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