Shuffled Around

Our director transferred myself and another SDE to another department in our org last spring even though we didn't want to. We later found out that the only reason to transfer us was to help our new manager get promoted. He was really bad to work for, so we did escalate our situation to our director. Once the promotion was approved, we were transferred to work for another manager in the same group and this was also a bad experience, so we both quit right after that second transfer. Since both of us had been promoted in the past year, we thought that Amazon would value our careers, but we apparently didn't matter to our management as much as being used as placeholders to help their friends get promoted.