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- vote Microsoft India to Amazon India Microsoft India bing L64 1.1 cr (56l base + 44l stocks + 10l yearly bonus) Amazon India alexa L6 1.5 cr 75 l base + (JB :65l first year + 50l second year) + 86 stocks (5%+15%+40%+40%) Please help. Don’t hate my ms job but tc bump is pretty good Yoe 1 Update: Joined ms 3 months ago
- vote Should I choose MSFT or stay at AMZN? Accepted MSFT offer before AMZN rating/hike. Got max rating and good hike. I prefer WLB, should I try to ask MSFT HR for more TC after accepting offer? Current Amazon compensation details: YoE=YaC: 4 Role: SDE2 Rating: Max TC: 240K TC next year: ~270K (after hike) Accepted Microsoft offer: Level:
- vote Help me choose between Amazon and Microsoft! I just received offers from Amazon and Microsoft Seattle offices. I have 1.5 YOE and wondering which offer I should go with. Amazon SDE1 (Alexa) Base: 140k 1st yr sign-on: 32k 2nd yr sign-on: 26k RSU: 41 shares/82k 1st year TC: 175k 4yr average TC: 175k Microsoft 60 (Azure, but the manager said
- vote Amazon vs Cisco offer Amazon - SDE 1 ( downleveled) Alexa team TC - 215k negotiated after cisco offer Cisco - grade8 TC - 186k including 12% bonus+ 10k signon both in bay area, 4yoe
- Need feedback on L6 PMT offer at Amazon Seattle Is this a good offer for an L6 PMT at Alexa org in Seattle? 270K TC (150K base + 25K bonus + 95K shares) 8 YOE overall, 4 YOE as PMT. #productmanager
- vote Microsoft India vs Amazon Cambridge UK Hello Everyone, I am a new grad 2022 from India,and I have these two offers. Microsoft India : Salary: ₹14 LPA Relocation : ₹3 Lac Signing Bonus: ₹2.5Lac first year + ₹2.5Lac 2nd year Stock bonus: $30,000 vested over 4 years Bonus: Performance - based bonus up to 20% of salary every year Total comp
- Alexa org'a salary Any insight on stocks, bonus, base salary for Alexa org in California? For 3-4 years experience as a developer
- Alexa auto team I got an offer from Alexa Auto team Bay Area. L4, 6 YoE TC 245 Base 175, bonus 60K, 38 RSU 1. How is the management culture in the Alexa auto team? Is the pip culture bad there as well? 2. How good is the offer. 3. Are juniors treated bad in this division?
- Amazon L5 Offer How does this L5 offer stack up? (Seattle) Team: Alexa Communications Base: 156k Bonus: 60k first year, then 40k second year Stock: 85 shares (~120k) Also, will Amazon typically buy out unvested stock that I have in MSFT?
- Amazon Alexa Team Recruiter A recruiter just reached out to me and would like to talk about a Software Engineer position on the Alexa team in Palo Alto. I have about 5 years of development experience. What kind of pay should I be expecting? Sign up bonus? Stock comp? Relocation bonus?
- Please help decide between Amazon & Walmart Amazon - L6 Senior PM Tech - Alexa (joining bonus + base + vesting stock) = 325k Walmart - X6 Principal PM Tech - Some AI domain (joining bonus + base + cash bonus + vesting stock) = 375k I interviewed for L7 at Amazon but was downleveled to L6 plus i heard L6 is a “stuck forever level”. Please a
- Alexa News How is Alexa News team compared with other teams in Alexa, or in Amazon in general, in terms of 1) engineering culture ? 2) average work load ? Is it like 40 hours of productive work / week, or more like constant crunch 60-70 I'm considering joining the news team, if all goes well after the inter
- vote Amazon alexa ml team vs Amazon kindle team Hi, i recently got offer from both Amazon alexa ML team and Amazon Kindle team as sde2. Job location is Seattle. Which is better team? Total Compensation: YOE: 3 years Base:160k Sign on bonus :110K paid over first 2 years Stocks: 200k for 4 years
- Evaluate Amazon Senior PM-T offer 150k base 80k joining cash bonus 100 RSUs First year total comp will be 200k. L6. Org is Alexa. Coming in with 6+ years experience in technical product management. Seems low to me, I am going to ask for way more RSUs. Any thoughts or suggestions on how this looks and what I should ask for? Thank
- QA II offer at Amazon Alexa - Should I negotiate further? I got an offer from Alexa team today for 135k base + 96 k rsu + 57k bonus. Can folks help me decide if its the right number? How much do people in a similar role make? It would be good to share this with my recruiter and get more if its possible.
