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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 diskcat »

grogenaut wrote: post #527
diskcat wrote: post #507

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because he's talking to you. He's not gonna tell you he despises you to your face. But secretly he wonders: "why does he get more than me, im smarter than him!!". This is then bottled up under 10 psi of pressure until the perfect moment when the slightest thing sets it off and creates a scene in the office.

Fyi standard temp and pressure at is 14 psi, so 10 is actually a slight vacuum. Or 10 over current is still not very much. Usually not enough to even explode. people can blow up to about 20psi, eg 6 psi over stp (otherwise we couldn't breathe). So it'd be more like a birthday baloon that flubbered around for 4 seconds and then went flat.

okay 10 atm then

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

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Post by technologia »

I'm not an Amazonian (for some reason I laugh when I hear someone refer to themselves as this).

I started out at about 64k which after 2 years on the job became roughly 90k, this year I'm on track to make a little under 100k. I think at the moment my role is the equivalent of an SE II or an SE III.

Because of the place I work at, I don't get stock or profit sharing, etc. I think that software engineers across the board don't receive the right compensation until it becomes shockingly apparent to the company and they risk losing us. Honestly, my org didn't bump my pay up until I started putting out feelers to move on.

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

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Post by boren_ave11 »

jacalata wrote: post #410
asdfologist wrote: post #180

A reminder to everyone that the National Labor Relations Act prohibits companies from firing employees for discussing their salaries: http://www.govdocs.com/can-employees-discuss-pay-salaries/

As a clarification: I'm pretty sure that is held to cover employees discussing salaries amongst themselves, and that it has been found not to cover employees sharing salary data with others outside the company.

Do you have a cite for that?

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

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Post by anonymoose234 »

Mountain View Googler here:

1 year prior professional SWE experience at the time of hiring, CS undergrad degree from a state university

Female, mixed ethnicity, American/native English speaker

SWE II, L3

$110k base, ~$45k in stock, 15% target bonus ($172k total assuming stock price stays stable and I make said bonus)

Worth noting that I tried not to give my then-current pay to the recruiter during the hiring process and was (very politely) told that they'd cancel my application if I didn't give them a number. Also tried to negotiate the base salary up (asked for $120k) and again, got very politely told to take it or leave it.

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

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Post by YetAnotherMSEng »

maybeunderpaid wrote: post #433
YetAnotherMSEng wrote: post #301

Microsoft employee, not Amazon, but these sort of discussions absolutely need to happen and I'd like to do my part. Salary: $115k base, no regular bonus or stock, $50k offer in stock over 4 years if I remember correctly although I don't know offhand how many units that came out to. Level: SWE1 (60 internally) Tenure: 2 years internally, 7 in industry Yearly pay increase: Averaged ~6k/y thus far. Internal candidates h…

I'm SDE II an earn just a little more base than you ($117K). Judging by conversations with team members about which tax brackets we fall in and how much we save/invest per year, I'm fairly sure I'm underpaid for my level. There's a college hire PM in my team (not PM II, so he's either 59 or 60) who's single and in the 33% bracket. That means he's making at least $189K a year. Edit: I should add, my PM coworker could…

I've seen some outliers, but mostly in terms of promotion velocity. I assume you know about the "bench program"? (Microsoft Fight Club) That could potentially explain it.

I really want to empathize with your underpaid for level statement, I certainly have a pile of stories, I'm just hesitant to tell them because they're rather identifying to anyone who knows me, so you'll have to trust when I say "A good number of us have gotten the short end of one stick or another, often beurocratic or political"

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

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Post by kelukelugames »

anonymoose234 wrote: post #544

Mountain View Googler here: 1 year prior professional SWE experience at the time of hiring, CS undergrad degree from a state university Female, mixed ethnicity, American/native English speaker SWE II, L3 $110k base, ~$45k in stock, 15% target bonus ($172k total assuming stock price stays stable and I make said bonus) Worth noting that I tried not to give my then-current pay to the recruiter during the hiring process…

Here's a link for you. Recruiter in the story works at a different company. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/2bu1id/m...

Also if it's an electronic form then I put 1 dollar. It's fun.

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

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Post by peteretep »

over wrote: post #436
gnaritas wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which while cool, is not the norm. Anecdotes don't counter that.

Yeah, but the claim was: > Companies never give substantial raises to current employees. and a single counterexample is enough to counter it.

Not to mention there seem to be several counter-examples in this thread

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

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Post by msutherl »

AndrewUnmuted wrote: post #273
dzhiurgis wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The audiobook editors at Audible used SoundForge. I started out on SoundForge, but I led a real charge to get the department to switch to Wavelab. I was able to get Audible to buy me a license for Wavelab and I never really got anyone else to switch, but it made me super efficient . At that point though I was heading into a more dev role at the company so I was already drifting away from audiobook editing at that poi…

Wavelab is so good – it's a shame it's not more commonly used.

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

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Post by hvindin »

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 (…

It's odd, I have no doubt that you have had these issues, I was talking to a guy who worked for the same company as me, with the same client, just the other day. His entire team where just told they were being made redundant and the company who would be doing the work would be interviewing them all. The new company told everyone to send them either their current pay slip (with all benefits etc) OR their current pay rate (its just a different document with less detail) + the salary they would accept in the new company. So I know that this sort of thing happens and no one was that shocked.

But I've never encountered the issue, I would be interested to see an analysis of what sort of jobs people who deal with dodgy HR reps are applying for (or what route to entry they are taken) vs the jobs people with positive experiences of the hiring process are going for.

I feel like it can't only be luck, presumably there would be some trends (ie. people who respond to advertisements are offered X% against people who are recommended through word of mouth for the same job)

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

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Post by cperciva »

twright0 wrote: post #381
dguaraglia wrote: post #156

On a related note, someone at Google started a spreadsheet about a year ago where people could post (anonymously or not) their salary and a few more interesting datapoints (gender, age, location, etc.) I'm not sure whether the spreadsheet did anything to highlight gender/ethnicity/visa-status disparities (the biggest disparities I remember seeing were based on location, but that's understandable) but it was a great t…

> I have to praise Google for the way the situation was handled The original creator of the spreadsheet claimed that she was retaliated against in the form of her manager rejecting peer bonuses sent to her.

IIRC other Googlers chimed in on HN and said that it was normal practice that managers wouldn't allow someone to get multiple peer bonuses for the same piece of work.
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