Amazon vs Atlassian vs Nextdoor

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PCos43

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Nov 19, 2019 37 Comments

New grad offers w/ first year TCs. If you vote, please let me know your reasoning!!

Amazon - $179k
+ Highest 1st+2nd year TC <----------- I think some of you guys are missing this
+ Potential for the most interesting work considering the variety of different teams. I'm especially interested in stuff like Alexa
+ Comfortable with reneging if I get better offers
+ Might be the biggest resume boost of the 3?
- I don't know my team because I declined my return offer for my summer team
- Don't know exact location
- Kind of depressing spending almost 2 months interviewing only to go back to Amazon

Atlassian - $183k
+ Seemed to have great work culture
+ Not in SF (this should probably be a neutral point, but from the short total amount of time I've been in SF, I'm not a fan)
- Not super interested in Atlassian products

Nextdoor - $161k
+ Got the best feeling from Nextdoor out of all the companies I interviewed with
+ Seemed to have great work culture
+ I like Python and Go
+ Potential upside?
+ Might be the best place for growth/responsibility considering its size?
- Lowest TC
- I might not stay long enough for the future IPO
- I don't know how reliable the cash value of options is here?

A lot of people might put culture over TC, but TC is definitely something I want to focus on because of some family circumstances. But at the same time, I could really see myself at Nextdoor... I'm having a really hard time deciding between these offers. Anyone have any insight or advice?

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  • Go to Atlassian and fix all the things I hate about JIRA
    Nov 19, 2019 2
  • Worked at amazon as an intern and then as FTE and now at Atlassian. Atlassian has great culture and good wlb. Amazon is a great place to learn stuff but has a toxic culture. Even for those extra 10k, I wonโ€™t go back to the toxic culture that amazon had. Both are good companies in its own right. So totally depends what you value more. Cheers ๐Ÿป
    Nov 19, 2019 4
    • I have been mentoring a new grad who joined our team 4 months back. First 1-2 months are deliberately slow so there is no pressure to start delivering from day one. Once settled, there are tons of good engineering problem to solve. Eg: scaling the existing services, improving performance of apis and micro services or adding new features/apis. Also, there is 20% time to work on personal projects that are beneficial for the team. Note: you cannot work on some random shit.
      Nov 20, 2019
    • To add, we also do secondments. Its done for 3 months. So if you want to explore what teams in other products/orgs are doing, talk to your manager about secondment. Its a great way to learn new tech stack and excellent learning opportunity.
      Nov 20, 2019
  • Amazon
    qwertyuu

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    qwertyuu
    Haha why would you go to Amazon. Atlassian is paying you more and it has way better culture.
    Nov 19, 2019 4
  • Nextdoor / Ops
    kkam

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    kkam
    Go to Amazon or Atlasssian if you want to be bored and have little impact in a bloated slow-moving org. (I worked at Amazon)

    If you come to Nextdoor, youโ€™ll work with modern tech, help scale a global consumer product, and have more responsibilities as a new grad. The downside is you get to experience all the growing pains of a rapidly scaling company.

    The business model is solid and we have the revenue to justify our valuation. Donโ€™t work somewhere miserable for an extra $20k.

    If Nextdoor is successful, that $20k wonโ€™t seem like much.
    Nov 19, 2019 3
  • Atlassian / Eng
    btcys

    Go to company page Atlassian Eng

    BIO
    Dev in India
    btcys
    I'm from Atlassian and I should say it's actually an amazing culture here. Not all products are the best performance meaning you have enough to work on, improve if you'd like to.

    We're a 17 year old company highly relevant in today's tech ecosystem. Sure we have some issues that we're trying to solve with the product, but I still say that kind of comp outside of SF is more than just the cash difference. (think about it)

    Happy to answer any specifics.
    Nov 19, 2019 3
    • Amazon
      PCos43

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      PCos43
      OP
      @btcys Hey thanks for responding.

      - How flexible is Atlassian if a dev wants to focus on a certain area or avoid certain areas of software dev?
      - Do people usually hit the 10% annual bonus?
      - How's comp and role growth?
      Nov 19, 2019
    • Tech side depends on the team. But we have a tech stack we try to follow company wide.
      Bonus is based on company performance. Historically it has been hit.
      Comp is not the greatest in the market but if you are junior i think itโ€™s somewhat competitive. Also growth as a grad/junior/entry level engineer can be good, it gets complicated after that.

      That said Atlassian is not a big FAANG company on your resume that will potentially open more doors.
      Nov 21, 2019