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This strategy works very well if you have a gigantic money printing machine, which Google does. Uber has a gigantic money incinerating machine. They don't have the ability to just have engineers spinning their wheels on non-business critical projects like Google does.

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Or in the case of Amazon you have both, printing money with an awful culture of churning through employees. They even structured their stock vesting around it.

What is Amazon's vesting structure?

Seems it vests over 4 years with 5%, 15%, 40% and 40%

That's pretty awful.

when i was there it was 5% first year, 15% second year, 20% every 6 months in year 3 and 4.

Especially with the outlook that thousands of contractors might become full time employees by law soon.

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