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- Don’t join AWS!!!!!!! I joined aws 1.5 years back. All the stories you hear are all true. I thought it would be different for me, no it isn’t. Very bad wlb, sickness, stress what not. Keep working at that small company, there are other companies with good wlb, don’t come here. Dont be the human who says we’ll see for ou
- AWS SA presentation Hello folks, I have a AWS SA presentation coming up and trying to figure out what is the best tool to use for it? I know AWS is not into PowerPoint or overtly visual storytelling. They would appreciate more verbose / textual type of presentation. Is this true? If yes, any recommendations on what to
- AWS Solutions Architect What kind of questions we should expect for aws Solution Architect online assessment ?
- AWS Offer Got an offer from AWS in the cost optimization space. How is this offer? Base: 140K RSU: 16 shares spread over 4yrs Sign on Y1: 17.3K Sign on Y2: 12.7K Location: NY YOE: 4 Is this a fair offer or is there room to negotiate? Where would be the best place to negotiate? Base or RSUs? My current s
- vote First Day at AWS — Wow! Made sure the first thing I did was sign up for Blind using my Amazon email. It was quite a ride. The initial meeting dropped 2 minutes in because my manager had to reboot his computer. The image on my MacBook was bad, and we had to reinstall the VPN client. I forgot to mention, everyone was super
- Aws comp!? I’m moving to the next round for an AWS senior technical program manager. They are asking for comp. What should I say? I hear they don’t have program managers so it would be building a whole program management team. Tc: $185 YoE: 15
- vote AWS or Expedia better option for new grad? Amazon Web Services or Expedia #software #expedia #aws
- vote Who pays better: AWS vs Non-AWS Got verbal offer for L5 at Amazon. I originally interviewed for non-AWS team but several EMs have approached me from AWS teams. Should I talk with those EMs in hope of getting higher comp? The question is who pays more? TC:peanuts
- vote AWS vs Meta I recently joined Meta and this company wide hiring freeze happened. This is making me a bit nervous thinking if I even made the right move. I was doing fine at AWS and had decent WLB as well and moved to Meta purely because of high TC and something new to work on. What do you all think? TC: 350k
- AWS Interview Result Had my final interview on Monday. Still haven’t heard from the recruiter yet. I have heard if it’s an offer, it’s usually rolled out within 2 days of interview. Any chances of me still getting an offer? What was your experience interviewing at AWS? TC 120K YOE 3 Update: Recruiter contacted on Fr
- vote AWS L5 offer evaluation Hi Blind fam, Your boy got an offer from AWS this week! 😊 L5 (FEE 2) - Frontend Bay Area 3 YOE Base: $190k Year 1 bonus: $120k (1/12th paid monthly) Year 2 bonus: $85k (1/12th paid monthly) First year TC: $310k cash + $10k stocks RSU: 90 shares over 4 years (5%, 15%, 40%, 40%) New TC: $320k
- AWS L6 Negotiation Have a verbal offer from AWS ProServ, but the recruiter said they wont give me any numbers until I provide them a desired range. Is that normal? Should I just give a high range? #engineering #software #swe #aws
- AWS - LinkedIn premium account Does AWS provide free LinkedIn premium memberships to employees
- Got an AWS offer I interviewed for L6 SDM and they offered me L5. Here is the offer details. Would love thoughts Base pay - $205k Sign on payment 1st year - $130,700 2nd year Sign on payment - $98,000 RSU - 91 Stock units #aws
- Solution Architect AWS Hello community, currently I’m a principal Architect in my current company and AWS is giving me a Solution Architect title , I was interviewed for Sr Sol Arch . This is a remote position TC - 225 Current TC - 175 YOE - 15 If this is a senior position I was up for a career growth. Now with this L5
- Amazon AWS offer eval 8 YOE HCOL L6 SDE Year 1 TC: 450 Base: 225 Year 1 Bonus: 205 Year 2 bonus: 155 150 RSU with Standard 5/15/20* vesting schedule on the stock
