Amazon vs DoorDash Offers

Apr 30, 2021 29 Comments

Received 2 offers from AWS and DoorDash for a tech non-SDE role in medium cost of living and need help evaluating them.

Amazon Web Services (before negotiation):
Level: L5
Base: 120K
Equity: 17 shares (~$55k)
Sign On: 21k and 14k
TC: 140k
Pros: Brand name, rich experience, high visibility work
Cons: terrible culture, little future comp bumps, relatively lower equity returns

DoorDash (after negotiation):
Level: Senior Analyst (L4 I think)
Base: 122k
Equity: 96k
Sign on: 5k
TC: 146k
Pros: high growth, good culture and team, career growth opportunities (promos and comp increases)
Cons: weaker brand name, long hours, business prospects are risky

Would really appreciate any thoughts to help me make a decision. Also, how high can Amazon offer go?

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TOP 29 Comments
  • DoorDash / Eng
    RPOne

    Go to company page DoorDash Eng

    PRE
    Amazon
    RPOne
    Ex Amazon here
    DD 100%
    Plus aws is a shit show in so many areas.

    Side note 4 is not a senior level at DD. It’s mid (equivalent to Amazon L5 - which is also not senior)
    Apr 30, 2021 2
    • Amazon / Eng
      bezoszuxk

      Go to company page Amazon Eng

      bezoszuxk
      Shit show? 😂
      Give me something that you're high on too, AWS is the market leader and serves 10s of players like DoorDash.
      Apr 30, 2021
    • DoorDash / Eng
      RPOne

      Go to company page DoorDash Eng

      PRE
      Amazon
      RPOne
      Your mistaking business success and scale with workplace culture.
      No one would argue that aws is best in class in their field and largest scale period.

      Is it a fun place to work at ? Good as an employee ? That’s something else.

      Worked hard , terrible tooling sin many cases , problematic management and culture , pip , intense oncall and lots of cynical use of LPs to justify decisions that are not backed by data.
      Apr 30, 2021
  • Amazon
    random8/

    Go to company page Amazon

    random8/
    Any company but amazon
    Apr 30, 2021 4
  • Amazon / Eng
    bezoszuxk

    Go to company page Amazon Eng

    bezoszuxk
    I'd take AWS. Doordash has already IPO'd so there's no incentive to join, besides there's crazy competition for a limited pie. Post pandemic roadmap is totally hazy
    Apr 30, 2021 1
    • Carta / Eng
      ncmoises

      Go to company page Carta Eng

      ncmoises
      I disagree with the reason but agree with going with AWS for other reasons. I know people at and coming from Doordash. You don’t want to work there. Still, companies that recently IPOed are more inclined to pay you a considerable higher salary than others because they are hungry for talent. OP’s offer from Doordash is just lame for any senior role. Also, Amazon stock is just a great asset to have in your portfolio $$$
      Apr 30, 2021
  • Carta / Eng
    ncmoises

    Go to company page Carta Eng

    ncmoises
    140K TC for L5 is outrageous. I assume you’re not in the bay area or is not an engineer.
    Apr 30, 2021 1
  • DoorDash
    TCandChill

    Go to company page DoorDash

    TCandChill
    DoorDash will have higher Y2 comp. onwards with higher salary increases + equity refreshers
    Apr 30, 2021 4