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>I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries. I think that's a
by VirusNewbie 3y ago
>I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries.
I think that's almost certain. Even if IBM finds and rewards the rockstars they have and promotes them quickly and gives them special treatment, i'm guessing a lot of them would prefer to work at Amazon or Google. Not only would they make good money, most of their coworkers would be of higher quality as well.
- yuppie_scum 3y agoI bet IBM beats AWS handily on work-life balance, pressure from management, and most of the metrics of work satisfaction other than compensation and maybe office facilities IBM probably doesn’t use Chime for meetings, either.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoI always assumed a good chunk of developers derive satisfaction from either making software that is useful and used, or compensation. I don't see how IBM wins on either of those fronts. I suppose for a narrow group of people might prefer IBM, but certainly not the majority of talent.