1) Got into FAANG early in my career. I thought to myself “holy shit! I made it to FAANG”. I accepted an offer for L2 non-tech operations role. Pay was shit but I was naive and thought it’s standard… but it wasn’t! New hire coworker came in as L3 with similar experience and was making 30% more. I a...Read more
I joined a new company (not Google) then I was laid off after 3 months due to a business pivot and a reduction in force for the team I joined. I had turned down another offer to join this company. Can I negotiate my severance?
I want to gtfo of amazon. I got an offer for aprox 250k TC. But my target number is 260k. I asked the recruiter if they can add 10k equity per year. Been 2 days and no answer. Did I just lose an offer from a 10k ask? TC 220k Edit: they got back to me and said offer is non negotiable because l...Read more
I received a Google L5 TPM offer for TC = 370K (base 175K, equity 352K) near Los Angeles, CA. This is actually 356K when adjusted for time. After just one round of salary negotiation, the recruiter is telling me that this is the maximum offer the compensation team will approve (I have one competin...Read more
I recently received a Product Marketing Manager role at Amazon L5 role. I was told I would come In as a L6. I’m curious what the pay band is for this role as I’m looking to negotiate my offer. Currently my base is 155k and first year bonus 58k but I was looking for a total comp of 260k. I want to ge...Read more
Ladies, what has been your experience negotiating? Are you at all hesitant? Do you feel too greedy or like you are viewed less favorably when you negotiate? Edit: I am not saying that men do not get lowballed too. Also, I do negotiate but my boyfriend is suggesting asking for even more to a point ...Read more
We were having our 1:1 and my manager just mentioned this out of the blue. My current manager took over my team after my previous manager left a month after I joined the company. The thing is I did negotiate and apparently even that was a lowball. He said he will try to get my salady adjusted end o...Read more
How to negotiate without competitive offer and promotion in near future at my current employer ? I have -an offer from a company A -in last round for company B -and just starting the process at company C If I accept company A’s offer and then sign formal offer. And then if I get company B/C offe...Read more
Amazonians: need your help. I have an offer for L6 PM. The offer is lower than I could get elsewhere, but I don’t have other offers lined up quite yet. I would probably take the offer, if push came to shove, because Amazon is my top choice. So how do I negotiate? Do I work with the recruiter only? ...Read more
Let's say I have multiple offers. Recruiter A asking for "what are you looking for?" They say they need it to come up with the comp package. Recruiter B going round about way to know my current comp. Asking how much unvested RSUs I got. And saying his guess where my base comp is. How do I maximize...Read more
I recently went through the Amazon AWS hiring process for an L6 non-technical position. The feedback I received was that everyone was so impressed with me and excited to have me join the team. I received an offer and started the negotiation process. I received an initial offer email from the recrui...Read more
Was offered a position at the minimum I gave them, contingent on the cost of benefits, and after doing a cost analysis, their coverage was similar but would cost me about ~$5k out of pocket more, so the recruiter suggested I counter and it shouldn't be an issue. Well, yesterday they called me and to...Read more
Any tips for negotiating? TC 110k
I love my job. It's the best one I've ever had, and honestly, it's because of this that I haven't made noise about my salary. But it's gotten to the point where I feel it's time to speak to my manager about a raise. I made a move from Customer Care into IT, and I underbid myself salary-wise to make...Read more
Does anybody have experience negotiating severance? It isn't intuitive that this can work since the severed employee has no leverage. In any case please share your experience, successful or not, so the community can learn. I'm not laid off yet. Just looking for knowledge. TC 390
Had the weirdest experience recently. I applied and got accepted to Shopify’s team in NY as an EM. I was made an offer which initially I thought was low so I sent the recruiter levels.fyi link. Later I realized Shopify vests over 3 years not 4, so likely I was reading the offer wrong. I communicated...Read more
Well this is fun. Offer in hand from Google. FB just called and said they are putting together an offer. Anything I should know about negotiating with FB? Are levels negotiable? What part of the package has the list negotiating freedom?
(currently in Menlo Park, and all offers in SF Bay area) Current situation at FB: === * Role: SWE * Level: IC5 (E5) * YoE: 12 * Base: 196k * Bonus target: 15% * Annual refresher: ~$120k (per usual) * Unvested FB stock: $332k * Tenure at FB: 3 yrs Google offer === * Role: SWE * Leve...Read more
Is this normal? Bydance negotiating only $5k above offer and saying it's as high as they can go because of location. It's for a non-SWE role that is a newly created JD. I already mentioned my other offer which is $30k more. They still won't budge.
Canadian here. During phone screen with fortune 500 they asked my salary expectations. I refused to answer and instead asked about salary band - recruiter gave a number less than my TC. I said that's much less than I anticipated and the rowdy recruiter (60 yr old) cut me off and started to lecture ...Read more