Amazon vs Microsoft SDE Role
Which one to go for: Amazon (Seattle - Alexa) :Base: 135K, Sign on: 27K + 25K RSU: 87K Microsoft (Atlanta - Azure): Base: 117K, Sign on: 30K + 30K RSU: 140K #salarycomparison #salary #amazon #microsoft #software #swe
Microsoft more $/hour and LCOL
Alexa org reputation not good, though you can internal transfer. AMZN stock has only 4% increase last year. In this case you should go to MS.
MS because of potential stock increase
Is anything pushing you towards Atlanta or Seattle? If you’re indifferent, take the Microsoft offer
Not really. How's Atlanta overall?
Azure is poor wlb but no pip culture.
What you mean by poor? Can you elaborate?
Keeping up with long term big project work while doing OnCall. Oncall is not only 1 week but you are also responsible for any issues you find and bug fixes related to the incident. Project work involves fixing performance and scaling issues that require months of work to complete.
Obviously Microsoft