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To give intent the broadest benefit of the doubt, maybe that's why they wanted to encode the goal in a principle. Changing Amazon's corporate culture at this p

• spoonjim 5y ago
  Ballmer -> Nadella shows that it is possible.
  • ethbr0 5y ago
    Curious on folks who have been at both places. My impression is that Microsoft runs a more centralized culture than Amazon?
    • Exmoor 5y ago
      Well, the biggest difference is probably scale. Amazon has roughly 10x the number of direct employees as Microsoft spread throughout a much wider range of job types. Some of this is inherent due to what Amazon's business is, but a big chunk of it is that Microsoft outsources essentially every job that's not at the absolute core of their business. Anything outside of that is outsourced to vendors. Microsoft's management of these vendors is basically "make us happy as cheaply as possible or you're fired" and the results for the employees of those companies is about what you'd expect.
• slumdev 5y ago
  The culture will slowly rot as the company gets larger and as the real visionaries (good or bad) become increasingly disconnected from the boots on the ground. We're already seeing things like people getting hired and then PIPed within months so that their managers can avoid firing the reports they like...
• haswell 5y ago
  Yeah, in 2021, employees increasingly expect this from their employers. Of course this could just be for optics and to claim "see, we care", but I think interpretation misses the broader context. In light of "The Great Resignation", and increasing awareness and activism around work/life balance, socially conscious employers, etc. this kind of move is required. At worst, it's a survival mechanism. A more charitable take is that leadership actually wants to change things. In either case, if they actually implement this, it's good for employees even if leadership was forced to do this by the current climate.