Can Amazon L5 TC go close to 300K or above in Seattle
Recently got a L5 offer from Amazon. Have competing offers that are above 300K from companies with similar reputation. Not sure if anyone has experience with L5 TC come close to 300K? Right now the offer sits around 260K
Only from stock growth
YOE?
My TC this year is close to 360k and m L5 (3rd year at Amazon) Although my compensation when I started was around 260k
Yeah , you cannot use stock growth in your package. Your TC is still therefore 260k
Depends on the acronym TC (total compensation) : $360k TC (targeted compensation) : $260k
Bottom line, you’re already at the top of the pay range for SDE2 at Amazon. Which other companies do U have offers from?
Amazon in Bay Area can do up to 280 for L5, and can break 300 with a VP exception for very strong candidates. But you can't get to 300 in Seattle, no.
You can! For new grad
That’s an extremely strong sde2 offer already. More than my newly promoted SDE3s.
I don't think that's true. Comp team bounds exception requests. I do not know if VP can override comp team - from what I have seen they can't, likely because divergent pay creates liability for employment law and discrimination claims.
No way
Nope. Trying to reinterview for an L6 is your only chance.
SDM?
SDE
Hmm.. never heard sde2 making $300k. You can always try though using your counter