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Google is better but it's an incredibly low bar. Amazon will drive these people to quit within a couple years over filling out MBRs and threats about how the M
by nixon_why69 21d ago
Google is better but it's an incredibly low bar.
Amazon will drive these people to quit within a couple years over filling out MBRs and threats about how the MBR isn't good enough (MBR = monthly business report, pure bullshit theatre that drives the whole company mad 2/4 weeks every month).
Google would drive them to quit over a longer timeframe, with no threats or harrassment, just because every time they try to ship something cool, someone else has a reason not to do it and that kills you eventually.
- hobofan 21d ago> Google would drive them to quit over a longer timeframe, with no threats or harrassment, just because every time they try to ship something cool, someone else has a reason not to do it and that kills you eventually. Yeah, I've never personally worked at any of those places, but collaborated on a few open source projects with Googlers and Xooglers and the slow grinding wheels of their "processes" that wear people down over time were very apparent. Nevertheless, it has been a breeding ground for many interesting technologies, even if it often suffocates them over the long term.
- SoftTalker 21d agoThey should be fine as long as they remember to use the new cover sheets. I'm sure they got a copy of the memo.
- NewJazz 21d agoDon't worry, I'll send them another copy just in case.
- SlightlyLeftPad 21d agoOoo yeah. Mmk that’d be great.
- darkwater 21d ago> Amazon will drive these people to quit within a couple years over filling out MBRs and threats about how the MBR isn't good enough (MBR = monthly business report, pure bullshit theatre that drives the whole company mad 2/4 weeks every month). Wouldn't be possible nowadays to LLM your way out of this? Really no idea, just asking.
- nixon_why69 21d agoI'm actually curious too, haven't been there in a while. It's possible that the MBR pyramid has become LLM assisted on all sides but the cultural themes are surely all still there. Honestly, the whole thing felt LLM to start with, tons of people lacking context and throwing words and summaries around.
- flopsamjetsam 21d agoLLM to write it, then all the managers just use LLM to summarise it :)
- timcambrant 21d agoThe next logical step to ensure MBR quality would be to introduce MBR reviews before filing, also done by LLMs of course.
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- darkwater 20d agoWow, that's ugly (and dumb!) as hell! Is this Amazon?
- tokenscoper 21d ago> (MBR = monthly business report, pure bullshit theatre that drives the whole company mad 2/4 weeks every month) Couldn't have said it any better myself having worked at AWS for close to 8y. I was there during their peak growth years and remember very well how some of these processes that were once not as maddening, devolved.
- Exoristos 21d agoWhy don't they hire MBR specialists and embed them? Leave the development groups alone.
- cowsandmilk 21d agoThey do, they’re TPMs and PMs. If you’re a development team at Amazon stressing over MBRs, you’ve failed to give those people the tools to pull important metrics themselves.