Accepted Amazon offer for SDE-3 last week with 280 TC Got another offer from a decently growing startup(can’t mention the name as it’ll be easy to identify) this week with slightly better offer in terms of pay and position. Work domain is similar, but not much idea about work culture or work life balance in either of the teams. Start up gives principal level position whereas Amazon offer is for Senior engineer. I’m currently L64 Senior at Microsoft with 10 YOE. 1) Which one will you pick in this case? 2) I’m on H1B visa and Amazon is currently collecting all docs to file H1B transfer. Will it be bad if I go with the start up now and reject Amazon offer at this point or after couple of weeks?
What is the L64 SDE TC range at MSFT?
It varies a lot. Mine is probably on lower end with 220 TC. I think lot of new hires are getting pretty good offers these days
Thanks for the Info. You're right. Also, L62 top of the band is 205K. Similarly, the L6 SDE at Amazon has a range of 250K to 380K. Their initial offer number without negotiation is slightly above their median TCT pay. You can easily touch 300K in Seattle market.
Go with Amazon offer.Startup offer might be great on paper but you might not be able to encash it. " A bird in hand is better than 10 in the bush."
Isn't $280k low-ball for SDE3?
Def lowball for an external offer. That’s the very bottom of SDE3 band.
Ya I think so too now. Accepted that offer without doing much research. Not sure if negotiating with Amazon would be a good idea now given that I accepted it already