For new hires onboarding remotely is there a policy on getting WfH equipment (monitor, keyboard/mouse for a Mac) at AWS? Or is it up to you asking your manager and justifying your need for a spend? And for SDEs using Macs do you feel a strong need to get an Apply keyboard + mouse/trackpad, or dock, etc TC: 180k, YOE: 1.5
500 for monitor, 150 for desk and chair. Mouse, Keyboard and mac dock reasonable expense.
Amazon and AWS policy, company-wide, is $0, because Frugality. The policy that applies to you will depend on your cost-center; AWS probably has hundreds of different cost centers. Some teams only allow silly numbers like the $150 above. Look for a team that allows reimbursing any item under $500, any number of times. That's as good as you can get at Amazon as a whole, but it's up to your VP whether or not they allow this. I suggest running away from any team where the manager tries telling you some BS justifying why they cannot reimburse you a $500 monitor/table/chair, because many other orgs can do all of that just fine.
How do you know which teams would allow this verses which wouldn’t?
You have to talk to the manager, and/or the coworkers. It may depend whether the team has a huge revenue stream, so they don't care about $500 expenses here and there, or whether the team is constrained by the budget.
From what I read in a WFH policy doc, if you were hired as a permanent WFH employee, you are expected to buy/have monitor, desk etc. If not you need to check with your manager on spending limits on each item. I personally bought ergonomic keyboard & mouse from Logitech
Ah, should have clarified. I am hired as an in person employee; I'm expected to be at the office as when company policy dictates and based on the model that my manager/org wants to follow. This is for Seattle area. But I'll be starting remotely. Interesting policy though, thanks