Current Amazon employee here (Senior Software Engineer) - I don't speak officially for the company obviously, but I wanted to share my experience. I am not a ma

Current Amazon employee here (Senior Software Engineer) - I don't speak officially for the company obviously, but I wanted to share my experience. I am not a manager, so I don't know the particulars of what goes on during the process referred to in the linked post, but I can offer a few things: My experience has been that people at Amazon are generally pretty willing to help each other in various different ways, whether helping a teammate on a project or helping someone new to a technology on one of our internal mailing lists. Many on the reddit thread take it for granted that Amazon is, as one person called it, a "hellhole." That is not at all my experience - I know others in different orgs or different roles may of course have a different experience. Amazon has been significantly less stressful than almost everywhere I've worked (and the one exception was not less stressful in a good way). At least among people I know, most of the people who leave our team join another team at Amazon. I've known a few people who have left Amazon, but we haven't had 5% of our team leave Amazon every year as this thread would indicate.