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Amazon Employee Benefits
- Amazon vs Microsoft benefits comparison. Does anyone have any insight in Amazon benefits aside from cash, stock and sign on bonus? At Microsoft there is about 30k benefits and following are just few examples: 1- Microsoft pays about 1500$ per family monthly. 2- Proclub family membership worth 550$ per month. Maybe around 10k per year be
- Should I move from Amazon india to Oracle India I have been in amazon for close to 5 years.Got an offer from Oracle and am contemplating if I should make a move. It’s a mid senior level position in Oracle cloud services. The compensation benefit is decent. Wanted to get a view on Oracle work culture. In mid term does it makes sense to move to
- vote Amazon Benefits vs Other FAANG 🥜? I saw this post on another thread and thought it would be helpful for others considering to move from other FAANG to Amazon. Do you agree with these points that Amazon is the most employee “unfriendly” company with poor benefits and culture compared to other FAANG? 1. You need to wait for an year
- Msft to amazon worth it? Hi I am L62 at msft with 4.5 years looking to move to potentially amazon. The problem is I have high comp at msft for my lvl so I’m not sure if I can get a decent bump if I move (assume I will Be L5) My comp is 150k base then stocks; bonus, 401k, espp, stay fit benefit pushes me up around 200k Als
- Amazon pay increase is still low After the Amazon exodus from 2021, Amazon decided to increase the base pay of all tech employees. Months ago I decided to leave my L6 role at Amazon exclusively because of low compensation and made sure that this data was recorded on every internal system. A few weeks ago recruiters and hiring mana
- Google vs Amazon Considering an opportunity at AWS but hearing that google has much better work culture, benefits and much lesser politics, backstabbing and rogue management compared to Amazon. Is it really true for most part? GCP vs AWS. I personally can’t believe a company can become great if it punishes employees
- Meta is Prudential with hiring freeze Meta has hired more people in first 4 months of 2022 than it hired in entire 2021. Unlike what Media and many people think about Meta on blind, it actually faced no problem in hiring engineers. The plan was to hire lot more but in the current scenario, I actually respect the steps Meta is taking to
- Why Software Companies Locate Office in Busy Area I understand it has advantages for retail stores or restaurants in busy areas. But for Software companies, e.g. Amazon, Uber, Lyft chose offices on very busy streets. It is difficult for Empoyees to commute and parking, and it costs more for companies. Other companies like Google and Facebook chose
- Amazon India Increased compensation for SDE 1? Hello blinders, is it true that Amazon India has increased compensation for New Grad SDE-1s? I am from a "Tier 1" College and when Amazon come to our college for placements, they offered: Old CTC - 31.97: 14.5 Base +3.6 JB Y1+2.25 JB Y2+11.62 RSU(4yrs: 5, 15, 40, 40), 1.5 Reloc and other Amazon bene
- Help needed on Adobe offer.. I am getting an Eng Mgr Level In Adobe India. I am reading mixed posts on blind re culture. Many posts are about bad WLB and Average talent. I am currently with Amazon and unsatisfied with the work that I am doing and hence looking for a change. I liked Adobe growing stock, espp and some other bene
- vote FB Boomerang back to Amazon? Left Amazon L5 and joined FB fully remote as E4 late 2021 for slightly better TC, signing bonus, benefits, PTO, etc. Current work is turning out to be a huge bummer. Hard to imagine making it a year on this project. Now if I boomerang back to Amazon, my TC would be the same, if not 30-50k better
- vote Facebook and Amazon are the fairest companies in terms of TC and WLB As a hater of so-called WLB for high TC earners, I strongly support Facebook and Amazon for driving home to their employees the point that people deserve high TC only after busting out 80+ hour work weeks and for firing free loaders. Free loaders who whine about benefits and family time give our ind
