Amazon Day 1000
Ex Amazon PM here. Dont go by the Amazon way of working if you are a startup. They operate like its day 1000. Launching a simple feature can easily take upto 1 year (I am being optimist here).
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9 min AI interview5 questions
What’s the definition of simple feature for you?
A form with about 20 questions and nothing dynamic. Responses to these questions are fed to a system that already exists.
Heard of PRFAQ at Amazon! If it's written well and feedback gathered from all stakeholders you are never going to be late in delivery new feature or entire new product.
Work at my firm, Connectwise ( a product based company that's business facing ) is also super slow... ⏳.
Btw.. the Amazon app is super slow and sluggish. 🫤
One thing I learnt at Amazon was that frontend is given last priority. They have built such crazy requirements for front end that teams just dont bother making changes to them.
If they pay you well then why are you complaining. That's all that matters.
Cuz making good money has not much meaning to someone's life. Their purpose in life and priority might be different. If 40 hours of your work leads to only negotiations and no clear plan for launches or releases like how do you at a startup that the money and work can be very monotonous and of no value. I've been on both sides and i can talk for hours non-stop about this
May be u r in the wrong team, my friend is in a tram ,he says they work like startups
Possible. At Amazon, each team is like an independent entity. The tools they use, processes they follow vary significantly. Some teams use jira for product mgmt while some use aha or monday(ours used Excel lol). Some require PMs to demo their features to stakeholders and others require devs to.
Amazon is super duper slow.
I have always heard stories about burnout, toxicity, and huge amounts of work from Amazon people. 1st time hearing that it is slow
Burnout comes from a lots of meetings and unnecessary documents you are required to write. You are required to have weekly 1:1s with random seniors who will give you unnecessary work which if not done will lead to poor feedback.
you are a PM not a software developer.
Opinion rejected
That is the case with any major corporation. Product is already so complicated that making a small change is also difficult. The point is that they already have something that is making money. Highest priority is not to break it. Changes can keep on happening at slow pace.
Are they slow in adding you to pip as well ?