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This makes me recall Bezos posting to usenet in 1994 looking for potential new hires...

"You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible. "

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mi.jobs/poXLCW8udK4/_G...



That attitude still prevails. Last time I talked to someone at Amazon he said something "we get more done in one quarter than you finance guys get done in a year."




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