Summary: Dave Anderson shares his experiences working at Amazon for over 12 years, highlighting both positive and negative aspects. He appreciates the strong sense of ownership at the team level and a results-driven culture, but notes that senior leadership can be out of touch and cross-team collaboration is often inefficient. Overall, he believes the good experiences at Amazon outweigh the bad.
I repeatedly saw women drop their careers when they had kids, not necessarily because they had no interest in their career, but because the tradeoff was too drastic. (View Highlight)
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Operating software helps you understand how customers think, patterns in behavior, how hardware works, how efficient various ways of operating are, and how memory vs. CPU vs. IOPS works. I can’t imagine someone being a great software person without operating software for years. (View Highlight)