While these projects are mostly in concept-form only, it should give you some visibility into potential future advances that we could build for our customers and employees. We are going to ask you to vote for your favorite project, which we will then get ready to go live. So, go ahead and place your vote!
Those crazies from the Zappos Development team held their 2nd annual doughnut eating contest on the first Friday in December. The team went to our local Krispy Kreme and purchased 14 dozen frosted Krispy Kreme classic doughnuts in preparation for this monumental and much anticipated event. Brent C., the fearless leader of the Dev Alliance, took home the gold last year after consuming 16.5 of the little deep fried rings of happiness. But, as you'll see in th video, Brent finally met his match this year, my friends.
Calorie for Calorie, these crazy DEV-ers all took the gold home for their wild disregard for sugar and Carb intake. Right on, Men....Right on!
Ok, so the Development team got a bad rep after the whole nerf gun scenario, and rightfully so, they did get a little carried away. Ok, more than a little carried away, they turned their area into a battleground and who so ever dared to enter was in for a few high speed nerf bullets to the body.
Well, it seems like the trigger happy Dev team has finally retired their nerf weapons - most likely in a location that is easily accessable - but none the less, innocent bystanders are free to walk in the Dev zone without needing a shield of some sort.
Behold, a video clip proving that Dev isn't all bad. You see, they're friendly and waving. For now. Muhahahahahaha.
The KY Dev group is 10 super heroes managed by Jon Jacobs.
In KY, our Dev team is comprised of 10 Dev-ers and they are led by the great Jon J. They sit in a little office writing codes in Perl, analyzing warehouse operations, investigating process inefficiencies, and starring at computer screens all day long. We decided to have a little fun and check out how hard they do work! This video shows what would happen in the event the warehouse actually did have an issue. Fingers crossed, we hope everything goes as smoothly as it has been!
Fore score and several weeks ago our Dev team raised up a great army unlike Zappos has ever seen in order to claim the 2300 building for their own. Today it was PM, UX, HR and Finance teams that decided to join troops and to fight this great army of nerf gun nerds. Though their courage is something that all of Zappos should honor, their army was no match for the smoke machine and customized nerf weapons.
Today we all take our hats off and bow down to the new kings of the hill - Development.
Maybe once the Finance and Human Resources army gains it's strength back, they will strike back
