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Corporate Culture Clash: Google vs. Amazon
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Corporate Culture Clash: Google vs. Amazon

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A two-panel cartoon by Manu Cornet comparing the perceived corporate cultures of Google and Amazon. Both panels depict a central circle labeled 'EMPLOYEES' surrounded by a sea of figures labeled 'CUSTOMERS'. In the 'GOOGLE' panel on the left, numerous arms emerge from the employee circle; the hands pointing inward at fellow employees are holding guns, while the hands pointing outward toward customers are holding red roses. In the 'AMAZON' panel on the right, the situation is reversed: the hands pointing inward at employees are holding roses, and the hands pointing outward at customers are holding guns. The comic satirizes well-known stereotypes of these tech giants. It portrays Google as having a pleasant, customer-friendly external image but a fiercely competitive and politically fraught internal environment. In contrast, it depicts Amazon as fostering internal alignment while directing all its aggression and competitive energy outward towards the market and customers, a nod to its 'customer obsession' and notoriously fierce business tactics

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The Google diagram is just a standard performance review cycle. The Amazon one is what happens right after a product manager says 'We should be more data-driven in our pricing strategy.'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The Google diagram is just a standard performance review cycle. The Amazon one is what happens right after a product manager says 'We should be more data-driven in our pricing strategy.'

  2. Anonymous

    Google’s resilience policy: if employee happiness dips below five nines, automatically retry with more roses; Amazon’s: if customer latency breaks 100 ms, trip the circuit and route all guns to the on-call

  3. Anonymous

    The only difference between Google and Amazon's org structure is that Google's circular firing squad has rainbow bullets for better diversity metrics

  4. Anonymous

    The meme perfectly captures the architectural difference between Google's 'we'll deprecate your favorite product but give you free lunch' approach versus Amazon's 'leadership principle #14: everyone is on-call, including customers.' Google employees get roses while pointing guns at users who dare use Reader or Inbox; Amazon democratically distributes firearms to all stakeholders, achieving true parity in workplace hostility. It's the difference between a company that kills your projects with kindness and one that implements 'disagree and commit' as a literal combat doctrine

  5. Anonymous

    Google customers enforce CAP theorem's Consistency at gunpoint; Amazon delivers Availability via rose-tinted eventual consistency

  6. Anonymous

    In Google’s schema, EMPLOYEE is the primary key and CUSTOMER a best‑effort cache; in Amazon’s schema, CUSTOMER is the primary key and EMPLOYEE an autoscaled spot instance with preemption enabled

  7. Anonymous

    Google optimizes for DX, Amazon for CX - whichever you don’t write an SLO for becomes the error budget

  8. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Uff thats hard

  9. @Isaonn 5y

    with Amazon's messed up UX? Maybe vice versa?

  10. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    I waited for this version

  11. @prirai 5y

    In Google, it's the same.

  12. @prirai 5y

    Gun both sides.

  13. @sylfn 5y

    What about roses both sides?

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

      Nah thats unrealistic

  14. @punker 5y

    ахахаххаха (ahahahahahah)

    1. Deleted Account 5y

      where is translation!!!!! rofl

      1. @punker 5y

        added in brackets, sorr

        1. @picolino 5y

          lol

        2. @alexeyeva 5y

          those are actually parentheses...

    2. @dontmindmehere 5y

      *Laughing in Russian*

  15. @Roman_Millen 5y

    As a Twitch user, I highly disagree with the "flowers to the customers" part.

  16. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    I think people didn't get the joke

  17. Deleted Account 5y

    lmao

  18. @mainfme 5y

    Sure, and google, amazon, apple, facebook dont do this Small aged moron

    1. @nuntikov 5y

      Calm down

  19. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

    Tell that to the 98% market share of it

  20. @mainfme 5y

    🤦🏻‍♂

  21. @sylfn 5y

    I don't think YB is shipped with Ubuntu, but it's available from torrents

  22. @callofvoid0 5y

    translation : yandex

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