I have two offers as title said. Let's say pay is in similar range. Google pays little more. Which one would you join? I will do ML/AI related work in amazon alexa team. I will do regular backend work (apis, supports, etc) in Google cloud.
Multiple round of layoffs, Microsoft/Google racing ahead with AI in cloud and while Amazon (so called Alexa pioneer) cuts Alexa investments and literally nothing to show. Retail is going to be in the drain given the economy. Heck even my Amazon fresh free delivery requires 3x $150 cart value now. ...Read more
I learned just now that I am impacted due to recent layoff at Amazon. My team was Alexa funded. Also learned at least half of the team is impacted. Getting severance package of 60 days and a week for every 6 months of tenure. I will be kept on LOA (leave of absence) for 60 days to find internal tran...Read more
How the hell is Microsoft worth 2x amazon in terms of market cap? Amazon is a leader in e-commerce, cloud, Alexa, and has so much physical infrastructure. Microsoft keeps releasing the same windows OS with a different UI. Can someone help me understand?
After the huge number of layoffs at Twitter and Meta this month, now Amazon is planning to layoff people from its Robotics, Alexa and Retail/Warehouse business. What are the chances AWS will be impacted as well considering the market we are in? Which cloud services do you think would be impacted fi...Read more
I have offers from Alexa skills team (tc 160k+) and Microsoft cloud services (150k+). Which option is better for new grad to relaunch the career (have 2+ years of work experience back in India)?
Amazon has had a lot of success in online retail, cloud (AWS), Alexa etc etc. In fact Amazon Engineering is top notch. How come they are able to build such great products if the engineering culture is so bad ? Help me understand the paradox, please.
Over last decades ... Microsoft led Personal Computing ... Google led Web Computing ... Apple led Mobile Computing ... Now Amazon with Cloud computing, customer obsession and Alexa devices will lead the transition to Intelligent Computing. Can't wait to see how Amazon will change my lifestyle in ...Read more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-17/amazon-is-laying-off-hundreds-of-people-in-alexa-division? Amazon.com Inc. is cutting hundreds of employees in the division responsible for its voice-activated Alexa assistant, according to a memo sent to employees on Friday. Daniel Rausch, an Ama...Read more
Considering the layoffs in Amazon Alexa and Jassy diverting resources to catch up with AI and Satya's smart move to get Sam n Greg, who do you think as a CEO and company, are better positioned to win this trophy in the Cloud + AI growth space in the next 5years? #Amazon #Microsoft #openai #tech
I am in Alexa and looking to move to Google. I heard that google home devices are now under Google Nest but what about cloud side of the teams? Are they also under Google Nest? TC- $350k #tech #google
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...Read more
Hi, I’ve received emails from five different Amazon recruiters over the past month. They are all representing different teams (Alexa, Core, Search, Cloud, Pillpack). Several of these sound interesting. Silly question, do I reply out to each individually or just one? #amazon #hiring #jobopening #r...Read more
Hi, I have a lot of Amazon teams approaching me for interviews. Alexa, Ring, AppStream, Platform,Intelligent Cloud Control, Kuiper. Can you guys please shed some light on these respective teams and which team has best work life balance. Thanks Current TC - 140k #tech #amazon #interview #SDE #softw...Read more
Are OpenAI devs really that good they can outperform 15k devs or what the duck is happening in the Alexa org? A lot of these devs in Alexa org went to top schools or the scientists likely have PhDs… Who is making the decisions? We have that AlexaTM model and the Codewhisperer one which aren’t as g...Read more
Asking for a friend to evaluate the following offers. Both roles are for entry levels. Amazon is under Alexa, Splunk is under Splunk Cloud. Which one is better in terms of career growth? They both have similar tc. Any help is more than welcome. Thanks.
Hello, I am looking for some advice on Embedded system design, client side design related study materials to prepare for SA interviews with the Amazon Alexa team. What I have learned from different discussions with the recruiter is that this role doesn't require much coding. If anyone has any exper...Read more
I have two offers in hand, one for Google @T4 SETI (Cloud) and another for Amazon SDE @L6 (Alexa). Amz offered ~300 stock with ~225 signing. Goog offered ~400 stock with ~50 signing. My concerns are that Goog will not refresh at anywhere near the level of the initial grant and long term comp will...Read more
Like what really is our goal? We have the largest shipping infrastructure in the world. It's unprofitable. We're trying to robotize it and it's costing billions. E-commerce is just a loss. AWS is king but azure is apparently a pretty popular thing, good cloud is a joke, but a slew of other clouds ...Read more
FYI - FAAAM stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft Big papa Microsoft is touching $2T soon. And I'm glad my TC is touching $500k L65+. The great part? I work 30 hrs/week, have zero work stress and get so much time off every month I have friends at Linkedin, who ...Read more