Technology adoption is a balance of new capabilities designed and marketed to meet consumer use cases that are known and unknown. This is a very tricky balance to get right and many orgs with fantastic tech fail because they built/marketed/targeted incorrectly. The pursuit of this challenge is what I love doing, and am told I’m good at. As I’m considering my broader fit in the tech landscape, I’m hoping that others in the same space at notable tech players can share their experiences in bringing innovations from ideas to commercial products and help me gauge who does it best? I don’t want to draw any lines, but specifically interested in the pace, process, corporate buy-in, success management, recognition, and enjoyment of the process from peers in the know. Thanks!
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On a consumer level, I think Apple and Amazon have pretty good track records as far as consumer innovation is concerned.
I’ve heard good and bad things about Amazon, but I’m curious how it works to get big ideas that drive big value through such a large and distributed machine? How are ideas championed, prioritized and how painful is the task of getting there?
Amazon is broken up into orgs, many of which vastly differ. My experience has been in AWS, and it’s been awesome. As far as getting ideas through, I think you’ll find at most massive tech companies, there’s generally a pipeline, and the lower you are, the harder it is to get heard or noticed. That being said, I’ve seen many L4s (new grad/recent grad) design ideas that higher levels and even architects deem valuable and put in place the goals needed to achieve those ideas. Specifically where I work, it has a lot to do with cutting internal server instance costs. I personally have implemented ideas that’s saved the company a few million, and I’ve seen other low levels do even more. Of course a company these size of amazon, it’s not hard to find inefficiencies, but it’s still really fulfilling when you see the month of month expenditure drop by several 0s as a result of a system you designed.