- vote AWS vs. MS Asking for a friend: AWS vs. Microsoft C&E team. #aws #microsoft (TC not finalized yet)
- AWS TAM Role Cleared the AWS TAM interview - what salary to expect for L5? Also if I decide to reject the offer but wish to join them at a later stage will I need to go through the interview loop again? #amazonaws #amazon #tech
- AWS killed Netflix With cloud computing (Fastly, AWS etc.) now anyone can build their Netflix be it boomer companies like Disney and HBO If these companies had to build their own CDNs and infra they would never be able to compete with Netflix
- vote Is Azure better than AWS? I'm seeing quite alot of articles stating Azure being better than AWS and most chalk it up to more features. However, I'm not seeing a feature comparison of what is missing in AWS. I have only really used AWS and GCP, I am very interested in hearing others' opinions. This is not trolling, I'm genu
- vote AWS SA L6 Canada Looking for feedback on AWS SA offer for Montreal Base: 190K CAD Bonus: 110K CAD RSU: 120K USD TC ~ 260K CAD Current TC: 220K CAD / 10 YOE #AWS #SA #Canada #salary #tech #
- vote Salesforce vs AWS? **updated post with latest info ** AWS offer for L5 role (non-swe): TC : 230k Cons: Benefits not so great 2 weeks pto 14weeks maternity leave (from day 1) and Additional 6weeks parental leave after completing 1yr. Total : 20weeks of leave Support for IVF or IUI for(2cycles) Mostly remote- ma
- Just got PIP at AWS after 4 months onboarding plan. Sorry if I am not being clear. I am shocked and highly upset with the lies. I am of with being let go but honestly. So this came as a surprise. Manager was distant to begin with, really terrible. Put me in dev plan after 3 months. Started failing me on my dev plan on purpose. First would Say did gre
- Stay Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure? Current in Amazon AWS under ML/Al L4 Base Seattle but remote now. Oncall is heavy now, they are trying to reduce it The Amazon team is recruiting and needs more people the revenue looks promising TC is good this year But still a little bit worried about PIP. Microsoft 60 at Atlanta under Azure
- How is AWS ECS team experience? Thinking of applying to AWS ECS and wanted to know if someone could share their recent ECS team experience. #amazonaws #amazon
- AWS Benefits Can people who work at Amazon/AWS shed light on the benefits, specifically: Health insurance 401K PTO Other perks I know there is a lot of hate, but I need some serious answers! TC: $155K
- AWS Industrial IoT? Does anyone know about that org? Got an offer but I want to consider various factors - trying to avoid a toxic org/program
- AWS Cloud Support Engineer Analytics Hello I have a final round interview with AWS for a cloud support engineer role in the analytics domain. Any tips for the final round interview and what to study?
- vote AWS or Non-AWS Title says it all. I know the hate for Amazon on blind but considering a switch for high TC, learning and career growth opportunity. Thanks. TC 185k YOE 8 #tech #amazon #aws
- AWS ProServe Onboarding Starting in a couple weeks and wanted some insights into what the first couple weeks to a month look like. Thanks! Blind Tax: $240 TC #tech #amazon
- vote AWS offer evaluation Got an offer from AWS for the cloud support engineer I role. How is the offer? TC: 130k Base: 103k Bonus: 24k/20k RSU: 21 units YOE: 3 I gave them my desired comp (TC 130k - 100k/20k/10k-rsu) before interview. Should I still negotiate? I’m also waiting for an update from MSFT which I interviewed
- Amazon / AWS System Development Engineer Hello community, Is the coding part of the SysDev amazon interview as tough as regular SWE coding interviews? Should I grind AlgoExpert and LC for it? Any insights would be appreciated! TC 90k CAD Yoe 2 #tech
- AWS Sagemaker team Anyone from this team here? Interviewing for a front end position. How is wlb & team dynamics like? Do they hire to fire? Current tc: 180k #tech
