5 principles from Amazon’s culture to be a better engineer

Unlock the secrets of engineering excellence with insights from Amazon's culture. Learn how to navigate company politics, foster a culture of excellence, and make fast, informed decisions.

This is a compilation of public information and an opinion commentary on them All opinions here are my own.

This is part 2 of the previous week’s post

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A great company is made of great people.

There’s no doubt companies like Amazon, Meta, or Apple have great engineers.

But culture can’t be left up to chance. Otherwise, Amazon’s US offices and Amazon’s Europe offices would be completely different.

We need a company culture to speak the same language.

As an engineer, I have found them helpful in navigating conversations with non-tech people

And I think you may find them useful too, even if you don’t work at Amazon.

⭐ We’ll cover:

• Jeff Bezos’ uncomfortable phone call during a meeting

• How to scale your thinking and not rely on good intentions from people.

• How to deal with company politics when a disagreement appears between teams.

• How to create an engineering culture of excellence.

• How to make fast decisions.

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