Hello, I have an offer from Atlassian (Mountain View )and Amazon (Seattle) for the SDM role. Amazon - TC (~350K first year targetted compensation ) Atlassian - TC (~320K) if I see only as money I can go for Amazon but I'm thinking of more balanced life (money is required but not to compromise on work life balance). I'm still thinking to decide between these two offers. can anyone please share some insights which will help on my decision Amazon: 1. is Amazon that bad in work-life balance? (or few team's only). 2. Job security (any layoffs ? other than performance based ) . im on H1B , job security is main facto as well compensation: 1. More percentage of targetted comp on my 1st year is sign on (B - 155; Sign - 180 over 12 months paid; stock -5%). Am i loose more money on sign on (because of different tax brakcet) 2. My 3rd and 4th year compensation heavily on Stocks. Not sure if they don't do well weather Amazon will give additional stocks or not ? Atlassian: 1. Job security: very small team - i didn’t hear any layoffs in the past. They care more about people. 2.based on my conversation with the Atlassian team, I feel there is a more balanced work-life balance.
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Easily amazon due to CoL and no state taxes... big difference
That Amazon TC is 400k+ in Bay Area
425K+ if you consider CoL, 400K+ if you only account for California tax
You mean 350k is very best in Seattle? What about other factors ?
Make a poll. Also wow, looking at comments people are willing to take a pay cut to not go at Amazon. Pretty insane thinking how is Amazon gonna retain talent
Dude this is a no brainer. Amazon for sure. COL in Seattle is less than MV and the pay is higher. If you hate the wlb at Amazon change teams until you find something you like. This is easy to me
At least from what I have seen seen here, most L6 managers here have a pretty bad wlb. There might be better teams, but more probability of ending up bad. L7 is definitely better wlb and flexibility. TC is not very objectively convertible, you have to take in the SF costs factors, Seattle weather factors etc. Congrats op, whichever you pick, don't worry too much, they are both great in different ways. Depending on where you are in life, if working 40 hrs is important to you, then avoid Amazon.
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Can you please share some information on why Atlassian ( in your view )
Probably because they don't treat their employees worse