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Story tracks.

AWS != Amazon (e.g., retail; Prime; Alexa). For persons saying things like "I didn't experience this" + "I worked in AWS," this may be because it is quite common on the Amazon side. Managers routinely make up reasons for placement on PIP, for fear of losing their own job as well as outright narcissism. Like a cult.

In hindsight it's probably the greatest gift one can experience. The earlier one learns where they don't want to work and/or what "managers" they will not work for, the better.

Meanwhile, incompetent managers climb the ranks of "leadership" via lies, embellishment, and bullying. For Amazon, it helps explain why all their products and services are clumsy and chronically broken. The people Amazon treats so poorly, the ones who actually make high-value products and services, just won't return.