Hi, i am smts at salesforce and i recently got offer from amazon as sde2 in kindle team. How is work culture in kindle team? The compensation is 160K base + 75k (joining bonus for 1st year )+ 55k (bonus for second year )+ 100 stock units vested over 4 years
That’s an above band offer for Seattle and quite good for bay. Take it if you want to work for Amazon
Work location is Seattle :) Thanks :)
This about as good as it gets in terms of money. Expect shitty wlb compared to Salesforce.
Kindle is a pretty political org with outdated tech. Most product orgs in Amazon (majority of Retail and Alexa) are like this: there's bandaid solutions everywhere and shitty WLB, since leadership doesn't believe there's a need to invest in building long-term, reusable software. You'll also see barely any L6+ in these orgs. The orgs which actually own internal platforms used by other teams are much better on the tech side, since their main charter is to build up the platform itself. On the downside, they keep getting badgered by the product teams who rely on them. AWS orgs are exactly in this pickle, but dialled to 11 since they have external customers as well.
I wouldn’t do it unless Amazon offer is at least 40% more than my current TC. The abuse isn’t worth it.
Did you get hired as a MTS since you became SMTS in two years
Yes I was hired as MTS
Returning intern? That's very impressive. I assume you were a master student?
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