- Education: CS in Tier 1
- Years of Experience: 1 year 9 months
- Prior Experience: Backend developer (14 lpa (includes pf, retirals, etc) + 3 perfomance bonus (year end) ).
- Date of the Offer: May 2021
- Company: Amazon
- Title/Level: SDE-1
- Location: Banglore
- Base Salary: 18 lpa
- Relocation: 1.5 lakh
- Signing Bonus: 6 lpa first year + 3.4 lpa second year ( paid in 12 installments every month)
- Stock bonus: 5 RSU over 4 years ( 5 + 15 + 40 + 40)
- In hand cash per year : 24 lpa ( assuming that my base will increase to 20.5 in second year)
- Benefits: Standard Amazon benefits.
- Other details: Negotitated for more base and less sign-on bonus, but did not budge.
- I wanted to change domain (tech stack) and got rejected for SDE-2 else where citing work experience. I should have asked for more base but 1-2 lakh won't make much difference in long run.
Interview https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1206961/Amazon-or-SDE1-or-Banglore-or-Offer