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Maybe all the back-stabbing and nepotism was data-driven[1]?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/how-do-you...

Ha! I was there for 6 years. The "data" at Amazon is really just "whatever the management chain wants" for their empire building purposes. If you help them in this goal, you go up, if you get in their way, you go out.

Exactly. The data is "cooked." We are literally told to make the numbers work, or else.

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