I don’t have prior experience in ML/AI. Does previous experience in this field matters, if you are looking for Senior SDE in Amazon Alexa teams? TC : 330k
Was told teams are planning and hold in hiring for Alexa SoCal.
Generally, no. 98% of engineering work in ML-heavy applications is the same kind of work you see anywhere else. Distributed systems problems, service design, data plumbing, etc. I do recommend taking Andrew Ng’s course on ML just so that you are able to speak the language with the applied scientists you will be working with.
You don’t sound like a Senior