Evaluate final offer Amazon SDE1 in Seattle
Got this final offer after negotiating Base:$120,000 RSU: 41 Sign on bonus:$48000 paid over 2 years Amazon TC over 4 years: $152k Current TC over 4 years: $143k Yoe: 3 Should I consider taking this or maybe apply for SDE2 next year? Update: current TC over 4 years: $143k
3 you & just sde1? Damn son. Amazon being stingy af.
Tbh didnt have a great interview loop
Apply for ms, I will refer :-)
What's your current TC? L4-L5 is an easy promotion
119k base. 8% annual bonus
This sucks and you should skip on it
3 years experience should come in as Sde2. You can pass on this offer and reapply as Sde2. No point in changing companies and keeping the comp same. You will soon start regretting it.
Lol, And I was thinking of giving up my h1b for a similar/ better offer from Amazon đ 115 / 60 joining / 50 stock . 2 yoe
I would lean towards gaining experience vs TC in early stage of career.
Take the Amazon job! - L6 SDE The amount engineers learn at Amazon in one year vs at Comcast will be magnitudes different. No offense to Comcast but this is true of almost everywhere that isnât MSFT, FB, or GOOG.
I didnât get into ms or FB or Google :(
Then even more so, take the Amazon job. You will learn so much more and advance your career so much more by being at Amazon. Iâd honestly tell you to take a pay cut to work at Amazon. FWIW, I havenât drunk the cool aid. This is not a nice place to work. arguably itâs a shitty place to work. Your work life balance will be worse. Your stress will be higher. And you will get woken up at night more times than you can count. Amazon is definitely a hard place to work, and not meant for everyone. But this is still the start of your career and working here will set you apart. Itâll set apart your resume, and set your skills apart as well. âIf you find youâre the smartest person in the room, itâs time to leave the roomâ - The first quote I learned at Amazon
Learning is important than money. Amazon depending on which role you are going for may bring more learning. Any way you are not regressing salary
So it's better to join Amazon as sde2. If you join as sde2, means you are better than 50 percent of current sde2s (bar raiser round - every hire raises the bar) and given TC at median of the band or more ( like 220 ish). If you join as sde1 your tc after promotion to sde2 will be bottom of the band which is like 180 ish. And it will take at least 1-2 years. Btw, every sde2 raising the bar assumption is total crap and not true anymore. I wouldn't hire a lot of them even as sde1s. Having said that - in your position I would take the Amazon offer.
Reapply next year . Period