Education: MS CSE
Years of Experience: 6
Prior Experience: Non FAANG Tech company, Bangalore (Do not have any work experience in US)
Date of the Offer: Jan 2022
Company: Amazon
Title/Level: Software Development Engineer II – L5
Location: Bay Area (San francisco)
Salary: 318K, second year $314k
Benefits: Standard Amazon
Other details: Initial offer was of 305K, negotiated 10 share increase and 22k joining bonus increase(10K first year and 12K second year).
Did not have any other offer in hand.
I accepted the offer. I negotiated just for sake of it and would have accepted the previous offer as well. The speed with which they approved the increase got me thinking how much more they would have agreed to. Anyway didnt do any other negotiations.