- vote Commuter benefits Amazon in NYC is actually surprisingly generous with commuter benefits. They give us $240 pre-tax and up to $400 a month to use for a surprisingly large variety of commuter costs (subway, trains, Metro North, LIRR, NJ Transit, buses, Uber Pool, Lyft Line, Vias, PATH, Amtrak) plus, people who drive g
- Amazon comp number by recruiters are inflated by 20% Amazon TC numbers are inflated by 10%. When the recruiter is telling you that he is giving you 500K, Amazon actually gives you around 450K of TC on average for 4 years. Amazon compensation is a complex formula (let's take 500K TC with 160K as base) Stocks (4 year in $$) = 1.89* (TCT - Base) = 642K
- How is Amazon Astro team in Bangalore? Hi, I recently got approached by a recruiter for Amazon Astro's Bangalore team. The JD is about SDE-2 with requirements being OOPs and basic DS/Algo (weird, I expected some robotics stuff - maybe the recruiter approached me because I studied Robotics in college). Questions: - How is the work? - Wh
- Thoughts after Amazon vs Google new hire orientation Hi, I just moved from Amazon to Google and completed my new hire orientation, and was trying see how I felt after orientation of both the companies. 1/ Both the companies do their best in inculcating in new hires that customers/users comes first. And agility is the next most important thing. 2/ A
- List of things to check to fully evaluate an offer Does anybody have a checklist for full evaluation of an offer? I created one below. Please comment if anything is missing. The goal is to give the full picture for any given offer. TC: - Base - Signing bonus: check when it's given and check how long one needs to stay to earn the full amount - RSU
- vote Going with Expedia SDE 2 offer (India) Current TC: 21 lpa (14 base) YoE: 1.7, SDE 1 Offered TC: 26 base + 12 stocks (over 4 years) + 5 bonus (over 2 years), SDE 2 (Have a verbal offer along with other benefits) Other relevant information I am considering: - WLB pretty bad at Amazon, looking to have some peace of mind. - Promo planned a
- All the posts about Amazon getting to Day 2 culture Yes comments - attrition is high - culture still sucks - code quality is very dependent on team - More ops heavy now than before - tenured folks say bar is lowered No comments - Many of the easy problems have already been solved (for other low hanging fruit we aren't staffed right or cost vs. benef
- Moving to Amazon from JPMorgan Is it worth moving from JPMorgan to Amazon. The pay increase is about 10%. Benefits: At executive level we get no 401K match and no ESPP after 250K total compensation. WFH is flexible and usually giverened by the manager. My managers never restricted me so far. 10 Public holidays and about 20 days
- vote It's getting difficult making fun of Amazon being Earth's Best Employer. Amazon just announced that they are changing the RSU policy during LOA in such a way that the vesting no longer pauses on Day 15 of the medical or parental leave, but is instead only getting paused on Day 183. Announced Jan 10, 2022. Effective Dec 1, 2021. (No explanation what the effective date me
- link Is someone here smart enough to spam reports of Amazon not sharing Colorado salaries? According to law, Colorado requires that employers publish compensation and benefits information about positions located in or could be performed remotely from Colorado at the time of the job posting. Is there someone smart enough here to send a bunch of reports somewhere about Amazon breaking the
- vote Amazon SDE-1 vs Adobe MTS-1 On behalf of my brother(2021 grad, India). He has to choose between the following two offers. Education: B.Tech in Electronics and Communication (2021 Graduate) Tier-1(IIT) Years of Experience: 8 months Full time Prior Experience: SDE-1 Prev. Compensation: 13.5LPA (base)+2.7LPA(performance bonus)+1
- A few thoughts. I just joined this app like 2 hours ago and here’s a few observations: - Everyone here seems obsessed with money to a very unhealthy level. Do y’all even make that much or just say numbers to impress anonymous strangers? I’ve literally never seen people talk about how much they earn/own in every c
- vote Planning to build a service to help Amazon managers meet PIP/URA target Hear me out, this is inspired by another poster on blind from a few weeks/months ago, by someone who was volunteering to join a hire-to-fire Amazon position WITHOUT QUITTING CURRENT ROLE, in order to get free severance money. There are several people who wouldn't mind being put on Amazon's no hire
