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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by akhilcacharya on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:52PM (#25179921)
How is it not how an average works? They haven't exactly demonstrated that the average is lowered by significantly less talent on the low end, so I'm here assuming they mean everyone at Amazon is just slightly less talented. Any other view is just charity.

It's insulting, and I'm glad they were downvoted for it.

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by mav3rick on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:48AM (#25227068)
You might be the best engineer at Amazon better than 90% of Googlers. Your peers may bring your average down. Notice how you come ahead in this scenario. Amazon pays less, less perks, backloads equity as handcuffs. There is a reason top talent decides to go elsewhere.
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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by akhilcacharya on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:52AM (#25251591)
Please don't disrespect my peers like that.

> There is a reason top talent decides to go elsewhere

In what way are we not top talent? Cite examples.

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by mav3rick on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:51AM (#25227088)
You were downvoted as well. Why don't you just transfer to FANG if "brand" is important to you ? Saying you work for Amazon isn't going to impress your friends and relatives.
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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by akhilcacharya on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:52AM (#25251587)
> Saying you work for Amazon isn't going to impress your friends and relatives.

Do you have any proof of this?

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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by mav3rick on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:03PM (#25319294)
Your insecurity on every thread here. See a non tech person's reaction when you see someone saying they work for Google vs Amazon.
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