- link Catalog of FAANG interview information Hey Blind, I'm currently interviewing for SWE positions at several companies and periodically read Rooftop Slushie to help with my interviews. I made a reading list and I picked out some posts that were helpful for me which I organized by company. There aren't tons of posts about SWE for every comp
- OCI santa clara offer asking for a friend : can you guys help evaluate this offer that my friend got ? level: ict3 base 150k sign in bonus 10k rsu: 6500/4 years YOE 5 gives a first year tc of approx 260k how does this compare to aws, google cloud ans azure ? @oracle , @amazon , @google , @microsoft
- vote Azure vs AWS offer comparison I need help deciding between these 2 offers. Location: Seattle YOE: 8 Position: SWE Microsoft Azure: Level 63 TC for first year: 234K (160K base + 15% target bonus + 100K RSUs / 4 years + 25K signing bonus). Average TC for next 3 years: 209K Amazon AWS: L5 TC for first year: 248K (158 base + 80K c
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and industry lounge. - Positions at Google which require a Security Clearance? Are there any teams in Google, such as GCP, which are hiring new grads with a security clearance(TS/SCI )? Also are there any bonuses for said clearance, like at Microsoft and AWS? Thanks in advance!
- Oracle OCI negotiation Currenly an L6 SDM at AWS with prior experience as a Director. Scope of the role at L6 is not matching with what I expected. Hungry to take more challenges and responsibilities. Got a verbal offer from OCI for senior manager. I am more interested in a director role there. Any idea if there is room t
- Amazon Premium Cloud Associate- Herndon I have just received a offer for Amazon Premium Cloud Support Associate Mobile Services and Development for Herndon Position. I have 3+ year Software Development in India. What can I expect in terms of compensation? Also is there any room for negotiation at associate level
- Entering tech at 40. What's my best option? I'm retiring from the Navy (submarine officer) in a few months, and am about to finish up with my Masters in Data Science from JHU. I have an old BS in Computer Science, and another Masters in Eng Mgmt (Old Dominion). I am looking at a few different options and want to know how I should best spend m
- 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
- vote Google Cloud vs. AWS Which is preferred for retail and why?
- Google L3 VS Amazon SDE2 TC is 220k (still negotiating) for G cloud team in the Bay Area and 260k for A in Seattle. My major concern for working for Amazon is the rumored toxic environment. If choosing G, obviously leave quite a lot money on the table when considering living expense and state tax. Any suggestions guys?
- Why is google cloud still lagging behind aws and azure. As far as i know, they have the best infrastructure. One of the first to start containers, sdn. Etc. Then why do customers choose aws over gcp. Their pricing is also pretty cheap.
- Google vs Amazon Alexa AI vs Uber Freight vs Microsoft Got offers from those 4 companies. Advice needed. PhD 2.5 yoe with some ML background. Google L4, MTV, still matching the team. Potential teams Google ads infra, cloud data center supply chain optimization, still exploring more. Amazon Alexa AI, Boston, Applied Scientist L4 (interviewing for L5,
- AWS vs. GCP (Sales) I missed an offer at GCP after making it to pack review due to a poor final interview.. GCP came back a year later asking me to reinterview.. AWS reached out a few days later and im starting from scratch at both.. if you’re looking to get into cloud sales... who do you like better? I’m leaning GCP..
- link Amazon recruiter contacted me, I sent my CV and he sent me the following NOTE: I am not looking for answers. I'm just interested in knowing if this has been a typical route to get hired as an SA. I have previously applied and had a couple of interviews, but no offer. I want to put my best foot forward. Also sharing for the benefit of others. ****************** Thank yo
- vote Not getting much learning Hi, I'm currently a swe in AWS on a pretty impactful team with good WLB and pay. However, I'm not a huge fan of the way we do things at work. 99% of the code reviews is just making sure the business logic is correct with not much regards to performance, organization, or even maintainability. Docume
- competing google offers using faang this is for new grad position. eng undergraduates. Had six internships so far, interned at one bigN and one unicorn. 0 yoe so far got offers from: Microsoft (110/40/120) Amazon (102/25/75) Wish (130/10/200) was pa matched to google cloud team. now im wating for final swe offer review. wonder ho
- Company name I made a new account, verified my work email, and typed in the company name. I read that this was what I should do to replace "new" with my employer name. What did I do wrong? TC: 28k Aws cloud ops intern
- OCI IC2 onsite. I have two interviews coming up this month end. Amazon and OCI. I got enough information about amazon interview process and questions. Not sure about oci. If anyone could provide information about the oci onsite like level of coding questions, system design, imp concepts. Recruiter mentioned 5 to 6
- Resigned Capgemini India Pvt LTD. Hello Folks, I resigned Capgemini my current role was AWS cloud migration engineer, I have total 3.4 YOE ,I want to build career in Machine Learning as I was good in stastics. My CTC is also low so is there any chances off Any referrals for me . I did around 40 certificate from DataCamp and Course
- Aws Cloud support engineer What expected salary can I expect from a cloud support engineer at amazon with relocation package? TC=> 0$ Location: herndon va YoE: 2
- Need referral to Amazon please Would any amazon employees be willing to refer my friend for an aws position? Position is in an industry in which candidate has 16 years of experience. Candidate is trying to diversify cloud experience and has worked with azure.
