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How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

And I don’t think they give out stock grants to warehouse workers, but I could be wrong.

Yeah. That's my point. And still people take these jobs and work very hard indeed. Try explaining "limited bathroom break time" to your average tech worker.

Average Amazon .com Warehouse Worker hourly pay in the United States is approximately $16.96, which is 7% above the national average.

People don't seem to understand the average worker would kill to make $80/hour and $200k in RSUs. Not a dream job, right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (10 children)

My point is that while it seems insane to leave half a million in RSUs to leave a company, if the person thinks their job is in a precarious position, it's extremely unlikely they would ever have vested them all anyway. So the money was never really theirs to begin with.

Now, is that DevOps engineer worth that much more than the warehouse guy who picks the item to send to you? I doubt it. But it seems like that's the going rate for a competent DevOps engineer with the relevant experience. While the qualifications to be in the warehouse are not quite so stringent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If they could pay less for a dev ops, they would.

So yes, the dev ops guy has higher market value than warehouse guy. It's basic stats.

Practically anyone can be warehouse guy. I can't be dev ops guy, even with 35 years years in IT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The big difference between IT and Devops is that IT fixes a problem, Devops solves it. In IT roles, I'm usually stuck pissing on the same fires over and over. In Devops roles, I'm given the time to go get a hose and put the fire out.

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