I am a former L7 SDM at Amazon. Just last year I had to contend with not one, but three teams doing the same thing. The faster one won with a half-baked solution that caused multiple Sev-1s. My original comment was half in jest; the actual way this works is that multiple teams discover the same issues at the same time and then compete for completing a solution first. This is usually across VPs so it’s difficult to curtail in time to avoid waste.
Speaking of waste, when I was at Alexa we had to do a summit (flying people from all over the country) because we got to a point where there were 12 CMSs competing for the right to answer queries. So yeah, not frugal. Frugality these days is mostly a “local” concept, definitely not company-wide or even org wide.
Oh man, i’m glad I read this because right now at Google I am immensely frustrated by Google trying to fit their various shaped pegs into the round hole of their one true converged “solution” for any given problem.
My friends and I say “see, Amazon doesn’t have to deal with this crap, each team can go build their own whatever”. Buut, I guess that’s how you get 12 CMSs for one org.
Speaking of waste, when I was at Alexa we had to do a summit (flying people from all over the country) because we got to a point where there were 12 CMSs competing for the right to answer queries. So yeah, not frugal. Frugality these days is mostly a “local” concept, definitely not company-wide or even org wide.