This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos bucks they’d be able to find someone better.
I don’t hear that blue over hired. They seem to be severely short headcount for the work that needs to be done. I think it’s more that inefficient management structure failed to capture process improvements so everything is just really hard and inefficient on a day to day pace. Most resources are dedicated to firefighting so it’s hard to make improvements. I had heard that Amazon had similar problems and instead of fixing recurring systematic process problems the Amazon model is to throw headcount at the problem.
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This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos bucks they’d be able to find someone better.
I don’t hear that blue over hired. They seem to be severely short headcount for the work that needs to be done. I think it’s more that inefficient management structure failed to capture process improvements so everything is just really hard and inefficient on a day to day pace. Most resources are dedicated to firefighting so it’s hard to make improvements. I had heard that Amazon had similar problems and instead of fixing recurring systematic process problems the Amazon model is to throw headcount at the problem.