AWS RO vs Startup

[sand fractal]

aws

10k equity is a joke

[silent gorge]

startup if current val is < 500k

[sand fractal]

“lots of cracked ex faang” no way it’s only worth 500k

[silent gorge]

ik

equity could be worth a lot is funny

also what startup has a val that low. maybe 20 years ago

[timid marlin]

Startup val is like 300 mill lol

[silent gorge]

what kind of growth are you expecting from 10k equity? (srs)
the work sounds much cooler but i wouldn't do it for the comp

[timid marlin]

Yeah tbh the growth from equity itself isn’t really a driving factor (maybe like 4x-5x at best), mainly just looking at what I’d be learning and where either option takes my career

[silent gorge]

when you say infra sw for vehicles does it relate to avs?

[timid marlin]

ye they have some av customers

[plush crescent]

Is the startup Applied Intuition?

nvm I'm dumb, AI gives you more equity

[dense bone]

Amazon NYC is pretty goated. U should just go for Amazon

[clever bronze]

amazon. if this startup is truely something you have faith in, you wouldn't ask this question. so the answer is very clear

[sage elk]

10k equity is so ass

Basically living off 140k in LA

kinda poverty

Go zon

[wild parrot]

that is horrible logic wtf

[narrow pasture]

AWS

[sand fractal]

10k equity is nothign

company worth 300 million

they r hosing u

[wild parrot]

agreed

[jagged hemlock]

you alrdy have AWS on resume

vehicle infra is interesting imo

could be worth giving it a go

amazon's having 2 more layoffs anyway

[timid marlin]

Wait is this like rumor or confirmed?

[jagged hemlock]

someone's L8 said so

i would say it's confirmed

i can see why others would take it as a rumor

[timid marlin]

o dang, do you know what orgs?

[jagged hemlock]

i think SDEs and BIEs are primarily affected

[sand fractal]

yea not 70k interesting

[jagged hemlock]

bro they have 2 more layoffs inbound

[jagged hemlock]

could just view it as a +140k

[plush crescent]

does anyone have another source other than Poly saying it in the Amazon server?

[jagged hemlock]

it's not like we'd have direct contacts with an L8

why would his information be invalid

[plush crescent]

I feel like Poly said it and the rest of us just ran with it. not to discredit you or him or anyone

[jagged hemlock]

ye but Poly heard it from his manager who heard it from his L8

if that's not credible, idk what is

[plush crescent]

yeah that's what I heard as well. But it's anonymous at the end of the day. I feel like Poly isn't the type of person to do that but still there is no standard he has to hold himself to because it's all anon

[jagged hemlock]

but this is just cope

[plush crescent]

just curious if anyone else had some tea on the situation

[jagged hemlock]

i understand where you're coming from

but from my POV, i'm not sure if there's an appropriate response

beyond just looking to get out of amazon

i suppose 1 possible outcome is that another l8 says that it's org specific

but ye idk, i'd just start preparing to leave amazon

that company is going to die

[plush crescent]

lol I'm not returning to Amazon. I'm just curious if he had anyone else's opinion because I see people cite it a lot but it's always poly 💀

[jagged hemlock]

i see

i dont think so prob

just hard to access an L8 unless you're an L7

or above L8

[plush crescent]

that's fair. in his case it was through his manager which I assume is L6 or L7

[jagged hemlock]

ye but i think almost every other org is L6 that reports to L7 that reports to L8

his case i think is rare

so I can't even ask my L5 mentor to ask my L6 because my L6 answers to an L7 and not an L8

[jagged hemlock]

ye

u laid off 30k

crazy to lay off more

amazon is going to shit

dogshit leadership at Amazon

[plush crescent]

well I wouldn't be suprised if they did or didn't. Looking at the trajectory of Amazon's Rev/Employee, after the 30k, I'd assume they'll be close to pre-covid levels. At the same time, with all tech companies, including Amazon's competitors investing further in the AI race, I wouldn't be surprised if they laid more people off.