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

James Thomson worked at Amazon for more than five years in multiple seller-services related roles. The entire time, he was blown away by his fellow coworkers.  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 abs...