I have an internship offer from Sumo Logic and Amazon, both for SWE roles. The compensation are: Sumo Logic: Pay: $50/hour Relocation: $5000 one time Location: Redwood City, California Duration: 14.5 weeks Amazon: Pay: $7933/mo Housing: $1925/mo post-tax Additional: Flight tickets to and from Seattle Location: Seattle, Washington Duration: 10.5 weeks If i work at Amazon for 10.5 weeks versus if I work at Sumo Logic for 14.5 weeks, after calculating the final amount earned during the internship post-tax, and considering the difference in state tax (which little, as I would not earn more than $45000 for the next financial year), the difference in living cost (mostly simple housing, and i am really frugal), the difference in the extra one month rent that I would be paying at Sumo Logic as their duration is longer, difference caused by flight tickets, Sumo Logic ends up paying about $4000 more than Amazon. My target is to maximize the total income. I had resume rejects from most companies I applied to, and when I apply for full-time SWE, having resume rejects from higher paying companies would be a loss to my target, as I would have to go back to the companies I had interned at (assuming I worked hard and secured a return offer). Amazon has a larger brand value than Sumo Logic (I do not know how well-known it is, so could somebody please shed light on this too?), so I think having Amazon on my resume would significantly boost my interview chances versus having Sumo Logic on my resume. The real difference is not the $4000, but the fact that it is a $20000/year difference for full-time pay post-tax and post california’s expensiveness consideration. I worked at a no name company before, and I would not want the generic resume rejects to occur again for full-time (could you also say if many people from no name companies get interviews from the big companies for full time?). So, should i sacrifice $4000 now and $20000/year for the Amazon brand name considering that in case i do not get full-time offers from better companies, i would keep working at the company where i would intern at, but in order to maximize my interview chances for full-time and possibly getting better offers and consequently maximizing my total income? On a side note, does Amazon increase the duration of its internship so that we could work and earn more?
Amazon is 12 weeks, it will change after you select your starting date
Did you have such start dates too which you changed to 12 weeks in the survey after accepting the offer? Also, is there a possibility that I could leave my end date unchanged while entering my start date as an earlier date to increase the duration to 14 weeks?
About a week after the offer they send you a survey where you choose your start date. The end date is 12 weeks after this. Some people are able to get 16 week internships if their school requires it. You would probably have to get in touch with a recruiter to get an extension
Go with Amazon
I am tending toward Amazon too! Just that, Sumo Logic pays a lot (215,000?) for New Grads. I saw a reddit post in which he mentioned he was offered 145,000 Base + 10,000 Signing Bonus + 240,000 / 4 worth of stocks. Amazon on the other hand offers about 155,000 (?). Besides, I am really hardworking but I am afraid if the posts that say Amazon does not give many return offers is true. Although, I think for New Grad roles, my resume would be strengthened significantly by the Amazon brand name, whereas Sumo Logic is relatively unknown to most. Is this true? I think sacrificing 4,000 in internship by choosing Amazon is a nice investment and I should choose Amazon. Although, I am thinking about a worst case back-up, that if I end up joining the same company, then Sumo Logic would pay more. However, I would surely apply to companies better than both for full-time roles and I think it is highly likely to land interview opportunities with the Amazon brand name.
I have a friend at sumo logic who’s actually trying to jump ship. She said half of her team members left. Sumo logic is not doing too well. Going with amazon might a better option and even if you do not get a return offer, having the amazon name will give you a lot of interview opportunities. One more thing is that sumo logic hasn’t gone public so Amazon stocks are way more valuable. Take amazon and work hard, maintain rapport with your manager and hopefully that’s enough to get a return offer. Good luck OP!
Internships are done to gain knowledge and experience, money is secondary..I think you are wise enough to choose!
I think so too. 4000 is a small investment and I think that might give great returns in the future. So, I am tending to the brand name that Amazon has! However, I want to make sure that I am not being biased toward either, so I am trying to give both companies as much positive points as possible.
Amazon. Sumologic is struggling and barely a startup given that they will be a decade old shortly. Amazon is hell but as resume it’s 100x more relevant.
But they recently secured a lot of funding that brought their valuation to 1.1 Billion dollars right? Also, as they are offering more salaries, doesnt that imply that they are doing well? I checked their website and it says that they have 2000+ clients and that list includes Twitter, and such big companies.
Have we learned nothing about. valuations?