How does this L5 offer stack up? (Seattle) Team: Alexa Communications Base: 156k Bonus: 60k first year, then 40k second year Stock: 85 shares (~120k) Also, will Amazon typically buy out unvested stock that I have in MSFT?
Seems they are losing massive amounts of money and stock is crashing. Also Amazon layoffs in Alexa confirmed. #tech #layoff #lay #off TC 385K 6 YOE
I just received offers from Amazon and Microsoft Seattle offices. I have 1.5 YOE and wondering which offer I should go with. Amazon SDE1 (Alexa) Base: 140k 1st yr sign-on: 32k 2nd yr sign-on: 26k RSU: 41 shares/82k 1st year TC: 175k 4yr average TC: 175k Microsoft 60 (Azure, but the manager said ...Read more
Microsoft has ChatGPT, Google has Bard, and Amazon has Alexa which only operates in simple commands, and to be honest, makes us feel like the laughing stock within the tech industry. It would be a big thing if Alexa can become a conversational chatbot so the entire interaction can be voice enabled,...Read more
Am I stupid? Just not excited about Facebook and believe Alexa is the most exciting product in tech. I’d take a 20% payout give FBs rapid stock rise.
Whether it's Alexa, Ring, Amazon.com, AWS, this company has nailed it. Most underrated stock of 2022 TC: 300K
amazon sde2 - remote (alexa team) 195k base 350k stock 240k joining bonus total ctc 330 apple ict4 - austin (is&t) 175k base 260k equity 30k joining bonus total ctc - 272 ish first year and from second year depends on performance and refreshers CTC : 240k yoe -12 #engineering #swe
Got lucky to get offers from both company Waymo L5 1st yr: 200k + 15% + 160k (WMU; 409a price) + 50k (sign-on) ~= 440k (409a price) Amazon SDE III 1st yr: 220k + 30k (stock) + 280k (sign-on) ~= 530k (Alexa AI) thoughts? #waymo #amazon
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?
#offer #tech TC 466K first year, Boston Base 220k (Joining in May 22) Sign on 246k first year, 200k second year Stock ~500k for four years Thoughts? Current TC 250K YoE = 6 Interview Experience = https://www.teamblind.com/post/Amazon-L6-Alexa-Interview-Experience-k2B8NJt5
Hi I am deciding between two offers. YOE: 0 (new grad offer rescinded) Amazon: 123k base 70k signing over two years (40,30) 36 RSU’s (5/15/40/40) Team is Alexa MongoDB: 130k base 65k stock evenly over 4 years 25k signing ill be working remotely for both companies, so location not too important ...Read more
Got L6 offer from Alexa team in Bay area and Facebook E5 offer. Money is almost same. FB was my first choice but recent amazon stock run confused me a bit. Is amazon worth evaluating ? I read several mixed thread on toxic Amazon culture. How is the culture in Bay area?
I got an offer for Alexa voice service team in Bangalore. How is the team? What's the tech stack. My hiring manager joined Amazon 1 month back only, so I'm bit apprehensive about the team and work culture How bad is Amazon work life balance? TC : Current: 33 LPA(19 base, 50k dollar stock, 1.5 L Bo...Read more
A recruiter just reached out to me and would like to talk about a Software Engineer position on the Alexa team in Palo Alto. I have about 5 years of development experience. What kind of pay should I be expecting? Sign up bonus? Stock comp? Relocation bonus?
Hi Team, I am so sorry to hear about the layoffs at Amazon. The whole tech market is not looking good for devs at all levels. I am posting this as a placeholder list for all the teams at Amazon impacted due to layoffs. Btw I have an offer from HIT (Home Innovation Team) Amazon Retail and super str...Read more
As a shareholder I have an ultimatum otherwise myself and every other shareholder will continue to dump stock. Beat ChatGPT by next re:Invent. I do not have confidence when 20,000 engineers in Alexa and budget of 5B lack the capabilities of a small OpenAI team.
I have two offers in hand, one for Google @T4 SETI (Cloud) and another for Amazon SDE @L6 (Alexa). Amz offered ~300 stock with ~225 signing. Goog offered ~400 stock with ~50 signing. My concerns are that Goog will not refresh at anywhere near the level of the initial grant and long term comp will...Read more
Team: Alexa Location: Vancouver, Canada Role: SDE II TC: 280K CAD (190K base, the rest is RSU/sign-on bonus) Right now I am in Singapore Current TC & YoE: 280K SGD (130K base, the rest is plunging $SE stock), almost 4 YoE (If it were in Seattle I’d directly snatch the offer but oh well screw US w...Read more
Recruiter told me Amazon wants to give offer. I'm L64 at MS, and recruiter said targeting SD2 which seems under level. But apparently SDE2 is a wide band so hoping for comparable salary. The team is in the Alexa shopping org. Recruiter asked me about pay expectation. What is a competitive offer here...Read more
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