[CapeTheory]

Amazon culture was on a downward trajectory for a while before this, but the decay really accelerated in 2022 and has only gotten worse. No amount of face-to-face contact will fix it, as there are now too few people (outside an elite group in Seattle) who really know what "Amazon's peculiar culture" really means.

[k99x55]

"Corporate culture" has had a downward history everywhere since companies started weaponizing "culture" to demand a one-way loyalty from employees so as to extract more unpaid labor from them.

[pylua]

Exactly. Company values, when it comes to those high up are essentially rules for thee and not for me.

[bubaumba]

Unlike Google Amazon was never known for its great culture. "decay" looks to be a global trend when managers finally "win" and start optimizing for short sited money making to please investors right now. Usually this happens after first generation of founders an visionaries leaves. Amazon, after short books selling startup period, was just a money making machine.