BONUS: Comparing Company Cultures with Jay

Ever wondered how the culture of big companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon differ? Jay comes with a fairly unique perspective as he has now worked at all three of them. In his discussion with Pascal, he shares his views on the trade-offs that a company value like “Move Fast” brings along and how companies assign different weights to the value of making mistakes.

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Links:

• Power On: The Story of Xbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJYsA1jXf60

Timestamps:

• Intro 0:06
• Jay Introduction 1:18
• Business Engineering at Meta 2:43
• Social Impact 5:35
• Culture Shocks 8:24
• The Value of Mistakes 14:15
• Finding your Pace 16:14
• Modes of Working in Different Teams 19:32
• Expectations vs Reality 23:36
• Workflows 30:02
• Incidents 37:26
• Internal Mobility 42:24
• Outro 45:30
• Bloopers 46:10