[MCRed]

When you have a toxic manager at Amazon-- and I did-- you can't change teams. I had an offer from the manager of another team, but was fired when I attempted to change teams.

The idea that you can change teams is kinda a fallacy... sure it happens sometimes but it's more like horse trading than anything else

[umanwizard]

This sounds like something out of Mike Church's blog.

In the real world, I knew plenty of people who switched teams. Sure, there are pathologically bad managers and it may not be possible all the time. But it's definitely the rule, not the exception, for internal transfers to be possible.