My college friend told me about his terrible experience working in Amazon AWS. This was not a developer position and he has degrees from major universities and solid prior experiences. The experience was so degrading he quit after a few months and took some time off to recoup. He is now much happier working somewhere out of tech industry.

I wish Amazon had a better way for teams or projects to fail gracefully. Part of the companies strategy/competitive advantage is the ability to quickly spin up new projects/teams in a decentralized way. However, that also means lots will fail -- which is fine. But then for the individual managers on those teams, they often become stressed, toxic, and bully their subordinates.

Yeah I meant to point out that the form of bullying seems to be shame based rather than intimidation. But I count them both as bullying.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words hurt the worst.

They must run through a lot of people? I get several recruiting e-mails from them a week.

Can you provide more details about how it didn’t work for you? Just want to learn how you handled it