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

Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by erikig on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:41PM (#18841514)

I wonder if any of the 10,000 people are actually named Alexa, and if so do they get any preferential treatment?

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by Baeocystin on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:19PM (#18841993)

One of my coworkers used to go by Alexa, and has since just switched to Alex. She is not happy about it, but none of the available wake words are ideal. I say computer and amazon too often to use those, and it baffles me that we can't just choose our own, which is something that the very first Droid phone supported.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by monk_e_boy on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:18PM (#18841688)

I always feel sorry for all the Alexas. And the Harry Potters who were living their lives just fine before the books.

My friend is named Tressa Green. Her dad assured me he had no idea that most people pronounced Tres-sa as Tree-sa.

[edit] this is a fun read: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-03-22/meet-the-rea...

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by stuart_marshall on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:35PM (#18842067)

If you look at the lists of ranked baby names by year, you'll see a massive drop off of Alexas about when Amazon shipped.

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Re:Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo by dna_polymerase on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:52PM (#18841561)

Most likely they would rather get truckloads of horrible jokes.

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