- Amazon will offer me a job. What to do next? Hi community, I recieved a call from Amazon today and they’ll offer. The recruiter sent me an excel sheet with my compensation on it. Do i have to fill it? Whats the best way to negotiate from someone from moving from level 62 in Microsoft to L6 in Amazon. Note: i have a huge bonus coming up if i
- vote Please help me choose: Microsoft vs Amazon Microsoft TC: 320k (excluding 15% bonus and refreshers) Location: Bay Area Team: Yammer Level 63 Base: 185k sign on bonus: 100k over 2 years Stocks: 300k over 4 years Bonus: 0 -30% (considering 15%) Refreshers - 30k/year (No idea about vesting period) Amazon TC: 260k Location: Sunnyvale Team: Alex
- Evaluate VMware offer Role: SMTS Location: Palo Alto Yoe: 2.5 years in India, 4 years in US after MS Base: 180k Stocks: 100k for 4 years Sign on: 40k Target bonus: 17% TC: 245k per year Have cleared Amazon Alexa(Bay Area)as well, yet to get the numbers Will Amazon beat this? Where else should I interview to get clos
- Asking for advice.. Hi All, I have offers from Google (L4), Facebook(IC4), Apple (ICT4) all in London. I am awaiting exact compensation details. Which company is better for growth and good WLB? Current role: sde2 in Amazon Alexa Yoe: 8 years Current location: London Update: I got compensation numbers from all. Googl
- Amazon offer Alexa org Recruiter told me Amazon wants to give offer. I'm L64 at MS, and recruiter said targeting SD2 which seems under level. But apparently SDE2 is a wide band so hoping for comparable salary. The team is in the Alexa shopping org. Recruiter asked me about pay expectation. What is a competitive offer here
- vote Flipkart sde1 vs amazon sde1 Hello Fellow Blinders. Hope you are doing well. I have two options 1. flipkart sde1 ( adtech team).[ 20 LPA base+ 2 lakh pref bonus+.+2lakh signing bonus +1.5 lakhs esops per year] ~25.5 CTC 2. Amazon sde1 ( alexa discovery team) [ 19 base + 6.5 LPA bonus for first year and no stocks for first year
- Amazon L6 SDM offer Had interview positive decision on friday for an L6 SDM position in alexa org. Bay area What should be the expected numbers for this, please break it down in salary, sign on bonus and RSU? Please help. Recruiter will most likely ask me expectations on Tuesday. I am told base cap is 185k so I know
- vote Evaluate multiple offers: Rubrik Vs Amazon Vs Citrix I have recently received the below offers. Rubrik SDE1 Archival team Base 155k Bonus 20k RSU 45k TC: 220k Location: Palo Alto Amazon SDE1 Alexa Music Base 140k Bonus 25k RSU 20k TC: 185k Location: Seattle Citrix SDE2 CVAD team Base 135k RSU 17k TC: 152k Location: Florida 2 Years of backend
- Bloomberg Vs Amazon Smart Home Hello Everyone. I would appreciate if you guys can help me pick between the two offers. Bloomberg : 135k+15k+10k(relocation) Team will be decided after a 3 month boot camp. Location : New York Amazon Alexa Smart Home team (machine learning) : 120k + 35k (joining bonus first year) Stocks : 60k (
- vote Facebook vs Amazon Offer Seattle/Bellevue I’ve got a couple SDE offers here for Seattle/Bellevue, and I’d like some help and opinions about which to join. Here’s the breakdown: Facebook E4: 165k base 10% bonus 365k RSU over 4 years Potentially 70k RSU sign on bonus TC 290k each year for 4 years if including the 70k sign on bonus Amazon L
- Amazon total comp expectations Moving on to next round of interviews for Software Engineer (2 I’m assuming since I’m Sr level already). Recruiter asked total comp expectations... no idea what to ask for since no company I’ve worked for has had stock options. Currently at 125k base, 10-15% bonus with 3 yoe (just promoted to Sr so
- Help me transition to data engineering/ML related roles please ! I am a business analyst in AMZL with base salary 74k and bonus 10k. My background is industrial engineering. I know little of python, R, sql, machine learning and good amount of statistics. I took a resolution this year to learn the skills needed for me to transition to data engineering/ML related
