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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by randomfool on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:25PM (#16361219)
My understanding is that most groups outside of Alexa and AWS are in a hiring freeze and they are trying to cut down on the amount of middle-management across the board.
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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by taurath on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:11PM (#16361602)
Can confirm, the recruiter spam I get is now only Alexa and AWS - the retail section has all but stopped.
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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by Slansitartop on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:51PM (#16362004)
That's pretty terrible because their retail site still needs a lot of work. Sort by stars has always been broken and the problems with counterfeit products and fake reviews needs to be dealt with.
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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by gdulli on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:20PM (#16362892)
I think it's a safe assumption that search isn't broken, it's just presented whatever way optimizes revenue while still using your choice of sort column as a guideline to keep it from being too blatant a lie.
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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by Slansitartop on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:22PM (#16363317)
It's broken from a usability standpoint. "Search by average stars" will give me pages and pages of 5-star products with tiny numbers of ratings before I'll see what I really want: a product with 1,000 ratings and an overall rating of 4.9.
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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by jxub on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:22PM (#16362904)
Maybe Bezos decided that on that front mediocre is good enough and decided to move on to other sectors where the competition is more astute than in retail...
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