[stone-monkey]

Probably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention attrition begets more attrition, especially if it's "influential" employees who are leaving.

[9wzYQbTYsAIc]

> Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k

Does that salary cap apply to regular enterprise developers working for HR, Accounting, etc., too?

If so, kudos to Amazon.

[sokoloff]

Why wouldn’t the cap apply to those devs as well?

[9wzYQbTYsAIc]

I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t.

It’s just a little amazing to imagine that people doing the same work in different places of the country have such huge gaps in salary caps. I think the national average for a high-level software engineer is less than $150k per year.