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mrnoonan81 t1_j9dl4tw wrote

Reply to comment by Longjumping_Worry184 in Amazon Corporate Workers Face Pay Reduction After Shares Slip by brooklynlad

Did they never grow out of the dot-com startup mentality?

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frolie0 t1_j9dpxtk wrote

They didn't have to. Their stock has been in hyper growth mode and people were making a fucking killing there. The RSUs over cash was totally worth it at that point. But now the scales have tipped and it's quite the opposite.

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mrnoonan81 t1_j9duhul wrote

I wasn't quite referring to their compensation strategy, but the "missionaries over mercenaries" mentality.

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