[josephpmay]

Amazon is pretty famous for requiring everyone to read memos and provide feedback ahead of time to be able to talk in the meetings

[athrun]

No. People in the meeting are supposed to read the document _during_ the meeting—no pre-reading required.

This does not mean there weren’t a lot of back and forth between a lot of people to come up with the final memo.

[jkingsbery]

Right. Generally what happens is before a doc is presented to X level, it is reviewed with stakeholders at X-1 beforehand, they do a review and gather feedback, iterate, and then present to X level.