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There are more than 20,000 people working on Alexa in Amazon. That's more than 5B in salaries a year. I worked with a guy that switched team, coming from an Al

There are more than 20,000 people working on Alexa in Amazon. That's more than 5B in salaries a year. I worked with a guy that switched team, coming from an Alexa team dedicated to supporting jokes on the devices. It was dozens of people dedicated to just that, and that was a SMALL thing. 10B is absolutely not a surprising number.

nathanaldensr 4y ago
It's absolutely insane how much waste there is in Western economies--all fueled by free money. Glad that party is finally coming to an end.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  Almost as insane as Eastern economies building skyscrapers that are never used.
jemmyw 4y ago
what the hell? were they making up new jokes for it? If they were hiring engineers rather than comedians then I can see where the problem was.
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squokko 4y ago
That is nuts. 20,000 people? Do they have large armies of people debugging individual conversational failures?