Have offers from both of them. From work, manager, and team perspective Twilio is exciting but Amazon TC is 25% higher than Twilio and no more negotiation with Twilio. Don't know more details about work, manager, the team at Alexa yet. Being early in the career, care more about learning opportunities. Which one would you choose and why? Edit: I have other competing offers (Msft, Didi, Salesforce, OCI) which are paying much higher than Twilio but considering factors shown above in the table, Twilio and Alexa are the top 2 picks. Others are in the next columns. Edit 2: TC: Amazon Seattle TC = (1.25) * Twilio Bay Area TC Base: Same Equity: Same amount, different vesting schedule Signon: Twilio (0) vs Amazon (80k 1st year and 60k 2nd) paid monthly which is standard Amazon practice
Alexa
Free food though...
Twlllo anytime. With Amzn u are stuck with that comp for rest of ur life. Twillo has tons of growth and u will be getting refreshers and promotions.
Twilio. Alexa is a bad org to go to. There are hiring every second person on this planet as engineer. Lot of policies, tech debt, and bad software engineering overall. Came from there, please don’t go.
Wow Alexa sounds scary
@JNJ: Is it same across all the teams in Alexa?
amazon is already not that great and alexa sounds even worse at twilio, you like the team, manager, and work. sounds like an easy choice I don’t think 20% matters THAT much early in your career when you should be optimizing for learning
FYI the free food at Twillio is pretty bad
Normally I would always recommend starting with FANGG to get it on your resume and normally always take 25% salary bump. But man... Twillio is awesome. People there are great and the company is great
Exactly, that's what I felt about Twilio. But FAANG + higher TC at Amazon, so having hard time. Bdw what does extra G stands for in your FANGG?
Don’t agree. I had a chat with one of their PM regarding one of their products. The guy hates his job/life
is Twilio not willing to negotiate anymore? you should tell them that you find the team very compelling and the only sticking point is Amazon is offering substantially more and your [wife/husband/SO/family] thinks that’s important (always have a 3rd party to fall back on), so if they can come close you’d be ready to sign right away
Exactly this. Tried all the possible reasons and also told about other offers. They said this is final. They said decide quickly as they've other candidates in pipeline, plus my interview was not at par. Maybe that's the reason they're not budging.
What’s ur compensation at Twilio. Twilio equity might be very valuable in the next few years and Twilio does not keep ur salary flat because stock has grown. Evaluate the Twilio stock growth for next few years and make a decision. Twilio as a company is very good and really nice culture and people. Understanding the break up in compensation between base and equity will help folks here offer better suggestion
Updated the post. If we compare both the stocks, both have grown significantly. Both the companies are doing really great in what they do, they are way ahead of the competitors and growing fast. Plus both of them are very close to all time high. Given that both are offering same amount if equity, will it be wise to consider stock growth, which is very unpredictable in making the decision?
I totally agree with you on culture and people part.
20% is big. And Amazon’s brand will get you a level upgrade in 1-2 years at Twilio and many mothers firms. I would have take twilio if it was pre-IPO. Alexa has great teams all over and so that shouldn’t be a problem.
Do a quick search on Blind. The general opinon about Alexa is very different.
Yes, I did. Found varying opinions which was expected. So having tough time deciding.