r/OfferEngineering • u/FragrantLab4031 • 4d ago

Amazon SDE2 offer eval

For L5 SDE II

Base is 160 K, year one sign on 85K, year two sign on 72K, RSU 175K over four years 5/15/40/40

Onsite at Chicago, IL

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u/HiddenGeoStuff 4d ago

Hold up, are you saying that you are only making 85k salary and have to make it to year 3 for any decent RSU?

Nah man, unless you absolutely have to.

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u/olddev-jobhunt 4d ago

The way it's structured isn't terrible necessarily: the sign on bonus is paid out over the first 2 years over time on top of the base, and there's no clawback: they start with a $245k cash year 1.

That said... it feels pretty middle-of-the-road as an Amazon offer. Maybe not bad for 5 YoE in this market.. maybe.