When I joined Amazon the stock price was $700 ish which has basically trippled now. I am a DE. I get base + RSUs now only. When I do the math, after tax, this takes my salary beyond the normal ranges of what is available outside the company. All the base salaries are higher than what I get now, but after tax pay will be lower unless I move to a SWE role or Solutions Architect role as I also don’t have much experience (5 YOE). I don’t think Amazon stock will triple again. I dont want to work here once my stock vests either. My PCS is at least 20k GBP ‘off’ what I bank because of the stock price increase so it becomes hard to even go to employers to even get a matching salary. I explored finance and although salaries are higher, bonus can vary, whereas in tech a ‘minimum value’ is set. How do I find a role / company where the RSU value will actually grow like it did at Amazon?
Stay there. Amazon will grow until it takes over a fraction of consumption portion of world GDP.
Go to the US? Unless your TC is north of 500K USD, you can probably do better.
Can’t really leave the UK at the moment due to a personal situation. VISA sponsorship is also very hard at Amazon for DE/other roles (non-SWE, non-Data Science).
Okay, I can't comment on your personal situation, but if you just search Amazon H1B, and go to H1Bdata some website, you'll see that Amazon sponsors H1B for all kinds of positions
Just apply and get a job. Everyone beats amzn easily.
Yup am doing this :) It’s just that I’ve had big tech companies come back with their salary ranges and in a few cases it was lower than what I earn now. :( Just trying to see where there is a good place where stock is likely to increase to basically mirror my current situation in 3-4 years.
There's no reason to offer you more until ask. Any company will buy out your current equity if they want you.
Some people sell RSU at vesting and buy something else, less correlated with your job.
Yeah this is what I am doing with my current RSUs. It is just nice for the value to double in a few years also itself. :)
Not by itself though. If you truly were convinced the value is about to double then why didn’t you buy more stock?