I was exposed to this while talking to an Amazon recruiter recently, while I also hear stories about how they seem to work people to a breaking point.
The median tenure at AMZN is also 1.5yrs, per linkedin. Their strategy seems to be to work their people extremely hard to earn their RSUs and pay them like plebs with hard caps on earning potential (base comp).
- 5% after 1yr
- 15% at 2yrs
- 20% every 6 months for years 3 and 4
The 401k match also has a 3 year cliff.
But as they said, years 1-2 you typically get a signing bonus