Ex Amazon here - and I know a lot of people in other FAANGs. On this kind of topic I try not to generalize across a whole (large) company. Things can be diffe

Ex Amazon here - and I know a lot of people in other FAANGs. On this kind of topic I try not to generalize across a whole (large) company. Things can be different across teams, offices, cities and countries within the same company. In my experience "no work gets done and there's no motivation to do any" is the very opposite of what I've seen. My suggestion: get out of the team bubble and talk to people in different teams and geographical locations. EDIT: on second thought, I don't want to speculate, but if the team has serious productivity issues the hammer can come and hit the whole team in future. Amazon, generally speaking, tends to push people to either grow or leave.