Current L5 at AMZN, TC ~260, 4YOE. EDIT: since people are clearly confused, only NVIDIA is senior. The rest are mid-level (E4 at Meta). Received three offers. My top priorities: 1a. Interesting work 1b. Fully remote 2. Good company culture Notes about each: Meta: - in-person Bay Area (would require relocation from east coast) - Product team working on Facebook NVIDIA: - fully remote - Product team working on external-facing GenAI tooling - “senior” offer (IC3) Coinbase: - fully remote - Product/infra-leaning team working on products for institutional investors - haven’t updated them about my meta offer. Maybe they’d negotiate higher? I really don’t see myself relocating for meta. Even if they were remote though, I’m leaning NVIDIA. Team sounds super interesting, and I am ok hovering around my current TC at Amazon.
Meh
L5 in 4 years, thats solid growth
Only meta is worth considering here
Nvidia obviously
Nvidia 2 year look back for ESPP can help make some ground
That's not how it works. You need to be enrolled in ESPP program to get to that lower price.
^ Yeah, isn’t that how most/all programs work? From Nvidia’s own article: “Your offering price for NVIDIA ESPP gets set the first trading day after the month you’ve enrolled, and it remains the look-back price for up to 24 months.“
Don't change
Would you really take pay cut to join NV ? Moreover fully remote at IC3, ain’t recommended for your career ! It’s Ok to be remote once you have gained unmatchable expertise in any area .
I prefer fully remote. Based on everything I’ve read and talking to folks there - yes, I would. Feel free to change my mind.
Do you believe that stock has some decent upside potential at this point? Run some numbers on the assumption that stock could tank 50% and see if numbers still make sense . I joined twilio when stock was basically ATH, and it’s about 80% down now. Yes different story and , but things do change , markets shifts, sentiments shit as well
Are you a software engineer? These offers suck ass for "senior"
Only NVIDIA is senior, the rest are mid-level. Yeah I’m a SWE
IC3 at NVIDIA is not senior , it’s typically grad + 3 years of experience role. For sure it is senior than iC2, if that makes you happy!
My offer letter says “Senior Software Engineer”. I put “senior” in quotes before I have 4YOE, and no way I’d get a “senior” offer at any FAANG. However, I’ve seen NVIDIA give IC3 offers to people with 5-7 YOE so I do think they view it as senior. No chance I’d take this comp if I could get a senior offer at FAANG with 4YOE.
nvidia "senior" is anything between ic3 and ic5. If you get an ic3 offer at 5 yoe chances are you don't have many competing offers/are not the best fit because at that range you should really be getting ic4. 5 YOE is starting to enter E5 territory for other companies.
I would be sure to negotiate based of your current and next year's TC assuming Amazon stock with 15% YoY. I think these numbers can go higher. I'm unsure about the current environment for offers though
As of last PCS, current year comp is 260, next year is like 252 according to the tool
As a stock, Amazon is actually positioned pretty well. As a company culture, we're poop water, but I'd negotiate assuming a 15% increase of your current salary (~300k). It's a fair request. Worst they can say is no and keep their current offer. Don't be afraid to push for your worth.