I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
&gt; In order to be efficient on a macro level, it requires being (very) inefficient at the micro level.<p>This is put succinctly.<p>Seeing Amazon from within was an absolute shock.  It is hard to be hyperbolic about the company&#x27;s technical achievements: Prime, AWS, 2-hour Delivery, Alexa, Prime Video, Amazon Go ... absolutely incredible, world-changing stuff.<p>But the experience of working there felt like the place was on fire.  People transferring teams in droves, joining in droves from outside, entire teams doing duplicate or triplicate work, managers of managers of managers of managers.  And yet the speed at which they launch successful products at global scale is unrivaled.<p>I&#x27;m glad I got to be a part of it but there&#x27;s almost nothing that could entice me to go back.