tl;dr for those who didn't read the article. This data is from LinkedIn and based on their measures of:
1. Number of job applications
2. [LinkedIn] engagement
3. employee retention.<p>The 1st factor one may be biased by Amazon's larger employee base, which according to Google is currently >500k.<p>The 3rd factor is a big one and may be heavily biased by Amazon's exploding stock growth and horrible vesting schedule.<p>The article calls out Amazon's frugality as appealing to workers. If this is true, then human beings too easily act against their own interests. As a consumer, I appreciate their frugality toward their workers. As a worker, I would tell them to GFYS (in fact, I did). Their frugality does not translate to higher comp.