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An oddly gauzy piece. As an ex-Amazonian, I recommend the (complimentary, insider-written) book "Working Backwards" for those interested in a substantive look at how Amazon ticks.




> At Amazon, customer obsession isn’t just a value—it’s a constraint on every technical tradeoff.

Gauzy because the author simply fed his notes into GPT-4o or 5-instant. If the line above ain't rock-solid proof of this, I don't know what is. And I don't think that our, uh, author gave the model enough to work with.


Didn’t feel like it offered any insights honestly. Guy is feeling holier because he finally gets to work at Amazon.



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