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Everyone I know who's worked at Amazon says Jeff Bezos has his hand in everything to the detriment of product design. I've heard multiple accounts of him seein
by MudAndGears 2y ago
Everyone I know who's worked at Amazon says Jeff Bezos has his hand in everything to the detriment of product design.
I've heard multiple accounts of him seeing a WIP and asking for changes that compromise the product's MVP.
- queuebert 2y agoIs this why the everything besides the front page still looks like someone's first website from 1998?
- genghisjahn 2y ago"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company." https://gist.github.com/kislayverma/d48b84db1ac5d737715e8319bd4dd368 https://gist.github.com/kislayverma/d48b84db1ac5d737715e8319... I read that post every couple of years or so.
- foundry27 2y agoWhy was this being downvoted? It’s first-party evidence that substantiates the claims of the parent comment, and adds interesting historical context from major industry players