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Re: Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon

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Post by aluskuiuc »

donretag wrote: post #278

While traveling the world, I feel in love with Cape Town so much, that I decided to apply for a job at Amazon since their recruiters were constantly emailing me anyways. EC2 was started in Cape Town and that office does mainly AWS support tools, but not as much EC2 work any more. I do not remember the details too much, but it was something like $84K for my first year, after stock and all that nonsense. The salary is…

Speaking as someone who just finished a 2-year rotation through Cape Town as an SDE - massive, core parts of EC2 are still there and aren't going anywhere. "not as much EC2 work" is definitely not accurate.

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Post by serge2k »

amzn_comp wrote: post #223
amazonian_throw wrote: post #26

Position: Senior SDE Tenure: 6 years Job Level: 6 Base Pay: $141,000 2016 Stock Vest: 162 shares Review Score: Exceeds Gender: F Native English Speaker: Yes

Senior SDE. Tenure: 2.5 years level, 7.5 total Level: 6 Base pay: $127,000 2016 Stock Vest: 273 Review Score: Achieves (don't know this year's yet) Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes

Wow that's stock heavy.

How does that vesting work? 60some shares per quarter or each half year?

I'm really not a fan of having so much comp be stock. It's a way to go I guess.

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Post by HR0000000 »

incepted wrote: post #204
lexhaynes wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you respond when they ask you for your salary information? Would it be perceuved as rude to say "I decline to state"?

State the one you want, not the one you're currently making. They won't (and legally should't be able to) check. And if they do and somehow, your previous employer disclosed this to them (a big no no), you can always say "I was underpaid then and what I was making there is not relevant to the position I'm applying to with your right now. I also think I've learned a lot in my past position, which justifies this jump i…

It's absolutely not at all illegal to check and is a very standard part of background checks.

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Post by p4wnc6 »

p4wnc6 wrote: post #83
advisedwang wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The law they cite only seems to cover employees sharing pay with each other (and anything else involved in collective bargaining), but I can't see that it clearly authorizes publicly sharing pay.

It does protect publicly sharing pay. I can't find the specific case at the moment, but there was a case where workers who were striking had printed up a leaflet with a bunch of salary information and distributed it to other workers and general public. The company tried to terminate those employees for violating company policy and sharing "confidential" information with people in the public, but the court found this…

Before this thread gets too stale, I did find a legal paper from Duke, 2006, talking about how certain kinds of blogging are likely protected by NLRA, "When is employee blogging protected by section 7 of the NLRA?" By Katherine Scott, http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... >.

It looks like one of the main criteria is that it has to be a part of a "concerted action" to benefit a collection of employees, and this had historically been broadly interpreted in support of employees with a very liberal understanding of what a concerted action is.

This whole HN thread about it, for example, would almost surely qualify (I am not a lawyer, of course, so that's not a professional opinion and not a form of advice for anyone here), since it is explicitly focused on the whole class of Amazon employees and encourages employees to share for themselves.

I wish I could find the older case about the leaflets. IIRC it was from the late 1970s.

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Post by randommodnar »

ghrifter wrote: post #37

I make roughly $20 an hour (about 16 after taxes :( )at the moment as a junior full stack intern working part time (I live and work in US). Sometimes I wonder if I should move on to find some other job, even if its remote... On the other hand, my work is not that stressful, and I'm still going to school so my job is very flexible on time. Anyone else been in a position like me?

My first job was $15.50 an hour for a software dev internship at Ericsson. Then I went through two junior web dev jobs, both part-time, each paying $20/hr then $25/hr. They considered me a bargain. Now I'm making twice as much.

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Post by randommodnar »

duaneb wrote: post #214
ghrifter wrote: post #37

I make roughly $20 an hour (about 16 after taxes :( )at the moment as a junior full stack intern working part time (I live and work in US). Sometimes I wonder if I should move on to find some other job, even if its remote... On the other hand, my work is not that stressful, and I'm still going to school so my job is very flexible on time. Anyone else been in a position like me?

Competitive internships will offer 2-2.5X that.

Really? I went through the co-op program at my university and the pay range for everybody going into software was basically $15-25/hr, although I didn't hear of a single person getting over $20.

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Post by arcticfox »

amznnewgrad wrote: post #259
therealdrag0 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you take instead?

Revealing that would reveal my identity so I can't say the company name. I ended up going to a mid sized startup in SF (50-100 people) that was very very well funded and had a ton of potential along with one of the best teams I've seen. I'm still there and love every second of it and am being given amazing opportunities that I know I wouldn't have gotten at Amazon. Ironically I got paid more on every single vector (b…

To be fair, SF is significantly more expensive to live in than Seattle. MSFT gives something like a blanket ~10% higher offer to SV-area employees for this reason.

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Post by xscape321 »

maxaf wrote: post #199
jmathes wrote: post #165

The most important thing you can do for your career is: * Accept a job somewhere * Get promoted (doesn't matter how) * let yourself get hired away from your current company Getting hired away from your current company is the only way to get a fair raise based on increased experience. Companies never give substantial raises to current employees.

This simply isn't true. I received a >$30,000 raise at one of my previous employers after they realized that I was being grossly underpaid for the work I was doing. Granted, I had to bring my managers' attention to this, but they were understanding & did right by me.

Also had the same exact bump in salary while working for a media company after my managers manager realized my pay grade. However I do agree this is the exception to the rule.

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Post by amz_throwaway »

pw wrote: post #237
amz_throwaway wrote: post #7

Position: Developer in Seattle Tenure: 4 years Job Level: 5 Base Pay: $143,000 2016 Stock Vest: about 140 shares Review Score: Exceeds Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes

What was your experience coming into this position?

3 years working at a small startup which eventually folded. I am in my late 20s.
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