Just got hired at Amazon in Seattle with top of the band TC as sde1. What can I do to become sde2 as quickly as I can? Also, how can I make my tc 300k in a year? tc: 180k yoe: 2 months
Work 95hr a week and impress skip level
95hr would be a bit too much, I think. How about 50 or 60 🤔?
You need to prove yourself to be a solid engineer before thinking about TC or promotion.
How do I prove that?
By finishing projects quickly?
Hmmm how soon should I jump ship?
300k TC is highly unlikely unless you get lucky with stocks. Even FB / G / AirBnb / Lyft will not pay that much for SDE 1 equivalent. 250k, although still high, will be more doable. SDE 1 to 2 is purely dependent on your manager. While hardwork does correlate with the promotion, a lot of it just depends on time, place and luck. DEX org is a shithole, not to poop on your party. I’d suggest you try to move elsewhere as what you’d be doing will just be service migration and ops afaik.
I would love to go for sde2 after a year rather than sde1 at some other company. Also, I do have another offer from Bloomberg for 215k in NYC. Should I take it over DEX team?
How's the team in Bloomberg?
How was the SDE 1 onsite/virtual? I have mine this week for Ads
was this a new grad position?
Congratulations! Which org / team ?
DEX
What does DEX do?