Amazon is remarkable because they have such a comprehensively awful reputation when it comes to recruiting and retention. I know many Amazon employees and the

Amazon is remarkable because they have such a comprehensively awful reputation when it comes to recruiting and retention. I know many Amazon employees and the following is the norm: - Multiple manager changes after joining within months - Moving teams and offices within six months - Lifetime survival of 18 months On average - Intense pressure to hit high goals For whatever reason, they got away with running a white collar sweatshop for a decade. These Non compete changes and lawsuits Like the recent one against a former exec who defected to google signal a shift. Their model of thrashing their employees is now under pressure as Google Cloud have opened offices literally across the street and talent is streaming over there. Likewise, Microsoft has done a MUCH better job at managing and balancing forces of diversity, government, political pressure as well as local citizenship and international relations. Hate to say it but people get old and have kids. They can’t deal with the pressure. Microsoft and google offer better work life balance. Compared to Microsoft, Amazon has been making mistake after mistake with the government. Buying the Washington Post, for example, was an extremely political maneuver, it certainly was not to “support the news” as Bezos claimed and annoying trump resulted in the loss of the JEDI contract. Another four years of Trump and Amazon will be lucky to ever see another government contract ever again. Same with the bungled campus II in New York. I think they must be under pressure for talent now to be resorting to and enforcing Non competes, my experience with them is they have hired everyone that is not nailed down. Don’t get me wrong, the talent level there is extremely high. Competition for talent is a good thing. Their response to try to use force is going to get them in trouble.