This Amazon employee had a startling realization when he spent six months trying to recruit new people

View photo. View photo With a background in consulting and investment banking, he figured he’d already worked among some of the smartest people he would ever meet, but joining the e-commerce giant proved him wrong.   “Lots of people had Type A personalities, were cutthroat, and all that kind of stuff, but in terms of just raw intellectual power, that was absolutely exhilarating,” he told Business Insider.

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