Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo

Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by guard0g on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:18PM (#18841388)

Wow. Is the software that complex that it takes 10k employees to work with it?!! :)

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by testplzignore on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:05PM (#18841615)

Me: That's a pretty complex thing to build. I'm guessing it'll take about 12 months.

Management: Great! We'll hire 10000 people and have it done before lunch!

Me: ...

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by gdulli on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:22PM (#18841709)

There's a force that makes big companies grow bigger to the extent that their success allows them to, not to the extent that it's needed.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by stuart_marshall on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:34PM (#18842058)

Software and organizations are always much more complicated than you would realize as an outsider. Most of those 10k employees are probably not software engineers. Businesses have many other functions. From a software standpoint, any system that support 100M clients with rich functionality is going to be shockingly complex.

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