What Do Amazon, Google and Salesforce Have in Common? In-House Music Groups.

Minutes into a rehearsal of Mozart’s overture to “The Magic Flute” one recent evening, Amazon software development engineer Hsing-Hui Hsu waved her arms from the box she stood on. The music inside the fluorescent-lit conference room stopped. “Play it at half of that dynamic, now half of that dynamic, and now half that,” she instructed dozens of colleagues sitting behind their music stands. “Yeah!” she shouted as the volume dropped. “We’re in the final two weeks,” she reminded them of the time before their next public concert at the Amazon Meeting Center. Nearly 500 people would be attending.

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