**Education**: BE (CSE) from Indian college\n**Years of Experience**: 5+ yrs (3.5+ in India, 1.5+ in Canada)\n**Prior Experience**: At a product company in India and at a services agency in Canada\n**Date of the Offer**: July 2020\n**Company**: Amazon\n**Title/Level**: Software Development Engineer 2\n**Location**: Vancouver, Canada\n**Salary**: $145,000 (CAD)\n**Relocation**: $9000 (CAD) lumpsum relocation package\n**Signing Bonus**: $45000 (first year) and $40000 (second year)\n**Stock bonus**: 40 RSUs vested over 4 years on a typical Amazon schedule.\n**Interview Experience**: https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/718106/Amazon-or-SDE2-or-Vancouver-or-Jul-2020-Offer\n**Total cash compensation (Salary + Bonus)**: $190K (1st year)\n\n\nThe initial offer was for $140000 base but I wanted an increase in the signing bonus as I thought it was not possible to get a raise in the base. Recruiter came back that it was not possible to increase the signing bonus anymore but was willing to up the base to $145000. I am happy to see the base increased as that was what I wanted :)

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