Amazon

High Salary - that makes Amazon think they just bought you.

• Toxic Culture - 10/10

• Personalized interpretation of Leadership Principles that allow managers to exploit their team, slapping their version of understanding of these principles to suit themselves.

• People don't matter to Amazon; only results do, even if it is overly illogical, which is the case most of the time.

• Leaders are spineless, as opposed to their own leadership principle that requires leaders to demonstrate their strength, be right a lot, and have a backbone. But, every leader is only serving their manager and so on, leading to an unreal and impractical goal-setting scenario across the company. This takes stretching the goals to a level where they become impossible to accomplish, and work-life becomes a myth.

• Amazon does not hire you; they hire your entire family. As you get so busy, everyone else feels the strain as well within the family, and then Amazon destroys any possibility of even basic work-life balance.

Have a backbone; disagree and commit. Such an aggressive culture still does not make you the biggest company on Earth. Amazon is challenged in the e-commerce space by new entrants, and the same is the case on the cloud computing side.

Try being a better employer – maybe that will do the magic, which is totally missing in what is currently a toxic company culture where everyone is spineless and working like machines.

The concept of having think-time is alien to almost everyone in the company. Bias for Action is a horribly rigged and abused leadership principle. Leaders have no mechanism to listen to such useful inputs.

The daily pulse-based feedback is a fake system that yields no outcome in improving the culture, so think about it.