This is extremely correct and captures all the problems quite well. I will add that the Amazon 2 pizza team model is inherently unsuitable to building a whole class of products. I remember all kinds of small 2 pizza teams having multiple "scientists", even if they did nothing other than running models from Github.
Almost all big tech companies face the same problem in slightly different ways, and further increased due to the sloppy hiring in recent years. In Google they hired tons of extremely incompetent folks, and now those folks band up together and try to closely guard information, as that is the only way they can ensure their performance is not very bad compared to others. People who are both technically and politically incompetent get pushed out, while the politically savvy and technically incompetent ones manage to create moats for their survival.
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This is extremely correct and captures all the problems quite well. I will add that the Amazon 2 pizza team model is inherently unsuitable to building a whole class of products. I remember all kinds of small 2 pizza teams having multiple "scientists", even if they did nothing other than running models from Github.
Almost all big tech companies face the same problem in slightly different ways, and further increased due to the sloppy hiring in recent years. In Google they hired tons of extremely incompetent folks, and now those folks band up together and try to closely guard information, as that is the only way they can ensure their performance is not very bad compared to others. People who are both technically and politically incompetent get pushed out, while the politically savvy and technically incompetent ones manage to create moats for their survival.