Current - Amazon L5 NYC Base - 185k Stock - 80k TC - 265k Team is good and manager says he thinks I'm on track for L6. Not sure how close I am. Been L5 for 1.5 years Meta offer IC4 Seattle Base - 180k Bonus - 15% Stock - 100k per year Signing - 70k First year - 370k, annual 300k YOE 4 Meta seems better for immediate comp but I think I would make more if I reached L6 at Amazon. Thoughts? #swe #software #engineering
i’d say get more details from amazon management on when they wanna put you up for promo. iirc, you need like 3 “senior” level projects and that’s based on what the manager gives you. if they can’t give timelines or the timeline doesn’t work for you, I’d bounce
Best of luck with that. Seems unlikely you’ll get those details and they will be guaranteed….
More likely you’ll get those details and they won’t be guaranteed for Amazon carrot driven management
Make more when? Years from now? Take the better offer now.
Amazon L6 will easily take 1-2 years. In that time, you could hit equivalent IC5 at Meta as well. Hence I would lean Meta. Location is also important - do you prefer Seattle ?
YOE4 and have only been L5 for 1.5 years means you are no where near L6 at this point. 265k TC is at the middle of the band for aL5 and might even be at the lower middle for HCOL location like NYC. So you are looking at least 2 hv3/Tt cycles to be promoted. Is there a way you can upgrade meta E4 to E5? Or were you already evaluated and it was a downlevel?
I think I was just interviewed for E4 and was not considered for E5. I also heard E5 has much higher expectations than E4 so maybe it's better for me as a new joiner.
Middle-Lower end of band for Amazon L5
Really? For which job family? Sounds like your answer is loaded with assumptions.
Hi congrats on your offers! Would you mind sharing your prep for coding and sys. design? Were most of your coding questions medium difficulty? Thank you in advance
meta was all medium-level, I think 3/4 were in top 100 LC. Had two system design rounds, one was infra focused and was a variation of a grokking question. Other was a product question, can't share as it was extremely team specific. LC Prep was grinded 200 from Meta list System design - grokking and System Design Fight Club, also paid for some mocks which helped a lot
Were the LC questions all Meta tagged?
Side question. How do you feel about Amazon NYC OP? But here, meta sounds like the right choice if you can tolerate a Seattle move.
NYC offices seem to be growing. My team is split on east and west coast though and my manager isn't here so hard for me to comment on anything else.
Lol Meta of course, Amazon is trash
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for SWE?? surprising numbers for NYC
Unfortunately joined when stock was ATH 🤷♂️
Stay in Amazon and keep exploring AWS. Meta is no fun, and you will learn garbage language(PHP) and a whole bunch of garbage tools. I am thinking to go back AWS.