- Amazon manager applied science compensation I'm interviewing for a manager, applied science (Alexa) role. This is a hands on management role with team management, system design and coding responsibilities. Three are not enough info out there on applied scientists and their managers' compensation. I've read and heard from current Amazonians
- Microsoft and Amazon Offer Evaluation (India) Got two offers both from Hyderabad location: 1. Microsoft (L61): - Team: ODSP (OneDrive and Sharepoint) - TC: 26 base + $100k stocks (vesting over 4 years equally) (number of stocks will be evaluated on the joining date) 2. Amazon (L5): - Team: Alexa Data Services (ADS)
- Amazon sde 1 offer I just got an offer extended from Amazon for an Sde1 role within the Alexa org in Seattle. Im currently in the Bay area so they extended Bay area comps and ive asked for a couple days to think about it. 145k base/ 40 stock units(5/15/40/40) vesting / 34/25k joining bonus acorss 2 years... Hows thi
- Alexa AI (intelligent decisions team) vs. Google applicatons engineer vs Micorosft cosine . Which one you would take ? Assume both base pay and sign on bonus are same. Though the job as AE is less sexy, I feel Google brand is good and I can learn a lot by going through their mono repo, let it be their internal review tool or NLP or ML projects. 0) If I contribute to other team projects during weekends , can I becom
- vote New Grad - Amazon or Microsoft + Negotation Hello, Looking for advice for my new grad offers. Amazon (return) Location: Seattle Base: 120 Sign-on: 37.5 yr1 /23 yr2 RSU: 88k (5/15/40/40) TC: 161 first / 155 after Team: Devices (not-alexa) Microsoft Location: Atlanta Base: 105 Sign-on: 25 RSU: 130 (25/25/25/25) bonus: 0-20% TC: 162 first / 1
- vote Amazon L6 Dublin vs FB L5 London Have offers from Amazon for Alexa in Dublin and FB for London (team after bootcamp). Amazon: €130k base + 20% bonus + $200k stock over 4 years FB: £120k base + 15-30% bonus + $260k over 4 years Amazon vesting schedule is horrible, but since stock does well might be worth it. Facebook mentioned ye
- Synopsys ML v/s Amazon Distributed computing Hi, Need offer evaluation. Current Company : Cadence Design Systems Current TC : 32 LPA (24 base + bonus, 7 stocks) Profile : Support Engineer (Lead AE) Work : Maintaining knowledge articles, handling support tickets and filing bug reports YOE: 8.5 years Have shortlisted two offers:- Offer 1:-
- vote Amazon vs Flipkart #flipkart #amazon Hi Blind Community, I have got offers from Amazon and Flipkart in Bangalore, India. My team in Amazon will be Alexa Data Services Team and the team in Flipkart is the Retail team. From the compensation part for the 1st year, Amazon's base salary is greater than Flipkart by includ
- Offer Evaluation |AMAZON | SWIGGY Blind community, I desperately need your help. YOE- 4 months Current TC - 15 Lakh ( 12 FIXED) Offers : AMAZON BASE - 19 LAKH SIGNING BONUS - 5 LAKH FIRST YEAR, 5 LAKH SECOND YEAR STOCKS - 7 RSU (5% 15% 40% 40%) ~ 19LAKH [4 YEARS ] RELOCATION - 1.5LAKH SUPRDAILY ( SWIGGY) BASE - 23 LAKHS SIGNING B
- Amazon SDM offer and team match help Currently in the team match phase. I was told upfront (prior to loop) about this being an L6 SDM - this is a major downgrade from my current scope (4 teams, 25+ ppl) yet I went forward for interview practice and with the hope they would see some L7 potential. I need some datapoints from Amazonians
- Amazon Should I accept or Not Hi I am from Apple in the Bay Area. i recently interviewed at Amazon for a Sr. PM-T role in Alexa. The recruiter reached back stating i was down leveled and now its a PM-T down leveled to L5 role got the offer. 145k 70k bonus split 2 yrs and 100 rsus. I have 11years of experience.I am excited abo
