Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon

Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwaway75383 on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:37PM (#11314778)

Position: SDE III Tenure: almost 1 year Job level: 6 Base Pay: $150000 Signing bonus $50k year 1, $40k year 2 Stock: 450 shares, spread over 4 years, 5%/15%/40%/40% No promotions or reviews yet Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes Location: Seattle

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwa123arst on Friday March 18, 2016 @08:15PM (#11316407)

I'm a TPM III, 10 year experience in consulting before coming to Amazon, former developer and dev lead. Been at Amazon 18 months.

Base is $145k. Signing bonus $50k year 1, $40k year 2. Stock 350 shares over 4 years. 5%/15%/40%/40% No promotions or reviews yet.

In summary: about $200k total comp first two years, from then on variable based on stock. I expect about $225 to $250k in 2016.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by pw on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:58PM (#11315517)

Wow, nice. Is Level 6 pretty high? What was your experience coming into the job?

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwaway75383 on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:09PM (#11316008)

Level 6 is a senior engineer. Roughly 90th percentile of engineers. We have principal engineers, but not a lot of them.

I had 15+ years of experience before coming here.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwawa998833 on Friday March 18, 2016 @10:32PM (#11316978)

So, to put things in perspective, Google TechLevel-5, which is "Senior Software Engineer" which is basically 1 level above Amazon's "SDE III" position.

Competitive pay offer: $180k /year $50k signing bonus 15% bonus per year 800 RSUs vested equally over 4 years (200/year) 600 RSUs vested in 100-chunks every quarter for the first 18 months.

Counting up, in the first 12 months, pay is about $670,000.

I gotta get seriously bumped at the end of 18 months to keep it up, otherwise my pay will slip to $350,000.

And that is what a competitive offer from a company that values their employees looks like.

I have friends who have totally gotten the $1m RSUs/year for 4 year offers from both Google, Facebook and others. These positions exist.

It helps to change jobs a bunch :-)

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by vadym909 on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:32PM (#11317157)

holy cow- and people still leave to do startups? They must be really crazy.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwawa998834 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @12:24AM (#11321797)

Do you mean that's 800 RSUs overall or 800+600=1400 RSUs over 4 years?

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by throwawa998833 on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:42PM (#11333541)

it's 800 over 4 years, and 600 over 18 months. So 1400 total.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by pw on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:19PM (#11316059)

Good to know. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much ... by serge2k on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:47PM (#11316240)

It's senior sde level. Not everyone is expected to make senior, and they only have something like 10-15% at that level or higher.

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