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One big problem I've seen at Amazon is that their tendency towards independent interacting subsystems carries over onto their culture with regards to their hard
by delecti 12y ago
One big problem I've seen at Amazon is that their tendency towards independent interacting subsystems carries over onto their culture with regards to their hardware.
One team was probably in charge of the camera/3d bit, and they worked on their own while everybody else made their generic implementations of required smartphone features ABC.
I see this all the time, features are planned and implemented without even communicating the fact to another team, when even the briefest pause would have led to the realization that it had enormous implications for them.
- themartorana 12y agoI would be surprised. In fact, Bezos was personally responsible for making sure that the very scenario you describe absolutely did not happen in AWS. https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12ld3fwhlnexv5b004cjv0oapmuflzrezc0k https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12ld3fwhlnexv5b004...
- RyJones 12y agoI worked on the camera/3d bit, and I can say with good certainty parts of the UI were stubbed out only for integration purposes. When a feature was good enough to dogfood, it was in the builds all the testers got.