Recently went through an on-site round of amazon Alexa and after that recruiter emailed me that they won’t be moving forward. But didn’t mention about cooling period(6 months) and said that my application would be in system for other hiring managers and recruiters for consideration. Recruiter even m...Read more
Recently received L5 MLE offer from Amazon. The offer details are below: Tc : $300,620 Base: 160k Sign-on 1st year: 130k Sign-on 2nd year: 92k RSU: 76 The offer is for Alexa AI org. Is there a room to improve the offer? My interviews were excellent, originally interviewing for L6, was slightly sho...Read more
Amazon gave me couple ECHO Dots for free few years ago and I have only used it to ask her hows’ the weather like. I feel like I have lead ALEXA on for years, raising her expectations that, someday, I will find it in my heart to to buy something off of her. Truth be told, I never intended to. Someti...Read more
I'm declining a high L5 offer ( met L6 bar but did not raise it, and potential promo to L6 within a year based on feedback) due to being lower than my current comp, the requested # is within L6 range. The Sr managers all agreed on exception but finance team rejected the request due to the budget....Read more
20M founder just had my seed-stage startup acquihired. Never went to college, launched a company right after HS. I was CEO and acted as ops, product manager, and fundraising. My startup was in the consumer voice tech space (Alexa/Google type stuff) and we raised some capital. Looking to break into ...Read more
Have an offer for L6 Sr. PMT in Alexa org and a L6 Sr. PM at Qualtrics. Currently working for Amazon (L6 Sr. PMT) so not expecting a pay raise from a team switch. Have gotten the verbal offer from Qualtrics, waiting to see the details. Anybody has experience with both companies that can offer some...Read more
Got very similar offers from an early stage Series A startup and AWS to join as a Data Engineer. Currently working at Meta, and think I want to make the jump to the startup, but unsure AWS L5: Data Engineer II, Base: 175K Series A Startup, Senior Data Engineer, Base: 172K (Just raised 27.5M last m...Read more
I haven’t updated my Blind info in quite a few years, so for the purpose of this post assume I am an industy hire SDE1 who started at Amazon Alexa in Boston 1 year ago. This is my second pure software gig and I have 5-7 relevant YOE non-dev before then. I interviewed for L4, tried to push it to L5 ...Read more
Amazon L5 applied scientist ii in Alexa automotive team based in Santa Clara: 175k base + 148 stocks + 200k sign on Uber L4 machine learning engineer in uber eats based in SF: 153k base + 9600 rsu + 65k worth annual refresh and cash + 25k sign on Amazon says they can possibly increase by another 8...Read more
For context, I'm an SDE1 with ~16 months of experience and this is my first SDE job. How many of you do coding in your spare time? What kind of stuff do you do that you feel like helps you become a better engineer? I just feel like I dont get as many opportunities to program at work as I'd like in...Read more
Background: Layoffs are unavoidable in situations like these where businesses are losing money for various reasons and unable to hit their financial plan. I am sure that it's difficult for any executive (specially CEO) to do this and during this time its difficult to focus on future as past is so ov...Read more
I’m currently approaching 18 months as an account manager and I’ve been put through hell and back. From the start it was apparent that the Senior VM had no idea what they were doing and passed all the work onto me and the other AM on the team. They would always say things like, “this isn’t hard”, “x...Read more
https://hbr.org/2022/11/tech-talent-is-flooding-the-job-market "A recent series of mass layoffs in the tech sector, including Amazon and Meta’s dismissal of tens of thousands of workers, has created an incredible opportunity for companies that previously aspired to grow their ranks but couldn’t bec...Read more