Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by potatolicious on Thursday November 13, 2014 @12:48PM (#8602844)

You've already answered a bunch of these, but I figure a hard number would help put Amazon in context with other tech employers:

> "- What is the median employee tenure (a.k.a. how bad is the turnover rate)?"

When I was there, strictly limited to engineering roles, 18 months.

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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by FlyingLawnmower on Thursday November 13, 2014 @08:18PM (#8605287)

Interestingly, their stock grants vest over 4 years at 5%/15%/40%/40%. 18 months means you see a tiny fraction of the big sum that draws you into the company.

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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by potatolicious on Friday November 14, 2014 @01:57AM (#8606113)

Are they still doing that? Geez, it's a wonder they get hires at all.

Honestly, any vesting schedule that is non-linear is just a plain ripoff and should be laughed out of the room - or at the very least approached with extreme caution.

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