I interviewed with Amazon and passed with an offer But my process was very very long (yr and half) and since the position I was applying to was 0-1 yrs exp and I had 1 yr of exp back then I was offered less than my experience. Do you think I should mention that during offer negotiation or just raise it before they send me an official offer especially that I'm currently in the process with Facebook for an experienced position
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Use it to negotiate or raise the question now before an official offer made?
Let them give offer— that way you see what it is and then you can use this to negotiate
I would wait until you have an official offer. That will give you time to continue with facebook (and possibly have a competing offer), and research what you should expect for the position with your added experience. Also, take the time to write out and practice explaining your justifications during salary negotiation if they don't take the amount of time the process took into consideration. They should take it into account, but they might not.
I would use it to negotiate salary. I would not expect it to have an impact on your leveling.
Go with Facebook.....no brainer
Since you already passed the interview loops, it wouldn’t change much either you tell Amazon before or after the official offer. There is a band range for SDE 1 TC. And the range is much smaller than FB’s band even at the entry level E3. So if you successfully get E3 or E4 offer from FB. They won’t be able to match your FB offer unless you both agree to take additional interview rounds shooting for SDE 2. FYI Amazon’s SDE 1 high end band is around 158k - 160k TC. FB E3 can goes up to 180k - 200k+ TC, E4 goes up to 250k - 280k+ TC. The best you can do is focus on the interview with FB right now. And keep interviewing elsewhere. If things don’t work out at FB, use other offers and experience you get to negotiate Amazon to make offer close to high end band of SDE 1.
Actually I'm interviewing at Facebook for an E4 position
Amazon doesn’t really negotiate much and most of your comp will be based on RSU anyway. They jerked you around for a year? That’s very telling that you’re not a prime or top candidate to them (no offense intended). You should keep moving. Amazon is pretty much the devil
Amazon can negotiate a lot. My accepted offer was 80% higher than the initial offer. Although I was pretty senior (L7) and there was a bidding war.
Yeah it was a terrible experience.. I passed the screening and was scheduled for onsite then they cancelled it because the positions they were looking for were filled... Few months later they come again telling they want to continue my process after passing I spent forever in team allocation doing calls with all the teams
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