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That's a very good question! I should have left after 3 years. I did not know any better. Specially when it came to compensation, I only knew about my promised
by nemtaro 11y ago
That's a very good question! I should have left after 3 years.
I did not know any better. Specially when it came to compensation, I only knew about my promised stocks' grown value, and not what other companies would have offered me.
Year 1: learning, excitement, keen to prove myself, also economy had just crashed
Year 2: under pressure, but feeling ownership and hopeful that we would "fix our problems"
Year 3: jaded, but waiting for the growing stock to vest (Amazon's RSUs start vesting in the 3rd year)
Year 4: over-stressed, extremely unhappy
Year 5: detached, not really working, interviews, exit.
- georgebarnett 11y agoRSUs vesting at year 3 gives a good indication of what they expect the tenure of a drone to be.
- x0x0 11y agoExactly. Amazon discussed an offer with very backloaded RSUs. They must think engineers are idiots: if you offer 5/15/40/40 vesting (those may not be the exact numbers but they're not far off), it's a giant flashing sign with a klaxon on top that you expect the majority of your eng to churn inside of 2 years. I replied anything but 25/25/25/25 wasn't even worth discussing and that was that.