A friend of mine got offer from Amazon for RS (research science) and data science at DraftKings. They are both remote it seems. The TC for Amazon is 270K and for DraftKings is 240K. Which one you thing is better in terms of potential for growth, learning, respect and wlb? We appreciate any genuine (please no joke) comment. #tech
Prestige — choose Amazon. But they cap the base pay and there is no cash bonus! Not sure about DraftKings. Getting Amazon on your resume will open doors in other FAANGs if they haven’t already opened.
Amazon, hands down. I had a similar choice and the smaller co was actually paying a little more. I chose Amazon and boy am I glad I did. It’s about growth. You’re surrounded by tons of brilliant scientists and a never ending stream of technical talks…etc. The company works on so many things from recommendation, flying drones, every managed AI service, supply chain…etc. Even if all you care about is money, being a scientist at Amazon (and others like it) will give you a world class industry education. I was on an email thread with someone being congratulated for receiving the Nobel Prize in economics a few weeks ago. This will positively impact your future earnings far beyond any differences in offer you’re receiving now. And ignore all the Amazon hate you see on Blind. It’s nonsense. Or maybe RS/AS is a lot different experience than SDE. But I never work more than 40 hours a week and have been promoted twice in 5 years.
Draftkings might have harder probability problems given their nature of betting business? met an engineer a few years ago, >6, and he seemed to be happy there 😃
How is the prestige compared to amazon ?
I do not know AWS/ A9 probably have upper hand though