throwaway_amzn

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   by throwaway_amzn 9y ago

   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 contributions of their subject.
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   by throwaway_amzn 9y ago

   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 system. I am not saying that Toni's
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   by throwaway_amzn 10y ago

   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.
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   by throwaway_amzn 10y ago

   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 from team to team and what that team's rol
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   by throwaway_amzn 11y ago

   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