It's what I think Amazon/AWS is going through now. When they were in "fun growth" mode their obnoxious Bezosisms didn't really matter, but they are settling int

It's what I think Amazon/AWS is going through now. When they were in "fun growth" mode their obnoxious Bezosisms didn't really matter, but they are settling into an enterprise/utility/long term company. Their raising the bar and stack ranking and forced attrition and blame culture and backstabbing and sacrificial hires won't work. Instead, they produce a dead sea effect where you aren't getting good people, you're either getting sociopaths or people that don't have options to go elsewhere and not be organizationally abused. Because if you're good, you can go elsewhere. Other FAANG, etc. Did you see all the outages in AWS in December? Utilities have long-standing employees because they do long-term support and know the systems. Amazon's hiring does not reward or structure itself that way. It's for churning people. If you get a creepy impression from the hiring (and Amazon hiring should DEFINITELY do that)... well... I would say most people that go there are doing it for the resume and they are out within two years. The people I knew who went there were exactly that. Then they cashed out to better jobs.