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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Amazon's philosophy is that higher-ups get paid in mostly stock and their salaries are capped at pretty much what Andy's salary is. Idea is that if you make ~300k in salary, but your stock can be worth anything from 40 to 500 million in 4 years when it vests, you're probably motivated to work extra hard to make the company worth more.

Stock grants outweigh salaries by 3x in senior software dev roles already, the executives make roughly the same salary, but more stock.