Career Advice for transitioning tech, Intel vs Amazon
Intel Persistent Memory (PM) evolution is expected to shake the data centers software and hardware platform technologies soon and almost every cloud vendor have something related to it in their roadmap. I have two offers from Amazon and Intel. Amazon wants me to help integrate PM in AWS and Intel want me as part of PM R&D team. Amazon pays more but Intel is really the birth place of this new technology. I might have better career at Intel. I appreciate if you can share your experience if have been in the same situation in respect to a new technology? Would you benefit the most as consumer of tech (i.e Amazon) or producer (i.e. Intel).
Just how much more is Amazon offering?
Not sure yet. I am in negotiations phase with both
Congrats on the offers! Speaking as an Intel guy but knows all the Amazon horror stories from friends there ... go to Amazon if you are ambitious. The skills gained there will be more transferrable than whatever you learn at Intel. Intel has a way of sucking the soul out of you by enveloping you with complacency, which is worse then sucking the soul out of you by overworking you. Both places have crazy politics. It's just that I would bet the farm that Amazon management (warts and all) is still way more competent than Intel management (duh look at the comparative stock growth during the past 8 years).
One. Get the spelling correct. Intel being the birth place means nothing to your career. Rather what skills and desires you have to work in r&d. At then end of the day. It is just another technology. Integration of PM into amazon solutions could be fun as well. I do see how it would be old news in a few years. So do you want to be a integration architect or in technology R&D. PM just happens to be the news of the day for a career.