- vote Amazon vs OCI in Seattle? Hello guys, i would like to get some opinions about these two please. SDE 1 at Amazon vs OCI IC2/3 (maybe) at OCI thank you Tc: 100K
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and industry lounge. - How can I make a switch into the Solutions Architect role at AWS, Azure or GCP from the software engineer role? I am a software engineer with 9+ years of full-stack(heavier on the backend though) experience. I want to make a switch into the Solutions Architect role in a technology product company like AWS, GCP or Snowflake. I do not have any client-facing experience. How can I do that?
- AWS CSE Hello all, can someone let me know the levels and the promotions in AWS for a cloud support engineer. I heard it starts from CSA -> CSE -> CSE I -> CSE 2 .. what would be next and next. It will be great if someone provide TC on the roles?
- Amazon AWS vs Oracle OCI Oracle OCI - Senior SW Base - 155k, RSU - 105k/yr, sign-on 15k, TC 260k Amazon AWS - SDE 1 Base 141k, RSU - 31 shares, sign-on y1- 28k, sign-on y2 - 19k, TC ~= 170k 4 YoE. Both Seattle location. Amazon seems to be an obvious choice for a lot of people. However, I have heard a lot of good stuff ab
- vote Set out for Seattle I’m trying to decide if it makes financial sense to relocate to Seattle WA, from the south east. Current Situation: I work for Oracle in OCI. I am well compensated for the South. 165 in base and enough stock to push me to 220 for the next 4 years. I work entirely from home and my job is pretty low
- Yelp vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hi all, Could you please help me evaluate offers from Yelp and OCI? Any help is appreciated. Yelp Location: SF Position: IC2 Backend application developer Total Compensation: 205K Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Location: Seattle Position: IC2 Total Compensation: 230K Currently at Amazon Seattle, SD
- vote Considering move from AWS to Oracle, worth it? 2 yoe. Amazon Comp: 110000+20000+15% of 70 shares Oracle Comp: 170000 + 25% of 5000 shares. AWS has a shiny brand name, cloud business numba 1. Should I move because of TC boost?
- Evaluating GCP vs AWS I have an L7 offer from AWS in midwest. Q 1) TC - 370-400. I was expecting more. Are they low balling? Any comments? Q 2) Evaluating GCP- But my experience with GCP "sourcer" recruiters hasn't been stellar. Is it worth the effort?
- Alibaba cloud is still hiring in Bellevue We are going to hire strong SDEs for the foreseeable future. Anyone interested or knows anyone that might be interested please PM me. We can definitely beat msft /Amazon in terms of total comp. We have also hired several from Google and Facebook. Btw, we support H1b transfer and sponsor Green card.
