playing the politics game

I also work at amazon and I want to say that everything I've read here is 100% correct. Not only do you have to burn yourself out to have any chance to succeed at amazon, you also have to play the politics game with not as smart coworkers to compete for a promotion. I have seen people getting promoted simply because they know how to to talk and kiss up to managers and directors while their code causes big f*cking problems every bloody day.