Ask HN: How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon
We went through the comp data on this thread and another one on Google comp (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449), and we added it all to this Google Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11tyJW9KPcSiLZBBuf0Z1...Feel free to share/add to this doc. We'll post this in the Google comp thread too.Here are the median comps by level for Amazon and Google, just based on the postings collected in the Google doc as of 3/22.
--Amazon --
New grad: $141K
SDE1: $146K
SDE2: $173K
SDE3: $250K
TPM3: $220K--Google--
Level 3: $170K
Level 4: $200K
Level 5: $312K
Level 6: $575K
T7: $640K
Tech Level 5: $660KJust a few notes - Total comp includes bonus, signing bonus, relocation bonus, and stock. Bonuses and stock were all annualized straight-line. (I know this is not how Amazon stock comp is done, but we assumed this in our calcs.) Since we took postings from 2 different threads, it's possible that one person could have posted once in each thread, in which case that would show up twice in the Google doc. Also, there's a lot of variance particularly with bonuses which are lumped in, and some of the higher levels only have one data point, but you can look at the data in the Google doc if you want to dig in.If it helps with comparison between Amazon and Google, here's how Amazon levels map to Google's (from Quora: https://www.quora.com/How-do-Amazons-engineering-levels-map-...)
Amazon SDE 1 - roughly a Google T3 ("I") or T4 ("II").
Amazon SDE 2 - roughly a Google T4 ("III")
Amazon SDE 3 - roughly a Google T5 ("Senior") or T6 ("Staff")
Amazon Principal - roughly a Google T6 or T7 ("Senior Staff")
Amazon Sr. Principal - roughly a Google T8 ("Principal") or T9 ("Distinguished").Full disclosure - we're Step (http://www.step.com), and we're building a platform to help engineers and product managers anonymously crowdsource personalized salary and level estimates from decision makers and hiring experts at tech companies. This thread is especially interesting to us, because it shows the need/demand for more transparency around compensation and company feedback. Right now, we're working with ~10 NYC startups that will assign personalized salary/level estimates and other feedback to anonymous profiles, but our bigger vision is that as soon as someone signs up, they'll see how each and every company values them without having to interview/talk to recruiters.