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Most teams require some on-call time every month or two. That's a big factor for me—I value my sleep. Additionally, last time I interviewed there they did not have remote work in any form. If you get a 2am page, you have to drive in to the office. (And you have to commute.)
The second part is not true in my experience at all.
Amazon keeps asking me to interview and everyone tells me it's a terrible place to work. After seeing this compensation via equity I'm thinking it might be worth it. Anyone work at Amazon and loves it or think it's really worth it?
Most teams require some on-call time every month or two. That's a big factor for me—I value my sleep. Additionally, last time I interviewed there they did not have remote work in any form. If you get a 2am page, you have to drive in to the office. (And you have to commute.)
Needs a bit of definition for levels, I take Level 1 is straight out of college, L2 is some (3-5 years) experience, kind of default, L3 "senior" (internal promotion, really good experienced candidates) and L4 super-senior?
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Google is an "elite" company, almost every engineer there would be one of the best hires any other company could ever make. Generous compensation is one aspect to accomplish that hiring goal (amongst other things)
> almost every engineer there would be one of the best hires any other company could ever make. I'm going to say that's a huge stretch.
With insane variances between the teams offcourse.
Kudos, great job! Keep it up!
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Most teams require some on-call time every month or two. That's a big factor for me—I value my sleep. Additionally, last time I interviewed there they did not have remote work in any form. If you get a 2am page, you have to drive in to the office. (And you have to commute.)
How on earth does that make sense? Amazon has data centers all over the world - why would working on a 2am page be any more efficient at the "office at location A" (corporate) versus the "office at location B" (home).
So much money. Do people really need to be paid that much?!
half of those go to tax.
Even for a married couple earning 500k in high-income-tax California, effective tax rate (as opposed to marginal tax rate) is only 30-35%, and that includes the employee portion of Medicare/social security (the latter of which cuts out around 110k).
The exact effective tax rate will vary mostly with your mortgage interest deduction.
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The second part is not true in my experience at all.
This would have been in 2012 or 2013. Perhaps lack of remote work was specific to that team.
Amazon generally has a pretty strong remote work culture - I can even get my ipad onto the VPN and SSH around to get my work done.