You will learn life skills with veteran microsoft politicians. It will help you to become better leader in future. Better join politics after this.
Less stocks and stupid level system. Less growth after principal.
Good to have on your resume for next future jobs
No work life balance, 60+ hours is the expectation for everyone
I’m a Software Engineer 1 at Nordstrom with 1 YOE. The team is good and WLB is decent. Good amount of learning in my current team. I recently received an offer from Amazon for L4 SDE and Microsoft for 59 SDE. Not sure about the teams in Amazon and Microsoft. The recruiter said team matching will be ...Read more
Amazon - L5, AWS, Bay area Year 1: Estimated Compensation: $335,033 Base: $184,500 total RSU: 85 shares Guaranteed Cash: $137,100 [y1]. $100,500 [y2]. Microsoft - 62, Redmond Base - 156000 Sign on - 50,000 one time On hire stock - 150000/4 = 37500/ year Total so far ->; 243500/ year Annual cash
So, I recently posted about Microsoft vs Amazon offers and everyone asked me to take the Microsoft offer. Now I have a Google offer too and my situation has changed (a bit) with Amazon. This is a big decision (personally) and would really like to get you guys' opinion :) Education: MS YOE: 2 Goog...Read more
Which should I pick? Masters with 2 YOE.
Hi people with more knowledge, please pass said knowledge onto a student and help me out. I must choose one for summer. I don’t like (returning to) Amazon because politics, lack of helpful/not toxic coworkers, disassociated/disengaged manager, scope scabbing, pitting interns against each other, ind...Read more
My friend has new grad offers from both and he asked me for my opinion. I told him msft after looking at people in similar situations. But I think I have been biased. TC at msft will be better if he leverages Amazon offer, which he hasn't done yet. Amazon tc can't be negotiated. Objectively, on an...Read more
I've been in Amazon for around 5 months, so far terrible experience. Just landed an offer from Microsoft to be L64. Should I stay here and aim for a better team or move to MS? New offer is just an increase of about 10K yearly but with the perk of home office TC: 197K YoE: 9 years
I accepted offer from Microsoft for sde 2, but have gotten offer from amazon sde 2 Location : HYDERABAD, INDIA MICROSOFT : 28/6/3/75K RSU over 4 years. TC for 1 year : 49 Lakhs AMAZON : 28/17/25 STOCKS OVER 4 YEARS. TC for 1 year : 48 Lakhs YoE 4 I am looking for a place with decent work, pre...Read more
Ok, I posted about my Amazon offer a while back but got it removed (idk why) Now, I have a microsoft offer too. What do you think is better?! (All numbers in USD) PLEASE NOTICE THE LOCATION DIFFERENCE Education: MS YOE: 2 MSFT: Level: L62 (Applied Scientist 2) Location: Seattle, WA Base: 155k S...Read more
Blind, what’re you opinions on being an SWE generally at these two companies? Which company is overall better, factoring in perks, benefits, comp, WLB, etc?
Hi guys, Need your help. I'm trying to choose between my two offers, here are the details: Amazon.com Base: 112k, Stocks: 80k ( 5% first year, 15% second year, 20% every six months after) Location: Seattle/Bellevue Team: unknown, will find out 60 days before joining Microsoft Base: 104k Stocks:...Read more
Evaluating a job offer from Bloomberg NYC Senior Software Engineer: 160k base + upto 25k target bonus Guaranteed 80% of bonus for year of 2019 YOE: 2 How is the base growth at Bloomberg every year and the usual target bonus percentage in general? How much more can I negotiate with Bloomberg? Hav...Read more
Facebook - Data Engineering, bay area Tc : 250k first year, 210k from then on Microsoft - Software Engineer Azure, seattle Tc: 190k first year, 150k next year's Amazon - Software Engineer, AWS, seattle Tc: 200k over 4 years I'm worried about Facebook's reputation... MSFT seems like a good com...Read more
Assume TC is the same and role is engineering. Curious how people rank the two Seattle-based companies. I'm asking this because a lot of people seem to move between the two companies.
Ok now time for final showdown. Here are the numbers Current TC: 32Base + 5 Bonus Amazon SDE2 TC: 34Base + 11JB First year and 7 JB Second Year. + 15Rsu Average: 45L per year. Microsoft SDE2 L61 TC: 25Base + 5+5 JB for 2 years + 50K$ stock for 4 years + 10-20% Bonus Average TC: 40L per year. Migh...Read more
Recently got New grad offer from Microsoft Azure. Received Amazon return offer from internship. Amazon TC is higher by avg 13k per year. Any advice which one to Both in Seattle choose?#software #engineering#newgrad#
Which is the better choice in regard to WLB, pay, leadership?
Have 3 offers: Microsoft L60 Data Scientist: TC: 135K Amazon L5 BIE TC: $144K Facebook IC3 Data Scientist Analytics TC: $155K YoE: 2 Which one to choose if I want career growth, and don't care much about wlb, or TC. I also want to work at Tesla, so should I take one of these or try for Tesla. ...Read more
Hi, I received a SDE 2 offer from Microsoft(Azure) today. Base 131k, sign on 25k, stock 50k I’ve a competing offer from Amazon(aws): Base 147k, stock 42k and 32k, stock 125k After asking Microsoft to match Amazon’s offer they changed it to: Base 137k, sign on 40k, stock 75k Also my recruiter wo...Read more