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- Amazon vs. Microsoft I currently have offers (corporate position) from both companies and I’m torn. Amazon is providing more cash upfront (stock which vests quickly and bonus) but the base pay is at the AWS cap. Microsoft is matching the base pay but offering less cash up front (smaller bonus) and equal stock that vests
- Nordstrom Total Compensation Ranges (My TC: 325k) People seem to not believe me when I share my Nordstrom TC. Yes, Nordstrom does have decent pay. We have done a lot to modernize our stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, Lambdas, AWS+GCP hybrid). Being in Seattle, it's the only way Nordstrom can stay somewhat competitive in hiring talent. Here are the current
- Amazon vs Google Hi, Amazon AWS vs Google Android ( team matching) . No TC conversation started yet. MS in CS Yeo: 4 Which company is best in terms of learning, experience ,TC , WLB, pros and cons? How to delay Amazon to Google timeline? Amazon seems very fast , google not fast as amazon. How to match both timel
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and industry lounge. - Offer evaluation : Amazon vs Microsoft YOE : 8 years Current TC : 180k Location: Seattle. Not going to share team details to maintain anonymity ================================== Amazon offer Org : AWS Level L5 Base : 145K 1st year bonus 100k + 2nd year bonus 75k Stocks 125 over 4 years. Vesting 5% 1st year, 15% 2nd year, 40% 3rd, 40%
- Evaluate offers Hi folks, i have offers from a few companies and I am considering two, can you please help me decide Amazon AWS - SDE2 Base 175K Sign on: 1st year 140k, 2nd year 104k Stock: 160 RSU’s vesting 5%, 15%, 40%, 40%. Microsoft - Sr. SDE Base 185 Sign on: 1st year 70k, 2nd year 30k Stocks: $250k vesting
- Which Offer looks Good AWS or Google Got Below two offers. Both are Cloud based roles. Both are for Denver location AWS Role : Sr. Technical Account Manager Base: 153K Year1 Signon : 74K Year2 Signon: 57K RSU: 91shares vested over 4 years (5/15/40/40) Google Role: Cloud Customer Engineer Base: 140K Year1 Signon: 20K Bonus Target: 42
- Amazon vs Microsoft 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
- link PM Interview Prep Plan: How I got PM offers from Google, Expedia, Microsoft, and Facebook Five months ago I got fedup with the crap culture at Amazon (needs a separate post) and decided to start working on my game plan for interviews at tech companies. Now, I have three offers from the tech companies - Expedia is travel not in the same league I know. No trolls please. Profile: CS Engine
- vote Wait 1 year for Sr. SDE or leave? I work at AWS on a popular service. AWS has a great reputation for getting to Senior SDE. I'm on a great project, and I see a clear path to promotion. I think within a year, it is likely given our work. Problem is, at 5 yoe, 180 TC is hardly market value. I am thinking about jumping ship because I
- Google L3 vs. AWS L5 vs. Compass Senior SWE Offers EDIT: Google upped offer to 280k, added more notes Narrowed it down to 3 offers, looking for insight. Google L3 Mountain View Pending team match TC: 250k -> 280k - Googles been the dream - got downleveled to L3 - with stock refesh/perf bonus, will be close to 300k after 2 years - semi-quick L4 pro
- Help me evaluate: AWS L6 PM-T offer One of the top performers in my team - recent promotion to L64 @ Azure. 11 YoE. 3 years at msft. I expect top rewards this year. Last year TC: 210K at L63. Total granted stock was like $120K and the cash reward was like $40k which puts the total rewards over $300k. I think I should see close to $30
- Amazon Offer Evaluation Appreciate any help evaluating this offer. Amazon AWS Bay Area YOE: 6 Level: L5 TC: 175K base + 89K sign-on bonus over two years + 150K RSUs over 4 years No yearly bonus. How are the performance stock options every year?
