Hello Blind Community, I have 15+ years of experience in IT. through which I worked on domains: Application Development (Oracle), Database Administration ( Oracle), ERP system admin (Oracle e-Business Suite), Linux, Project Management, etc. In 2020 during the COVID pandemic, I was WFH and had some time to explore new things and I studied cloud computing. started from Oracle OCI, I got all the cloud certificates from Oracle (5x). at then, I began to think about switching my career path to the cloud, then I studied AWS, and finally Azure. Today, I am certified as a Cloud Solution Architect on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Oracle. Besides 1.5 years of experience in Azure cloud. I am moving to the U.S. next month and was wondering how much I should be asking as a salary for the role of Cloud Solution Architect in the US (specifically Los Angeles, CA.) say at Microsoft, I would really appreciate your answers, advice as I need them #interview #it #us #cloud #solutionarchitect #microsoft #azure
How are you moving to the US? Do you already have green card or a visa of some sort? Depending on your immigration status, the job prospects will vary.
I’m stealing OPs question 🙈, but how would someone go about getting a job with visa sponsorship? Not SWE jobs and preferably FAANG companies?
Did you win the lottery?
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Minimum 300k. I'd be shocked and amazed if it's less. Depends on company. At Amazon you'd probably be sitting at 100k
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With Amazon as well you will be atleast 275 but mostly above 300.
What's your current TC
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Different people will give different numbers . No harm as it is just word of mouth. First get a job in the new domain. Not sure some companies even won’t offer 100k
I was going to say the same. Only FAANG pay $300K to 500K. Dell, HP going to pay around upper 100s to low 200s. Some might even offer mid 100s. So be ready
Ehh, $300k isn't hard to hit at non FAANG. $500k is definitely harder though. I'm at $217k, only 5 years in IT and half of that are cloud. I just started a new job, I have built in stacking RSU refreshes and will be at a little under $300k by my 2 year mark, assuming flat stock performance and no raises. And this is a barely known company of ~500 people. I was in the running for a job at Square that I wasn't quite up to par for, TC was ~270k. And these figures are from February, with the insane inflation and demand it could be even higher right now
SA Is a pre-sales job. I don't think anyone will pay 300k+ to a person never work in US. Sales is a different beast. OP needs to learn the way things work here.
Agreed and a CSA role requires lots of pre sales or customer facing experience.
That makes a sense, Thank you
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Getting the first job is tough with SA especially when someone is coming with just ERP experience. No one give much importance to certification as it is easily available everywhere. Hence focus more on getting the right first job rather than focusing on salary in SA role. For SDE, you can focus on salary if you are really good with coding and problem solving as no one worries much on experience there
That seems insightful, thanks for the advice
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Should be able to get at least $250-300k with your level of experience. If you can nail the interviews and find the right team, $325-350k is probably possible too.
Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it! Could you please let me know the salary breakdown in the U.S. as I am new coming from tax-free salaries countries where everything is completely different in terms of the salary package? Please don't take too much time writing, You can send me a link or so if you find the information is relevant and applicable to at least the big tech.
It depends heavily on the company on how much will be standard cash salary, stock based comp, and bonus cash, possibly some of that being based on a quota. Some companies will have SAs tied to a sales quota, others will not. Federal taxes will be standard wherever you live, state taxes vary heavily based on state. CA being one of the worst in the country.