[vikinghckr]

As someone who works at big tech company, the reality couldn't be further from the truth. This is one of the hottest job markets I've seen. Amazon, who are known to pay worse than other FAANGs, recently increased their compensation massively to attract new hires. Microsoft is going to give a one time lump sum to everyone to stop attrition. I don't know where the author is coming from tbh.

[listenallyall]

> one time lump sum to everyone to stop attrition

How does a one-time lump sum payment reduce attrition? As soon as you receive the payment, you're back to seeking a better salary.

[Sateeshm]

It usually comes with an agreement saying you will stay another year or whatever. In other cases, it would at least make a dent in people's satisfaction levels.

[thaway2839]

Wasn't Amazon's increase over a year ago?

And I have never heard of Amazon being a low payer. I guess the people I know worked at AWS and maybe that was an outlier in terms of their payments, because they are paid as much, if not more, than people in similar roles in MS/Google.

[dominotw]

Tech companies don't just employ software engineers though.

[spacemadness]

They’re coming from the land of clickbait. It worked.