Hi, all Currently I got two offer, 1 is lead swe from Capital One and one is SDE II (L5) from Amazon, which one should I accept. Amazon Base: 165k Stock: 80k Signon: 95k 1st year, 80k 2nd year Capital One Base: 174k Bonus: 12k Signon: 20k TC: 155k YOE: 4.5
Congrats! Big rise from your current TC
Can people give some reasons, i saw many choose Amazon, but why? I understand the TC is much higher but thats not the most important thing for choosing a work place, am I wrong?
Location?
Atlanta, GA
C1 for job security and resiliency
What's resiliency?
You work at Amazon and don’t know what resiliency means? Do you design resilient systems?
Are these before or after negotiations? You could get some more at C1 with the Amazon offer, close the gap and decide on what team/company you like more
I would only choose C1 if you want to prioritize wlb or finding a decent enough company that you can stay at long term. That being said I don’t know how good/bad it is at Amazon. You will have more future opportunities with Amazon on your resume, and personal growth at C1 will likely be slower d/t lack of much development (pending team, but even still you’ll prob still have to make poor eng decisions to fit into enterprise goals of using xyz tooling).
Lead SWE at C1 with 4.5 YOE is awesome.
CapOne for job security