entertainment #media #amazon #design #ui
- Amazon Vancouver work visa / permit processing time from India? Hi, I have job offer from Amazon canada. How much time does it take for work visa to be issued during COVID times after biometric is done? BTW, I have applied under Global Skill Strategy stream and afaik internal transfers don't need LMIA approvals, is this correct? #workvisa #amazon #canada #va
- The party's over folks 20% unemployment as a result of this virus. This isn't going to end well. Those folks won't be shopping on Amazon for the latest Apple products they saw advertised online. They won't be taking a lot of Ubers to the AirBNB after booking a flight online. They are going to cut back on this streaming
- vote Are you satisfied with your company’s stock performance since you joined? AMZN is still up a good amount since I joined, but over the past year it’s been completely flat and I definitely feel jealous as it seems all other tech stocks are outperforming AMZN. Please add comment too so we can reference your company’s stock. Edit: I will express some gratitude and say it he
- IMDb What's IMDb's video team like? Is it just fully integrated with Amazon Prime Video teams? Or is it separate in terms of pay and WLB? Looking into the the positions in Seattle. Are there people who work for IMDb's streaming division on Blind?
- Thread on TC for people working in Business and ERP streams (supply chain and ERP)? People working in Business and ERP streams ( Supply Chain, finance) I have a feeling that we are underpaid. Many threads talk about PM and tech/engineering TCs. I will start with mine, 15 yoe (exp includes product development and ERP functional, past 7 years as supply chain business). TC 225K ( 140K
- Google interview question stumped me You run a video streaming service like amazon video and viewership is down. What metrics/algorithms do you use to decide what to do? Interviewer seemed to want specific formulas of some kind as opposed to general investigative steps to take. Any ideas?
- Suggest a movie to watch I haven’t seen a movie since “Searching” last year, which features a bunch of tech products including FB, so that was pretty cool. Can anybody suggest a nice, recent release techie movie to watch tonight? I will pay to rent it on Amazon streaming.
- Looking for a referral in Media Hi All, I’m looking to connect/ get a referral from someone in the Media/Entertainment industry in the US. Recently my boss has been making undermining remarks thats been making it hard to stay here. Plus, pay is not great. Any help is appreciated. TC: 120k + YOE: 8 #entertainment #media #disney
- Tech Company Tier Rankings by Hiring Bar 2022 It's a new year and you know what that means: an annoying updated ranking post. 0: Hooli, Pied PIPer, Albertsons, Kroger, Publix, Safeway 1: Google, Meta, Netflix, Airbnb, Square, Cash App, Snap, Stripe, Databricks 2: Apple, Twitter, Roblox, LinkedIn, Coinbase, Robinhood, Asana, Dripbox 3: Uber, Do
- How are the following AWS teams ? Wondering how are the following teams in Amazon/AWS .Looks like some are tier 1 services . Most of the jobs locations are based in Seattle or Bay area/Irvine CA. How is the wlb/learning scope/on call/Attrition/pip etc ? Thanks in advance . AWS Global Accelerator AWS Anti DDos AWS ec2 nitro AWS EC
- Where do you get your interview questions from? When you inevitably interview people, what sources do you use to get your questions and how do you pick them? What are some samples? I’ll start I try to get easier/medium questions from leetcode that are easy to extend further, and that ideally would be something related to work life to some degre