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	by _vqpz 140 days ago
	Bear in mind Nintendo has ~0.005% of the employees Amazon does

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It's also ... Nintendo's share price was stagnant, Japanese business culture...

FWIW, 8,000 (nintendo) / 1,600,000 (Amazon) is 0.005, so 0.5%.

Revenue per corporate employee are both ~1.5m/corp employee. I think it really comes down to how the company is managed and culture.

Nintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year

Amazon starts at 3x that and goes up

Some additional context to explain the numbers:

Game industry in general pays like shit - japanese software engineering pays even worse, so double negative modifiers on salaries in this comparison.

source: worked in games, worked at japanese tech company with us division.

You need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.

I don't not. The person making the claim they weren't going to fire anyone was the president of Nintendo Japan

If you exclude non-corporate it's only ~300k.

Wow.. that sounds like a huge number..

Corp or total? Amazon employees a lot of labor for fulfillment centers and other labor jobs.

Only off by a factor of 100.