AWS base salary less than my current base
Recently, I was lucky enough to pass all interview tests to AWS and got an offer. However, they offered base salary less than my current base salary by appx 5%. TC will be bigger, but RSU is some sort of lottery, and Amazon stocks already shot high, so there are chances it will be a plateau over next four years with the stocks, I don't think it will go down, but plateau is the most possible. The role is not SDE, and called database engineer. Is it worth it to change the jobs to AWS? My current company is not the 1tier company, but at least they are famous in its own area of business, also I'm exposed to interesting technologies such as DevOps (ansible, puppet, terraform, python, Openstack and AWS), while in AWS mainly it will be Database engineer role (AWS customer support), so I'm scratching my head now. Does anybody know what the Database engineer role looks like (like day to day activities, etc) how interesting the role will be? Are there lot of politics? How busy, what is the AWS culture for similar positions.
Have you countered yet? If this is the first offer, try seeing if they're open to negotiate.
Ask for more shares. Don't worry about the base
You can just try to negotiate for more base. I successfully did this. The base salary caps out at 160k though; even directors with 500k+ TC only make 160k base
TC close to 160K(base + RSU +Signon) on top of it also pension plan. (10% of base salary as per local legislation). AWS job IS NOT BASED IN US or Canada. That's why TC is bit on lower side, but I'm pretty happy in the country where I'm now.
Hi Can you give me more input on the kind of work you are doing as a Database Developer role in AWS ??
Public company RSU are not a lottery
Lehman Brothers was also public company, as well as many other. But I'm not going to argue, question is how fast it will grow over the time when I'll be eligible to cash those stocks. 0% growth, positive or negative growth. That is the question. This is why base salary is the safety cushion.
If you can tell the future of a stock you should quit your job and go into investing full-time
> I don't think it will go down Oh boy the next recession is going to find a lot of people with their pants down. Check what happened to Amzn stock after the .com burst for some context.
That was way before Amazon was profitable. What's going to kill amazon stock is when AWS is forced to break off from Amazon and there goes Amazon profitability.
Only change jobs for 15-20% increase in TC. You will be okay even if stock drops. 90% of all stock movement is the general stock market, not due to a particular company... So you can look at last 20y of stock market to find your expected salary y1, y2, y3, y4.
I told you what to do...
TC and offer details