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Putting this together as a reminder to stay motivated - if you want that $$$. Also that a hiring freeze is more like a hiring slow, for most companies. 6 yoe at Amazon / AWS. My TC is š„ compared to new hires so I figured it was time to leave (should have done this earlier, honestly) I began preparations in April with a very light re-introduction to algorithms, maybe 3 hours a week. Hit it hard between July and August (7-10 hours a week). Interviews in September with light studying to keep fresh. Preparation materials: Mix of Blind 75, grokking coding and system design interviews, and YouTube system design videos Denied at phone screen: Plaid Denied at onsite: Atlassian P5 Stripe Senior SWE Noom Senior SWE Offers: DoorDash E4 (down-leveled) 245k Arrogant recruiter, arrogant interviewers, I asked for senior consideration and said I was willing to interview more - they said no so I thanked them for their time and refused. Oracle PMTS 315k Recruiter said basically no room for negotiation, so I told them Iām not interested. Affirm Senior SWE ???k Never got around to hearing an offer. They took too long, recruiter would frequently take a week to respond. By the time they wanted to put together an offer I had already accepted another. Probably 340k? DataDog (down-leveled to mid-level) 390k Was told this is the most I could get with competing offers, and no consideration for senior. I thought I crushed the system design interviews so I didnāt take them seriously. Accepted another offer before team matching. StubHub 500k Easiest interview, they seem desperate. Gave me an exploding offer which I provided for negotiations with another company. Salesforce LMTS (accepted) 400k Interviewed with 2 teams, passed both loops. They initially wanted to bring me on as SMTS, and I told them I couldnāt consider that so they bumped it up to LMTS. Initial offer 330k and negotiated up to 400k with 50k sign-on. Accepted on the spot, as I said I would. New TC $401k (6 yoe) 240k base 36k bonus 125k RSUs (500k / 4 years)
I had 30 on-sites, 45 offers
Nice
That's called faang bang
Congrats on leaving Amazon
Thatās a nice offer from Salesforce. Congrats on leaving the PIP factory
Did not know DataDog and StubHub wee offering that kind of money.
StubHub is pre-IPO so it's paper money
Ah, makes sense.
Congratulations! You are killing it. Except for hiring freeze at Salesforce, everything sounds good.
I think my offer got in just before or after the freeze, HM pushed for me to get it through and that made me way more excited to work with him.
Woah nicely done
Thank you. Love the name haha
Legend
Good for you! What tc did you leave behind at Amazon ?
Low 200s š when I see new hires coming in with less yoe and getting almost double. This was my real motivation
Wow. I can definitely understand that!
What's your level at amazon ?
L5, probably could have hit L6 in the next quarter or two
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Hi OP! Can I dm you regarding one of the offers?