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Re:Newly minted MBA? It's the best job market in years by Nicholas_C on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @10:38AM (#9458554)
Amazon seems hungry for folks without MBAs as well. I've had two friends without MBAs leave our company for Amazon, one was hardly out of school for two years, and they both received incredible compensation packages.
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Re:Newly minted MBA? It's the best job market in years by littletimmy on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:18PM (#9460478)
What does "incredible" mean here? Over and above market?
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Re:Newly minted MBA? It's the best job market in years by kyllo on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:26PM (#9461491)
Well it seems like the market is bifurcated. One is the Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/Facebook market where the starting salary is between 100-130k USD/year. My understanding is that Amazon is basically on par with this group, possibly at the lower end of it depending the specific position.

Then there's all the other companies out there that employ software development teams, and probably pay 20-40% less than the aforementioned behemoth firms on average. If you work at one of those companies (and I do), Amazon's compensation package seems incredible. But maybe a bit less incredible if you divide it by the actual number of hours worked. Amazon is notorious for being a workaholic environment.

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Re:Newly minted MBA? It's the best job market in years by Nicholas_C on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:05PM (#9463113)
Above market. My friends are financial analysts by the way.
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