I've been in Amazon for around 5 months, so far terrible experience. Just landed an offer from Microsoft to be L64. Should I stay here and aim for a better team or move to MS? New offer is just an increase of about 10K yearly but with the perk of home office TC: 197K YoE: 9 years
It’s a promo and it’s a company that treats their employees better. It’s not, however, a company that pays all that well.
This!
Amazon pay better than MS? I'd always assumed it was the other way round
Well I value more my mental health. If work life balance is better I would definitely change
MSFT is 100x better for the same money. Promo and benefits outweigh what Amazon has to offer. You probably get to design bigger systems at Amazon.
MSFT is definitely not 100x the better company overall even for the same money. But from a WLB perspective, it is. Unless it's Azure. Then it's as bad as Amazon but without PIP.
What benefits does msft have?
why is this even a question?
Go for MSFT, work life balance is much more important than money in the long term.
why is this even a question? You are comparing worst company with best company and asking whom to choose ? Are you blind or on Blind ?
Both. Just discovered this app. I had no idea Amazon was this low ranked and MS was so high. All I heard was that FAANG was the way to go, etc. My bad for not researching before. Didn't want to make the same mistake
Best company.? Lol..
Can you tell what org is it?
Microsoft is far from an amazing place to work in some areas. Mainly comp relative to other FAANG-tier, but there are some pockets of heinous management and the company is set up to really let them run rampant due to how few checks there are on them. So it's basically more the same corporate America. I would also choose Microsoft over Amazon every day even knowing what I know now having worked at both.
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No way Amazon L5 TC is 197k
Well I suck at math but yesterday did the sum and that's the result. Again I suck at math and might be wrong
then I guess u aren't SDE