Working on internal tools at Netflix - it’s okay for the money I get paid and not super technically challenging. AWS team seems super interesting and have worked with the manager before and they’re offering similar/more comp (620k TC for L6) after the loop. Is it worth the move from Netflix to AWS? Been less than a year at Netflix. The recent changes made me interview outside 🙈
Current TC: 570k
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If you’re L4/L5 go for it. Lots of positions gonna open for you
https://us.teamblind.com/s/O5MeEOkW
From what I read, Netflix is all about autonomy, AWS is the opposite. Everything comes top down and deadlines and based around Re:Invent and we are supposed to "Work Backwards" from there (lol).
Theres also super good sides of AWS as well. Any system design interview I do at other companies is a free win since you get super good at system design and by attending the weekly AWS ops meetings where teams explain why their systems failed and how they are going to improve them.
I'm also proud of the tech and solutions AWS has built and our future is never in doubt, we are always innovating.
So I would say this:
1. Ask the manager how many sev2's a week the team gets. If he dosent have a direct and super specific number, that could be a red flag. Or maybe its one of those rare AWS teams who are greenfield and don't have oncall yet.
2. Ask to talk to the L7 SDE (Aka Principial Engineer) in the group. Their feedback on your performance is going to be really important over your career at amazon
3. Ask to talk to another L6 SDE on the team.
As far as comp, its definitely not worth it to switch just for that.
Great info. Thanks for sharing!
To echo what Amazon said, the work is interesting and you’ll learn a TON.
Also seems like it's chill for you in Netflix so take that in to account for TC calculation as AWS most likely will have oncall duties.