Even in my charitable view of my company, Amazon is INTENSE. We set extremely ambitious goals, and orgs are only expected to meet 70-80% of them. It's an envi

Even in my charitable view of my company, Amazon is INTENSE. We set extremely ambitious goals, and orgs are only expected to meet 70-80% of them. It's an environment that indexes extremely high on autonomy and flexibility for each person and each team. It is without a doubt a sink-or-swim environment. But, by and large, the ability to swim is based on individual merit.