Base Salary: 175k Year 1 sign on : 100k Year 2 sign on : 73k RSU: 200k Year 1 TC: 280k Microsoft current TC: 175k YOE 4 years, 62 Should I take the offer?
While the money seems like a good raise, definitely expect the hours you put in to go up.
Amazon has worse work life balance and constant reorgs. Furthermore, there are many toxic and politically focused managers that will sacrifice you for their gain.
Not worth it. I came to MS from Amzn and would never go back unless I have no other option.
Could you explain more about the experience?
L5 to L6 promo needs a lot of luck. You will compete with like 10 L5 in your own team. Workload is too much. Usually the l6 eng are assholes. You will never feel appreciated at work. Culture is not good at all, like if you ask questions to teammates as a new hire, they will go complain to the manager 🤦🏻♂️. Incredibly frugal company and it will see demonstrated everywhere. But you will learn quite a bit. Lot of smart people.
100% Amazon. Yeah you'll probably work more but you'll learn more too, and you'll be setting yourself up for success in switching later on.
There are many many other companies which give you all this without the toxicity.
Pretty good TC for a PM role
How was the interview, about to do the OA this week but pretty rusty also amazon over microsoft in every way except wlb
Yoe? How’s your work life balance at MS? Aws is a great place to work imo but it can be a lot of work. Congrats either way!
Thanks, currently 4 YOE. I’m worried about pip culture
At least for my team it’s pretty chill, working about 30 hours per week