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    1. justin g.‏ @itunpredictable May 7
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      why does AWS do thissssssss

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    2. Jeffrey Hulten‏ @jhulten May 7
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      Because minimizing the value of labor is core to their business model?

      3 replies 0 retweets 27 likes
    3. Matthew S. Wilson‏ @_msw_ May 7
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      What Cory said does not bother me. But that ⬆️ does. Maybe other times it wouldn't bother me. Right now? Yes. It does. My patience wears thin.

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    4. Jeffrey Hulten‏ @jhulten May 7
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      Why? AWS recently lost a DE because he wouldn't be a part of their anti labor activities. You can think AWS is different because it serves Jeff's interests for you to think it's different. It doesn't matter how good your boss is. Once you are expendable so it's all the management

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    5. Jeffrey Hulten‏ @jhulten May 7
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      I am sorry if this makes you feel crunchy. I am sure your org up to, say, the SVP level is awesome. I am sure above the SVP level they are really good at looking like awesome people.

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    6. Jeffrey Hulten‏ @jhulten May 7
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      Is the initial vesting cliff still 24 months? Is the average tenure still about 18 months? That isn't a healthy organization.

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    7. Michael Johnson‏ @sysproc May 7
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      Getting nearly two years of labor out of people and then sending them on their way with minimal share dilution is a feature not a bug. It’s a very healthy system by Amazon standards.

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    8. Matthew S. Wilson‏ @_msw_ May 7
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      Tech workforce market dynamics are interesting. As I understand it, hiring folks who have been at Amazon for a few years is a direct strategy, and competitors in the talent market often pay a high premium for it. Is that bad for the worker?

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    9. Michael Johnson‏ @sysproc May 7
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      Having AMZN on your resume is a benefit for sure, but AMZN recruiters aren't selling candidates on the job opportunities they are going to have in 2 years. They are selling them on a package of RSUs that many people who accept the position will never see.

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    10. Matthew S. Wilson‏ @_msw_ May 7
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      I don't know that data supports the situation you are describing. Of course I expect that *some* employees will, for a number of different reasons, not see their first comp review with new awards, and a full vesting of their hiring grants. Few? Some? Many? Most?

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc May 7
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      Guys. You have to really really really ... really, and I mean *really* ... struggle to find a case that tech-workers of any category, anywhere, including Amazon are immorally under-compensated. We are all paid obscene amounts. College Hires. DEs. All of us.

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        2. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc May 7
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          Amazon does spread initial RSU grants differently than others; it takes longer for them to vest. We're promoting and selecting for long-term thinking from the get go and other blah blah I can tell you. But go look at the stock history. Holding those RSUs has been lottery-winner.

          3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
        3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc May 7
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          There is no mass-attrition around the 18 month mark. Do folks really think we could build what we have with that kind of unsustainable and toxic churn?

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        2. Jeffrey Hulten‏ @jhulten May 7
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          Replying to @colmmacc @_msw_ and

          Obscene compared to who? Certainly compared to the stories I hear about driver conditions.

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        3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc May 7
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          https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1121192376200912901 …

          Colm MacCárthaigh added,

          Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmacc
          Does anyone else feel that they basically lucked into a high paying career because their interests randomly aligned with scarcity and a rapidly growing field, and that it's nowhere near as hard, or as societally valuable as what teachers, medical professionals and care-givers do?
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        2. Matthew S. Wilson‏ @_msw_ May 7
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          I'm not sure about basis of the original conjecture. Surely it wasn't "tech workers aren't paid enough"...

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        3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc May 7
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          The narrative that we somehow con some of the smartest and most highly compensated employees in the world into accepting less than they think or something. Good god. To have that to be a thing to complain about.

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