Finished up almost 3 whole months of interview prep and interviewing. Got a few offers and plenty of failures. Current TC: 135k 🥜 New TC: 400k 🥩 YOE: 9 Amazon AWS SDE2/L5 - Accepted an offer after phone screen and virtual onsite TC: Y1/Y2 ~400k, Y3/Y4 ~350k (210k base, ~300k / 2yrs sign on, 3300 RSUs =~ 330k / 4 yrs) MSFT Senior software engineer/L63 - phone screen plus virtual onsite for 2 different teams Team 1 TC: 250k Y1/Y2, 200k Y3/Y4 160k base + RSU + signon + cash bonus (verbal offer, forgot specifics) Team 2 TC: 320k Y1/Y2, 225k Y3/Y4 180k base + RSU + signon + cash bonus (verbal offer, forgot specifics) Box: Senior software engineer TC: 275k 200k base + 300k RSU/ 4yrs VMWare Senior software engineer: Failed first phone screen FireEye Senior software engineer: ghosted by recruiter after 4 rounds of interviews Crowdstrike Senior software engineer: Failed take home project after 2 rounds of interviews zScaler Senior staff software engineer: Failed 3rd round interview Magic Leap Senior software engineer: Failed after completing full loop, 5 rounds Google: passed phone screen but decided not to schedule virtual onsites after AWS offer came through, burned out on interviewing AMD/Intel/Nvidia/Dell: application rejected before even being contacted by recruiter All positions for (supposedly) fully remote from MCOL Preparation was Blind 75 LC, Grokking system design + youtube system design, and a lot of writing out amazon LP style stories from past experiences. In total I've solved maybe 50 LC or so. My new TC will allow all outstanding debts to be repaid (except for the house), and the ability to start a family and not be totally broke. Thank you so much Blind community, for opening my eyes and allowing me to see my value and increase my quality of life. Money doesn't buy happiness directly, but it sure as fuck can help find it.
Congrats buddy
Congratulations OP At AWS, YOY TT, L6, YOE 11+ After stock crash, my TC < 400K (pre crash 470k) I should LC and GTFO
Congrats OP! You are the man! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾
Congrats Now spend some quality time with your family before you complain about WLB and toxicity at Amazon.
Congrats OP,
Congratulations bud! I have a Microsoft interview coming up. Can you please share what questions you got?
Are you based out of Raleigh
Nope
Congrats! Is the AWS offer in bay area or Seattle?
Neither. East coast.
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Only 50 LC? Congrats!
even if it’s not a typo, don’t plan on 50 lol even if u able to memorize 50
Yea. I'm at like 80 and I'm still bad at it. Probably after neetcode 150 and blind 75, I'll feel good