Hey blinders, I'm here to ask how I should go about negotiating my potential Amazon offer. I just passed the phone screen and I have an on site next week. I feel confident in my ability to interview after 200+ leet code questions. What I currently make Location: seattle Yoe: 4.5 Base: 150k Signing bonus: 60k over 2 years Stock: 150k over 4 years.(25% each year) So my TC is about 215k. I look at levels.fyi and it seems L5 can range between 160k to 250k tc. Since I'm not interviewing anywhere else, I feel like I dont really have any room to negotiate. If they decide they like me and want to make an offer, what should be my strategy for negotiating? What is the most you guys think i could hope for? Do you think levels.fyi is accurate? I obviously wont switch if they cant offer more money than what I currently make.
yoe?
I have 4.5 yoe
I don’t think your YOE warrants a top of the band offer. Unless you completely blow them away in the interview. If you aim for about 240 you should be ok, if you do well in the interview
I would be more than happy with 240k
If you do well they'll likely start you in the middle of the band which is about $250k. Do very well and try to get competing offers.
Middle of the band for L5 is 250k? What source are you using for that? I'll try to do well. Honestly I dont have the energy to go get competing offers right now. I'd rather just switch teams at my current company and try again in 6 months at other FAANG companies that could pay me more.
Seattle middle of the band for SDE is $250k ? I think it depends on yoe as well. Like if youre 7 yoe and get levelled to L5 you can get $250k. Can you please clarify ?
Try to get as many other offers as possible. Even if you get a better offer after accepting a mediocre one from Amazon, you can reopen the negotiations. Negotiations without other offers at hand are very difficult.
Hmmm. I was hoping I could use my current salary as a negotiating tool. Do companies not care about that?
Of course your current salary is a negotiation point, but is that a good one to anchor on?
I pushed them to the top of my band for L6 with no offers and it was because they really wanted me, just do exceptional in your onsite.
Anything that follows “just do....” is really hard to do
250 is a good offer for external The rest of the lower number are bottom of the band promotions or people posting only their base / after 4 years cliff etc
No 5/15/40/40 vesting?
I have 25/25/25/25 at my current company. Is Amazon exclusively 5/15/40/40?
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch!
Like if I dont get an Amazon offer, whatever. I'll just move teams at my current company. But I should have a plan on what to do if I get an offer, right? Or you think i should just have waited until I got an offer before thinking about how I wanted to negotiate?
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Do extremely well in the HM round LP questions. They will give you the top of the band offer.
They don’t normally give top of the band offers immediately. You have to negotiate
So it sounds like I dont just have to pass the interview, I have to do super well in the interview. I guess I need to study more.