I have two offers in hand, one for Google @T4 SETI (Cloud) and another for Amazon SDE @L6 (Alexa). Amz offered ~300 stock with ~225 signing. Goog offered ~400 stock with ~50 signing. My concerns are that Goog will not refresh at anywhere near the level of the initial grant and long term comp will be less after drop off, whereas it appears that Amz will keep me steady. (Confirm/deny?). If I get promo'd within 4 years at Google, do the comps line up better?
Why would you consider SETI L4 ๐. Take amzn.
Amazon no brainer here
I talked to a few friends who are Seti at G. Refresh is good. Also l6 at amzn maps to l5 at G i think. So im guessing G underleveled you and you should be able to get to l5 in a reasonable time. Amazon has a weird vesting schedule but even with that it seems comp first couple of years is better. Many people i know left amzn in less than 2 years. So factor in how long you want to stay there. Both are great choices so congrats. Im inclined to go to amzn if you think leveling is right and you can do well at that level there
It's SETI though. It's a second class role at Google. Otherwise why have a separate title.
Will pm you for anonymity. I agree it has that stigma outside. Im considering a seti offer vs dev offer from startup vs dev at another good company but lower comp. Based on talking to 6 friends who are googlers, seti is not looked down on internally, not the same diff between sdet and sde in the old msft days. That said i still think if i take seti offer i will need to switch to swe eventually as that will be better for resume.
Lol did you interview for a seti role? I cant help but feel cringy that an l6 at amazon is equivalent to only t4, and to make matter worse, SETI
Interviews are a toss up, i think l6 is l5 at G, maybe OP killed it in amzn interview but didnt do as well in G. I went through seti interview for l5 and interview was same as swe interview i had in other companies, 2 coding, 2 system design, 1 lunch no grading, 1 leadership + tech i built in the past
no question at all. amazon. amazon.
I was in a similar boat seti t4 and SDE L5 AWS I went with AWS. L6 amazon is a no brainer
I hope you like crying at your desk!
Or in the rest room
You get 225 amzn stocks for signing!? Wow
Guessing sign on is 225k cash over 2 years.
Cash to compensate back end vest
You even could push higher for signon at amazon for sde3... but this is also good
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Is it SETI for both?
SDE for Amazon.
Then it's a no op., clearly AMZN.