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recent bookmarks from jmSigns that it’s time to leave a company… | by adrian cockcroft2024-01-05T11:19:29+00:00
https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e
jm
Founder led companies often have problems maintaining their innovation culture when the founder moves on. I think this is part of the problem at Amazon, and I was happy to be leaving as Andy Jassy took over from Jeff Bezos and Adam Selipsky took over AWS. Jeff Bezos was always focused on keeping the “Day 1” culture at Amazon, and everyone I talk to there is clear that it’s now “Day 2”. Politics and micromanagement have taken over, and HR processes take up far too much of everyone’s time.
There’s another red flag for me when large real estate construction projects take up too much management attention.
[...] We now have the situation that Amazon management care more about real estate than product. Where is the customer obsession in that?
There’s lessons to be learned, and that the delusion that they can roll back work from home and enforce RTO without killing off innovation is a big problem that will increasingly hurt them over time. I personally hired a bunch of people into AWS, in my own team and by encouraging people to join elsewhere. Nowadays I’d say a hard no to anyone thinking of working there. Try and get a job at somewhere like NVIDIA instead.
See also https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/ -- Justin Garrison's post about Amazon's Return-To-Office strategy really being "silent sacking" to downsize Amazon's staff, which has been confirmed by other AWS insiders.]]>aws amazon adrian-cockcroft how-we-work culture rto silent-sacking downsizinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bd4683ce8d26/Makerbot’s Saddest Hour | TechCrunch2015-04-22T14:51:24+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/makerbots-saddest-hour/
jmI’ve been speaking to a few people [at Makerbot] who prefer to remain anonymous and most of my contacts there are gone (the head of PR was apparently fired) and don’t want to talk. But the new from inside is troubling. The mass-layoffs are blamed on low revenue and one former employee wrote “Company was failing. Couldn’t pay vendors, had to downsize.” Do I think Makerbot will sink? At this point I don’t know.
]]>makerbot 3d-printing startups downsizing layoffs ouchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0af9c6f66c4c/RBS collapse details revealed - The Register2012-06-25T12:25:41+00:00
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/rbs_natwest_what_went_wrong/
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