Brown Nosers

Amazon only promotes brown nosers. If you can get into your VP's inner circle, the sky is the limit.

Many workers have violated policies or have cherry-picked metrics to show good performance for just the performance review week, but still get promoted. You definitely don't have to be a good worker to move up. In fact, being a good worker won't help you at all. Most who are in senior management don't belong there.

If you ask different levels of management a question, you will get different answers because they all tell you something just to get you to go away, since they don't actually know how to manage such big teams.