I worked at AWS for 8 years. Overall it’s a good place to work, and I’d highly recommend it to junior developers just starting out. I left 4 months ago, but it wasn’t Amazon’s fault. I was treated well, was paid very well, and I liked the work. But I was always going to be working on someone else’s terms there, and I realized that wasn’t the ideal career path for me. I like working for myself better, but I don’t regr…
Did the numbers become so high in later years due to AMZN stock price gains? Or some other reason?
The jump in 2016 was because I got an offer from Oracle and Amazon matched it. I actually lost a bit from stock depreciation that year because most of my RSUs bested a week after Trump’s election.
For 2017 and 2018, yes stock appreciation is the reason for the growth over 2016.