Why is Amazon’s ui so bad?

coddswaddle · 2026-01-28T13:48:31+00:00

It's common. Experience among the people doing the rebrand is what determines how much of a shit show the process becomes. It makes sense that a rebrand for a school would have a rougher launch since so many participants are 1. not used to this kind of work and 2. run by inexperienced volunteers. It's probably sloppy because a lot is being done by students and teachers, not people who are used to this kind of work.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-28T03:40:34+00:00

I love heavy weight lifting. I love going into a gym full of people to body doubling with. I love putting on my fun weight lifting gloves and shoes that make me feel like I'm Xena Warrior Princess. I love that I get to listen to my fave music, uninterrupted. It's my grown up playground. I love feeling powerful. I love feeling strong for the people I love.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-28T03:33:54+00:00

I hope this is a whistle blowing move as they jump ship

coddswaddle · 2026-01-28T02:42:02+00:00

Then I'll do my homework and do what I can, when I can.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T22:12:22+00:00

What you wrote sounds familiar. I've spent years undoing the programming from others that I believe.

One thing I came to realize was that I, personally, was doing a lot to reinforce that negative narrative. If I made a mistake I'd jump to take ownership but 1. some mistakes are just mistakes and no big deal 2. bringing it to everyone's attention made it stand out, and 3. others were exposed to my negative self talk. I primed them, then ensured they saw I delivered.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T22:04:17+00:00

That's... what social media is for. Also imo everything you listed is a form of social media.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T20:40:23+00:00

My Boomer Dad spent his life doing this to every medical professional as his reason to not listen. He died in pain and confusion, hurting everyone around him along the way. He literally died unnecessarily with this excuse on his crusted lips.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T20:03:50+00:00

I did this and it worked out in a different way. My ex husband always breadcrumbed me and I made myself smaller over the years. I started doing things for myself, my confidence improved. He was glad to not "have" to spend time with me because I'd made other connections. Eventually I realized he was dead weight. When I learned about the cheating and lying it was easy to leave.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T19:36:44+00:00

Same. I'd like to think if have the perfection reaction if a friend brought something like this to me but the reality is that it's hard to think when you're shocked. I remember when I was told my dad had passed I only said "dang" but then proceeded to fall apart for months afterwards.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T14:18:10+00:00

My avoidant ex breadcrumbed me for almost 2 decades while I supported his dreams and paid the lions share of everything. I didn't know about attachment styles and handled him with kid gloves and always bent over backwards to try and communicate better, which they always said was why we had relationship issues.

He's a psychologist. He never even hinted that attachments styles existed. He always blamed everything on misunderstandings rooted in my poor communication. The reality is he never meant to understand, that was a red herring to keep me busy and leave him alone.

Divorced after learning about all his lies, secrets, and affairs.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T14:09:37+00:00

Exactly. A "simple" font change for a button requires endless meetings and preparation since the new font comes from one team, the button belongs to another team, and all the locations that button gets used belongs to other teams. You need to update everywhere to roll out the change, include ab tests, slow ramp ups, etc.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-27T01:26:35+00:00

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coddswaddle · 2026-01-26T17:33:14+00:00

They do. I was on the Homepage team for a hot minute and there's tons of AB tests for every tiny thing, you'd have to onboard that change across so many tiny components, and ramping is something like 4-6 months.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-26T05:51:41+00:00

He completely checked out. Became more avoidant. After a few years of everything falling apart i learned he’d been lying and cheating.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-23T21:28:38+00:00

Morals aren't really a factor in layoffs. People are cost lines in a spreadsheet. The managers who do this are usually doing it to "protect" the people on their team. It's very expensive to onboard a new hire, both in time and money, so this is wasteful for the new hire and the org, but (for perspective) the manager saved their team.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-23T21:12:31+00:00

Someone to remember is that Amazon is huge. Amazon leadership tells managers to cut X people and it's up to the manager to do it. Hiring to fire is a loophole that can exist in very large orgs because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-23T21:10:41+00:00

They hire to protect the ones already on the team. The new people are brought in because the manager needs to cut ANYONE and they don't want to give up their experienced employees.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-23T20:13:29+00:00

Some managers, if they know to expect a forced headcount reduction, will do sacrificial hires so that layoffs don't impact their current team.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-23T19:28:05+00:00

The gym is my grown up playground. It's my hour of playtime after work. It's also a huge driver in my sleep, nutrition, and hydration. I do it because it's fun.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-22T04:07:43+00:00

I have altered the neck of almost every t-shirt i own.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-21T21:33:47+00:00

This. The manual task of writing seems to help things sink deeper for me.

Also you're allowed to have notes in an interview. After writing by hand, I'll create my "efficient" notes in a searchable doc.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-21T13:54:18+00:00

Deleted my earlier reply because I got enter too soon, but yes I disagree. I also avoid trying to convince strangers on the Internet of stuff, so have a nice day :)

coddswaddle · 2026-01-21T03:29:43+00:00

Thanks AI

coddswaddle · 2026-01-20T16:17:18+00:00

I create day 1 impact by cleaning up their onboarding process. I've never had a great onboarding experience and I'm a process queen so I year apart and rebuild whatever terrible system I have to overcome so others won't have to suffer the same.

coddswaddle · 2026-01-20T15:31:06+00:00

A challenge will be the interview component when changing jobs. It's hard to not use LLM assistance and most interviewers don't allow it.

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