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Because it encourages pathological behaviour.

Amazon's attrition goal is an open secret everybody knows. Once everybody knows that someone else's success is your failure, people start backstabbing eachother. They stop helping eachother.

The problem is that the attrition target is a quota that all of us had to fill.



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