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Unfortunately, these have been the problems with Amazon for over a decade. It's what helped them scale, but leads to new engineers feeling powerless to innovate or try anything new. They live by their 14 leadership principles and sometimes use it to enforce behaviors they want from their employees. Hope you're off to a better job

Start an employee-owned co-op software consultancy to sell into megacorps to do what they're politically or culturally unable to do for themselves while keeping your own employees' work-life balance more-or-less actually balanced, and make potentially more money while retaining your motivation, sanity, and economic stability.

Well put. There’s a reason turnover is so high at these FAANG companies, despite the perks. Amazon is probably the worst of the bunch.

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Leaving Amazon (2023)