Looking at these teams in LA area. Anyone have opinion of these teams? Amazonians, which would you rather work for? Hearing bad things about Video on here but not as much on Alexa. SDE, tc 110
Video
When you find yourself choosing between two bad options, seek out a third.
Point taken, haha
The Alexa teams I know of in LA are difficult to work in and not doing the most interesting work for Alexa overall. I don't know much about the work Video does in LA. They're both good businesses and you'll learn a lot either way.
Neither, hope you're ready for long on call nights and miserable misguided management.
Alexa. Run away from video.
Ouch.
Which Alexa team is it in LA?
Video more respected and better perks. Alexa good WLB
Itās Alexa Mobile team, the team that works on the app. For instance thereās a specific team that just works on the āSettingsā section on the app. Itās built on React Native if you want to know the tech. The scale the team has to deal with is pretty interesting and amazing, think of how much load they need to handle post holiday (prime day and Xmas) when everyone opens up their alexa devices and fire up the app for setup. A huge hit to all the AWS services they use (like dynamoDB). Alexa overall is growing pretty fast, although profitability still needs to be proven out (like how do devs really monetize this new format?). If you want to work on devices, Ring (also Amazon) is right next door. Although, apparently all the SM groups will relocate to new offices in Culver City later.
Alexa of course