- Lowball promotion I currently work at Amazon. I had an off-cycle promotion last year, SDE L5 to L6. I got a base increase of 10% and no additional shares. Last year as an SDE2 I was earning around 250k total comp, this year after my promotion I will earn around 225k due to the drop in stock price, and the fact that I
- vote Amazon vs Bloomberg (new grad) I currently have full-time offers from Amazon (in AWS) and from Bloomberg, both for new-grad Software Engineering positions. Here are all the pros and cons I've gathered so far, both from my perspective and from browsing through here: Amazon: 108k base + 44k signing (over 2 years) + 70k RSUs(5/15/4
- link New grad uber vs msft Very fortunate to be in this situation but i would like to seek some wisdom from the experienced folks. Im having a really hard time deciding between two companies... Uber said i wont know which team ill be joining nor which office ill be going to until the month before the start date. The role is
- Amazon -> Apple Got an offer from Apple today. Base of $170k, Sign on - $75k and RSUs worth $300k. Currently SDE 2 at AWS in my third year, TC -> 220k (mostly due to stock appreciation) with a base of $135k. Moving to a SDE3 position in 5-6 months. Is it advisable to move to Apple (IC3 position)? The money they’r
- Offer evaluation at LA unicorn Got initial offer from unicorn in Santa-Monica Benefits are very nice, but financial side of offer is: Base - 175k Bonus 10% Stock options - worth $25k (told verbally) UPDATE below Position Principal Data Engineer (AWS). Total TC = 192K Currently: YOE: 15+. TC: 150k+20% = 180k Have a few day fo
- Common Blind abbreviations AI - Artificial Intelligence AMZN - Amazon AWS - Amazon Web Services BI - Business Intelligence BIE - BI Engineer BS - Bachelor of Science or bullshit DE - Data Engineer DS - Data Scientist EE - Electrical Engineering or Enterprise Engineering EM - Engineering Manager FANG - Facebook, Amazon, Netfli
- Amazon Offer Hey everyone. Recently got an offer to work for Amazon AWS. The details are: SDE1 126k base 50k bonus over 2 years 60k stock YOE: 1.5 Current TC: ~150k if you include bonus How does this look? I feel like the equity might be a little low. Also a bit concerned about wlb at Amazon. Although I think
- Amazon L5 compensation AWS database engineer in Seattle Hi , I have been interviewing for AWS database engineer for an L5 role .I have a total 12 years of experience . How much I can expect from Amazon ? it would be good if someone can give a breakout with the base + bonus + stock
- vote Is it worth working for Google Cloud? I am an L5 SDE. TC 245K (mainly stocks + base 155K). YOE 6.5 Received an email from google cloud recruiter to choose a role that fits me. And the options are SWE, SWE Infra, SWE SRE, SETI, and Data Engineer. Given my experience, I will be evaluated for L3/L4 Engineer which will have 4 to 5 onsite r
- Thoughts about MongoDB stocks Hi, noticed that MongoDB stock going 🚀. Wondering what’s the driving factor? AWS is more and more providing services similar to them and also there are many overlapping dbs in the market.
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and industry lounge. - Amzn level5 comp and yearly refreshers What is the yearly refresher in AWS for level5? I got an offer close to 180k base, signing of 110k + 90k and 300k worth of rsus. I was told the stock increasing 15 percent year over is covered incase the stock doesn’t perform as expected. What would be the yearly refreshers be at end of 1st 2nd and
- Amazon or OfferUp? Have offers from both. Base salary is the same. Amazon however offers sign-on cash + their stock. Offerup being a startup offers options which I don't really know how to value. Amazon is not AWS, if that matters. Both projects seem to be interesting and I liked the people from both teams. Thoughts?
- AWS SDE Offer New grad here, I got a letter from the AWS team (Student Prog) in Seattle and would like to know how good/bad my offer is. YoE: 0 Compensation year 1 Base: 110k SignOn: 20k Stock: 5% RSU at EoY
- Need help on evaluating AWS offer Got an offer from Amazon AWS team (infrastructure) in Seattle with following numbers : 140k base salary, 30k first year sign on bonus, 30k second year sign on bonus, 60 RSU vesting over 4 years 5/15/40/40. I have 8 years of experience with an MS. I wanted to know opinion from Amazons employees as
- Considering boomerang - OCI to Amazon I am a “Director” in Oracle, left AWS sometime in the 12-24 months to join here (still have my Amazon Blind Account). At that time the compensation seemed decent at 500k. I was doing well in Amazon but had tough time with kids and family but survived pressure cooker atmosphere and thrived too. My TC
- Companies that pay well in Seattle for Sr engineers SDE3 in AWS, looking for a change. I am in this role for 2+ years. I have experience in building scalable data systems. Working in this tech area for around 5 years. Which companies in Seattle pay > 450k? Which role/level? Comp range I can expect? YoE: 10 TC: 350 - 400k (based on stock price)
- AWS SA vs GCP customer engineer (data management) Got both offer (verbal). AWS recruiter will call tomorrow to discuss salary. L6 position. I am aware that there is salary cap in amazon (185k base for Bay Area). But what should I ask for total comp? Salary + Sign on + Stock? Also what about GCP? Salary + stock? Work culture, career growth wise
- Why are Apple and Amazon among FAANG? FAANG is only in terms of stock, not tier one tech or internet companies. Tier 1 should be F, G, Netflix, Airbnb, Uber and a few... AWS may count, Alexa is like tier 1.5, and retail is 1.5 or 2 depend on team. Apple is a great company. But it’s not as good as others in terms of internet products
- Urgent Compensation Help Needed AWS Cloud Support Engineer Hi Guys, Urgent help needed, I am offered "Cloud Support Engineer Security" role with AWS in Dallas, I spoke with the recruiter and he has flatly refused to provide a range and asked me to provide a number for Total Compensation, TC (includes Bonus Yr1/Yr2, Stock 5/15/40/40), he also mentioned that
