Question

Is it vital that it takes an organizational culture where you feel valued and upper management cares about you as a person to be successful? is a high-pressure culture necessarily bad? will it improve performance? Describe the culture of the company you currently work for or a past employer or a part time summer job, and relate its culture to Amazon.

Answer 1

1. Yes, it is very necessary to have an organisational structure where I am valued and is provided time to time educational sessions to enhance my knowledge base along with recreational activities to increase the chances of being successful.

2. In my opinion, high pressure culture if coupled with harmnious team work can be a great boon for the overall growth of the employee as well as company. High pressure can bring out the best from the employee and make him learn at greater pace. This also helps to learn multi tasking acts and prioritize work. However, there are pre requestions for it, most important of which is the harmonious work culture with support from higher authorities.

3. I have worked as SDE at Google and I can say that Google is an engineer's playground. Their code and tools have high technical quality. Engineers have significant discretion in their work, and there is little need to tie engineering work to business outcomes. Goals are very ambitious and failure is expected. However, many engineers work on relatively banal systems as their main job.

however, Amazon is the opposite. It is highly managed, but well: your work has a clear business purpose at all times. This means being held tightly accountable for results, but it also means a clear tie between your work and customer or shareholder benefit. Amazon has many speculative projects, so the odds of working on something futuristic are high, but the odds of your work never seeing the light of day are also high. In anything tied to retail hours and stress are higher than at the others.