Yes, there is absolutely no fucking way other than treating employees like they are garbage. Of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world, Amazon and Uber are the two most typical and everyone needs to follow them because obviously they are doing things the way it has to be done.
That's how all the great products we use were made. Like think about the Snuggly. Snuggly HQ was a brutal realization of Lord of the Flies. The bottom sales guy had his head cut off and stuck on a pike in front of the others so they'd remember their duty to the emperor.