Amazon Last Mile Team
So I recently went through the interview loop with Amazon and managed to get an offer (SDE1, New-Grad) I know Last Mile is a relatively new service, but I was wondering if anyone internal has any insight on the team. If it’s a notoriously mismanaged team, is there a chance for me to request a different team before I accept? Also has anyone deferred their start date back a month or two successfully? Thanks!
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108K Base 24K/20K Signing (first and second year respectively) 70K in RSUs over 4 years, standard vesting schedule 10K relocation (I believe, they just mentioned “lump sum” and that’s the # I’ve heard thrown around) Edit: phrasing
@Safira do you mean 70 RSUs? I want 70K RSUs!
It’s better than most org’s at Amazon, you get to work on interesting problems. It’s gone through some leadership changes and is getting way better! I don’t recommend pushing your start date out, but that’s just me.
Thank you! Out of curiosity, why don’t you recommend pushing my start date out? It’s a pretty big move for me and I just want to make sure I settle things at my current job and home before moving out.
Our transfer policy is very open. If you don't like it, just transfer. You could literally do it Day 1 if another team wants you, though for someone as fresh as you, it'd likely be at least 6 months before you could realistically establish yourself till you could get an internal transfer offer. But the idea still stands, accept the offer and if you don't like it, transfer.
That’s great to hear! Thanks so much, I think LM sounds like a pretty cool concept and working on it from the beginning would teach me a lot. Glad to know there’s options to switch over if it doesn’t end up working out though.
Actually Last Mile tech is crap. I work in it and know what it is like. Run by pretty inexperienced folks both Director on path to be VP and senior Director are overwhelmed and I think have a very tactical approach to things. If u are not in seattle then u are a no one and they seem to barely know what we do outside of Seattle. So recognition would be tough one outside of Seattle atleast. They had there glory days because it was booming but shortcuts taken then are making them wet there pants now
Damn, sorry to hear that. This position would actually be in Seattle; would that change a few of your statements in any way?
I think for an sde1, wherever you go there's so much to learn. If you have a good manager and team members, that's already a good environment. After joining if it you think you don't like the team or the org, feel free to switch around
Which team on LM?
For Seattle yes maybe things are better then again I would refrain from painting the worst. The above question of which team is very important to know.
Hey, As noted last mile is huge, so to try break it down. - Scheduling; ok team, low attrition, develop good products slowly. (+) - Routing; growing team, had a major org overhaul last year - low attrition some really old in tenure sde's. (+). Working on really hard problems. - Routing 2: growing team, same.as above. Slightly more attrition but not team or manager related - Middle Mile: don't know much about this org. New directors who replaced the vp's are better focused and have an idea where to take the org. Growth will be huge YoY in terms of hiring...great chances for promotion esp from 4-5 and 5-6
Thank you so much for this breakdown! I haven’t officially accepted the offer yet which is why answering “what team” is difficult. What you said about growth really interests me too. Appreciate the in-depth post; now I’ll have more information to go in with when accepting.
Sure, once you get more details feel free to update.
I was part of LMT and left the team soon after joining Amazon. It's actually a chaos. Management doesn't care for what you think and are very focused on their on decisions and understanding. Too slow and actually the architecture is in a way that every feature is blocked due to some bottleneck teams. I didn't see any improvement in my 1 yr.
Ah dang that sounds awful. Do you think I’d still learn a lot despite the disorganization?
Yeah for a sde1 I think it's good. Which team in lmt are you going to?
Ok. How’s the LMT after 2 years? I recently got an offer for SDE 1.
Last-mile is an org in Amazon with a large number of teams.
Ah my mistake. Do you happen to know what the general impression of the org is?
On Blind it’s mostly negative. But as someone who has worked on both the retail side and the last mile, I prefer last mile because of more interesting problems it solves