Pros
- Domain and technology diversity - Autonomous internal organizations lead to experiences of working at different companies - Accessible company-wide educational resources for self-learning - Dog-friendly workplace
Kontras
- Autonomous internal organizations could lead to very poor experience contradictory to overall company management goals (the leadership principles) - Aggressive stack ranking comes with its own host of problems related to employee dissatisfaction, lack of team productivity, lack of trust among peers, etc. - Not enough senior individual contributors in technical roles for proper mentorship; it leads to pushing advices that are counter to industry standards and are detrimental to career growth outside of Amazon - Leadership principles can be over-indexed (like Delivering Results and Bias for Action) to the detriment of the product and customers.