> Then we did none of the things suggested. Well, there's no point. Just quit. You're going to be mediocre forever until the management chain buys in. The reaso

> Then we did none of the things suggested. Well, there's no point. Just quit. You're going to be mediocre forever until the management chain buys in. The reason Amazon scales well and can do so many things is that that their management is incentivized to care about things other than shipping/deliverables/this quarter's returns. It's still about the business overall, but Bezos' long-term-thinking has infected the entire company with long-termism and it's very effective. There's a lot of cargo culting around Amazon, but having a strong engineering culture and technical leadership is almost never what companies choose to emulate. True engineering orgs are quite rare (and will often ship disproportionately compared to their competitors. Just think of pre-merger Boeing for instance). > I am quite sure that Google/Microsoft/etc do not have this quality in the same degree (or they would not have made many of their obvious mistakes). Not that Amazon doesn't make mistakes; they just make different kinds than a lot of other companies I'm interested what are the obvious mistakes you are thinking about.