This is essentially the long term endgame of any diehard adherent to stack ranking its employees.
Heavy stack ranking basically means for a life event, a worker is very likely to get axed. Any health event, having a child, partner has hard times, or management reorg that puts you with a boss that doesn't like you, and the writing is on the wall.
Companies with a good long term focus should concentrate on acquiring and developing long term workers.
Amazon in particular structures its pay (payoffs come from bonuses and vesting 3-4 years in) in such a way that if one takes a perverse sociopathic view of how they manage workers, that management is incented to rug-pull workers three-four years in so the vesting doesn't happen.
Amazon is DEFINITELY sociopathically and perversely managed to do this.
Once that fundamental disdain of your work force becomes ingrained, then all other organizational abuses (stack ranking, hire for fire, backstabbing) is all fair game.
It starts with stack ranking and the fundamental management sociopathy. Which anyone that looks into accounts of Jeff Bezos becomes apparent of the source.
So why has Amazon been successful? Amazon's advantage in the overall corporate competition landscape was simply that they built an integrated business+IT strategy while every other company treated IT as a cost and annoyance.
But they treat their people like utter shit, and as Amazon transitions from an explosive growth company to a more sustained presence, and from AWS from explosive growth to "utility", the now-huge middle management and workforce devolves from stack ranking and sociopathic disdain into a cesspool where only the wicked survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_workplace
Unfortunately, Amazon continues to ride a growth momentum, so the toxic workplace will be viewed as a positive. Nothing will change until serious incidents occur.
Of course Amazon is huge, so there are workers who may be in less troubled areas. Just keep in mind that toxic areas of companies that derive from corporate practices will inevitably spill over to the "good" parts. Amazon is acquiring massive amounts of pure sociopaths in their management culture, and those sociopaths will "eat" other idealistic parts of the corporate management.
Corporate america is adapting. Better integration of IT and management is going to come to Amazon's competitors. Amazon's apathy to its product fraud and fake reviews, now stretching into a three year ongoing problem shows that it is faltering. Its lies during its AWS downtimes show a blame culture in action.