I’m not getting personal, your thoughts about how much you could get at Amazon based on some outliers is probably not realistic even if you’re well known. The

I’m not getting personal, your thoughts about how much you could get at Amazon based on some outliers is probably not realistic even if you’re well known. The canonical example one was that the creator and maintainer of homebrew couldn’t get a job at Google even though most of the developers used his code everyday. More than likely as an L5 you’re going to get an offer around the mid 200s at an L6 you’re going to get around a 350K. And it doesn’t matter how good of a developer you are if you haven’t done or practiced a coding interview or system design interview. You won’t get to an L6 unless you show that you have worked and shown “scope” and “impact”.