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Bear in mind Nintendo has ~0.005% of the employees Amazon does
by _vqpz 8mo ago
Bear in mind Nintendo has ~0.005% of the employees Amazon does
- caminante 8mo agoIt'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%.
- bgirard 8mo agoRevenue per corporate employee are both ~1.5m/corp employee. I think it really comes down to how the company is managed and culture.
- socalgal2 8mo agoNintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?ki=job00149 https://www.portal.e2r.jp/fixurl/nintendo_career_job/id/4/2?... Amazon starts at 3x that and goes up https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries
- virtue3 8mo agoSome 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.
- no_wizard 8mo agoYou need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.
- socalgal2 8mo agoI don't not. The person making the claim they weren't going to fire anyone was the president of Nintendo Japan
- malfist 8mo agoIf you exclude non-corporate it's only ~300k.
- nielsbot 8mo agoWow.. that sounds like a huge number..
- WheatMillington 8mo agoOnly off by a factor of 100.
- notyourwork 8mo agoCorp or total? Amazon employees a lot of labor for fulfillment centers and other labor jobs.