Little hinging towards Amazon because offer is from a critical Alexa team. Will get to work on variety of projects. Decent amount of senior people to learn from. I am ok if a little extra hours need to be put in since other offer would definitely have lot of pressure to perform. Never worked in a public company before. Startup - Cool people, interesting product (engineering platform for xxx), work aligning with current experience, they are really going out of the way to make this offer, hence a lot of pressure, overall 50 people engg team and total company ~150. No equity definitely seems discouraging, they don't have a plan in place yet for RSUs. YOE: 5 AMZN Sunnyvale: Base - 174k, ~280 TC Startup: All cash 270k, 20k sign-on, no Equity Please chime in if there are any facets to either offer I am not able to visualize.
No incentive at startup without equity.
Didt realize no equity at startup. Forget it then..
WTF kind of a startup gives no equity? No RSU at early stage is normal, but are you sure there are not options?
Yeah. No options either.
just depends if you want to work at startup or bigco. ignore that it’s amazon
I’ll give big co a shot at this point.
so then you might like to get a third offer, to compare two bigco’s. as is, you aren’t giving yourself any options.
Interesting offer from the startup. Is it JUUL or Roblox? Any hints?
The startup isn't worth it. There's less stability than Amazon. Without potential equity upside you aren't being compensated adequately for the risks. I was going to say you'll be working longer hours at the startup but since your other option is Amazon, that's probably not true 😉
Exactly. Longer hours not that big of an issue, startup comes with more risk then return.
Alexa Sunnyvale is total trash and you would regret it. Plus rumor is there are big and much needed layoffs coming. go for the startup
Thanks for the insight. I’ll probably give it a try, rumors are there to stay, can’t ignore them.
Solid offer at l5. I dont think Alexa is the best org to work at although there are pockets of good teams.
Level at Amazon?
SDE2, I guess thats L5