You were in a good bubble/team. I worked at Amazon around that time (I had left amazon right before that article) and noticed a lot of morale problems at work,

You were in a good bubble/team. I worked at Amazon around that time (I had left amazon right before that article) and noticed a lot of morale problems at work, and yes, people crying. In one of my most stressful projects, was me taking over the work of an engineer, who had a breakdown at work (crying and all), as she requested some time off and was denied. She obviously ended up quitting (or fired, can't tell). I was done with my project, and it was a super tight deadline, and had to finish her part and worked weekends for a couple of months. At the end, I barely got a thank you from my manager. The red flag would have been when I joined the company, as my team had a good-bye party for a lead engineer, who had been there for barely a year. During that lunch I learned that he left as he was burnt out, after just a year. And, yes, that was a very successful project and product at Amazon. That was a sign, that even if you product/project succeeds and does really well, amazon doesn't reward you but still treats you like being expendable. Anyway, your experience might not reflect many others in the company