I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by jrockway on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:46PM (#29818049)

Who is paying more than Amazon and Google right now? Investment banks, maybe?

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by decafninja on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:20AM (#29823793)

Haha, investment banks do not pay SWEs well at all (outside of certain rare elite niche roles anyways).

You'll be lucky to make half the compensation a FAANG engineer makes at a typical investment bank while always being treated as a second class cost center employee.

Amongst the FAANG companies, my understanding for compensation is:

Netflix, Facebook > Google > Apple, Amazon

...adding in the MULA companies, believe Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are towards the upper end of the spectrum while Microsoft is towards the lower. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by tfehring on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:46PM (#29819511)

https://levels.fyi/2021

Also my impression is that Amazon’s effective comp is significantly below the headline number because they heavily backload RSUs and they burn out or fire so many people in the first couple years.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by oangemangut on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:31AM (#29819851)

usually the signing bonus they offer for years 1 and 2 makes up for the backloaded RSU schedule... at least that's mostly how my offer worked circa 2019

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by free652 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:35PM (#29818454)

Quants: Citadel and Jane Street.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by bimboler38 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:31AM (#29819845)

GL getting in. The interviews are arguably harder than that of FAANG.

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