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Did either NY or NoVA offer significant incentives for Amazon?
Source: https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-fund-amazon-subsidi...
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Close to 300k would be a person receiving an offer as an SDE 3, where with time spent at the company that amount is higher. It might have been different in my experience, but plenty of new people come in as SDE 3's should they have the relevant experience. The difference in compensation between amazon and fb/google/netflix is minimal except for at the very junior levels.
All I can say is: it doesn't match the accounts I am hearing from friends. For example, a couple of my friends interviewed with Amazon fairly recently, for senior engineering positions. In every case when the same person received an offer from Amazon + another FAANG - the other FAANG offer was substantially higher. In one case I know the exact numbers, and the other FAANG offer was 50% (!) higher. > The difference in…
I've worked at multiple fangs/unicorns, and any differences between these companies is largely marginal. Maybe amazon is worse now than I realized, and maybe other companies are better now than I realized, but overall, what ultimately matters more is that you're at a place that will allow you to keep getting promoted rather than any one company that pays more at any given level.
I feel this choice is a mistake for the company long term, they're putting resources into two very hot housing and real estate markets, that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees. Hew York is high tax (compared to Washington), unpleasant weather, overall high costs, and has a housing shortage, Washington DC, once described has having "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm" has similar issues of…
nyc is a terrible place to live for a lot of people. i personally can not stand it. dirty city, terrible weather, and rude people.
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Texas has taxes a lot lower than NYC. Dallas is far cheaper to live in, too. That's quite a difference. Even if Amazon gets tax breaks, its employees will not. Dallas vs NYC is lowest vs highest income taxes in the nation.
It's not about taxes though. That's what so many people don't understand. If you had a global behemoth of a company, and you were already based on the West Coast, then your links to Asia would be just about as good as they could be without relocating out of the US. But what if you wanted to go for a whole "sun never sets on the British Empire" thing? Then you would need better links from the Europe-Africa side of the…
I do think Dallas has so much potential though, and I think if you would look a little you would see the overwhelming number of similarities between Dallas and Seattle, both politically, economically, socially, and even traffic/transport-wise.
I just hoped, maybe naively, Amazon would want to move somewhere where it could harness that potential and help shape the city rather than merely rely on a city’s already established resources.
Dallas will continue growing without Amazon, just as Seattle would have, but I can’t say I’m not disappointed for my hometown.
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They have Microcenter and B&H, what more could you need?
Also 269 Canal Street. Not just another Chinatown jewelry shop. https://makezine.com/2008/03/01/269-electronics-canal-str/ I hope they're still there, that link is a decade old. Once I went there and bought a cable or adapter (I forget) - the guy tested it with a multimeter before selling it to me to confirm it worked. Loved that.
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This doesn't really explain why they didn't pick NJ or Boston which are liberal, well educated, incredibly diverse and multicultural. Also the sentiment of "reduce business regulations" goes together with conservative politics more often. I also disagree that "nobody wants to move to a socially conservative place". CA, Florida, Colorado, Nevada are all examples of places that were conservative or still are but appear…
The areas with the most growth are cities, not states. And Boston is already wealthy. The states you mentioned all have major cities that are seeing the type of growth I'm talking about. The real "losers" in this situation are heartland states without major metro areas, like most of the plain states and rural America.
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NYC has a lot of developers, more than the valley. It's already a 'draw' of sorts, this is an advantage. "DC, access to policymakers - but I see no real strategic advantages here." Amazon is going to become the #1 IT vendor of choice for the biggest government of the world AND reach their tentacles deep into the political arena for all sorts of other benefits. Military, FBI, CIA, Gov, Fannie/Freddie. All huge . Also…
These silly New Yorkers, with no sense of anything outside Manhattan. Put aside government -- which is enormous -- and DC has: - A long Internet history. MAE-East. UUNet. AOL. Equinix. Network Solutions. Microstrategy. - Let's not discuss the one of the single largest tech regions in the country: the Dulles Technology Corridor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_Technology_Corridor - A huge Big Data industry fed by…
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>Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere Why would you go to the other extreme? There are hundreds of large cities around the US that could easily headquarter these big companies and not become company towns.
Hundreds is a stretch. When you get down to the hundredth-largest city you’re at Des Moines, population 217k. At that point, if the company were to say “zero our taxes or we leave”, the city would do as told. How small can a city be and have a healthy relationship with an employer of 25,000?
I feel this choice is a mistake for the company long term, they're putting resources into two very hot housing and real estate markets, that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees. Hew York is high tax (compared to Washington), unpleasant weather, overall high costs, and has a housing shortage, Washington DC, once described has having "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm" has similar issues of…
> Washington DC, once described has having "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm" This is so great.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2006/06/04/a...