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Comment by _vqpz 4 days ago

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Bear in mind Nintendo has ~0.005% of the employees Amazon does

caminante 4 days ago

It'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%.

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bgirard 4 days ago

Revenue per corporate employee are both ~1.5m/corp employee. I think it really comes down to how the company is managed and culture.

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- socalgal2 4 days ago
  
  Nintendo Japan pays its engineers ~$62k a year
  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
  
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  virtue3 4 days ago
  
  Some 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.
  
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  no_wizard 4 days ago
  
  You need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.
  
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  socalgal2 4 days ago
  
  I don't not. The person making the claim they weren't going to fire anyone was the president of Nintendo Japan
  
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malfist 4 days ago

If you exclude non-corporate it's only ~300k.

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nielsbot 4 days ago

Wow.. that sounds like a huge number..

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notyourwork 4 days ago

Corp or total? Amazon employees a lot of labor for fulfillment centers and other labor jobs.

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WheatMillington 4 days ago

Only off by a factor of 100.

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