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Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by akhilcacharya »

mav3rick wrote: post #200
akhilcacharya wrote: post #197

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Again, what do you define as “low pay”. I’d really love to know! I’m on-call at this moment too. Like I said previously, either there’s a concrete reasoning for this or it’s just plain elitism.

I'm not here to help you with your pay research. Just telling you my experience. There are many threads on Reddit and stats on levels.fyi to compare your offer with others. You clearly like being on-call and seem to be happy with your offer as well. Best of luck !

I mean, I've made those posts on /r/cscq and contributed my standard offer to Levels.fyi. I'm fairly aware of what the range is - what I'm curious about is what you think is a good or bad offer.

Is ~$145k TC bad to you?

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by mav3rick »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #201
mav3rick wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not here to help you with your pay research. Just telling you my experience. There are many threads on Reddit and stats on levels.fyi to compare your offer with others. You clearly like being on-call and seem to be happy with your offer as well. Best of luck !

I mean, I've made those posts on /r/cscq and contributed my standard offer to Levels.fyi. I'm fairly aware of what the range is - what I'm curious about is what you think is a good or bad offer. Is ~$145k TC bad to you?

Assuming TC means Total Comp yes thats way lower than what Facebook and Google pay. Over 4 years salary + stock / 4 + signing / 4 is what I count as TC. Also no food and the horrendous equity vest schedule just makes Amazon lag behind in the list of prospective employers.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by akhilcacharya »

mav3rick wrote: post #202
akhilcacharya wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, I've made those posts on /r/cscq and contributed my standard offer to Levels.fyi. I'm fairly aware of what the range is - what I'm curious about is what you think is a good or bad offer. Is ~$145k TC bad to you?

Assuming TC means Total Comp yes thats way lower than what Facebook and Google pay. Over 4 years salary + stock / 4 + signing / 4 is what I count as TC. Also no food and the horrendous equity vest schedule just makes Amazon lag behind in the list of prospective employers.

Thanks for your clarity in saying this, usually people take great pains to be politically correct about who they consider to be “lesser”. I’m a little taken aback that your line would be making $145k a year (the best liquid compensation I got across ~5 different offers when I graduated) though!

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by pingyong »

hvidgaard wrote: post #190
pingyong wrote: post #110

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How do they get that far, does their resume look good?

Their resume states relevant experience, and they have some projects or spare time work in the field.

But it doesn't list those projects? Or does nobody take a closer look at them before inviting them? I mean if they can't solve a problem like that, they couldn't have made anything remotely useful, right?

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by mav3rick »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #203
mav3rick wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming TC means Total Comp yes thats way lower than what Facebook and Google pay. Over 4 years salary + stock / 4 + signing / 4 is what I count as TC. Also no food and the horrendous equity vest schedule just makes Amazon lag behind in the list of prospective employers.

Thanks for your clarity in saying this, usually people take great pains to be politically correct about who they consider to be “lesser”. I’m a little taken aback that your line would be making $145k a year (the best liquid compensation I got across ~5 different offers when I graduated) though!

Again this is "lesser" in terms of an offer I would expect from F&G. Not lesser in terms of a person. You're taking this personal for some reason. I'd stop engaging now, best of luck at Amazon !

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

hvidgaard wrote: post #189
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #142

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Well I don't know, I recently interviewed on a phone interview and then they wanted me to do some coding during the phone call through some shared codepen solution, what they wanted was not much more complicated then what you describe and something I should be able to do with eyes closed. Really it was exactly in my wheelhouse where I do things a thousand times more complicated every day to general acclaim of the peo…

I am sorry you had to go through that, it sound truly awful. I however get so many applicants that I need to reject the majority, and that is about the simplest initial litmus test I can think of. I am rather confident that the majority are not panicking, and those that are get significant slack - I'd rather spend 10 minutes more establishing some trust and comfort if they express the need to me, than outright dismis…

yeah I'm not sure if it's really stage fright. I am familiar with stage fright and I hate giving presentations and similar things. At any rate I'm not saying it isn't the case that some of the people who are bad in the interview are actually bad, I just wonder how accurate the whole X% of applicants can't code really is.

At any rate I do pretty well for myself and while it was unpleasant, it is past, just - made me wonder.

Re: 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

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Post by hvidgaard »

pingyong wrote: post #204
hvidgaard wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their resume states relevant experience, and they have some projects or spare time work in the field.

But it doesn't list those projects? Or does nobody take a closer look at them before inviting them? I mean if they can't solve a problem like that, they couldn't have made anything remotely useful, right?

It's less work to spend 20 min on them for an initial interview, than verify their CV. And even if we did start to call around the only thing a previous employer can tell us is if they did indeed work there or not, no specifics.
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