2022-01-05

  • ☀️Daily Log:
    • Flight to Vancouver
      • Using the Centurion Lounge to work
    • Ben Adam - I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
      • interview learn the org structure before joining, the goals of the org and how that influences decision making, as well how that org interacts with other orgs
      • interview Amazon interviews heavily rely on behavioral interview process to assess how well you are aligned with their Amazon Leadership Principles
      • interview If they offer an aggressive start, might be worthwhile to dig into why
      • Amazon operates like a federation of smaller companies
        • Organizations -> divisions -> teams
        • At this scale, centralization is the enemy of efficiency. To be efficient at the macro level, you would be inefficient at the micro level
        • Documentation is essential to its decentralized nature
  • Retrospective::