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This strategy works very well if you have a gigantic money printing machine, which Google does. Uber has a gigantic money incinerating machine. They don't have

This strategy works very well if you have a gigantic money printing machine, which Google does. Uber has a gigantic money incinerating machine. They don't have the ability to just have engineers spinning their wheels on non-business critical projects like Google does.

trenning 7y ago
Or in the case of Amazon you have both, printing money with an awful culture of churning through employees. They even structured their stock vesting around it.
- meddlepal 7y ago
  What is Amazon's vesting structure?
  - mirceal 7y ago
    when i was there it was 5% first year, 15% second year, 20% every 6 months in year 3 and 4.
  - kamyarg 7y ago
    Seems it vests over 4 years with 5%, 15%, 40% and 40%
    - meddlepal 7y ago
      That's pretty awful.
bonestamp2 7y ago
Especially with the outlook that thousands of contractors might become full time employees by law soon.