- Used to be great! Pros: Smart peers Great benefits Good comp Work life balance Cons: Dreadful management, all the way up Change management is also bad Constantly pivoting core focuses Conclusion: Having been at Uber for ~5 years, I can say that things have significantly deteriorated over the past year. There has be
- another faang company to amazon has anyone else transferred FROM another FAANG company to amazon by choice? what is your experience like? age 25, came to amazon mostly for career opportunity, and learning a ton, so i appreciate that from a career perspective (new team, new office, big growth)... hard to find at other faang compan
- Advice from any AWS Inside Account Executives? Hey all! Recently, my friends brother recently got a job offer from AWS, the title was “Inside Account Executive Greenfield” I believe. His offer was about $105k base salary + commission + $60k stock signing bonus. Total OTE about $180k-$200k Currently I work in NJ (remote) and do a little over
- Advice needed: Financial advice for UK tech employee Thanks in advance, thought I’d try Blind for some financial advice as there isn’t a huge amount on here for UK (London based) employees Currently I have my Amazon cash income, Amazon RSU income, pension plan and savings. I want to know the best way of managing my money 1. Vested RSUs: I assume sel
- Amazon PIP culture inspired from evolutionary algorithms? The PIP culture at Amazon seems to have been inspired from Evolutionary Algorithms. From what I know, each year, they have a decided quota to pip out employees - roughly 5%. This is done by stack ranking employees and rating them "Top Tier", "High Value", "Least Effective". There is a fixed quota o
- I have a different story about Amazon There's a lot of negativity about Amazon as a company. They have - toxic culture, inconsiderate managers, poor WLB, don't care about employees, no free food etc. Well after reading all this on Blind. I was full of negative thoughts starting my first days at Amazon. I thought bad things would start
- AWS -> Jane Street Hello Blind. I'm considering applying to JS. Wanted to hear some pros and cons from y'all. I don't want to go into all the issues at Amazon, plenty of threads on Blind already (yes, they are mostly accurate). But what's it like to work at JS? Culture? WLB? Benefits and pay seem good to me. I've also
- Exit consulting into Amazon L6 Sr. Product Manager Evaluating an exit into Amazon as L6 product manager (TC: $225K) after 1 year at BCG. I want to work in tech/fintech long term. Questions: 1) Is the work life balance better at Amazon, than BCG? Currently I'm averaging 70 hours a week. More than that, the pace is quite insane. Deliverables every cou
- How do you run a company with sustainable growth? Looking at Netflix today it seems wild that the only thing that the market rewards is more profits and unlimited growth. To me it seems Netflix is basically reaching / reached the point of the streaming market cap. Unless they make drastically cheaper plans, they aren’t going to find more users. Als
- Side Hustle Idea- Compensation Arbitrage Hi all! I have this idea and would love some constructive feedback especially for those who this would be applicable to! The Premise: Many tech employees get prepaid cards that have a certain limit deposited daily/weekly to be used on meals. These cards have restrictions and can only be used on mea
- Help evaluating offer 170 + 70k options ( 4 yrs ). Good benefits Fintech on west coast. Under 750 employees. Has had successful series C funding..... My situation is H1B with 140 approved. First time at a startup. So far have been only at Fortune 500. New Position - back end. - AWS cloud - Java / Kotlin - Company miss
- Government employee to Amazon employee. Advice? I have been a government employee for the last 10 years. I obviously enjoyed good job security and benefits but the pay wasn't as good. I may have the opportunity to take a job at Amazon with a decent pay raise. This would be a non tech Incident management role (probably L5). Is the culture at Amazo
