Jeff Bezos defends Amazon culture in shareholders note

Amazon chief executive and founder Jeff Bezos defended his company's workplace culture and costly growth strategy in a letter to shareholders made public. The work atmosphere at Seattle-based Amazon became a hot topic last year after a New York Times article portrayed it as a "hurtful," Darwinian setting in which employees were pitted against one another to the point of tears to improve productivity. Amazon accused the newspaper of having painted a harsher picture than what truly existed, ignori