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Freedom to control what your group works on versus resources (high quality staff, compute, etc.) to effectively pursue that work are very different things.
by jsolson 10y ago
Freedom to control what your group works on versus resources (high quality staff, compute, etc.) to effectively pursue that work are very different things.
- taliar 10y agoFor an influential principle or senior principle who is in high demand, none of these are problems.
- jsolson 10y agoFair enough. My experience didn't take me to AWS, but in retail it was a problem for entire tier 1 services to get resources with VP support, let alone new development/research initiatives. Perhaps Amazon has changed, or AWS is simply different/better in this regard.
- taliar 10y agoMy only experiences are as an SDE in retail in a group with little power and as a research intern in AWS in a group that is more influential. I don't think the difference in organizations is what does it so much as the difference in power; the researcher who started our group is very well-known in our domain and has a lot of say in how things work internally. Even things that I used to think were impossible to have any say over. This professor's situation seems similar to me, so my best guess is that he'll have the same freedom (both in direction and in resources).