Amazon

High hiring bar, and the bar is raised all the time. This keeps the company moving forward. You have the freedom to experiment and challenge existing practices, just bring data. Great executive team. They dive deep and challenge you. Make sure you are prepared.

It can be a tough environment for some. The bar keeps getting raised, and some long-time employees fall below it and find themselves managed out. Unfortunately, the bar is within each org, which means there are pockets of deadwood floating around and not delivering results.

Make the review process more data-oriented, like the rest of our decisions.

Lopping off the bottom 10% in each organization means that good people go, and deadwood remain safe in other organizations.