Even leaving Amazon can be a combative process – the company is not above sending letters threatening legal action if an employee takes a similar job at a competitor. It’s more evidence of that ‘fierce competitiveness’ mentioned by Faisal Masud, who left Amazon for eBay in 2010 and received such a legal threat (eBay settled the matter privately). This perpetual exodus of employees hardly seems to hurt Amazon, though. The company, aided by the appeal of its steadily increasing stock price, has become an accomplished recruiter of new talent. In 2012 alone, Amazon’s ranks swelled to 88,400
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