It makes me nervous when I read articles like this and then do some research and find out that the author didn't work as an engineer in engineering teams. Someone will pick this up and say "Amazon does this - we should too!" Not really understanding the ramifications of this model for all the parties involved should be front and center when there are write-ups like this. It is so incredibly easy for this to go sideways and create so many problems once the work is done.
Yeah, this seems to be another person trading on the name of amazon for clicks without actual relevant experience. I’ve seen this with folks talking about the amazon writing culture and PR/FAQs who I know for a fact had no products or features themselves that came out of any such writing.
agree, the ambiguous context enables people in charge practicing quite elaborate mental gymnastics so they can justify copying big corp practices
however giving enough details might be prohibited by NDAs and whatnot, or even render companies as toxic/disfunctional so nobody will ever join them :)
