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> Fun fact: Amazon is so big and the churn so high, that hiring talent has become the bottleneck. This is only true because Amazon refuses to pay market rates
by Alex3917 5y ago
> Fun fact: Amazon is so big and the churn so high, that hiring talent has become the bottleneck.
This is only true because Amazon refuses to pay market rates for talent. E.g. for the folks who write their technical documentation, they require that they have the technical skills of senior engineers, but pay them closer to what you would pay a recent college grad to churn out SEO blogspam. If they actually payed their technical writers the same amount (or more) as their engineers, their documentation would be great. They have the money to do so, they just refuse to actually do it, because they're big enough that they can externalize the costs of bad documentation onto their customers.
- angarg12 5y agoI can only talk for Software Engineers. Amazon pay for engineers is by no means low, definitely above the median. But it doesn't pay top dollar either. We are constantly losing good candidates to other companies for a higher pay. That's not counting those that don't even bother applying, for which we don't have visibility.
- flashgordon 5y agoCome on mate. If you compare every other employer on earth yes Amazon comp looks great but limit it to say FAANGs and it gets interesting. Even more when you look at vesting structures (even worse that even your 401k match vests after three years. Or that your refreshers are tied to what the current value of your past grants are etc!