- Tags:: 🗞️Articles Faang
- Author:: Ben Adam (Software Designer / Engineer)
- Link:: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months. (benadam.me)
- Source date:: 2021-12-03
- Finished date:: 2021-12-18
The world runs on Microsoft Excel, even at Amazon:
The most surprising thing I encountered when joining was how manual the vast majority of processes are. It blew my mind how many business critical processes were managed with Excel spreadsheets being shared via email chains. It is incredible how flexible and effective Excel is for such a wide variety of use-cases.