Amazon leadership principles useful outside?
For those who have moved on from Amazon, have you found their leadership principles to be helpful in becoming a better engineer throughout your careers at other companies?
No, it's corporate BS PR
It’s the koolest of Kool-aids!! Once you believe you are going to be a “”leader””, you’ll be willing to throw all WLB aside and work for a low pay.
It makes you hold your amazon stock, which is useful.
But what about ownership and bias for action? Every dev should think from that perspective
I find almost all of them useful in the rest of life. Honestly read them. Most are really good shit, or good to aspire toward.
Yes. Absolutely. They’re surprisingly close to a lot of core company values we have and that I’ve valued over the years in my employees. Not everyone of them works in every situation - but people with ownership, bias for action, customer obsession(thinking like the end user), those who dive deep crazily when needed etc are things any leader needs in their people to be effective - you just don’t see them at lower levels , if you’re only looking at solving JIRAs and scoring story points. Once you’re running a sizable team - it’s pretty much common sense. I was able to relate to them right away because without calling them principles as such - it described a lot of qualities I’ve admired in my guys and seen a high correlation between possessing them and success/throughput.
No. They’re helpful if u ever want to go back to amazon tho, like at L7+