Hey everyone. Recently got an offer to work for Amazon AWS. The details are: SDE1 126k base 50k bonus over 2 years 60k stock YOE: 1.5 Current TC: ~150k if you include bonus How does this look? I feel like the equity might be a little low. Also a bit concerned about wlb at Amazon. Although I think Amazon AWS would probably open up a bunch more opportunities for me in the long run.
Wlb- that’s a joke right????
I said its a concern
Why do you think AWS will open up more opportunities? Is there any data to back this up?
🤩🤩🤩 have you been living under a rock for a while?
A lot of people tend to think that working in AWS is going to improve their skill set. But the truth is quite a lot of teams are very operational heavy. There are people who have worked for more than 2 years but never got an opportunity to actually design a good system and implement it. Before saying AWS will open up opportunities, I suggest you assess the work you will be doing in that particular team. About TC - That's a really good base for SDE1, may be that's why stock offering is a bit low. You can try negotiating for a different split. But overall TC looks pretty good.
I was told I am being put on a team developing a new product so fingers crossed that I wont just do ops stuff
+1 I joined Last year and new product and all that shiny shit was thrown to me too. All I am doing is ops and taking the shit from other sde2s who will build a crappy product and leave. Thereby increasing ops load. Admit there is learning, but don't get fooled by name if you have similar options.
First, WLB in a lot of AWS team is not bad, in some it is pretty good. You will definitely be busy during your 6-8 hours at work. Second, to design a real world system, you need to know how systems fail in the real world, how systems work at scale, what are good and bad ways of failure recovery, and you really find out that minimizing failure recovery time is critical etc. All these things are super useful when designing a real world system. You learn these from operations.
Well that's encouraging. Thanks! I have some ops experience at my current although we don't quite scale to the level that Amazon does lol
Stock is lower than a new grad hire... my friend who started a month ago as new grad for 70k stock
What's the current offer for a new grad?
Is that stock per year?
When did u give the interview
A week ago