A couple months past 1 YOE at Amazon (joined April 2021). Have offer from TikTok. Pros of Amazon: - current team has great WLB - work is chill - team is nice - less than a year for promo to L5 for sure Cons of Amazon: - work is super boring, can’t imagine a more boring set of tasks - feel like I’m wasting away - everything just feels like a slog and I have negative enthusiasm to continue working — Pros of TikTok: - interesting work - content creation is cool - startup vibes sounds good - people I talked to love their teams, not at all like blind makes it out to be - different work than what I’m doing - TC increase by like 60K Cons of TikTok: - 996 potentially, but allegedly not a thing here - reset promo path - potentially a super high work load, might be culture shock going from slow pace to fast pace tbh —— All in all, I feel like taking TikTok makes the most sense, despite resetting my promo stuff. Just seems like a fun opportunity to build awesome stuff related to content creation and inspire myself to like coding again lol. TC: 150K
Get promo then re-interview
Amazon has a future
Tiktok offer may not be guarantee, they can rescind the offer any time
Why do you say that?
Tik tok is not a start up and won’t ipo plus you’re working for the CCP
I declined TikTok for 350k TC with similar YOE. Once China invades Taiwan, TikTok is done
imagine choosing a job because of "interesting work"
Just get the promo then move
As much as I hate supporting CCP I think TikTok has more interesting, faster pace tech and would be a really good experience
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Haha. If you knew me in real life you would immediately know how much I detest the CCP. I’m also a former Amazonian so I know it sucks there
The only time where staying at amazon makes more sense
Amazon would still be better than the xi jinping company