- Google vs Amazon offer I received three offers for a Cloud Architect position. The recruiter at Google has not told me the level (I guess L5). I should hear back tomorrow from all for an improved offer, but I find the Google and Amazon first a bit low for 9 yoe. What do you think? Google (GCP) Base 150 Bonus 22 Stock 32
- Dropbox Stock I’m having a tough time deciding whether to buy dropbox stock. On the one hand, looking at box, that stock has definitely surged from when it originally went IPO a few years ago, but it also crashed precipitously before it’s rise. Will dropbox face the same fate? On the other hand dropbox is profita
- Large scale system design experience in real world Reading about large scale system for an interview is one thing. There are a few good resources like grokking the system interview, hiredtech, designing data intensive applications, etc. What if I have not worked on large scale problems in real world and would like to experiment/learn say building a
- vote Would you rather be PM at Uber Freight vs AWS Big Data & Analytics? Why? For a senior role in PM, which of the two opportunities is more attractive to you personally? Assume both can be in SF or Seattle. - Uber Freight is standalone, probably 300 employees within Uber ATG, as part of a 20k person company - AWS is a 20k division in a 200k+ person company; not sure how bi
- Amazon AWS SA offer evaluation Amazon AWS Solution Architect role, Bay Area Offer below: Base 140k Stocks 110 units/4years Bonus 50k+40k Level: L5 YoE 4.5 Does Amazon give stock refreshers like G? How's annual increment like? Thank you
- AWS Sales Been at my current employer over 10 years and have it pretty easy but the CEO is intelligently incompetent and our product has been waning for some time with little pipeline of interest. I’ve been offered a good job at AWS but it’s global and I will have at least 8 international flights a year. Not
- Potential move to Google from Amazon YOE 4 years(India-1yr, Ireland-2yr,USA-1yr), 1 year startup, 3 years Amazon. Bachelors in Computer Science. Amazon SDE2 Seattle(142k base, 36 RSU=75k/year). Have similar RSUs until 2020. Recently moved to AWS AI from a big data team as I’m interested in ML (still naive though with a breadth in ML
- DevOps engineer looking for better opportunity I’m a devops engineer with about 2-3 years of experience in devops and 12 years total IT infrastructures/support experience. Currently utilized technology include Kubernetes, Ducker, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, Chef, AWS etc.. have AWS certification and some others. Live in NYC. How much should I be a
- Amazon SDE 2 promotion refreshers I am considering joining Amazon in the Bay Area, either A9 or AWS. How much refresher stock does one get on being promoted from SDE 1 to SDE 2? How much has it been in the last 3-4 years?
- AWS Herndon - SEII Expectations How is AWS team in Herndon? Does it have similar feel as the teams in Seattle where many teams work a lot? Is the culture one collaborative and accepting of various ideas? Also, Any idea on what the compensation package looks like for SEII (Signing, stock, base)? 5+ years of experience.
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and industry lounge. - AWS L6 Europe offer Hey, So I got the following initial offer from AWS for a Senior TPM role in Europe. Base - €97k Stock: $100k USD Bonus 1: €22k Bonus 2: €19k TC year 1: €122k I have not responded and have no other offers right now- how much can I push this?
- AWS comp Dublin Anyone know if comp in AWS Dublin is anywhere near what’s being offered in US? I thought RSU might have been compatible but just heard from a friend who got an offer only got 20k sign on and 60k/4 years stock offer... not sure what level. Edit: Stock is 60k total
- Recruiters offer too low Coming out of college with less than 1 year work experience, I got a job at Amazon that paid about 130k salary, 160k total compensation. If you add in health insurance, Amazon stock (which has been doing well), and bonus, it's quiet a lot for an entry level Java programming position. I got the extra
- UK compensation I want to get an idea of the UK total compensation and comparison to competitors, particularly in the cloud business AWS, Google. Base:£90k Car: £600/month Stock at sign-on: £11k over 5 years No sign on bonus L63
- Looking for AWS Solution Architect Hello, I am working on a startup idea. I am looking for an experienced AWS solution architect who has hands on experience on AWS/Cloud solutions and interested in joining as a core team member. About 4-6 hours/ week and ready to offer Stock Options. Thanks,
- AWS Supply Chain Roles Planning a move to AWS Supply Chain - Commodity/Product lone manager roles. Specifically looking for: 1) How is the culture ? 2) What are the growth opportunities ? 3) What is the expected TC ? Do you get stock refreshers ?
- MSFT Bay Area Teams / PM Roles? Team - need your guidance. I’m transitioning out of from being a successful startup founder (small exit so still have to work!) to wanting to gain experience on products at massive scale. I have ~20 years experience and the roles I’m looking at private companies have cash comps of around 350k + RSU
- Amazon SFA Hi! At what level do Sr. Financial Analyst join Amazon? Does it vary by business segment (whether in AWS or Alexa or E-commerce)? Also what is the overall compensation - base + sign on bonus + stock options?
- Partner Project manager Level 6 AWS I am currently making $125k in Downtown Jersey city,NJ expecting a promotion (10% increase) in a few months. Need to quote : salary expectations bonus and stock options for AWS Partner project manager (level6) position in San Francisco. Your guidance is much appreciated. I have never lived in We