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I have as well, a coworker of mine at my last job came from Amazon. He said he only stayed as long as he did so his resume wouldn't look bad for quitting after
by jrs95 9y ago
I have as well, a coworker of mine at my last job came from Amazon. He said he only stayed as long as he did so his resume wouldn't look bad for quitting after just a couple months.
I can't help but think that this is related to the mediocre (imo) UX of a lot of their products. Both AWS and Alexa seem to take the approach of just jamming as many features in as possible without much regard to user experience. It seems like a business/economics view of things is overwhelmingly dominant, and the human element is ignored. But I could be extrapolating too much.
- thrownawayaway 9y agoNow if only Android phones stopped becoming Android bricks after a year or so of mandatory app updates, I might actually start to think Google is getting better about their UI.
- whipoodle 9y agoMaybe... I work somewhere that works very hard to provide nice UX for people. It's a shitshow. But I'd still much rather have this job than work for Amazon. Basically the longer I work in this industry the more thoroughly convinced I become that nobody knows what the hell they are doing.
- jrs95 9y agoYeah, I pretty much agree with you on that. I don't think it's just this industry either. I've had jobs where I've been amazed that the business can even continue to exist with the amount of disorganization and lack of any real coherent strategy. From a theoretical standpoint, you'd expect them to be eliminated by competitors...but in practice, since hardly anyone knows what the hell is going on, that just doesn't happen.
- megaman22 9y agoI'm constantly amazed that anything computerized works at all, ever. People think I'm foolish or some kind of a Luddite for wanting dumb, electro-mechanical appliances and vehicles. But once you are familiar with how the sausage is made...