December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 32m
English
In the early days of Amazon, experimentation was democratized throughout the organization. Almost anyone could test almost anything. Feel like changing a button colour today? If you had access to the platform, you could make it happen. There was a flood of dumb experiments.
An ex-Amazon senior staffer recalls: ‘(The tests) had no chance of yielding any value. There wasn’t any point to them. We were just kind of curious. We were just running a lot of experiments, which have a cost by the way, and taking up experimental slots…’1
They were throwing mud against the wall, seeing if any of it would stick. In the industry this is jokingly referred to as RATs – Random Acts of Testing. It is surprisingly common, ...
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