For AWS, Amazon does not hire employees that it needs to "squeeze" in order to get acceptable performance. Amazon [1] aims to recruit and keep the best employee

For AWS, Amazon does not hire employees that it needs to "squeeze" in order to get acceptable performance. Amazon [1] aims to recruit and keep the best employees, who are talented and driven to build the future. It deploys the resources necessary to do so, and operates in a way that empowers them to innovate and find success. The federal government, in the name of cutting waste and fighting corruption, largely is forced to do the opposite in the IT space (with a few rare exceptions). [1] Not implying Amazon is alone on this; all the big cloud operators do.