I understand that I ll be shooting in my foot by joining Amazon (waiting on a GCP CE offer btw). But SAs don’t be on call and the WLB ought to be better, isnt it? Any insight into PIPs etc for SAs? Anyway offer is TC $275 (You all know the base + sign on + stocks split in years 1, 2, 3 and 4). I am in a metro but in the south. Thank you for your comments and insights. Current TC <insert that peanuts image> YoE: 14
SA and TAMs are good here (if they aren’t then consider em losers 😃) . Anyway, You’ll be fine. Hope your perspective will change towards AWS once you start working here. I had two friends who recently joined as L6. That offer is pretty good for L6 SA. Welcome aboard, my friend (iff you’re planning to join AWS)
I am curious to hear your perspectives on being an AWS SA as a career. Seems like pay for SA's is quite lower (compared to SWE) and has an upper ceiling on comp growth as well as career growth (I was told becoming an L7 as an SA is very hard). How do you or other SA's at AWS see it as a career a few years down the road?
I have seen my friends whose WLB is pathetic & they are SAs. May be you need to talk with someone in the team you are joining to validate
Most SAs have good WLB but it can depend on the team and the customers you support. Some customers are very high touch. As L6 you’ll be expected to do more thought leadership that impacts across the org as well. I think it is harder to get PIP’d in this role than SDE, but it can happen if you fall behind.
Does the TC remain same for everyone on L6? Like PMs at L6 get paid same as the SAs at L6?
I’m not sure but I think PMs get paid less.
You have the same quota on URA...
Is CE on call? I’m an SA at AWS now and WLB is great, but i can see how other SA’s can have a lot of work on their plate. Also I try my best to avoid making demos and building anything, no matter how much AWS wants their employees to. Just too time consuming. Most of my time is presentations, answering customer questions and creating architectures
Please give TC breakdown. Blinders are hungry for TC data.
Here’s the breakup: Base 160. Sign on 191 over 2 years. And 77 AMZN stocks vesting a little by little in Y1-4 over 4 years.
Great offer. Congratulations!
When do you get sign on?
Op, what’s the location?
Texas - Not Austin.
Austin is in Texas… just another city
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What's the TC break up? Also, CE would be technical support and solutions architect is designing solutions, technical documents etc. Both are entirely different roles. You need to consider that instead of Amazon vs Google based on what you want your future role to be
To that end, do you know if a solutions architect has an easy path to product manager?
Yes, I would definitely think so.