WHY AMAZON'S CULTURE MAKES ME A BETTER ENGINEER

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Amazon's leadership principles create shared expectations across roles and ensure that everyone is working toward common goals. The company prioritizes a single obsession to create a focused direction, with the goal of becoming the best in the chosen area. This allows for clear guidelines of success for both products created and for clearer role guidelines on an individual level, removing ambiguity from performance evaluations.