alt Hacker NewsNintendo 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
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no_wizard • today at 1:12 AM
You need to compare the US division to get a more accurate comparison. Nintendo US pays quite well.
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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.