Don’t ever go work for Amazon or any management that has ever drunk their koolaid.
I had a drastically underqualfied VP swoop in from Amazon to my team, and their whole style was to demand a deadline, then nitpick them if they didnt line up with whatever they seemed to want but wouldn’t tell us. They seriously would just hammer us for endless detail, then disregard any facts or figures that didn’t line up with their preferred deadline, which I can’t reiterate enough, they would never tell us.
They would also use endless Amazon jargon on us and not explain any of it, ever. You would ask what the jargon meant, and at best they would state its name, but then couldn’t define what it meant. They then got mad at us for not doing it “the amazon way” without giving us any guidelines about what that way was or even asking for it in the “amazon” way.
It was surreal, terrible, and of course non stop emergencies while cargo culting actual project planning.
Don’t ever go work for Amazon or any management that has ever drunk their koolaid.
I had a drastically underqualfied VP swoop in from Amazon to my team, and their whole style was to demand a deadline, then nitpick them if they didnt line up with whatever they seemed to want but wouldn’t tell us. They seriously would just hammer us for endless detail, then disregard any facts or figures that didn’t line up with their preferred deadline, which I can’t reiterate enough, they would never tell us.
They would also use endless Amazon jargon on us and not explain any of it, ever. You would ask what the jargon meant, and at best they would state its name, but then couldn’t define what it meant. They then got mad at us for not doing it “the amazon way” without giving us any guidelines about what that way was or even asking for it in the “amazon” way.
It was surreal, terrible, and of course non stop emergencies while cargo culting actual project planning.