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Everyone gets a raise! Seriously. I'm not sure how well compensated AWS engineers are, however if the price engineering is just noise, why not pay the best in
by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
Everyone gets a raise!
Seriously. I'm not sure how well compensated AWS engineers are, however if the price engineering is just noise, why not pay the best in the industry?
- thinkling 13y agoHave you looked at what Amazon stock has done over the past few years?
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoSure, but realistically what's the upside? Maybe your stock doubles if Amazon gets to be as big as Microsoft, but that's unlikely given how razor thin the margins are. Sure, it could happen, but if Amazon is spending several billion on data centers and warehouses every year, that's likely to make a dent in the stock price.
- donavanm 13y agoAssume an SDE/SE/NE costs $125,000 per year on average. Multiply that by 10,000 employees to reach $1.25B per year. A 3% raise costs you $37M dollars. Not an insubstantial amount of profit to give up.