I currently have two offers on the the table and am not really leaning towards one or the other right now. Maybe I’ll have more impact joining a medium sized company? My goal is to optimize for learning. Which should I go with? 1. Amazon 108k Base 24k sign on first year 20k sign on second year 70k/4 stocks with 5/15/40/40 vesting schedule Location: Seattle WA Position: SDE 1 2. One of (Auth0, Okta, onelogin) 130k base 0 sign on 75k/4 with a 25/25/25/25 vesting schedule and a one year cliff Location: Bellevue WA Position: SDE 1 Thanks in advance! YOE: 0 TC: 0
Personally I would choose Amazon and plan to interview at Google or top unicorns after a year or so. But if you don't like the idea of that, #2 also seems like a good choice.
If your goal is to optimize for learning then I would suggest amazon where you’ll get some good exposure to how a mature (comparatively) company approaches software design/engineering/implementation which is an amazing baseline that you can carry with you throughout your career. Also having a big name on your resume helps get to that next career as well.
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Which team at Amazon? If AWS, then definitely join. The others, I don't know too much about.
Not placed yet unfortunately
I would recommend Amazon
For the 1st job ( or you never have big name in ur resume), take the big name. It will open other doors later.
20k signon on the second year lmao is that a retention bonus 😂
Is a big name (Amazon) in your resume a big deal nowadays? It seems like it'll only help during the screening process, but afterwards it's Leetcode time. As for growth and learning, it depends more on the team you're joining, but I would say Amazon is better for that. Although I hear WLB can be bad so...
If you have a company that you’re interested in working for and reach out directly, then having a big name on your resume most certainly helps you get your foot in the door.
is typing FAANG easier than Amazon? :@
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I work at your #2 choice there. I’d say in a place like that you’re going to get a more diverse skill set and get the opportunity to lead things and make a high impact. There’s less politics there too. I came from msft and my job was mostly the same stuff every day but you get to put the big name on your resume and presumably go wherever you want with little friction after. So what’ll it be? Diverse skillset, leadership opportunities and high impact, or big name, stable position, big TC
I see. Speaking with several engineers there, the place seemed very chill, maybe too chill for me? And what I was thinking is that maybe I should jump into the deep end with Amazon, learn a ton, and also get the name recognition on my resume as well. How’s your WLB at #2?
Wlb is good. Super generous remote policy and unlimited vacay. I heard amazon was super judgy when it came to wfh or vacay but it depends on the team I guess. It’s pretty chill but if you’re the type of person who likes to have ownership of a product end to end it can go from 0-100 pretty quick (depending on what it is you own)