I have offers form Amazon and Microsoft in India. Amazon is paying more by 15 percent. But after reading all the reviews here on Blind about Amazon, it makes me wonder is it really worth it ?
if you’re a successful manager yes, if you’re an engineer no.
Can you elaborate please ?
Depends on your hiring teams
Amazon is far too big to use such general terms. It is an extreme version of team dependence.
Yes and no. Depends on the team. Overall, it's not as bad as it seems here. The trolls and people salty over their PIP are disproportionately represented.
Microsoft culture is generally better than Amazon. Engineering and responsibilities are better/more at Amazon. But you won't care about that if you land in a bad team with backstabbing peers. If you are fine leaving in one year if end up landing in a bad team then you can chose Amazon's else Microsoft is a safer bet.
It's insane how dependent it is on what team you get. It really is
TC?
Not worth it
I had similar offer but in my case MS was paying 15% more than Amazon. I opted for Amazon because of work and I never regret that (though I have changed my team couple of time). Team culture really matters but you have flexibility to change team whenever you want.
Changing team isn't as flexible as it seems. You need to go through 2-3 interviews with each team. They look at your code commits, design etc. and won't entertain of u haven't done much. Many times manager put u on pip if u try to change team.
No