It also means your destiny is in your manager's hands, which can be unfair if you end up with a bad manager, or several new ones. And unfortunately at Amazon, this is very common (current employee here).
That's literally every job ever. You aren't going to have a successful career at Google if your manager doesn't want you to. The org golden handcuffs are gone, so if you have a bad manager, change teams.
For the record "bad managers" are no more common or less common at Amazon as any other company.
For the record "bad managers" are no more common or less common at Amazon as any other company.