Hi, I’ve an amazon offer with TC 385K in Bay Area in the Amazon Search Science and AI team for an MLE-2 position. Might have flexibility to talk to a couple of teams in Amazon Robotics as well but may not be in the Bay. My current TC @L4 is 275K (granted) or 310K (vested) with nearing cliff in < year. Even if I get promoted to L5 in a year my TC for the next couple of years won’t cross 320K (granted). Total experience is 3 years at Google since graduation. I’m bored with slow promos and slow work at Google. I’ll post the breakdown in another post. Looking for growth to SDE3 until my next move. WDYT about this? Edit: Thanks a lot for the immense response. I’ll get back to most comments/DMs in 1 week as I’m super busy right now and need some closures on offers.
Only go if the team foster collaborative env, no point in joing team that is cut throat and backstabbing
Thanks. That’s the basic criteria for joining Amazon for me.
Thanks - didn’t realize that Amazon had different types of teams.
can't you boomerang easily? give it a shot
Boomerang will put me in L4 again and I’ve been an L4 for almost 2 years now since I got promoted to L4 in ~1 year.
Sure but the point is you're not going to be homeless
Get other offer
I gave interviews with couple of startups that I liked. 1 didn’t give me an offer. Another offer was not compelling for me. Not interested in Apple or Meta. What other companies would you recommend for senior roles with 3 years of experience and ~400K TC?
Snap/twilio/pins/Dropbox/
What kind of ml exp do you have op
I’ve experience in Google Search and YouTube comments ML teams
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Are you a phd? If yes, google environment will be better for reserch based work
Not a PhD. I’m interested only in product based ML roles
I work in Search Science. It's a great org filled with very talented people.
Amazon is really paying big bucks. :O
That TC still doesn't get you very far in Bay Area.
Yeah. That’s true. Bay Area TC variance is too high these days.
Amzn tc looks good. But can u somehow try to get sde3 next year just before ur cliff, that would be amazing as tc will be 550k+ But this move looks reasonable too, given u are fine to work at amzn from g
In this case getting SDE3 probably wouldn't change their TC much, other than maybe a 10% bump just to make you feel like you're getting something out of it. 385k is already bottom of the SDE 3 band for NYC and SF, so most internal SDE2 -> SDE3 promos end up right about there. If they're getting 385k as SDE2, I'd guess they might make like 420k post-promo.
No
Take the Amazon offer. You said you were board and this fixes that plus the TC cliff. If it doesn’t work out you will be fine with Google and Amazon experience on your resume.
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L4 Google -> 45 interviews, 5 offers, AMA
This is very detailed.
What do you expect from an MLE lol