* Tags:: #🗞️Articles [[FAANG]] * Author:: Ben Adam (Software Designer / Engineer) * Link:: [I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months. (benadam.me)](https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/#:~:text=The%20most%20surprising,of%20use-cases) * 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.