Hey Blind!
I'm a senior in college, and just finished my recruiting process, transitioning from consulting to software engineering (I'm CS/Econ double major at a small, liberal arts college)
I got an SDE offer from Amazon, in their Seattle/Bellvue offices and I had some general questions. First of all: is the offer at all negotiable? I know that at higher levels it can be, but I haven't been able to find a ton of data points specifically for undergrad hires.
If it is, the offer right now is:
$112,000 base salary
$26,000 first year signing bonus, $22,000 second year signing bonus
$80,000 stocks vested over 4 years (5%, 15%, 40%, 40%)
I've seen relatively higher offer numbers online, but am not sure how inflated those are, how much they're based on locality, YOE (which is ~0 for me as a direct college hire), etc.
Should I be trying to negotiate on these numbers, or take it as is? My only competing offer is a full-time return offer from Bain for consulting, so maybe not a ton to use as direct leverage
Thank you :)
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