Unbelievable Attrition

I worked at Amazon in my local development center for more than a year. I agree with most conclusions in the articles on this site. 

I used to manage a team of approx. 15 SDEs (software development engineers) and we had an attrition rate of 1 SDE/month in our team. 

The situation for mid-level managers was even worse in my org. We had 12 SDMs (software development managers) quit in last 2 years and none lasted for more than a year. 

There is so much backstabbing here, it's unbelievable. The people who survive at Amazon are good at politics more than anything else. Thus, the political situation overall is unbelievable with so many sweet faces plotting the destruction of all others. No wonder the attrition is so unbelievably high compared to peer corporations.