Education: PhD in Computational Sciences (AI/HPC) at a top-10 public US school
Years of Experience: 0
Prior Experience: a couple of 3-month internships during my PhD
Date of the Offer: Winter 2022
Company: AMD
Title/Level: Member of Technical Staff
Location: Austin, TX
Base Salary: 155K USD gross/year
Relocation: 17K USD net
Signing Bonus: 15,5K USD
Stock bonus: 90K USD stock grant vested over 4 years
Bonus: Company's performance-based bonus: 15% of salary every year
Total comp 1st year (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 193K USD
Benefits: 15 paid vacation days + 10 paid sick leave days + 10 paid U.S. holidays + 2 paid personal days + 75% 401k/Roth match up to 6% of base salary
Other details: Original offer was 145K base salary, 55K stock, 14.5K signing bonus
Offer 2
Date of the Offer: Winter 2022
Company: Amazon
Title/Level: L5 Data Scientist
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Position: L5 Data Scientist
Base Salary: 165K USD gross/year
Relocation: 0k (already in LA)
Signing Bonus: 76k USD first year, 65k USD second year
Stock bonus: 186k (5%-15%-40%-40%)
Bonus: performance-based bonus: more stock options
Total comp 1st year (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 250K USD
Benefits: 15 paid vacation days + 7 paid U.S. holidays + 50% 401k match up to 2% of base salary
Other details: 10% discount in amazon purchases of amazon products up to 1000 USD.
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