**Education:** B.Tech (Mechanical) Tier-1 (2021 grad)\n**Years of Experience**: 9 months\n**Prior Experience**: Analytics Consultant (mid-tier consulting firm)\n**Previous TC**: 10.7 L\n**Offer date**: March, 2022\n**Company, Location**: Amazon (Bangalore)\n**Title/Level**: SDE-1 (L4)\n**TC for the 1st year**: 24.5L (18 + 6.5)\n* **Base**: 18L\n* **Signing Bonus**: 11L total = *6.5L (1st Year)* + *4.5L (2nd Year)*\n* **Stocks**: 7 units, vested over 4 years (standard breakup)\n* **Relocation Bonus (self-managed)**: 1.5L\n\n**Benefits**: Standard Amazon Benefits.\n**Negotiations**: No competing offers, did not interview anywhere else.\n**Decision**: Accepted\n**Other details/comments**: They were pretty flexible with the DOJ, I have a 3-months notice period, did not ask me to negotiate and gave me a grace period of 5 days to reset as well.\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n\n**Interview Timeline** *(if anyone is interested)*:\n**Applied on:** 22-23 Dec\'21  | No referrals, directly applied on amazon.jobs page\n**Email confirmation for candidature:** got a mail on 15 Jan\'22 from \'*hire_the_best@email.amazon.com*\' (I can attest that it isn\'t just a spam/scam email, it is legit)\n**Phone screen:** 25 Jan\'22 (No OA)\n**Round 1**: 7 Feb\'22\n**Round 2**: 9 Feb\'22\n**HM/Final round**: 22 Feb\'22\n**Email confirmation for clearing the interviews**: 28 Feb\'22\n**Verbal Offer**: 4 Mar\'22\n**Final offer letter and BGC**: ~15 Mar\'22\n*A little advice:* There definitely were many big gaps between the rounds and their respective results, so if anyone is currently interviewing and waiting to hear back, be patient and hold on tight, you will get a response for sure. Also, even if the recruiter doesn\'t reply to your queries, don\'t worry, I dealt with the same thing. Don\'t hesitate to send follow-ups, *but don\'t them spam either*.\n\n**PS:** I\'ll post the interview experience as soon as I get time :)\n*In brief*: all the rounds had **atleast** 1 medium-hard DP problem out of the 2 questions asked (most of them can be found on LeetCode itself though)\n\n\n\n**UPDATE**: Interview Experience: \nhttps://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/1870938/Amazon-or-SDE-1-L4-or-Bangalore-India-or-March-2022-Offer\n

Education: B.Tech (Mechanical) Tier-1 (2021 grad)\nYears of Experience: 9 months\nPrior Experience: Analytics Consultant (mid-tier consulting firm)\nPrevious TC