Recruiter is letting me pick between two SWE roles to interview for. I’d have to upgrade my clearance and there’s always the chance I wouldn’t pass the polygraph, but that sweet $45k/year clearance bonus would be nice and hopefully more job security. It’d also be nice if interviews were slightly more forgiving. I could also see the TS/SCI opening up more opportunities for me at other companies down the road. Any thoughts?
Does Amazon give 45k bonus in addition to the normal comp bands? Is that TS or just S? Also does Amazon have pip quota for those roles?
I think $45k for TS/SCI with poly, recruiter told me $45k for that level and yeah it’s in addition but bonus doesn’t kick in until you’ve been granted the clearance. Depends on clearance level for bonus amount I believe. I don’t think they have a need for anything below TS like S but they can upgrade for certain roles just to have to read the job description. I was really curious about pip quota too. I find it extremely hard to believe they have quotas for cleared roles as they’d be shooting themselves in the foot.
10k annually if you hold a TS with no poly, nothing for a S. Regarding PIP, not really in the cleared space that I've seen at AWS. We're trying to hire even more cleared people to keep up with demand
Don’t do TS/SCI at AWS. It pays slightly more but all the cool impactful work is done in commercial first.
Thanks for the advice. The job is with ML/NLP type work but it seems like a trade off between job security/pay and interesting work. Think it’d be an issue hopping over to commercial side if I wanted to switch?
OP here. Had on-site. Recruiter said she’s going to try to find me a team that allows more ramp up and mentioned something about Linux and systems so I assume I’m being downleveled to sysDev or sysEng which is fine, I didn’t do great at leetcode which probably would have been a rejection on commercial side. Does anybody know if you have to do full loop interview again and what the chances are of it working out on clearance side are?
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I passed a Microsoft hiring event for cleared roles with supposedly great feedback. Unfortunately I only have a secret and recruiter got together with a couple others and said they couldn’t upgrade my clearance. She acted like they strictly weren’t allowed to but could have just been telling me that. It was a miscommunication that I even got to interview :( If they are able to upgrade I’m very much interested
What’s your background? Dev? SRE? And which teams did you talk to. Most stuff does require a TS. Upgrades are possible but it’s rare.