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I disagree. S-teams set the culture. They drive their organizations in a way that is very, very active (especially relative to places I've worked elsewhere.) Wh
by Pfhreak 7y ago
I disagree. S-teams set the culture. They drive their organizations in a way that is very, very active (especially relative to places I've worked elsewhere.) When there are cultural issues at Amazon, I believe that they can be at least partly traced to the s-team leaders.
- jessriedel 7y agoWhat about that has to do with the contents of the article? You didn't make contact with anything besides the term "S-team" in the headline. And even then, you say they drive all this culture, but you don't say anything substantive. How? What events?
- Pfhreak 7y agoThe article itself discusses inferring Amazon's priorities from changes to their s-team, including doubling the number of AWS s-team members. I'm not sure I'm allowed to disclose which events/meetings their s-team regularly attends. I will say that I did have several opportunities to interact with them directly in meetings, and indirectly via goals setting and annual planning exercises. Peter Desantis is a long time AWS guy, and was present at many of those same meetings/exercises. Peter, and other s-team members, talk about what it means to be AWS. That they've chosen to make him an s-team leader says to me that they like the culture the s-team is cultivating, and want to continue to grow it.
- jessriedel 7y agoBut priorities is not the same as culture! This is such a broad and vague connection. The "priorities" in the article are all about different markets (fashion, Alexa, AWS, etc.). I'm not going to litigate this further with you.
- offbyone 7y agoProbably for the best.. you're not really coming off very well here.
- senderista 7y agoDid you ever meet Peter's dog Moose? That was the biggest dog I've ever seen in an office.