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Re:Amazon Nova by MudAndGears on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:30PM (#42310972)
Everyone I know who's worked at Amazon says Jeff Bezos has his hand in everything to the detriment of product design.

I've heard multiple accounts of him seeing a WIP and asking for changes that compromise the product's MVP.

Re:Amazon Nova by queuebert on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:33PM (#42311016)
Is this why the everything besides the front page still looks like someone's first website from 1998?
Re:Amazon Nova by genghisjahn on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:43PM (#42311143)
"Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company."

https://gist.github.com/kislayverma/d48b84db1ac5d737715e8319...

I read that post every couple of years or so.

Re:Amazon Nova by foundry27 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:14PM (#42312181)
Why was this being downvoted? It’s first-party evidence that substantiates the claims of the parent comment, and adds interesting historical context from major industry players