Amazon is huge... but Walmart is truly massive... over double Amazon's size in just about every metric. They clearly have the resources to handle things on their own.
[1] https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=0340721260780250...
[2] https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/company-facts#:~:text....
[3] https://corporate.walmart.com/askwalmart/in-which-countries-....
(6000 employees in 2018, per wikipedia)
Walmart doesn't have the same capabilities. Being larger doesn't mean they can do it.
The case of Amazon using internal market place data to guide their own product strategy has already been made over and over, so the precedent exists.
That is assuming the companies would all be as successful being spun out.
btw, it looks like you have some sort of shadowban. I don't see any terrible comments among your last 20 or so, so you might want to ask @dang if he can look into your case.
Probably similar or maybe even clearer than Google since more people understand a store selling their own products than Google owning every single step (with huge non transparent and evidently according to TX colluded margins) in the ad transaction, in addition to all the user data, and their own products.
I grew up playing pretty competitive sports. Being ripped apart in front of my peers was a once a week occurrence for me for most of my life. I had no interest in doing it to anyone else, but it didn't seem like a big deal, and didn't bother me much.
My first job was at a company where it happened a lot. I didn't realize how toxic it was until I started talking with co-workers who were having panic attacks from it.
That said, I also understand that this doesn't work for alot of people.
Doesn't mean Bob is bad or gets fired, but he is part of the picture.
The whole blameless thing is so weak - if there's something about you that caused the failure, don't you want to know?
That just means that the person who designed the system deserves the blame.
I'm only half-joking here. You can't just rely on the "system" – someone needs to be responsible, either for the decision or for creating the system that makes the decision.
The blameless postmortems are reviewed in these meetings, and the findings challenged, to ensure they really got to the root cause and lessons are learned.
I once almost got to present my post mortem, but it wasn't high enough priority that week. I wish it had been. It would have been ripped apart, but I would have gotten the feedback from the smartest people in the company on how to make my system better.
I've got a project this year that I'm told is on his radar. I'm not terrified. I'm excited, because it means I have to deliver the best I am capable of and I'll get help to do it.
couldn't agree more. Almost every day of the week now with AWS, org, service, and team level ops meetings, and most of them miss the forest for the trees
Also, IRC is still alive.
Unless you want to pay 10% of your order for expedited service. Then those days drop from 5 to 3.
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I think it’s a little unreasonable to expect free support for such a technical product to be as good as that for the retail site.