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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%
by throwaway75383 11y ago
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
- pw 11y agoWow, nice. Is Level 6 pretty high? What was your experience coming into the job?
- throwaway75383 11y agoLevel 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.
- pw 11y agoGood to know. Thanks!
- throwawa998833 11y agoSo, 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 :-)
- vadym909 11y agoholy cow- and people still leave to do startups? They must be really crazy.
- throwawa998834 11y agoDo you mean that's 800 RSUs overall or 800+600=1400 RSUs over 4 years?
- throwawa998833 11y agoit's 800 over 4 years, and 600 over 18 months. So 1400 total.
- serge2k 11y agoIt's senior sde level. Not everyone is expected to make senior, and they only have something like 10-15% at that level or higher.
- throwa123arst 11y agoI'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.