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This type of thing is bad for the internal innovator who must expend political capital to get their organization to try new things. “Hey boss, Amazon has this n

• Reason077 2y ago
  Bad for innovative product engineers at companies like Amazon, too. Pretty demoralising to have your product canned on a whim after years of effort to bring it to release. Maybe it’s better to just work on boring things, don’t stick your neck out…
  • malfist 2y ago
    That's certainly been the atmosphere here lately. The messaging used to be "work on the big ideas, we'll take care of you if the product fails" Amazon would shutter projects and move people around. The past few years though, they just lay everyone off in that project. It has a chilling affect to work new ideas when you know the next round of cost cutting could take your job
  • Invictus0 2y ago
    Most of the Astro team was laid off last year. I spoke with multiple people that had been fired from the team.
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• banish-m4 2y ago
  Yep. It's unwise to embark on new ventures half-heartedly, without thinking ahead to their market potential, or without derisking them by experimenting before going into production, only to then yank the rug out from the team so quickly. It's Google-like dilettancy, or like Meta's Portal and Workplace.