- Tips for AWS/Amazon SDE I On-site? I have my virtual on-site for AWS next week, been googling this a lot but wanted to see if anyone has specific tips on the type of questions to expect these days. My technical phone interview was extremely easy so wondering how much harder the on-site will be. TC: $150K #AWS #Amazon #FAANG #MAANG
- Kubernetes on AWS Hello Folks, I am exploring Kubernetes and thinking to implement it on AWS. We are on premise shop now. Working on cloud migration and planning to implement the best infrastructure in cloud.Is it a good idea to try Kubernetes? Is it too complicated compared the value it brings to the medium level or
- AWS India: SDM Levels What's are the SDM levels in AWS India? I am deciding whether to move from MS/Azure (L67, Hyderabad) to AWS and the recruiter offered me SDM III, what does it map to - L5/6/7? Makes sense? YOE: 17 TC: 1.5 cr #aws #azure #sdmamazon #recruiting #swe
- AWS vs Amazon Are AWS interviews supposed to be much harder? TC 170k
- Amazon AWS L4 offer I got an offer from aws as an L4 engineer. I originally gave them a number that I had received from another company. What are y'all thoughts on this? Currency CAD! Base 179K Sign-on 73K (split in 2 years) 21 RSU (usual Amazon vesting) TC is about 223K in year one YOE - about 1.5 years Also - what
- AWS vs HEB I got an offer from AWS that pretty much doubles my TC. I know it's toxic (I know 2 people that got the PIP) but the money is making me think twice. AWS TC: 310k HEB TC: 150K
- AWS L5 Offer Hi I have 10+ years of experience and I am offered L5 in Seattle, WA. The recruiter did talk much about the breakdown but she said AWS can do 240K / Year, Is it a good offer and should I accept L5? #AWS #FANNG #NEED_HELP
- AWS Proserv vs Meta Assuming TC matches at both and position/grade would be Production Engineer E5 at Meta or Sr DevOps Architect L6 at AWS which would you choose and why? #meta #facebook #aws #swe #software #engineering
- vote Coinbase VS AWS new grad I am trying to decide between these two offers. Both are for new grad. I personally think I would likely enjoy Coinbase more but AWS is a big name and would definitely be cool to work at. However, at Coinbase I do get to choose my team whereas for AWS it is already decided and I would have to stick
- Just got an offer at AWS - looking for guidance I just received an offer as a Cloud Consultant at AWS...but I also have an offer at a small company. Small company is paying well, ~215k with laid back culture and fully remote. AWS is paying a lot more, mostly remote with some in-office work depending on the project. All all of the horror stories
- AWS referral Can I please ask for an AWS referral?
- AWS Recruiter Pissed I got an AWS (Seattle) SDE2 offer. My recruiter worked hard to get me an offer fast given my circumstances and she sort of demanded an answer by tonight (got the offer letter with comp yesterday). That left a very bad taste in my mouth so I rejected. Recruiter was clearly pissed when I wouldn’t eve
- vote AWS Berlin VS Booking Amsterdam The position in both is the same level AWS (L5) TC: 120k Euro Booking (fullstack) TC: 110k Euro YoE: 6 #engineering #software #swe
- Aws lowballed! When I initial started the loop the recruiter stated the salary being 130-160. I passed the loop and they offered me but much lower than stated. Lowered level to L4. (Non tech role). This seems new grad entry level! I’m an experienced hire. Is this normal from AWS?? Offer Base 90k Sign on yr 1 -1
- AWS us-east-1 down... someone's getting PIP'd title TC: 223k YOE: 1
- Amazon/aws worst employer ever I have been at aws for last two years and feel it may have been the worst decision ever. I get excellent performance rating each year but the real issue is the unfair and unethical practices that are going around. Employees are not paid fairly and transparently. Employees change jobs but are not off
- Amazon AWS referral I want to apply to a business position in AWS business line. The role is remote and I’m applying from Toronto, Canada. Could someone please help give me a referral? Thank you in advance. Currently work as a consultant at Accenture. TC is seriously peanut, that’s why I need to move asap 🥲 #amazon