- OCI COMPENSATION IC-3 Recently got a verbal offer from Oracle OCI. Location : Seattle downtown Base : $150k Stocks : Approx 90k per year [ 6500 vesting across 4 years (25 % at each anniversary) ] Sign on bonus : $ 20k Total TC : 150 + 90 = $240 k No target annual bonus or guaranteed refreshments. 3 Years of work
- vote Evaluate Amazon vs Zoom offer Would love to get opinions on these 2 final offers. Me: Fresh CS PhD grad TC: $30K grad student stipend Amazon SDE II Seattle offer on Alexa Infra Base: $160K RSU: 87 Units Sign On: $135K first year, $100K second year Zoom ZP4 Software Engineer in San Jose Base: $228K RSU: $275K over 4 years. 1 y
- vote SWE Offer selection - Google vs FB vs Amazon I have these three offers (final offers) as an L4 / E4 Software Engineer generalist in Bay Area. Looking for some advice with picking one not just based on TC but in terms of - * High growth. (I've been a bit complacent recently). * SWE to MLE transition, opportunities to work on ML starting as a SW
- FB E4 MLE vs Amazon L5 MLE Hi Blind community, I recently received offers from FB and Amazon both Seattle. Fb: Base- 169k Signon - 70k Rsu - 365k Bonus - 10% target Refreshers- ~70k(if meets expectations perf as per recruiter) I was very close to E5 and was told that was borderline, and hence committee decided to go for E4
- Google vs Amazon Alexa AI vs Uber Freight vs Microsoft Got offers from those 4 companies. Advice needed. PhD 2.5 yoe with some ML background. Google L4, MTV, still matching the team. Potential teams Google ads infra, cloud data center supply chain optimization, still exploring more. Amazon Alexa AI, Boston, Applied Scientist L4 (interviewing for L5,
- Offer evaluation Microsoft l61, Google L3 and Amazon SDE2 One of my friend is doing master's and got offers from google, ms and amazon. He had 2 years work ex in ml prior to master's in a unicorn outside US. He needs help making a decision. He is interested in working on ml. Amazon Sunnyvale - SDE 2 Alexa ai - nlp + software engineering work Microsoft
- vote Go to Meta/FB or stay at Amazon? TPM Hello, TLDR - stay at AMZN or go to FB/Meta when TC would go up in year one, then down in year 2, but then higher again in year 3 when my AMZN cliff comes up. I am an L6 TPM at Amazon in the Alexa org. I have an offer from Meta/FB for an E5 TPM role with Meta in Reality Labs. I am in a smaller m
- Business Director in Medical Industry looking to break into tech any advice and or referrals Hi Blind community! First Blind post! I have had a lot of colleagues recently make switches to tech industry but never realized the large TCs in the industry! So I was hoping this forum can provide some guidance on next steps! I was hoping for referrals or advice on Amazon care, or any FAANG health
- Google L3 vs Amazon L5 First of all, thank you all for creating such an awesome community! From the last few weeks, I have been spending more time on Blind than on any other social sites :) About me: I am currently pursuing MS CS in one of the top US universities and will be graduating soon. This summer I interned at Goo
- Offer choice, Research Scientist, FB or Amazon? Hi all, I am a fresh grad PhD(0 YOE) in Machine Learning and I want to seek some advice on two offers I received recently. I interned at FB(that's why I have this account) and got a return full time offer, I also received a full time offer from Amazon, both have the title of Research Scientist. Com
- Why does Amazon PM get so much flak here? I got an offer for L6 PM-T at Amazon. TC 310k, YoE 4 post mba, Alexa on-the-go team, coming up with new 1st party experiences and APIs to enable 3rd party experiences for assistant outside of home. Trying to learn more about Amazon and whether to take it over a role at MSFT that pays 20% less. How
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