Amazon lays off hundreds in Alexa division

Amazon lays off hundreds in Alexa division(seattletimes.com)

6 points by Crunchified 2 years ago | 10 comments

[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305097

Crunchified 2 years ago | |

I know, now. I used search on this site for "Amazon" but results were obviously not complete enough to be helpful. Any advice on how not to duplicate, short of paging through the submissions to the nth degree?

I checked the guidelines and FAQs. I emailed the contact info but haven't heard their answer yet, either. Sigh.

This was my first submission, and I don't want to repeat this mistake!

dredmorbius 2 years ago | | |

"Alexa" would be a more specific search. "Amazon" and one or more of "jobs", "cuts", "lay", "layoff", etc., would also be useful.

Searching "amazon" alone, sorting by popularity, and limiting to the past 24 hours, turns up the prior submission as the first result:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...>

(For future readers, bound on today's date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1700261998&dateRange=custom&...>)

ChrisArchitect 2 years ago | | |

Oh just filter by Last 24hr since it's fresh news. There's like 3-4 right at the top you'll notice. Not too difficult.

Crunchified 2 years ago |

Amazon is cutting “several hundred” jobs in its Alexa division to focus more on generative AI, the company announced Friday. (Seattle Times)

quantified 2 years ago |

Ouch. I guess there's no use for those employees elsewhere, just deadweight?

rybosworld 2 years ago | |

Amazon is uniquely ruthless towards their engineers. There is a philosophy among the company's leaders that if a department as a whole is not doing well, all the people who are a part of it are to blame.

dkubb 2 years ago | | |

Its usually leadership who are the problem if a whole department is failing. If they started firing from the top down they'd eventually reach competent people who stayed with the department out of loyalty or because they felt responsibile to hold things together. Seems such a waste to fire those people too.

senderista 2 years ago | | |

Unintended consequence: reluctance to join a high-risk initiative because you'll likely be laid off if it fails?