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Comment by oh-kumudo | Hacker News Reader

This drama is getting ridiculous. HQ2-1, and HQ2-2? What does HQ even mean then? Even if they are called HQ, it is hard for me to imagine they can function as one.

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Even if they are called HQ, it is hard for me to imagine they can function as one.

This is true of any large corporate campus -- 25,000 people at one site are not one cohesive unit, there are plenty of competing projects.

And you still end up using video conferencing even with people in the same campus because no one wants to take a 15 minute walk to the building on the other side of campus for a 30 minute meeting.

Sure, some business have multiple "HQs"...in that they split where some of their major divisions are "headquartered". For example, maybe the original HQ in Seattle is where Jeff B. sits, but maybe the crystal city HQ (if that's one of them) is where AWS - as a business/major division - is "headquartered", etc. Oh, and i would venture a guess that they likely will name them something like HQ1, HQ-East-1, HQ-West-1, HQ-South-1, etc. ;-)

with certain AMZN HQ services[0] only available in HQ1 / HQ-NorthWest-1

[0] like AMZN GetPromoted or AMZN WorkOnTheProjectYouWant

My dayjob employer is currently kicking off a 150-year project to validate whether the AMZN GetPromoted service is worthwhile to eventually implement internally. But, alas, already there are project delays. ;-)

Totally makes sense if they win the massive JEDI Cloud Contract as they seem to be a shoe in for.

HQ-2 and HQ-B? Coin flips of course landing on the opposite sides at the other HQ.

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