Need help in picking a team @ Amazon

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BYby47

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BYby47
Aug 18, 2021 6 Comments

I am currently interviewing with Amazon for SDE-1 and need to give the recruiter a few teams I’m interested in. I’m in LA and trying to find a good team here. Any reviews on the Prime Video and Alexa teams in Santa Monica/ Irvine offices? What’s the type of work / tech stack etc?

Or if you think none of these teams are good and I should get out of LA, would like to hear about that too.

#amazon #sde #losangeles

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  • Stay clear of both Alexa (no strategy or vision and heavy politics) and Prime video (no growth). See if you can get into ADFS team in Santa Clara. Message me for more details.
    Aug 18, 2021 1
  • Amazon / Eng
    cfnerror

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    cfnerror
    Everything I’ve heard on the grapevine from Alexa in the last two years has been bad.

    Remember that you can transfer to another team as soon as you join, and lots of teams are hiring. So even in a bad team you have options to get out early.
    Aug 18, 2021 2
    • Nielsen
      BYby47

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      BYby47
      OP
      Would like to know bad in what way? The product itself is going nowhere or is the org management bad?
      Aug 18, 2021
    • Amazon / Eng
      cfnerror

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      cfnerror
      Not in the org myself, but from what I have gathered it is a combination of: 1) there is no plan for how to make Alexa profitable, 2) the org grew too big, too fast, and had too many promo-oriented-projects (poop) which have made it a maintenance hell, 3) leadership failures resulted in a mass exodus of SDEs leaving many teams understaffed.

      Again I am not in Alexa so take this all with the biggest grain of salt.
      Aug 18, 2021
  • Amazon
    gNxv68

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    gNxv68
    Hi OP, How did the interview go? I am building a brand new team in Amazon consumer in Santa Monica. DM me if you are interested.
    Sep 8, 2021 0