1 YOE before Amazon - ML/AI field 0.6 YOE at Amazon SDE 1 AWS current TC: 165 i’m looking for a plan to get over 200k in TC
Work hard kid! Money is not everything
I’d like to know your incentive for working hard if you don’t care about the potential wage increase.
It's a long game. Do the right thing to maximize your long term income growth. It is not necessarily the same path as the quickest path to get to 200k next year.
$165k to $200k won’t change your life. Stop caring about hitting arbitrary milestones like $200k. Strong projects + skills in ML = much higher tc than $200k down the road after a few years of hard work
OP, I just hit the 250k mark in TC with your YOE and I’m telling you that it’s... underwhelming. Life is still the same and nothing has changed for me. I wanted to also attain 200k+ TC before I turned 25 but it turns out that I was a dog chasing the car. After a certain point, increase in TC doesn’t correlate with increase in overall happiness/betterment.
OP better get this TC and then spit these words of wisdom 😂
May be you can use your power skills. Apply AI/ ML on TC improvement
Leetcode and competing offers from FNG and quant hedge funds (two sigma and citadel hire a lot) and unicorns (Uber). TC isn’t everything but all of those are good places to work so it won’t be a bad move if you want the TC bump
Stop caring about TC. Focus on growth and you can hit 500k TC with 4 YOE like me 😉
Time will get you 200k. Have some experience
Apply for a cleared position with AWS, get the $45K bonus, boom: $200K TC
Do you need US citizenship? I got 2 more years before I get it.
Oh, yeah, that would be a problem. You need citizenship, and then the process will likely take another year or two. Probably just focus on getting to SDE II and then hopping somewhere else for another bump then.
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Get promoted to SDE2
SDE 2 promo will not put OP > 200k though. OP will need SDE 2 promo and then a HV+ rating on the next promo cycle so at least 2 years before 200k is crossed.
Getting sde2 is a start