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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 stale2002 »

p4wnc6 wrote: post #96
JoshDoody wrote: post #14

I'm not an Amazonian, but I wanted to chime in here to say I think this thread is a great idea and I would love to see more like it. I write about salary negotiation and coach people through it, and I think sharing salaries publicly will encourage more people to negotiate and get paid what they're worth. I recently coached a new Amazon employee, and he got a very good offer, which he increased by about 15% using VERY…

I'm interested in what your negotiation principles are. I've always heard that a candidate should never share salary information and require the company to provide the first concrete number in the form of their initial offer. However, I've repeatedly used all of the "business-professional" and "HR approved" sorts of conversational techniques to enact this advice, and the only result that has ever occurred is either (…

There IS another solution to this. When someone asks how much you are currently making, you should flat out lie. They won't check.

I've job hopped a bunch, and usually I just take whatever I was currently making, and add 15%, and say that that was my base.

If employers are going to play negotiation games, you shouldn't feel bad about playing them too.

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Post by tommyd »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #215
AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #24

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I got my education in audio engineering at a leading music conservatory, so moving into audiobook editing was a pretty easy sell for me. An audiobook is made in four basic steps: 1. A voice actor records the narration for the book. 2. The editor takes the raw audio recordings and edits these files for pacing, flow, and aesthetic flavor. The editor also makes note of any errors in the narration which require a re-reco…

Hey what software are you using for this? I was thinking I really wish there was a good app where you can listen to audio articles. It is partly solved in iOS as you can speak selected text, but problem is you cannot select all text easily and you don't wanna mess with it while driving. Was wondering what would be a great UI for the transcriber and whether you could create p2p network to share the transcriptions.

I've thought about this too, but I'm not sure I've got the patience to listen to articles read in TTS voice.

Anyway, on iOS if you enable voiceover you can read the entire screen by swiping down from the top with two fingers (I think - check the Apple website for accessibility information if not!)

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Post by ThomaszKrueger »

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.

Same here. Always moved away and up, usually in the 20% range. Thus the importance of always being working on a portable skill.

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Post by HR0000000 »

yeukhon wrote: post #262
betenoire wrote: post #185

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Careful, they can fire you for NO reason, but they can't fire you for ANY reason.

So they can just fire you, have an escort and done?

Yes. Just as you can quit, walk out, and be done. For no reason. But they can't fire you for health reasons, personal reasons, etc.

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Post by b34r »

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.

100% agree with you. I've been able to get 30-40% raises YoY by job hopping roughly every 1.5 years. It's enough time to get experience somewhere, but not enough to become complacent. YMMV

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Post by gnoway »

HR0000000 wrote: post #283
incepted wrote: post #204

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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.

Not sure why this was downvoted, it's not illegal and companies do it via background checks.

Quick searches reveal this is a popular question, spot checks of the answers agree that it's not illegal and quite common.

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

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Post by stale2002 »

simonswords82 wrote: post #153
fluxquanta wrote: post #114

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Right? I like the one from amznnewgrad: $90k base as a new grad and "needless to say" they declined the offer. Needless to say? I was hired after a year out of college in 2010 at aboyt $37k and it felt like I hit the lottery. Granted, where I live costs much less than Seattle, and I also make significantly more now, but still not $90k.

amznnewgrad is trolling for sure!

Unlikely. New grads get 100k easy, at any company in the Bay Area, NYC, or Seattle. Thats just the market rate.

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

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Post by amazon_thr0way »

I was an intern over the summer, just graduated and was offered 95,000 salary, 27,000 signing bonus with my first paycheck, and another 20,000 over months 13-24. In addition, I get 53,000 in RSU that are payed out: 5% after my first year, 15% after my second year, and 20% every 6 months after that until I've been there for 4 years. Finally, i got a 10,000 relocation lump sum.

I have friends who interned the summer before and they were offered the exact same thing. This is for SDE 1 position.

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Post by therealdrag0 »

throwaway7798 wrote: post #148

I was working in one of the Indian offices and was recently offered a move to Seattle. I had 1 year experience(was still an SDE-1 but my manager was considering me for a SDE-2 promotion) - they offered 110K base pay with 25k signing bonus which vested over 4 years + around 86k worth of shares which again vested over four years. I chose to not take the offer but went to join a different company. I just want to say tha…

What'd you do/take instead? Company/Salary?
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