Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by Pfhreak on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:47PM (#22295551)

The article itself discusses inferring Amazon's priorities from changes to their s-team, including doubling the number of AWS s-team members.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to disclose which events/meetings their s-team regularly attends. I will say that I did have several opportunities to interact with them directly in meetings, and indirectly via goals setting and annual planning exercises.

Peter Desantis is a long time AWS guy, and was present at many of those same meetings/exercises. Peter, and other s-team members, talk about what it means to be AWS. That they've chosen to make him an s-team leader says to me that they like the culture the s-team is cultivating, and want to continue to grow it.

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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by senderista on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:59AM (#22296428)

Did you ever meet Peter's dog Moose? That was the biggest dog I've ever seen in an office.

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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by jessriedel on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:04PM (#22295644)

But priorities is not the same as culture! This is such a broad and vague connection. The "priorities" in the article are all about different markets (fashion, Alexa, AWS, etc.).

I'm not going to litigate this further with you.

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Re:Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team sign... by offbyone on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @10:37AM (#22299254)

Probably for the best.. you're not really coming off very well here.

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