Bloomberg Vs Amazon Smart Home

New / Eng
EDrQ82

New Eng

PRE
Google, Samsung Electronics
BIO
looking for new opportunities
EDrQ82
Jan 29, 2019 28 Comments

Hello Everyone. I would appreciate if you guys can help me pick between the two offers.

Bloomberg : 135k+15k+10k(relocation)
Team will be decided after a 3 month boot camp.
Location : New York

Amazon Alexa Smart Home team (machine learning) : 120k + 35k (joining bonus first year)
Stocks : 60k ( 5-15-40-40 )
Location : Seattle

Myself: 2 years of experience + a recent master's degree.

If somebody can tell me about the Amazon Team in particular, it would be really helpful.

Thanks for your inputs :)

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TOP 28 Comments
  • New
    Gonner

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    Gonner
    Amazon for better TC growth rate and better brand
    Jan 29, 2019 10
  • SAP
    Dundermif

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    Dundermif
    Ask for more from Bloomberg.
    I am a new grad and got a better package.
    Jan 29, 2019 0
  • Amazon / Data
    lossfun

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    lossfun
    I'm on the smart home machine learning team. It's a great team with two high impact projects, a self-controlled roadmap, low ticket burden, and almost no churn (one person out of 12 has left since inception 1.75 years ago). Manager is fantastic. Senior engineers are very competent and very nice. Weekly ML reading group. Best job I've ever had. No free snacks though (unless you walk to the banana stand).
    Jan 29, 2019 4
    • Amazon / Data
      lossfun

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      lossfun
      Depends on the role. Applied scientist needs a PhD plus a bit of industry experience (internship or more). Most SDEs on our team have a masters degree or serious experience. Most have some experience in ML, but our bar for that is low (need ML exposure/interest, but don't have to be good at building models).
      Jan 29, 2019
    • New / Eng
      EDrQ82

      New Eng

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      Google, Samsung Electronics
      BIO
      looking for new opportunities
      EDrQ82
      OP
      Thanks for this comments. I have decided to join the Amazon Smart Home team. I am a noob when it comes to Machine Learning concepts, this job will probably change that :)
      Feb 5, 2019
  • Uber / Eng
    meowimacat

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    Im a cat! 🐈 Meowww... Fancy feast is my favorite kind of kibbles 🐱
    meowimacat
    Amazon has better brand name, but if you're a single guy I hear Seattle is a shit place, so consider that.

    Any way you can get the Amazon offer changed to NYC?
    Jan 31, 2019 0
  • Informatica / Eng
    Hummie

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    Hummie
    Bloomberg can easily go to 150k+20k+30k for you I feel given your 2 year experience and a masters. Just ask for it from HR. They have surely low balled you.
    Jan 30, 2019 0