Hi everyone, Had a few questions about #amazon and the #alexa #ai group. Is Alexa AI a good team to join as a Research Scientist? What does upward mobility in the team look like and are there good opportunities to develop technical skills? How is the work life balance in the group? Is there a s...Read more
What questions can one expect for this position? How to prepare well for the position? I am a masters degree graduate aiming for this position and working very hard - Leetcoding to get to the par of this levels requirement. Need your advice on this...
Hi Everyone, Have interview coming up for Research Scientist position (1st phone screen) What to expect?
Hi everyone. I have an onsite for this position in a couple weeks, and I was hoping someone could give me some guidance about what to expect, in particular with respect to specific types of machine learning topics and coding. I am studying a wide range of things (including plenty of leetcode) and ha...Read more
Do they work you into the ground? will I develop ulcers after 6 months?
Think about it, they have 120 employees. Focused on risky language ml projects, that are now going to pay off massively. Their new model is a true jump in NLP capabilities. Meanwhile in Alexa, I’m in an org of 120 (out of 5000+ Alexa employees) with a bunch of people trying to solve a problem 1/10t...Read more
For the same TC, which one would you choose career wise? Researcher scientist L4 in Alexa or chief of data science in a startup?
Heard that massive layoffs are being planned at Amazon next month. The ones which will overshadow the scale of Meta layoffs. The cuts could be brutal in applied research teams (robotics, prime video, Alexa AI etc). The core business teams should be relatively safe. Source: 🤐
I am a research scientist at NV with 4-5 YOE in ML & AI research. I am going to get an offer from Alexa AI org at Cambridge, MA. The recruiter said I can chose either Research Scientist(RS) or Applied Scientist(AS) position since I qualify for both and the team really want me. My questions: 1. What...Read more
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/08/alexa-tm-20b-model/ "The AlexaTM 20B model has not yet been publicly released, but the researchers created a repository for it on GitHub and note that it will be released soon" Alexa, when will AlexaTM be released? Alexa: I don't know that, but I'm always learni...Read more
What's the best way to move from a SDE role to a AI research role. Currently I am a software developer in Alexa. I want to be involved in futuristic research projects.
Applied scientist, masters + 2 yr work exp at Amazon, comfortable in both computer vision and NLP, open to other domains. Laid off as part of Nov 17 Alexa layoffs. Anyone hiring MLEs, research engineer or science roles? #layoffs #interview #hiring #help #machinelearning #machinelearningengineer
What is the work like on the Amazon Alexa AI org as a Research Scientist? Also is the culture of PIP prevalent in Alexa AI also? What roles do people generally leave for after this experience? #amazon #ai #researchscientist
Based on my research, I assessed that AWS TPM makes a lot than Alexa TPM. is that true?
Hi all, What is the main difference between a Research Scientist and an Applied Scientist at Amazon? Do both get the same experience in terms of building and deploying models? Or do Research Scientists get to do less of advanced ML? TC: 190k #amazonsalary #researchscientist #amazon #alexa #ai #ma...Read more
Lot of research is happening in Amazon Alexa/Siri/Google Assitant. but how many of you are actually using it? I never use any of voice assistants If you use it please share for what do you use it #facebook #google #amazon #alexa #siri
Hi there. I'm interested in research labs such as Google Research, and Microsoft Research. I think these are obviously among the most prestigious industry research labs, and I consider them equivalently good. Going down a little bit more applied, I see many other options, but I'm not sure how they c...Read more
Hi Everyone, I recently interviewed for Research Scientist position at Amazon Alexa. Unfortunately Position got filled internally but I was invited to next rounds. Is your team hiring Data Science positions ? Requesting you to please consider my application for next steps! #datascience #applied s...Read more
Hi Amazon folks- am open to hear thoughts from fellow or past Amazon PMs, Engs, Research and Designers on what the design culture is like around the Bay Area Alexa services team(s). Thanks!
I'm a scientist at Alexa currently. I'm contemplating exploring options at AWS. Pros of AWS - The research output of the AWS team is better and a lot of scientists at Alexa don't seem to be have a great idea of what they're doing - a few people in the AWS team seem high quality though I don't know a...Read more