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What surprises me is how abusive Amazon and Apple can get to their employees while ship fantastic products to their customers. May be the whole you need great
by nojvek 6y ago
What surprises me is how abusive Amazon and Apple can get to their employees while ship fantastic products to their customers.
May be the whole you need great talent and treat them well isn’t true. You just need to treat them well enough so they don’t leave and pressure them enough so they don’t crumble.
At the end of the day, management is about getting the most out of your employees and that’s what they are doing right?
- trap_chateau 6y agoThis take seems a bit short sighted IMO. How do you know that if the work culture was better, the product wouldn't be any different? It does seem unnecessary to strive for a perfect work-life balance for these giant companies to ship good enough products and make boatloads, though.
- closeparen 6y agoI work at a company where every junior PM is has a right to put any feature he wants on any piece of screen real estate. Every idea about how to build it is good. Every implementation is good enough to launch. Every launch is successful. We do not have the concept of "no." We do not have the concept of failure. It avoids a lot of the politics and culture issues that Apple is infamous for, but I think it's also the reason our products could never be mistaken for theirs.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoYou left out Disney, IBM, Microsoft... American corporates are awful to work for imho. I worked for one once, never will again, they do make great products but so many abusive middle managers. I couldn't watch office space for years after - it was too much like real life.
- programmerslave 6y agoIt works because of the booming stock.