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Amazon Web Services
Acquired
How to Build Out Our Engineering Management Discipline
Communication is so hard in the company. The natural thing to do and did try to do at this point in time was, okay, we got to improve our communication. At Microsoft, when they encountered this problem a decade or two earlier, they invented the program management role. There are not enough unicorn people out there who are 10x developers and also unbelievable sort of communicators. And so we'll just hire communication mouthpieces for the 10x developers. We can recruit these four sigma IQ engineer type people, typically terrible communicators. That way they'll have communication associated with what they're doing.
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