Lowered hiring bar

I worked at Amazon for more than 5 years before finally giving up on things ever getting better. The most noticeable change over time is the constant lowering of the hiring bar due to the high turnover rate and average 1-2 year tenure.

This company went from hiring A listers to C listers. Maybe because the company recruits so many C listers now, most of those who do succeed and survive for a longer tenure do so in treacherous ways. They have have neither academic nor professional accomplishments to merit their promotions and growth. They completely lack the necessary strategic vision or even intelligence that Amazon used to have at the lowest bar.

The culture at Amazon is so infested with these weasels who have "massaged" their metrics and scammed their way to positions of power that the newest employees coming in actually think that this behavior is normal and expected as Amazon's method of managing people. This is now every day leadership behavior at Amazon.

This has become a company where hard work is not rewarded. The well-connected, privileged class ease their way to high stock price wealth while treating their employees and even customers like some kind of crud their shoe picked up off the street, despite Amazon's so-called "Customer Obsession".