High paying companies for leadership roles in New York
Mar 12, 2021
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Currently M2 at Facebook (L7 equivalent). Not happy with politics in my org and we have been thinking about moving to the east coast due to personal reasons. Not interested in pre-ipo companies unless they are relatively low risk like Stripe. What public non-FAANG companies pay good comp for management roles in the New York area? Finance companies like two sigma, jane street don't seem to hire managers externally. Apple, Microsoft, Netflix don't have much presence in New York. Amazon is there but not sure if they will match this even for director roles.
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Reason I ask is : I am thinking of going to Bay Area ( from east coast ) in search of more opportunities
Reason for leaving for us is personal. My wife and I used to live in New York and life was a lot more social and it was definitely more happening. In Bay Area, even in SF, it's much more laid back and quiet and we prefer the New York scene.
All the best.
YOE? Can you talk about your career path..
Good luck
A few things:
Think of Amazon tech directors as Facebook directors with twice as much maturity and experience. Pretty solid bunch of leaders overall, more so than peers in big Tech.
If you're in an established team in retail, you might get drawn into a lot of escalation, optimization, operational heavy projects/meetings. Peak(s) are unavoidable so you might want to avoid.
If you're in AWS, you might get away for a short while then pressured to deliver impact and products before re:invent catches up fast.
Alexa (decent presence in the Northeast) used to be messy but now is a blend of operational, new launch and research teams. You can find some nice spots there maybe in research + engineering teams.
Even best are new initiatives where they take it easy on you for a year or two but there tends to be fewer of those.
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