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> The general word on the street in Seattle is "Amazon sucks" Just about every dev that it's in the region knows this. It's why their recruiters constantly spa

• dehrmann 7y ago
  The engineer in me respects that Amazon built an engineering org that can handle that rate of attrition and still be relatively reliable and release new products.
  • senderista 7y ago
    On the contrary, the amount of wasted time and effort from attrition is mind-boggling. If the level of engineering discipline were higher, it might not be so bad.
• alasdair_ 7y ago
  >It's also why their compensation is mostly in stock. They know you won't last to collect your RSUs. Not only that, the stock doesn't follow a typical vesting period like "4 years, with a one year cliff" but instead is HEAVILY weighted to later years, so that at the end of year one you barely get any of it percentage-wise.
  • amznshill4 7y ago
    This is extremely misleading. A typical package looks something like: year 1: $150k cash + $100k bonus + $10k stock year 2: $150k cash + $80k bonus + $30k stock year 3+4: $150k cash + $110k stock The bonuses vest linear, daily, so there's no clawback if you leave during the first two years. Realistically, it means that you only get into stock comp if you've stayed for a few years and have decided that it's where you want to stay. Otherwise, you just get a nice big pile of cash each month.
    • throwawaytemp1 7y ago
      it's misleading for new hires, amazon has to pay them well. but internal growth at amazon is horrible and additional comp is heavily delayed