More should be written about Amazon. Certainly the history of the company is interesting, but it seems like the management and organization of Amazon is very different than at most companies.
-
-
more specifically, I mean that they break the management and culture _on purpose_ so that they don't inevitably succumb to big org soup. chaos monkey means you have to develop robust systems because your stuff will break, guaranteed amazon does this at the people level imo
-
everyone has to deal with a bozo explosion. you can either try to prevent it which is like fighting the tide with a mop, or you can become robust to it by accepting it will happen and routing around / expelling damage
-
anyway it's ridiculous to me that no one seems to grasp how important Amazon is. it's going to be bigger than standard oil, maybe on the level of dutch east india if things keep going the way they are in the U.S
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Yep. I have a good friend who worked there. Only top level management can see across departments. She half-joked that, "The way you get promoted at Amazon is to write an algorithm that eliminates and entire department of employees."
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.