Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

Re:Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for Ne... by dunpeal on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:42AM (#18442342)

But they won't be. Can you imagine Amazon hiring 25k employees for just one project like Alexa?

Also, the whole point of the new offices is to aid recruitment. Limiting particular offices to just one skillset goes totally against that.

No, these offices will be smaller than the Seattle HQ, but at half the size, you can expect them to be quite diverse.

They will not be a "single project" office.

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Re:Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for Ne... by virtuallynathan on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:42PM (#18443540)

Actually, there's already ~10k people working on Alexa

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Re:Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for Ne... by count on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @04:34PM (#18445125)

Manual QA is a bitch.

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Re:Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for Ne... by Rychard on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:35PM (#18445576)

You're sitting in a small room at a table. In front of you, a stack of paper containing a nearly-endless list of words. An Alexa device sits in a nearby corner.

Clearing your throat in preparation, you reach for the first sheet of paper and begin to read the list of words:

"Alacksah... Alicksah... Alorksah... Alucksah"

You think to yourself: for $15/hour, you've had worse jobs.

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