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A manager I had at Amazon met his new team/underlings for the first time, and decided that a good way to start things off would be to explain in detail the process by which people are fired. I suppose he was trying to "motivate" them?

This same manager also later became notorious for angrily declaring that "<productName> has no technical debt!" in a meeting, despite the product being unable to meet any reasonable SLA for years (bad architecture, bad code quality, >100% annual turnover). Not sure I'd use him as an example of management there, but pockets like this certainly exist.




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