You can only move ahead because of politics

After 2 years at Amazon, I was extremely frustrated and started hating the workplace. I just hated going to the office. I started hating the people around me. I started losing my positive attitude about life. My blood pressure rose over 160 due to the inevitable stress you get at Amazon.  I couldn't reduce it without taking medicine. I ruined my health at the age of 24.

No matter how smart and hard you work, you can't succeed at Amazon unless you play politics. Many less hard working colleagues are succeeding only because of politics. Only one in thousand move faster in their career. And that comes with the price: you lose your ethics or your health.

All this lead me to think if Amazon was the right place for me to work. I took an important decision in my life, quit it happily and moved to a place where I am healing now.