- link Who is with Phil on this ?? Do you feel for Phil ? Does this impact the L6 L7 trying to jump the sinking ship 🚢 ? https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-sues-former-aws-exec-joining-rival-google-division-cloud-wars-escalate/
- 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
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Where to? What now? 16 years. Desktop and Network support background. Have my Amazon Solutions Architect Associate. Making 80k as low level network engineer. Now what? Im in mid America Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas area. Trying not to move so kids can finish high school. Should I just stay content in the 80k range or a
- OCI COMPENSATION IC-3 Recently got a verbal offer from Oracle OCI. Location : Seattle downtown Base : $150k Stocks : Approx 90k per year [ 6500 vesting across 4 years (25 % at each anniversary) ] Sign on bonus : $ 20k Total TC : 150 + 90 = $240 k No target annual bonus or guaranteed refreshments. 3 Years of work
- LinkedIn vs Uber vs Google offers Hi folks what would you choose and why? L6 at Amazon, Approx 15yoe. Amazon TC 400+ due to stock appreciation but won't last long. Assuming all are final swe offers. Numbers are TC/sign on - Google GCP L5, 380k/50k - Uber 5b 500k/0 - LinkedIn Staff 450k/50k
- Compare Compensation Which one is worth joining? Cisco SDE - Bay area Base: 140k RSU : 70k Joining Bonus: 17k 12 % performance bonus Google Cloud Level 3- Sunnyvale Base: 120k RSU: 130k Joining bonus: 35k 15% performance bonus Amazon - Seattle Base: 135k RSU: 35 shares over 4 years Joining bonus: 43k No perfor
- vote Twilio vs Amazon Have offers from both of them. From work, manager, and team perspective Twilio is exciting but Amazon TC is 25% higher than Twilio and no more negotiation with Twilio. Don't know more details about work, manager, the team at Alexa yet. Being early in the career, care more about learning opportunit
- OCI vs AWS vs Carta age:28 no debt and not married, but was thinking buying a house current: SDE II @ AWS yoe: 2 yrs 3 months in the us (<1 yr before coming to the state) TC: base ~140k with ~30 shares/incoming years Just got promoted in Q2. Team has pretty heavy operational and work load. Great revenue product with q
- which offer to choose Hi I have 2 offers pending not from FAANG. Company A at NYC for 142k with AWS and new technology. 12% bonus Company B at Seattle with 155k with old .NET only. No cloud or any such thing. 14.5% bonus Shall i sacrifice technolgy for more salary ? TOE : 15 TC 110K
- Infrastructure guy This app leans a lot more towards engineering but I'm hoping someone on here can offer some insight. I'm an IT infrastructure guy, I mostly work with on-prem servers, storage, and networking but I watch the cloud eat more and more of that market every day so I'm trying to move into a cloud infrastru
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and industry lounge. - Interview kickstart reviews Failed onsites(AWS and OCI) even after solving 400ish leetcodes. Losing hope. Thinking of joining Interview Kickstart. You guys think its a good idea to invest around 5850 USD?
- Why mgmt leadership at Amazon carries negative reputation? Worked there for ~ 3 yrs, and I feel most mgrs (~ 99% of the time) are insecure and ego sensitive. But somehow amazon still beats Google in Cloud and retail business (shopping, smart devices, customer service, etc.) Any thoughts? FYI. I work at LinkedIn. YOE 7. SSE. TC 310K. Bay Area.
- SRA [Samsung research America, mountain view] pay Hello blind, my first post here, I have got positive feedback from SRA as cloud engineer, recruiter haven't told me anything about the pay range initially, could you please help me with pay scale. does Samsung low baller? My background :- YOE : 6.5yrs Role @SRA : cloud engineer Currently : cont
- vote Will Google acquire VMWare? VMWare is doubling down on kubernetes, and Google is the leader but is struggling to gain cloud marketshare. As adoption of k8s increases, will Google consolidate its cloud with VMWare to be a strong competitor to the AWS/Azure dominance? Think ATT, Verizon, with Tmobile and Sprint attempting to mer
- Confused about my next career move Hi, I currently have 4 offers from these companies below and I'm really confused which to take (All SDE roles) 1) Goldman Sachs, SF, TC: Around $190k 2) PayPal, SJC, TC: Around $180k 3) VMware, Palo Alto, TC: Around $200k 4) Doordash, SF, TC: Around $210k Update: got another offer: machine learnin
- vote Offer Shootout Trying to choose between 3 offers and current job. Here is the format I will follow to present the offers: Company (location:level:org): base/RSU-Total/yearly-bonus/Sign-on Uber (SF: L4 : Marketplace): 139k/268k/13.5k/25k Google (Sunnyvale: L3: GCP): 140k/240k/15%/20k Series-B Startup (SF:mid:ML Pl
- 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
- Sr. Cloud TAM AWS (L6) Canada Hello Blind, I'm interviewing for Sr. Cloud Technical Account manager (L6) position for AWS in Canada. I was not able to find any TC for TAMs in Canada. Any brother out there able to share some stats? It would be great to have an idea on what to expect if the on-site interview goes well. YOE 12 T
- GCP L6 TC SF, NY, Seattle @Google friends: Current TC 350+ YOE: 15 AWS SA SF Interviewing for L6 GCP SE or SA roles in SF, Seattle, NY. What's the realistic on-going rate/TC break down for L5/L6?