Potential move to Google from Amazon
YOE 4 years(India-1yr, Ireland-2yr,USA-1yr), 1 year startup, 3 years Amazon. Bachelors in Computer Science. Amazon SDE2 Seattle(142k base, 36 RSU=75k/year). Have similar RSUs until 2020. Recently moved to AWS AI from a big data team as I’m interested in ML (still naive though with a breadth in ML knowledge). Have an option to interview with Google for MTV. Please suggest if I should go forward or stick to Amazon for longer as the stock price is skyrocketing. Also, please suggest good ML teams in google to join as an sde if you are aware of any! Thanks!
That’s it? That’s your rabbit in the hat? Shit, son, we were hoping for something real.
Seriously, don’t. You’re highly unlikely to see Google move you closer towards what you want to learn right off the bat. Worse yet, they’re pretty handy about misrepresenting what the job really entails in order to get you to sign
Amazon does the same.
You won't get to work with good (hot) teams at Google, unless you have worked on complex, critical production systems in the past or you have expertise in some field in ML.
Googles acceptance rate is a fraction of one percent of all applicants; so “have an option to interview” isn’t really hot news. If you were to get te offer, it’d almost certainly be for a bigger number and you wouldn’t even be posting this.
Everyone talking about becoming richer because of Amazon's skyrocketing stock price needs to understand the law of large numbers. You will not become significantly richer than what you currently are at Amazon. $2000 won't turn to $4000 just as easily as $500 turned to $1000. Amazon is nearing a trillion dollar market cap and is a giant already. If you really want to get rich with stocks, join a promising pre-ipo startup.
This, amazon folks seem to be under impression that this growth will continue to perpetuity. I feel one missed guidance will bring stock tanking hard ; Amazon is still tiny fraction of us retail and even with aws there’s significant competition.
Spot on. Amazon took 25 years to near a trillion. Folks really think it will double, triple in the next 4 years? That's called irrational exuberance. The law of large numbers will apply pressure going forward. Folks joining Amazon today will most unlikely see the same TC increase as those 4 years prior. Sell all RSUs and diversify.
No offense but please get an offer from Google first. Google gives almost everyone a chance to interview with them.
^ this. Never hurts to interview.
Go for it and interview. Have options. All the rest (team selection and various details) are premature though. You need to get through the interview first.