- Law Firm recommendation in Seattle - Action Against Amazon I have been working at Amazon for over two years but had to take a medical leave last year. I was being paid by the Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave; however, my benefits with the WA Paid Family & Medical Leave exhausted in January. I notified Amazon and I was supposed to start receiving 60% o
- vote Offer decision between Meta and Uber Hi Blind Community, I have received following offers and would appreciate your feedback to select which one: Location of both offers is Seattle. Facebook/Meta, IC6: 225k base, 20% annual bonus, 750k RSUs over 4 years and 50k sign-on bonus. 1st year TC ~ 510k. Avg TC 470k. Uber L5A : 203k base, 35
- MBA as SWE: Worth It? Hey Blind, Trying to figure out optimal path right now and not sure the best direction to go. Currently 2 years of exp with 1.5 at Amazon and about to submit SDE2 packet. Had offers from multiple teams at msft (didn't get for Google / fb / Twitter) and really like the benefits but didn't accept due
- Amazon Hiring Ad! Take Risk, Growth or PIP Saw this Amazon Ad today looking for risk takers! The risk they don’t mention is either you become TT (top talent) or you get the boot via PIP. As a software engineer in AWS for 1 year+ (and previously in Retail), I would strongly advise you to stay away from this company. - If you have job offers
- Where are the WA tests for Covid 19? I’m so annoyed. I’m sick with symptoms of COVID 19 but my doctor won’t see me or test me since I’m young and havent traveled recently. I work in Port 99 and my bus route stops at Brazil, so not unreasonable to think I could have been exposed. Amazon has been so gracious as to grant two weeks sick l
- Amazon 401k vesting Hello All, Wanted to make this post since it seems there is a lot of attrition at Amazon for users on blind and not a lot of info into how you become vested for the 401k matching at Amazon. Based off of the amazon benefits site, you become vested in matching contributions after you are credited wit
- Amazon AWS Downleveled me to SDE 1. Do I accept? Hello all, I'm in Canada. Here's my background: I have a Master's in Computer Science and 3.5 years of professional experience as a software dev. I did quite well on the interviews, especially the leadership principles and the system design interview (mostly because of my academic experience in Clo
- Stack ranking is not the devil I have been talking to lot of new Engineers across different companies and people are confused with the two terms "Stack Ranking" and "Force Attrition Goal (URA at Amazon)". Stack ranking is done almost everywhere for budget allocation. Because the money is limited, they distribute it using a Norma
- Austin vs Bay area salary (UPDATED) I currently have two offers from public companies(offers are better than my current job at Symantec which got sold off to broadcom) Offer1: Austin, TX Position: Sr Staff software engineer Base: 148500 RSU: 20k No signing bonus 15 percent performance bonus with chance to go till 30 percent
- Amazon -> ? 99% sure I'm being promoted to L6 in Q3 after 2 failed promo cycles due to the tech assessment previously not passing. Really excited about finally earning the title but I've been playing this role for a couple years now. Got enough info to know that the company will force managers to make their emp
- vote AWS, Epic, or Autodesk? 2 offers or stay and attempt to leverage? 1. AWS role carries no sales quota - signing bonus, base and RSUs at 400k TC 2. Epic is 295k TC, RSUs and Annual Bonus, no quota 3. Autodesk current role is 240k TC with a sales quota, 200k worth of RSUs pending with vest over the next 2.5 years, and ESPP
- Choosing between Amazon and Microsoft. YOE - 5 (1.5 in the US) Master's + Bachelor's in CS Amazon - 270k SDE2 Seattle Microsoft - 255k L62 Redmond Edit: Updating breakdown Amazon: Base 155k, Bonus 105k + 85k, 100 RSUs (this was after negotiating my MS offer) Microsoft: Base 150, Bonus 90k, Stocks 240k (stocks is what they mainly increas
- After 2 years, will be leaving amazon. Feels good. I have been told that I am on a dev plan. That I am not meeting the amazon bar. I will not miss this place one bit. I will say one thing though. Amazon is a good company to leave to go to other companies , or if you are its customer. As an employee, you will be burned to the ground. If you want to