Spartycus t1_iwv3p2n wrote on November 18, 2022 at 4:05 PM

Reply to Amazon Recently Told Managers to Identify, 'Stack Rank' Low Performers Immediately by Truetree9999

If true, Amazon culture is about to be about silos of information where no one collaborates (if it’s not already that way). Stack ranking incentivizes this behavior because you know that at the end of the year the thing that matters is to not be on the bottom of the list. One could do that with hard work, but it works in reverse as well. Why help your coworkers when withholding information protects your own ranking?

Spartycus t1_itcfdsq wrote on October 22, 2022 at 4:03 PM

Reply to The fastest ever laundry-folding robot is here. And it's likely still slower than you by morenewsat11

Their great innovation: two hands!

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How is it possible that no researchers or engineers thought to see how hard it would be for them to fold clothes with only 1 arm… (I know they must have and that there were likely technical hurdles. Still…)