Thing is, at this point Amazon has mastered the art of getting away with employee-hostile practices. Take, as a separate example, their PIP culture. The bar to

Thing is, at this point Amazon has mastered the art of getting away with employee-hostile practices. Take, as a separate example, their PIP culture. The bar to get into amazon is fairly low (compared to peer companies) and so they tend to use PIP to maintain a high turnover and filter out unproductive employees. There's no shortage of engineers wanting to apply to Amazon (increasingly from overseas) and this churn seems to be OK because they have very good systems in place to onboard employees fast. For an engineer early in their career having AMZN on their resume can be worth the pain. At least among my peers in senior and staff/principal levels there's very little desire to jump ship to amazon though. Similarly, they can treat warehouse workers like crap because there are others willing to line up to take their place. Regardless of the conditions. What it boils down to is that many of amazon's employees simply don't have a better choice. And I'm not sure what can really help with that.