Title says it. Am borderline HV/TT at Amazon and know I’m up for promo in Q1 (Seattle location). Have opportunities at Airbnb and DocuSign for equivalent and likely even higher level roles in both but don’t yet know comp offering, just know it’ll be higher than anything the promo will give me at Amazon (likely 50k+).
Factoring in market conditions and a possible downturn and their product offerings, which would you choose?
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Interesting problems, room for growth, strong tech leadership, talented co workers, great work life balance, close knit culture, top tier pay (tech), new senior leadership from Google (CTO), Amazon (President is Homes, CFO ), and Instagram (Product).
Perks/benefits are for sure better at DocuSign and Airbnb, but what about Airbnb comp package? How is that broken out?
TC is 300+ today and would need to much higher base, bonus and a lot of options to make it worth the move. Think that is likely?
The thought of a 2019 or 2020 IPO is certainly enticing as well
I've seen $300k offered to new hire devs with 2 YOE at Airbnb. Typically ~$175k base, ~$25k annual bonus and $100k annual RSU's. I highly doubt they'd be unwilling to match or beat your current comp.
How much is cash versus paper money with Airbnb these days though? Since it’s so late in the pre IPO game with them, options don’t stand to be exercisable or worth a ton for a while after going public.
Base, bonus % are king early on
In talking to them, they did say the Seattle office needs to grow to over 300 in the next year or so. Been through that kind of growth many times.
I would estimate your base starting around $220k or more. TC in tech for G10 runs around $450k. Also worth noting that bands get wider the higher up you go in level so YMMV depending on experience and interview performance.