On: Amazon Will Pay You $5,000 to Quit Your Job

[sib]

Note that this offer is for fulfillment center employees, not software engineers.

[gxs → sib]

Thank you for clarifying this, it was a source of confusion for me as well.

Not to sound elitist, but what is $5k to a software engineer making 120k/year regardless of the cost of living in Seattle.

This makes more sense.

[fletchowns → gxs]

$5k is still a lot of money for somebody making $120k/year

[Igglyboo → fletchowns]

It's no where near as much money as it is to the people who are actually getting the offer. It's like 2 weeks pay for an engineer and 2 months pay for a warehouse worker.

[takeda → fletchowns]

A single semimonthly paycheck.

[wting → gxs]

Amazon pays $95k for new grads. SDE3 is around $120k.

[crucifiction → wting]

Maybe for base salary, but Amazon is mostly stock (or bonus if you are new) heavy in comp...

[nemtaro → sib]

Thanks for clarifying this.