Engineer Says Amazon’s 6-Page Memos Part of Its ‘Secret Sauce’
When Steve Huynh was a principal engineer at Amazon, meetings began with a “study hall.” Amazon had a “reading culture” even among engineers, Huynh recently told the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, speaking of his time at the tech giant. Employees frequently drafted six-page memos, he said, which they shared with the company to update progress and…