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I was an SDE III, and I had some hard-to-find skills. I'm also a crazy awesome developer who they decided they REALLY wanted to come in full time after I'd done

I was an SDE III, and I had some hard-to-find skills. I'm also a crazy awesome developer who they decided they REALLY wanted to come in full time after I'd done a few months of contract work. Total comp was comfortably past $250k/year, counting signing bonus and stock. I was based in Seattle, though I worked from remote. I was told I could have made Principal within a year if I were willing to move to Seattle. Which I wasn't.

capex 11y ago
Working remotely might've been a factor in your Amazon experience.
- SomeCallMeTim 11y ago
  Granted. It actually got me out of the evil mandatory "on-call" experience. Someone on my team actually quit without notice three days after he was first forced to go through an on-call week. So I don't want to sugar-coat it: It was everyone's least favorite activity.
sah2ed 11y ago
> I was an SDE III, and I had some hard-to-find skills. Mind highlighting what those "hard-to-find" skills were?
- SomeCallMeTim 11y ago
  In my case, Android NDK (C/C++ development) and low-level video streaming.