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Re:Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself by tyler- on Monday February 11, 2019 @12:53PM (#19136453)
What kind of skill sets do you have to warrant Amazon paying you that much? What kind of skill sets do developers have at this level that differentiates them from everyone else?
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Re:Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself by todd3834 on Monday February 11, 2019 @12:56PM (#19136481)
Amazon’s stock has gone up a lot. Likely that has a lot to do with it but if this is all base salary that’s awesome.

Usually big stock grants go out to those who have shown themselves to be force multipliers. If you can make everyone around you more productive than you’re contributing in ways that make companies like to put golden handcuffs on you.

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Re:Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself by DVassallo on Monday February 11, 2019 @01:01PM (#19136545)
My base was $160K, and the rest stock. If the stock didn't increase so much since 2016 I would have made around $380K each year in the last 3 years.
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