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I was in a call with some folks from Amazon (AWS) yesterday where they presented via PowerPoint.

• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Sales != Engineering. I occasionally built a PowerPoint if it was useful to. But the standard was information was conveyed in a written narrative. A PowerPoint is something you use when you’re talking in front of a large audience to have something happen every now and then to make your talking less boring. For a discussion you write a story. At least that’s how I did Amazon.
  • jen20 4y ago
    This was an engineering call. I'm not suggesting it's used heavily, just that it is not banned, of if it is, the ban is not universally respected.
• saratogacx 4y ago
  That is a presentation to the outside. Internally, PowerPoint gets almost zero use. Everything is document+appendix based. There are exceptions for things like org level meetings and announcements that are more of a broadcast medium but anything that is collaborative or at a smaller scale is done through a rather ridged standard document format. Overall, there isn't a ban on use but it has a very limited use compared to many other companies.