It's been my guess that parts of Amazon can be good if you have a great manager who somehow shields you sufficiently from corporate. That aside, I speculate th

It's been my guess that parts of Amazon can be good if you have a great manager who somehow shields you sufficiently from corporate. That aside, I speculate that job-hopping culture means many people don't have to care much about corporate culture. In 12 months, they've gotten a lot of Amazon TC, added Amazon to their resume, and are ready to hop to the next place, before they're likely to get stack-ranking culled, or metricsed in a way they actually have to care about, etc. (Well, there is being on-call, which is one unpleasantness you can't just disregard because you don't care.)