[b112]

Sort of the same with anything Amazon. Look at their retail website! It used to be the most ground breaking, impressive product search engine out there.

Now it's weird in a dozen different ways, and it endlessly spews ridiculous results at you. It's like a gorgeous mansion from the 1900s, which received no upkeep. It's junk now.

For example, if I want to find new books by an author I've bought from before, I have to go to: returns & orders, digital orders, find book and click, then author's name, all books, language->english, format->kindle, sort by->publication date.

There's no way to set defaults. No way to abridge the process. You mysteriously you cannot click on the author name in "returns & orders". It's simply quite lame.

Every aspect of Amazon is like this now. It was weird workflows throughout the site. It's living on inertia.

[shermantanktop]

We all say “Microsoft” “Google” “Amazon” as though each is a single monolithic entity with a consistency of culture, mission, and behavior. And yet I bet the company you work does things in marketing which don’t reflect how engineering thinks.

Your observations imply a root cause. But public information about Amazon’s corporate structure shows that AWS is almost a separate company from the website. Same is true for Google’s search vs YouTube or Apple hardware design vs their iMessages group.