I was at Amazon but wasn't part of Alexa. I remember taking a look at their code. It was an endless spaghetti of if statements. The top one started like this

I was at Amazon but wasn't part of Alexa. I remember taking a look at their code. It was an endless spaghetti of if statements. The top one started like this if(tenant == "spotify") { ... and everything else was downhill from there. The rest of the description on how Amazon operates is quite accurate. Impossible for anyone to do anything meaningful anymore.