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Amazon is notorious for paying pennies. 25k jobs paying 150k on average is a pipe dream. ask whole foods delivery people for Amazon fresh or whatever its called

Amazon is notorious for paying pennies. 25k jobs paying 150k on average is a pipe dream. ask whole foods delivery people for Amazon fresh or whatever its called. they are counting their pay including $5 mandatory tip they collect from customers.

TimJRobinson 8y ago
You're on hacker news and don't understand the difference between the salaries of software engineers and whole foods workers?
jhall1468 8y ago
So few sentences to be so wrong. First of all, these jobs were all white collar. Amazon's current new grad SDE's in NY and SF both have more than $150k in comp. New grads. Second, the food delivery people for Amazon Fresh are employees of Amazon. The Amazon Flex drivers is what you are talking about, and there is no "mandatory" tip for that service. What you're talking about is something Instacart and DoorDash was doing. Those are entirely different companies.
- ctvo 8y ago
  Why is this getting downvoted? It's much more accurate than the parent comment. Down voting because you dislike Amazon isn't a valid reason.
  - nkurz 8y ago
    The information in the second and third paragraphs is great, but it's being downvoted because the first sentence is unnecessarily antagonistic. HN has succeeded as a place for productive discussion for as long as it has because it still has an ethos of a joining together in a search for the truth. Prefacing a good comment with an insult (even one that might be true) damages the fragile ecosystem of cooperation. It's not that this particular insult is so bad on its own, but its presence encourages others to reply with escalated levels of confrontation. Downvotes help prevent the incivility from spiraling out of control.
- YeahSureWhyNot 8y ago
  nope, its the amazon prime now that automatically adds $5 tip to every order.

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Amazon is notorious for paying pennies. 25k jobs paying 150k on average is a pipe dream. ask whole foods delivery people for Amazon fresh or whatever its called

by YeahSureWhyNot 8y ago

TimJRobinson 8y ago
You're on hacker news and don't understand the difference between the salaries of software engineers and whole foods workers?
jhall1468 8y ago
So few sentences to be so wrong. First of all, these jobs were all white collar. Amazon's current new grad SDE's in NY and SF both have more than $150k in comp. New grads. Second, the food delivery people for Amazon Fresh are employees of Amazon. The Amazon Flex drivers is what you are talking about, and there is no "mandatory" tip for that service. What you're talking about is something Instacart and DoorDash was doing. Those are entirely different companies.
- ctvo 8y ago
  Why is this getting downvoted? It's much more accurate than the parent comment. Down voting because you dislike Amazon isn't a valid reason.
  - nkurz 8y ago
    The information in the second and third paragraphs is great, but it's being downvoted because the first sentence is unnecessarily antagonistic. HN has succeeded as a place for productive discussion for as long as it has because it still has an ethos of a joining together in a search for the truth. Prefacing a good comment with an insult (even one that might be true) damages the fragile ecosystem of cooperation. It's not that this particular insult is so bad on its own, but its presence encourages others to reply with escalated levels of confrontation. Downvotes help prevent the incivility from spiraling out of control.
- YeahSureWhyNot 8y ago
  nope, its the amazon prime now that automatically adds $5 tip to every order.