With 15 years experience, AWS is offering me level 5, solutions architect. I don’t like it...i would like to re-interview in some time, may be in a year and may be for different role. What should I tell them.
What TC did they offer? Also, what location?
If you want to interview in a year just politely decline. It wont negatively affect you.
I am in the same boat right now. Have 14 YOE in the Data space and the recruiter told they only consider relevant AWS experience and not total YOE. Offered me a L5 Architect position with TC 190k for Washington DC. Negotiation is in progress. I too had the thought of declining it and applying after 1 year but, another thought is to take the offer and prove myself to get to the next level quickly. Any suggestions?
It generally takes atleast 2 yrs to get promoted to next level...
Personally if the TC is much higher than your current TC I would take it. This is the whole pay vs. title argument. There's good arguments for both (as found on Google). Title gives you respect, may be tied to pay, and tied to your responsibilities. With a significant increase in pay it may mean staying where you are may just not be worth it.
Don't count on promotion in evaluating an offer IMHO. Have a friend who lost his motivation and left because he took L5 in the hope of getting promoted within a year but didn't even have a path to get promoted after 2 yrs.
Totally agree with you @sekiro12. But, I don’t see much scope in my current role as well. Too many leadership changes(had 4 leaders at CDO level change in the last 3 years). Had 3 managers in the last 3 years. Have had my promotion to Principal Architect submitted 2 times and was put on hold as no one in the org was promoted bcoz of these changes. Every time a leader changes, I have to rebuild from scratch the relationship and trust and showcase what I am capable of. Tired of it already. I know this will be case in other companies as well but, this one seems too much and am not in a state to wait anymore where there is no proper vision for their future. Every new leader tries to prove themselves by scrapping everything that was done and starting fresh with a new set of technologies. We are where we were 5 years ago just reinventing the wheel. And these people are so adamant that they don’t understand the use cases for an OLTP vs OLAP. The last leader just forced us to move analytics to Aurora from Redshift because RDS is cheaper. Long story short, I am not getting any pay rise by moving to amazon as my current TC is 180k and amazon offered 191k. Negotiating to take it to 230k. But, even if Amazon doesn’t give that much, my thought is to get out of the current company and try moving up in Amazon for 1/2 years and if that doesn’t work, then move on to some other company. I think I made a mistake by being stagnant and got comfortable in my last 7 years working for the same company.
I feel you. You should indeed move to Amazon where the bar is higher.
I'd take the role just to have AWS on your resume. You can parlay that into anything a year from now if you don't like the role or want more money.
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Sounds like you didnt wow them enough. Doesnt always matter how much experience you have, your interview performance didnt get you an up-level to senior SA or higher. Decline and move on if you dont want it.