[amzn-336495]

Changing teams is pointless. Every manager of every team at Amazon has burner employees whether anyone knows it or not. Part of being an employee is trying to determine if you are the burner. People are hired in as burner employees at Amazon. That is unless Amazon stopped doing company-wide stack ranking, which obviously it will never do since it legitimizes pass-the-buck and is so beneficial to the people making the rules.

[khedoros]

> That is unless Amazon stopped doing company-wide stack ranking, which obviously it will never do since it legitimizes pass-the-buck and is so beneficial to the people making the rules.

I've got a friend who's a manager at the Amazon Game Studio. That part of the company at least doesn't do stack ranking in the way that it was described in the NYT article. There may be other teams (or even most of the company) that do, though. I think that teams in different locations end up developing their own internal culture, to a certain degree.

[deanCommie]

I know people at Amazon that are absolutely bottom performers and still don't get fired. It takes YEARS

[amzn-336495]

Oh...you think that stack ranking has anything to do with performance.

[deanCommie]

Look, we get it, you hate Amazon. Either quit, or if you are no longer there, move on.