Amazon

Pay, benefits, and career growth

I loved the Amazon Principles and how they were used in hiring, reviewing, and making decisions—really, everywhere.

In my 10 years there, however, it was really sad to see them degrade from principles used to guide business decisions to being weaponized. Most of them had been replaced internally by other monikers, indicating how they were really being used, like:

• Shut up, I'm the boss, I say so
• Commit
• Profit obsession
• Frupidity
• Just trust me, bro

Full of toxic people who will do anything to get ahead and useless leaders that are just hanging around for their stock.

Get back to focusing on the customers, not the shareholders.