My first reaction was: good for them, I’m glad Amazon is really investing in its employees, and hopefully other companies follow suit. My more jaded reaction:

My first reaction was: good for them, I’m glad Amazon is really investing in its employees, and hopefully other companies follow suit. My more jaded reaction: I have a feeling these investments are employment-duration based, like many other benefits at Amazon. So On paper Amazon can say they have an amazing benefits program, but that’s all due to loyalty to a company that regularly works its employees to the bone. Final thoughts: I’d be interested in a study which determined how many of the non-technical employees given access to this benefit became engineers or IT professionals in a year or two after starting their jobs.