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Melania humiliated as UK premiere of her movie gets single-digit ticket sales (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] 224 points 5 months ago (32 children)

That's because it's a bribe, and not a documentary that's supposed to make money, lol.

"I’d be amazed if box office gets reported on this title," one industry insider told The Mirror, adding that the film’s distributors might be paying a fee to cinemas to screen the movie, an established practice known as “four-walling.”

Documentary filmmaker Stefano Da Frè, who was not involved in the film, told CNN that "data-driven" Amazon would not have invested that much expecting to lose money.

“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” Da Frè said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    “With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” Da Frè said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”

    Having worked at Amazon for a couple years this is the most hilarious thing I've read.

    If someone L10+ wants something to happen its gonna happen metrics be damned. Lemmings will fudge numbers and just make it work. For all the bluster about LPs and such it's a very top down culture and what VPs and above want they fucking get it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What’s an L10?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    TL;DR it’s a way of indicating VP level positions at Amazon. It’s someone really high up the chain. To put in perspective Andy Jassy is an L12.

    Longer answer. At Amazon every position has a level. I was a software engineer so that’s what I’ll speak to here but these apply to non engineering positions as well.

    L1-3 are non engineering positions.

    L4 is junior engineer

    L5 is mid-senior IC (individual contributor) and the lowest rung for Engineering management.

    L6 is Senior IC and middle rung for managers.

    L7 is Principal engineer and Senior Manager. For context only about 1-2% of the company ever get this high.

    L8 is Senior principal and Director level management.

    L9 you skip because that was Bezos’ level and everyone just doesn’t use it.

    L10 are VP level management. You occasionally get an IC this high when Amazon wants to poach talent from another company but generally this is reserved for management.

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