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I don't think improvised desks are inappropriate for early-stage startups, especially in the 1990s. Apple started in Steve Jobs parents garage.
by throwhauser 5y ago
I don't think improvised desks are inappropriate for early-stage startups, especially in the 1990s. Apple started in Steve Jobs parents garage.
- krinchan 5y agoYeah but when I interviewed on site in Seattle for the S3 DevOps team, they kept bringing up how they all use cheap doors on concrete blocks for their desks to remind themselves of that “frugality” and that was just the first red flag of how weird their top-down corporate culture was at the time. This was in 2010.
- koboll 5y agoRight, but Amazon isn't an early-stage startup. It's a tech giant that wants all the employee-squeezing benefits of being an early-stage startup: sacrifice your life and comfort for the sake of the company. It's Day One, after all. The problem is that what makes that sacrifice potentially worth it at an early-stage startup is the potential for equity before hypergrowth. Amazon has virtually no chance of startup-like hypergrowth anymore; recently its stock has even started declining. So employees are being asked to provide outsized sacrifice for declining returns. Predictably, massive resignation and retention problems are the result.
- dgemm 5y agoThe door desk story you are commenting on is from the 1990s.