[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.