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Well, this just illustrated why a company shouldn't play the matching game. What did Amazon get for matching the offer? They got to keep you for a couple more
by blunte 8y ago
Well, this just illustrated why a company shouldn't play the matching game. What did Amazon get for matching the offer? They got to keep you for a couple more years at a premium. I'm sure you did some good things in those two years, but the accounting side would probably have a difficult time assessing the real value of those two years.
- lowercased 8y agomight have been just to avoid letting that particular skill set and experience go to a competitor. the value of that competitor getting that person was more valuable than amazon keeping him/her.
- beefalo 8y agoHiring a replacement would cost them a lot of money and the replacement would also expect $400k for the same responsibilities anyway.
- startupdiscuss 8y agoHuh? This seems like a non-sequitur. What does leaving in 2 years have to do with your worth this year? How many years would he have to stay to pay off this year? By that logic hires are bad deals if they ever eventually leave because you "lost" the money of their last n years.
- thorwasdfasdf 8y agowith Amazon's reputation, i imagine it's pretty difficult for them to hire and retain talent.