[InclinedPlane]

Amazon is a weird company, and it has lots of parts. Even at, say, Microsoft there can be a huge amount of variation from division to division and team to team on how things are run, the corporate culture micro-climate, etc. At Amazon this is even more true, each team is substantially on their own, and while there is a certain amount of global overarching corporate culture every group is different and some groups buck against the trend successfully.