YOE 4 Location FL - remote SWE AWS SDE2 L5 TC - 325k “comp target” 194k base 256k “signing” paid monthly over 2 years 243k stock. Vested 5/15/40/40 Square L4 TC - 240k plus 10k signing 165k Base 300k stock 25/25/25/25 Current TC 175k. All base I’ve talked to my future manager at AWS and I’m fairly confident that they will be good. I interviewed with them and then had a follow up call after they extended the offer. They have worked at aws for 8 years and they said they have had plenty of bad managers and it’s their goal to be a good one. I’ve always worked at no name companies so AWS on the resume will be nice and the work at AWS will be fascinating. The WLB between square and aws is obviously huge but the comp difference is hard to ignore. Im thinking I could tough it out at AWS for 2 years and then go somewhere else if the WLB is bad. I like the idea of amazons first two years of comp being all cash too since they do the weird vesting schedule with the “signing bonuses”. I think aws could set me up better for the future but the horror stories I see here scare me. Both positions are 100% remote in distributed teams so there’s no chance of people returning to the office. What are y’all’s thoughts?
AWS
Obv aws
Obv square
Why?
Wlb
If you love your life, join anything but AWS. You will be paged 40-70 times in a week. You will be asked to write precise proposals. You will be asked to speak up in all meetings. After doing all of those, your promotion will be slow compared to ones in Retails. All pain for no gains. Join Retail or Alexa if you are joining Amazon.
You probably need to switch to a new team. Many team in AWS won’t be paged 40-70times in a week. Probably 2 or 3when you’re oncall
Make this a poll. And I'd say go AWS
Added a poll. Thanks!
Imo sq has more upside potential over next 4y, but obviously higher risk
I was thinking about aws for 2 years especially with the unstable economy and the first two years of comp basically being cash. After that maybe join square as an L5 or move on somewhere else.
I agree with this thinking. You don’t have to stay at aws forever
That base was unheard of 6 months back at AWS. 😀
Get 430k at aws and take that
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