I moved to Seattle-town 2 weeks ago. This city reminds me a bit of my San Francisco, where I lived before school. It’s a beautiful and green town, with an edge to it. It has been fun to meet so many new people at Amazon and other MBA interns. Two weeks into my internship and I already feel like I have learned a ton. I have talked to many people, read more than 20 industry reports, and visited a lot of websites. In fact, I will be doing a presentation in a week to talk about all I have discovered about my project so far. It has been interesting to compare and contrast the culture at Amazon with that of Dolby (my previous gig). Both are laid-back, but in different ways. The dress code at Amazon is very casual. I often see very senior managers in shorts and flip-flops. There are at least 5-6 dogs on the floor I work on. I love that part as breaks are so much more interesting. At the same time, meetings are not as casual as they were at Dolby. People get down to business right away, and raise an eyebrow if a meeting is scheduled for more than 30 mins.
As for my project, it is a classic marketing and strategy project that I get to work on from soup, and 2/3rd the way to nuts. All the concepts and acronyms (5Cs, 4 Ps, STP, Porters) learned in Strategy and Marketing are rushing back and being deployed in real time. The frameworks have really helped my structure my internship. Over the next few weeks, I will be interfacing with managers in different segments of the company. I look forward to learning even more about the business through those interactions. I will leave you with a video from Ted.com, of Jeff Bezos discussing the analogy between the dot com boom and the gold rush.
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