[TriLUG] [Fwd: RE: [Steering] Amazon.com Interviewing in RTP]

[Jason Tower]

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Subject: RE: [Steering] Amazon.com Interviewing in RTP
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:02:38 -0800
From: Kim, Yoonie <yoonie at amazon.com>
To: Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net>, <steering at trilug.org>


Amazon.com is sending hiring managers from our Search, Automated 
Advertising, and Landing Page Optimization Teams to interview candidates 
in Raleigh for Seattle-based opportunities.

Did you know that Amazon.com has hundreds of software engineers working 
on some of the most interesting technical challenges on the planet? 
Amazon.com, headquartered in beautiful Seattle, is looking for 
exceptional software engineers to join its growing technology 
organization. Our engineering team works on tough technical problems 
that engage and stretch their brains. As an engineer here, you might 
build cutting edge product recommendation algorithms, scale and optimize 
our world class supply chain systems, or architect and build an 
end-to-end e-commerce platform that companies like Target use to run 
their online businesses. You'll work with smart, experienced teammates 
on a small cross-functional team. You'll join a scientific culture 
focused on achieving aggressive goals. And, you'll work on creating a 
world-class customer experience for the millions of people who use 
Amazon.com.

Within our Search and Automated Advertising Teams, our brand-new Landing 
Page Optimization team seeks a few extraordinarily talented engineers to 
brainstorm, implement and maintain innovative features for Amazon's US 
and international web sites. This team, still in its formative stages, 
finds ways to optimize the "landing page," the first page served in any 
customer visit--which could be almost any page on the site, from a 
product detail page to a category page to a page of catalog search 
results. Projects will range from new customer-facing website features 
to back-end data mining systems. Developers on the team will have 
complete ownership of their projects, from initial conception through 
prototyping, design, implementation, and operations, and the impact of 
each project will be measured through a controlled statistical 
experiment--engineers will be able to quantify with confidence the 
effect of their work. Team members will have access to Amazon's
massive data store of product and customer information and will seek 
innovative ways to use it to enhance the customer experience. Since the 
team is new, employees joining now will have the chance to help define 
the team itself: its mission, its scope, its problem space, and the 
kinds of solutions it implements. Like all of Amazon, the team 
environment is (a) entrepreneurial: new ideas are encouraged and valued; 
(b) data-driven: facts and figures win out over unsupported opinion 
every time; and (c) fast-paced: product cycles are short, development is 
done incrementally, and new features launch every month or less. And on 
top of that, it's just a lot of fun.

Qualifications:
Candidates must be extremely intelligent and competent programmers with 
at least a BS in computer science (or equivalent experience). Strong 
analytical and logical ability and excellent communication skills are 
also required. The ideal candidate will have a passion for the customer 
experience and high judgment about both product features and project 
schedules. No experience with any particular language or other 
technology is necessary, but we would expect any strong candidate to be 
proficient in at least one of C, C++, Java, or Perl. Expertise in 
statistics or distributed systems is a plus.

If you're interested in interviewing with the Search, Automated 
Advertising, or Landing Page Optimization Teams while we're in Raleigh, 
please submit your resume, and a cover letter to yoonie at amazon.com

Amazon.com
Word hard. Have fun. Make history.

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World 
Wide Web in July 1995 and is now the world's leading ecommerce 
technology company. Amazon.com seeks exceptionally well-qualified 
candidates and offers competitive compensation and benefits.