Viewing profile — throwaway_amzn

I clicked through hoping to see a piece on the female engineers who work on Alexa, but it was an executive profile. You are right that executive profiles generally overstate the co…

This article overstates Toni's role. Though she does own a good portion of the Alexa ecosystem, there were/are several other directors/VPs that ran/run different portions of the sy…

Alexa was named after the Great Library at Alexandria. It is also helpful that Amazon owns alexa.com and that "Alexa" is a uniquely pronounced word with few rhyming words or semi-h…

Haha, no. I get the impression from his post history that he works for an ASR/NLU team. They tend to have a more reasonable workload than some of the other teams.

Even in Alexa there are some teams that are being pushed too hard. I work for Alexa as well and there is plenty of burn out and "sweatshop" teams in our org. It really varies a lot…

Still in first year. Position: SDE 1 Location: Seattle Base: 110,000 Signing: 25k over two years RSUs: 40k when stock was high in 300s