[letitgo12345]

It's an excellent way of getting your best people who have options to quit while the worst ones who don't are forced to stick around

[kimixa]

Those "best people" may also be some of the higher paid - so if you only care about short term results that may be more of a feature than a bug.

[nothercastle]

Does Amazon do anything that requires best people anymore? They could probably survive on decidedly mediocre