I got through 3/4 of the article and had to quit. Simply FUCKING APPALLING organizational behavior. I can say with reasonable confidence that if I had discovered those tricks being done to my reputation behind my back, there would be fisticuffs. Fuck Bezos.
Fisticuffs...or worse. I've heard developer colleagues joking at times of excessive pressure and management nastiness at my (non-Amazon) workplace about "going postal".
At a large enough scale, you will get people who lack the coping skills deal with that kind of nasty environment. I suppose an employee going beserk and harming others would be the ultimate expression of "organizational Darwinism".
