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Lazy? It seems like you were not doing the job Amazon wanted you to do but rather some other job that you decided was better to do.

I think you did the right thing. But to me it seems the other managers were doing the job amazon told them to do, not being lazy.

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Those managers were definitely lazy. The parent commenter is not. As an Amazon manager you have tremendous power to screw over your reports and take credit for cutting out low performers. Not going that way and actually investing to "hire and develop the best" is the right and the hard thing to do. I think the hire and develop lp is the one which is enforced the least at Amazon and that's due to lazy management.

> As an Amazon manager you have tremendous power to screw over your reports and take credit for cutting out low performers.

You can call it lazy, that doesn’t make it any less of the goal or KPI Amazon created.

Sure. I agree with you here. These managers were lazy and it just means that Amazon internal KPIs reward lazy and use-and-throw management over actually developing talent. How sustainable this strategy is only time will tell.

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