Thanks for writing this, and with all due respect:
This exact article could have been copy/pasted from any of the other big-tech companies. What makes Amazon different?
This exact article could have been copy/pasted from any of the other big-tech companies. What makes Amazon different?
> ...but at the end of the day it’s just another high-tech company, nothing surprising.
"If you like being shunt into small teams to work on small projects that take too long and go nowhere, being unable to effect larger changes that actually improve things upon the sprawling mass of wasted effort and reinvented wheels, no long term organization or planning or realistic goals, no semblance of cross-group communication or organization, total enslavement to a disjointed hierarchical mess of disparate initiatives that are ignorant of one another (to say nothing of even caring to help each other), and wasting half your time supporting legacy systems that nobody has the energy or balls to finally put in the dirt, welcome to working at a big tech company."
I might be a little cynical.
At the other companies I've worked for, you were expected to come to the meeting having read the docs sent over email.
It may be expected but large numbers of people don't do it. The 20 min. thing is a bit odd but I can see how it could be a net positive.