“Following a months-long review, Amazon has told employees in some unprofitable units to look for jobs elsewhere in the company, while moving to redeploy staff from certain teams to more profitable areas and closing teams in areas such as robotics and retail, the WSJ reported.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-reviewing-unprofitable-business-units-155021454.html #alexa #silentlayoffs
I believe this will stretch beyond devices / alexa but that they will be the most impacted
Right, the article states that. Alexa is just one part
alexa team and amz hardware team are separate, but both under device org
Working Parents
20h
1401
Closed now - thank you all
Tech Industry
9h
1039
Women, help me understand why this is inspirational
Today I Learned
18h
564
How many books do you usually read in a year?
Tech Industry
2h
1643
What happens when most of your team is Indian?
India
Yesterday
1311
Modi is a legend, will be remembered for centuries to come
Not HW, dumb, it is Alexa
Lmaoo
“the devices unit that houses voice assistant Alexa.” Wouldn’t that include anything that falls under the devices unit? With Alexa being one component?