A recruiter from Amazon emailed### me for Salary expectations for data engineer role at Seattle. Also they asked how much data engineering experience I have. I have 2 years of data engineer experience and 2 years of data analyst experience. What should be my response. Current TC : 100k Data engineer YOE : 2 yrs Data analyst+ data engineer YOE : 4 yrs #Data engineer
First rule of negotiations: Don’t give any number from your end until you are at the last stage of negotiation. In your case, you havn’t even interviewed yet. Don’t fall for this BS recruiting trick. Tell them straight: you wouldn’t be comfortable discussing compensation until you have received an offer. If they insist, tell them you would look for market standard or something similar. And L5 DE offers are between 180k-260k range from what I have seen. P.S: Lot of Amazon DE teams work on very different scope (purely Analytics and SQL focused) than what you would work in most other companies as DE. Hence know the scope well, and if required rather join as an SDE to get proper scope. Also SDE has a better pay band than DE at Amazon.
Thank you so much for your valuable advice. I haven’t given them a number yet. Joining as an SDE is not an option for me since I have mostly worked on data stuff.
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L5 180k - 250k don’t know the range for L4
Thanks…Do you think I can mention the relevant DE experience as 4 years or should stick with 2
Go with 4 if you’ve been interviewing for a while or put 2 if you aren’t confident. L5 with 2 yoe is difficult but not impossible 🙂