[pyb]

This startling quote is in the article :

"Many of the people who helped create the Echo no longer work for Amazon..."

As you say, it sounds like success gets punished at Amazon.

[runT1ME]

Isn't it more likely that after shipping a 'named' consumer product, many of those engineers rose in value a tremendous amount and rather than negotiate a raise they took a huge salary bump working for Apple/Google?

[pyb]

In my experience, companies are not that great at recognizing and rewarding achievement. So unfortunately, I'll stick to my cynical interpretation. Also, we're talking about dozens or even hundred of people moving on from Amazon here...

[runT1ME]

>In my experience, companies are not that great at recognizing and rewarding achievement.

Is your opinion the crazy stock grants that are happening right now at big tech companies not due to achievement and instead just political or random?

[pyb]

Google and Facebook offer largeish stock grants when you join the company, no ? Google is also known, to offer some kind of bonuses on merit, but that policy is seen as remarkable in tech.

I'd guess Amazon is more political and/or stingy than the above 2.

Anyway I was not referring to big tech specifically.

[serge2k]

Probably more likely that a lot of people just wanted something different after years of working hard at lab.

Plus it's amazon, you stick around you are probably gonna end up doing oncall ops BS.