Amazon Seattle Do I have any room to negotiate? Im very happy with the offer, but articles say “always negotiate, always”. Im happy with not, but should I anyways? And if so what should I ask for? TC: 194k Base: 112k Stock: 4k (80k over 4 yrs) SO: 26k yr1 Relocation: 7k Job specific bonus: 45k EDIT: Yoe is 1 internship, newgrad with B.S I anticipate WLB to be hell for this comp lol
This offer for SDE1 ? Cannot believe that. Is it ML ?
You could ask for better base salary... I hear 120 is usually the base for sde1
great year 1 TC for SDE 1. Higher than some SDE2s. year 2 will be around 140? base is super low though. you have to give back relo if you leave within two years. job specific bonus - is it prorated? what’s the give back policy? If you don’t have a better offer, I’d take and leave within a year
I didn’t know that about the relocation, I couldn’t really find anything that said contingencies on relocation. No give back on the bonus, quarterly bonus. TC year 2 will have 22 SO and the same other bonus
oh so the job specific bonus is over two years?
You can add more for base. You can probably ask for 130K base and more SO bonus. What's your YOE? A few months ago AWS offered me 130K + 30K first year SO, and 85K rsu for 4 years, and I told them No. So they can definitely offer better than your numbers.
I’m 0yoe, just an internship. I’m newgrad. Is asking for that fair for newgrad?
Why do you care about fairness? The important part is that you get the maximum benefit. Not like Amazon has ever played fair with anyone. Don't be naive. Maximize what you deserve. Amazon doesn't care about their employees. You should take advantage of them. Plus, that company makes so much money, do you think they care about a few thousand dollars? Considering how stingy or frugal they are, I actually don't know.
what is WLB?
Is job specific bonus due to security clearance? If so, you can probably negotiate and ignore it for negotiations
It is, so for negotiations pretend that the clearance bonus isn’t there?
Yeah. Treat your tc as 149 and negotiate it up. The bonus is reward for clearance. I got salary up to 138 for my sde 1. They might not bite without competing offer though