[jawns]

> Many of the AWS guys are life timers, do not care about money

I've heard, anecdotally, that Amazon/AWS engineers tend to be more money-driven than others in the same tier, or at least they're willing to put up with a lot more headaches because of the money.

Is that a misconception?

If not money, then what keeps them there?

[eru]

I used to work for Google and have friends at Amazon.

Google definitely seems to have the better working conditions. The impact on the world you have is probably similar. So relatively speaking, I'd expect people at Amazon to be into it for the money more.

[mrep]

Google pays better than amazon though and if you really want money, you go to facebook as they are known for top pay and promoting you really fast if you are willing to put in the hours.

Granted, this is assuming you can get into each one and there is some luck in that so a lot of people are just where they could get in.

[eru]

> Granted, this is assuming you can get into each one and there is some luck in that so a lot of people are just where they could get in.

Yes, though I assume that if you can not only get in but get at least one promotion at one of the big tech companies, the others would take you as well.

[StreamBright]

I don't know. Maybe in the lower engineering tiers. The senior datacenter people are not as easy to move. The made a fortune when AMZN went from 130 to 2000 in a relatively short time. Not sure though.