I have an offer for a Solutions Architect role at Amazon in London and wanted some feedback.
TC for year 1: £135k
Base: £97k
Sign-on: £34k
RSUs: 65 (total over 4 years)
Relocation package included
I have other offers (not FAANG).
The SA job is partly work-from-home (some days I’d be onsite at client offices).
Is the offer good? I’m a little worried about COL in London. Do I have room to negotiate it?
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- Initial phone screen with HR
- 2 phone interviews. 1st was more of a screening (tell me about yourself, go over the position, etc). 2nd was technical
- Final round of in-persons. I actually did all mine via video
The technical stuff wasn’t too bad (explain SSL certs, how do you make a database highly available). I had a take home assignment (debug a CloudFormation stack and offer improvements/suggestions, document it as if it were a client). One of the in-person interviews involved going through the assignment and was more technical in nature.
The rest of the in-person were about the LPs. Like everyone else says...prep a number of stories/examples focusing on the LPs. Go over them so you’re comfortable. Be prepared for follow-ups (would you make that same decision again...why or why not?).
Amazon seems to have an approach of finding weak points and then focusing on them and drilling down. It didn’t come off as mean, they just don’t want to spend time going over stuff you know. I have good bit of experience with containers so one interviewer said we’ll skip that. Then he went hard on databases (where I’m less skilled).
In any event it looks like a solid L6 TC for London, considering they get less than SDE.
Additionally, being part WFH it seems like a no brainer to me.
I am in similar boat with following TC offered:
Base: £100k
Sign-On: £43k (year 1), £32k (year 2)
RSU: 61 (4 years vesting schedule 5,15,40,40)
Relocation Package
Immigration (approx £10k)
What's the ideal L5 offer for Amazon (median and upper cap)? (TC)?