[hughesjj]

> in-person culture company - there just wasn't the muscle needed to manage a fully remote organization.

Eh. There was always a bunch of remote ("virtual") workers. I had teammates in Dublin, Japan, Seattle, and Denver simultaneously.

Yes some teams or even orgs could be limited to a single stretch of contiguous bullpens, but I swear James Hamilton hasn't set foot on land in a decade and he's svp

Amazon has long been one of the worlds largest tech employers. They have a heavy docs culture and were one of the least affected by the pandemic wfh switch (the corporate VPN was rock solid, chime still has some of the best video conferencing around, the meetings webapp was legit if a bit slow).

Honestly the transition was incredibly smooth. At least in my circles the push for async seemed to be built in, and I hated when we started going more sync style pre COVID.

I get that Amazon is huge, but corpinfra is a single department, and beyond most contemporary companies they really had their shit together.