Amazon is for sociopaths

Amazon is for sociopaths. If you are type of the person who does not mind crushing anyone in your path to "success", then Amazon is a great place for you. No one will stop you as long as you have enough political skills to show how "good" you are and how "bad" others are. Technical skill at your job is far below as a job requirement since that will not save you if you lose at the politics.

Contradicting leadership principles allows your peers to knock you out of Amazon. Amazon's high performance culture is internally interpreted as your ability to step over others to climb up the ladder.

On the other hand, if you are a good person who who actually cares about your team, you will be penalized for your good intentions at Amazon. If you question those penalties, you will be thrown some leadership principle BS and told that your career is your responsibility and that you are failing to grow your career. And at Amazon, it's up or out.

So unless you end up with one of the few good managers (and these don't last as the Amazon culture doesn't support them), you are always in danger of being fired and eventually you'll give up and just leave.