A quick Google search (ha) seems to indicate that Alphabet's growing by about 10,000 people per year or so. Let's be fairly conservative and say 20% of those folks are programmers. That's still much more than 1,147 people.
Besides that, the sentence "Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone" is very different than the headline, which is "Amazon Is Hiring More Developers." Not everyone working on Alexa is going to be a developer.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as stated, this whole article fails the sniff test to me.
Check the link on the second page of the article about what kinds of jobs are open in the Alexa division. Pretty solidly development/technical/product/research jobs
20% sounds like a very low estimate for a Software Company. Especially since we are implicitly assuming 100% on Amazon's side. If you want to compare Apples to Apples, take 100% of each side.
A quick Google search (ha) seems to indicate that Alphabet's growing by about 10,000 people per year or so. Let's be fairly conservative and say 20% of those folks are programmers. That's still much more than 1,147 people.
Besides that, the sentence "Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone" is very different than the headline, which is "Amazon Is Hiring More Developers." Not everyone working on Alexa is going to be a developer.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as stated, this whole article fails the sniff test to me.