I have a lot of respect for the AWS team, but... > one insanely-complex routine task that we do all the time is hiring. You know what the LPs are at hiring tim

I have a lot of respect for the AWS team, but... > one insanely-complex routine task that we do all the time is hiring. You know what the LPs are at hiring time? A checklist. Now even the typical all-day interview marathon isn’t gonna reliably dig into every LP, but we do an acceptable job of taking a close look at enough of them. I believe that’s very helpful in bringing down the asshole ratio. In my personal and second degree experience with Amazon and AWS hiring, the application of the LPs by interviewers doesn't work nearly as well as most of them seem to think, and it often devolves into a mostly arbitrary hazing ritual. I'm willing to believe that AWS has fewer assholes, and that you can't excel at operations while an asshole, but I've seen too many bar raisers who acted as arrogant know-it-alls and made completely capricious, arbitrary and damaging decisions.