You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened

"what Amazon has just demonstrated for all the world to see is that when they’re facing a significant obstacle, when it matters to them, they’ll toss leadership principles like Earn Trust and Customer Obsession and Are Right, A Lot to the wind and say whatever’s expedient."

Remember this Amazonians, the LP's are just HR check boxes, they are the definition of "rules for thee, but not for me", they are propaganda that Amazon management uses to pretend decisions are principled, data driven, and built on consensus. However, when the rubber hits the road the LP's go out the window when anyone at the SVP+ wants something done. Time to start really thinking about who you work for and how much they've lost customer trust.

"When AWS says that they don’t use customer data or metadata to help inform their retail business, I have to now weigh that in the context of “they might be doing that and lying to us about it.”"

Amazonians, been working on any long term projects that don't seem to make sense from a technical perspective? Asked to limit access to specific systems for reasons you don't understand?

"Identify the executive who made the tweet and publicly fire him"

Its going to be hard to fire Bezos. According to media reports the tweet was sent at his behest.

"I don’t ever want to hear about an AWS employee being told by their manager that their tweets are “unprofessional” ever again."

They won't, they will just PIP and fire the employee just like Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa.

> In all the time I’ve been tracking virtually everything that AWS says about virtually everything, I’ve never once caught them lying to me.

Doesn't AWS have notorious under-reporting on their status pages? In a "when it matters" case, being able to brag about reliability and not having to refund users is kinda a big matter. Weird for it to be unmentioned.

> The only path I see forward is for Amazon to identify the executive who made the tweet and publicly fire him (let’s be clear: we all know it’s a “him”).

Why? Are shy men not worthy of being treated as men? Are outspoken women not worthy of being treated as women?