[googlywoogly]

Amazon went from an innovative tech company with an efficient culture where builders could build and ship great products, and where promotions where based on merit, to a completely toxic bureaucratuc hellhole, where all decision making has been hijacked by sociopathic parasites who have learned to game the system for their own benefit.

- most leadership, including technical, is now filled with compete imposters who have very little understanding of tech or market.

- product and strategy decisions are not based on data anymore. Any 'data' is now extremely cherry-picked

- it's standard practice to just completely hide/exclude any negative indicators/metrics.

- promotions are no longer merit-based. They are based exclusively on your ability to social engineer your managers/leadership, and your ability to manufacture metrics that sound good (to imposters who can't rationally inspect/critique them)

- there is zero real innovation happening at Amazon now

- good engineers are leaving in droves and being replaced by 3rd party external consultants

[_DeadFred_]

I knew some early on Amazon execs. There was crazy backstabbing of each other at the top from very early on.