Why do you think Amazon and Apple aren't like this? All of the big software houses compete for the same engineers, and they're all paying their incremental new

Why do you think Amazon and Apple aren't like this? All of the big software houses compete for the same engineers, and they're all paying their incremental new engineers +/- 10% the same total comp across the experience spectrum. I would agree with pascalxus, the big tech companies aren't price sensitive. That doesn't mean the average engineer can easily finagle a drastically out-of-band salary, but the bands are already exceptionally high and grow faster than inflation in the aggregate.