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I can state quite definitively that Amazon is not paying its engineers nearly $300K. [/quote]

That's why I quit engineering, once I hit the ceiling.[/quote]

I realized this 5 years into my career as an engineer. I took a look at the older folks in the company and realized that they were my future and I did not like what I saw. I researched salaries for senior level engineers and it was just disappointing. Sure, a 100k+ salary is nothing to sneeze at but it became very demoralizing very quickly to realize that $150k or so was the ceiling unless I was a super star of some sort. I took a look at my dad who is a life long engineer, doing hard core stuff with encyclopedic knowledge base and the ability to quickly get to the bottom of a problem - it became very clear to me that doing engineering was not a way to become better than what my parents have achieved. I quit my job, got an MBA and have not looked back. I value my technical background, but only in so far as relying on it for an extra analytical edge and being numbers/evidence driven in my decisions and planning. [/quote]

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