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you're defending someone who dreamed up something ("Amazon is good at data driven decisions") versus someone presenting a fact ("Amazon does lots of dumb things

by gcb0 9y ago

you're defending someone who dreamed up something ("Amazon is good at data driven decisions") versus someone presenting a fact ("Amazon does lots of dumb things but got very lucky so far"). why?

chollida1 9y ago
I'm not sure why you had to react so angrily but there are a lot of people who would defend Amazon as being a data driven company. here is one instance. This is not a hard claim to back up by any means. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237326 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237326 http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-amazons-data-driven-approach-becoming-more-common-2015-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-amazons-data-driven-approa... Here they are being called out for being too data driven http://splinternews.com/the-amazon-way-why-the-data-driven-workplace-is-a-nigh-1793850081 http://splinternews.com/the-amazon-way-why-the-data-driven-w... https://hbr.org/2015/08/data-driven-management-can-also-be-compassionate https://hbr.org/2015/08/data-driven-management-can-also-be-c... And I hope your day gets better:) We've all been there!!
- saosebastiao 9y ago
  I would agree with this completely: Amazon absolutely is a data driven company ("too data driven" seems to ring true in some aspects). But the MBAs are not the reason for being data-driven. It's more like the real data analysis goes on behind the scenes (levels 5-7, and more likely on the engineering or research scientist side), eventually bubbling its way up to the MBAs who use the mountains of data and analysis to stroke their egos.
- gcb0 9y ago
  my point is that who claims amazon is data driven are usually pundits and outsiders. in this thread the person who (claim to have) worked there said otherwise. and in your second link Bezos also said otherwise. amazon is as data driven as any other fortune 500. quit fetichising it.

by gcb0 9y ago

you're defending someone who dreamed up something ("Amazon is good at data driven decisions") versus someone presenting a fact ("Amazon does lots of dumb things but got very lucky so far"). why?

chollida1 9y ago

I'm not sure why you had to react so angrily but there are a lot of people who would defend Amazon as being a data driven company. here is one instance. This is not a hard claim to back up by any means. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237326 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237326 http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-amazons-data-driven-approach-becoming-more-common-2015-8 http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-amazons-data-driven-approa... Here they are being called out for being too data driven http://splinternews.com/the-amazon-way-why-the-data-driven-workplace-is-a-nigh-1793850081 http://splinternews.com/the-amazon-way-why-the-data-driven-w... https://hbr.org/2015/08/data-driven-management-can-also-be-compassionate https://hbr.org/2015/08/data-driven-management-can-also-be-c... And I hope your day gets better:) We've all been there!!

saosebastiao 9y ago
I would agree with this completely: Amazon absolutely is a data driven company ("too data driven" seems to ring true in some aspects). But the MBAs are not the reason for being data-driven. It's more like the real data analysis goes on behind the scenes (levels 5-7, and more likely on the engineering or research scientist side), eventually bubbling its way up to the MBAs who use the mountains of data and analysis to stroke their egos.
gcb0 9y ago
my point is that who claims amazon is data driven are usually pundits and outsiders. in this thread the person who (claim to have) worked there said otherwise. and in your second link Bezos also said otherwise. amazon is as data driven as any other fortune 500. quit fetichising it.