Yeah it's the money, I know Amazon "managers" with zero technical knowledge pulling in easily 500k+ and engineers with little experience or skills who got offers 250k+, amazon pays a lot of money and then tries to run software teams like a warehouse
No these teams with these people tend to be totally dysfunctional. It's not the case that they are skilled at producing value and doing important things for the product, just playing the game (often in a very evil way)