Red Hat vs AWS offer
Red Hat: Fully remote Base salary - 125k 15% annual bonus 30k annual target for equity awards TC: 143k - 173k (the big variance worries me as I was told the 30k isn't guaranteed) AWS: Partially remote (2-3 days in the office) Base salary - 149k 68k sign on bonus, 39k Y1, 29k Y2 28 shares of stock TC: 191k Current TC: 122k and fully remote AWS offers 10 days off a year, and Red Hat offers 20 + a company wide shut down over the week of Christmas The WLB sounds much better at Red Hat, but the AWS offer would be a higher salary. But if I were to get the full 30k/yr of equity at Red Hat, a 20k (10k net after taxes) difference wouldn't be as big of a deal, especially if I'm fully remote. I also think the prestige of Amazon makes me want to work for them more as it would open more doors in the future. I'm really struggling to decide. I highly value my remote lifestyle. Thoughts?
AWS will open more doors, can try at initial stage. Burnout will be there for sure. Also before comparing just half the Amazon tc, because you will be working 2x at Amazon.
What's the location for both?
Denver
191k in Denver? Take it.
I can tell you one thing for sure is Red Hat has an amazingly good culture (total opposite of Amazon based on my knowledge). The $ will be low but you will get so much more in return working at Red Hat. Amazon is a good brand no doubt but it is thinning. Red Hat is all about Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux and Ansible. They are betting huge on edge computing. Also, don’t worry about IBM. They don’t interfere. I have seen people going in both directions. From Red Hat to Amazon and vice versa.
I worked at both AWS and Red hat before. The wlb and technical challenge at Red hat is amazing and fun. I strongly suggest red hat if you don't care about the tc difference. You probably only need to work 20 hrs a week at redhat compare to 40 to 50 at AWS
holy moly, this is the first time i’ve seen a blind user from Google X. How hard was the interview in comparison to others you’ve had?
I transferred from Google. The X interview was mostly expertise based. Since I have the expertise, then interviews weren't bad.
Is amazon offer sde1?
It's a TPM