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Seems like it would be a lot better to realize you have a problem with management if your base (developers in this case) can't be retained or evidently bribed.

• cheeze 5y ago
  In my opinion, not really. Amazon management is far from great, that being said it's more that a developer that can "get into" Amazon can go elsewhere and make way more. FB is paying like, double of many of my friends at Amz right now and moving there is pretty easy. Goog is a bit less but still the same magnitude/ballpark. You can call raising pay a bribe, but isn't that what work is? I mean shit, I wouldn't do my job if I didn't get paid for it. I have way more interesting hobbies than that... In that sense, is everything a bribe? I feel like those words don't really mean anything. The increase isn't "we're paying all of our devs 350k tomorrow", it's "we can raise your salary up to 350, whereas before it was limited to 160"