Got through amazon onsite recently for L5, onto team matching. Any thoughts on the following teams? I am interested in Infra / large scale systems, so leaning towards Alexa data infra. Pointers on WLB, culture, politics, projects would be helpful. - Ads API infra - Alexa shopping - Alexa data infra...Read more
Liquidated 400k worth amazon stocks, want to explore how to invest in HFT. Current Portfolio includes index funds and popular tech stocks, primary residence mortgage for 1 M house, 2.5 interest rate. DINK, wife works as DS in small startup. I have already invested in real estate Blind tax L6 ASM A...Read more
Asking for a friend Amazon Alexa vs Amazon Ads(AdTech) both for India I have a friend who has got sde2 offer for Alexa and AdTech(Ads) team at Bangalore. Any idea which team is better in terms wlb, work and culture. Tax: TC: 21 YOE: 4.2
Are these orgs the same? How’s wlb in these teams? Also do they have a lot of pip? Saw some posts where people say Alexa Music is good, so wanted to get an option here. No trolls please. Blind tax: 200k, 5yoe
Hot news recently is that Panos Panay moving out of Microsoft to Amazon probably replacing Dave Limp - What do you folks think would be the future of devices? It somehow feels that Devices are a bit stagnated with no next big thing and beating around the bush with Alexa devices, FTV, Tablet, Ring, L...Read more
Team: Alexa Location: Vancouver, Canada Role: SDE II TC: 280K CAD (190K base, the rest is RSU/sign-on bonus) Right now I am in Singapore Current TC & YoE: 280K SGD (130K base, the rest is plunging $SE stock), almost 4 YoE (If it were in Seattle I’d directly snatch the offer but oh well screw US w...Read more
Currently, the assistant is not true assistant. Assistant like Alexa and google assistant can only do very basic things. A true assistant should do much more than that. For example, tax report, renew insurance, etc. I feel there is a big potential in it. Any one feel the same? Feel free to pm me.
With all the cringe talk on LinkedIn, no one wants to address the elephant in the room: Incompetent management and leadership. There is almost no quality control when it comes to hiring them. I can talk about my experience: 1. Amazon: worked in the Alexa team. The VP’s career trajectory was senior...Read more
Currently in the midwest at a small startup that has been growing its client list but not revenue. Current TC 110k. YOE: 3ish years. Received an offer to go work at the Amazon Santa Barbara on the Alexa team. Initially interviewed for SDE2 but I was told the interviewers felt like I was more of a r...Read more
While this is a subjective opinion, @Apple seems to be the only large company that continues to innovate and build high quality products and features year over year (both software and hardware). Every other tech company, either ship half baked products/feature and leave users suffer. Or stop innova...Read more
Hi! I am currently doing my Masters in the US, graduating in Dec-2020. I got an offer (SDE-1) from Alexa Smart Home team and another one from VMware-Propel program for MTS-2 (Propel program is one where you work in two different BUs in the first year and then finally decide on which team you want t...Read more
Asking for a friend - they have offers from the following, looking for advice on what to go with! Currently they haven't negotiated with any of the below, but wanting to understand how the below look. SoFi - Senior SWE - 180k base, 250k stock vesting over 4 years Meta - Business Engineer IC4 - 160k...Read more
First of all, thank you all for creating such an awesome community! From the last few weeks, I have been spending more time on Blind than on any other social sites :) About me: I am currently pursuing MS CS in one of the top US universities and will be graduating soon. This summer I interned at Goo...Read more
I'm thinking of long term goals of where I want to work/live and prefer being onsite, so it's mostly better to be living in a place that is the headquarters for something. Obviously the biggest companies like FAANGs have divisions headquartered in different places, but still I was just wondering wha...Read more
I got a long story about how Amazon just put my account on hold and nobody is answering me. Looking for help from the Blind community! Here is what happened: So I'm a permanent resident(AKA. Green card holder) here in the United States. Working and paying taxes for the last 5 years and getting ready...Read more