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Nintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?ki=job00149 https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintend
by socalgal2 9mo ago
Nintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year
https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?ki=job00149 https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?...
Amazon starts at 3x that and goes up
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries
- virtue3 9mo agoSome additional context to explain the numbers: Game industry in general pays like shit - japanese software engineering pays even worse, so double negative modifiers on salaries in this comparison. source: worked in games, worked at japanese tech company with us division.
- no_wizard 9mo agoYou need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.
- socalgal2 9mo agoI don't not. The person making the claim they weren't going to fire anyone was the president of Nintendo Japan