Amazon vs Doordash: Software Engineer Offers & Deciding: Comparing the Offers & Making a Decision
A friend received offers with similar comp from Doordash and Amazon and asked for advice on how to decide. I have plenty: and share how I evaluated offers when I was early in my career, and how I do it now.
Bonus: my take on Amazon's "PIP culture", quotas and which company I would choose, and why.
Places to look for public tech company reviews:
Blind: http://teamblind.com/
Salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/
Glassdoor reviews: https://www.glassdoor.com
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - 1. Compensation
01:56 - 2. Glassdoor reviews
00:44 - 3. Compensation
04:55 - Stock price
07:41 - 4. Blind reviews
11:02 - Amazon and "PIP culture"
15:10 - Doordash Blind reviews
18:33 - 5. Ask people who work at the company
22:58 - 6. Negotiate compensation
23:24 - 7. Reverse interview before accepting (and how I did this at Uber)
27:31 - What I would choose
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