Hey folks, I have been getting pinged by Amazon recruiters and managers quite a lot for AS and Senior AS positions recently. How is PIP culture for Applied Scientists? Is there a quota for AS as well? How is wlb for at Alexa org? About me: TC: 200K base + 1% equity at an early stage startup. YOE: PhD in ML + 4 years in industry Specialization: ML/AI WLB: 20-25 hours a week. Location: Remote My current startup has the potential to be unicorn and I can FIRE when that happens (assuming a liquidation event)
AS in Alexa is pretty decent imo. Just like in any job, they might ask you some not-so-exciting tasks, but overall i think it's a great org for AS, esp if you want to learn NLP
Do you know which team under Alexa AI is better - Knowledge or Natural Understanding or Speech for Sr TPM?
I have moved from Alexa for quite some time, but last time speech was better than natural language understanding. I dont know knowledge.
This is solid answer/advise. Thanks!
I’ve been hit with a bunch of these positions recently as well. Reluctant to respond as Blind shits on them so much but I’ve just seen so many high AS offers as of recent.
Exactly on the same boat. Heard terrible things about Amazon and also saw crazy offers for AS roles there. It’s a bit of dilemma for me now.
I do generally see ppl respond positively about AS, however. Tough to get a good read bc blind memes on them so hard. Anecdotally I have friends that are AS and SDE there and they’re happy.
And here I am still trying to get AS role in Amazon. Applied twice through refferal but they straight away rejected:(
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Thanks for the input. As for my equity: the upside: the company has the potential to be unicorn and there is a big interest from investors at the moment. When a liquidation happens I can FIRE. downside: it may take a while for a liquidation event, likely more than 5 years.
For other companies: yes I was approached by other tech companies as well, fb, twitter, linkedin to name a few. The roles are for MLE but they are heavily SWE roles which I don’t prefer:/