[amzn-336495]

Amazon is not in direct competition with those companies. Amazon bottom feeds on new grad hires, people with restrictive visas, and interns. Their 90th percentile pay for developers is going to be about $120k per year with maybe a $150k total comp target. They may hire a few dozen top people per year, but for the most part no one ever quits those companies to go to Amazon.

[Phlarp]

Of course few people quit google or facebook to go work for amazon unless it's a Marissa Mayer-esque jump in the org chart.

The real question to ask is how many individual technical contributors does Amazon lose to the others?