Offers from Amazon and Expedia for SDE 2. Both are offering the same TC for a role in India. I am inclined towards Amazon due to future growth potential . My concern is that my Amazon team has high operational load. This is bad from wlb perspective but might help in learning about scalability. Expedia is more of Greenfield coding opportunity where they are making a new product. Also Amazon on resume looks better than Expedia. TC 55k
I believe both companies are good and will look good on resume.
Tc breakdown and Yoe?
What? !!! 55,000/ month?
If this is really the case, you should reconsider both. For Dev 2 msft pays 20-40 LPA
It is the dollar value of per year TC. 35 lpa INR.
I would say, join Amazon. Thank me later
How you can compare two companies with different focus? I don’t see the point.
I have worked with Amazon and Expedia in the US. And work regularly involved working with teams in India. I myself have been SDE and product manager both in the US and in India. Basically, I have the info you need to make that tradeoff decision. When I was at Amazon, they treated India office like outsourcing partner. Mostly non critical and often boring work went to India. (Don't know if it has changed.) Expedia has increasingly more important engineering groups moving to India. The way things are moving, general consensus is that increasingly more things will be built out of India. There are more opportunities for promotions in India than the US. (Something folks in the US complain a lot) Expedia in general is more decentralized than Amazon both in terms of tech and business decision making. Financially, Amazon generally works out well if you get stocks. Work life balance will be better at Expedia. Expedia has lower reputation for being at the cutting edge of tech, something you can probablly keep yourself up to date with the extra time you'll have. At Amazon, if you're stuck with a grunt work project, you will have no time for doing anything on the side.
If I were you, I'd ask to meet the director you'd work for at Amazon and Expedia and ask them very direct questions about things you care about. 1. What are the chances and time frames for promotions. Ask for numbers on average promotion times. 2. What tech you will work on and where is the group going? Ask for examples of more cutting edge projects and what percentage of time do their engineers spend on those. 3. Ask about who will be your mentor and the kind of support you can expect
Another thing to consider is how much time outside of a typical 9-5 you will have to put in for work (on-call and outside of on-call) Certain teams within Expedia are just inherently decentralized and require constant communication with teams in other parts of the world. You may find yourself taking a lot of meetings during weird hours just to do sync ups and even more time coordinating design
I've been in both companies. I'd strongly suggest to go to Amazon. It's better in resume as more recruiters ask my Amazon experience vs. Expedia. Also, it's easier to move around in Amazon once you're in. Expedia wins in WLB though.
Don't join Expedia!
Why!
Don't join Expedia... There India office is more politics less tech
This is so spot on
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Future growth at Amazon.. Haha Haaa... Do you even know what kind of shitty projects they have in india?
I heard it is easy to move to other teams/locations .
Haha.. Talk to people with actual experience.. Don't listen to hr or fake people