Amazon vs google internship reddit. Yeah, I don’t know about Microsoft specifically, but for example when you get an offer at meta or google, it’s usually good for a year. I received internship offers for both Microsoft and Amazon for the summer of 2022 and was wondering which people would choose and why. Amazon is definitely more "prestigious" and having Amazon on my resume would open more doors to opportunities down the line than Duolingo. Microsoft seems to have better perks/benefits though. Location: Sunnyvale, CA. Student. Best. Does anyone know if there’s any consequences if I accepted the offer and then later ditch it? The reason I ask is because I am still interviewing with a few other companies but the deadline for me to accept this on campus job is very very soon. Also C1 is more of a tech company than a finance/bank (it’s an exception to the rule) Reply reply. I need advice on making a choice. Google pros: It’s Google, known for being a great place to work after graduation. I don't believe it's possible to go directly from STEP to new grad without going through the whole standard new grad interview loop, whereas re-interviewing can normally be skipped if you're coming from a 'proper' Google SWE internship. 5/hr) as a software developer intern for Summer 22. For anything related to Amazon [3, interns] This is a thread for anything related to internships at Amazon. Intel’s work culture is amazing. Robotics does not have 3 OAs. Caveat is I didn't really apply to too many finance companies since I have 0 desire to work in finance so not too sure how much value Amazon adds to resume in terms of finance/HFT companies. One time I went to on-site for addepar, this manager was vaping so hard and potentially high. Thanks in advance! For summer 2022 internship and would consider a new grad return if offered. For your last internship Amazon is a better name, it’ll open the door to a lot more new grad positions than Reddit will. C1’s pay is much higher and better WLB. Prestige-wise too, both TikTok and Salesforce are better than Amazon for new grad, unless you're going for senior roles where Amazon plays at a level field with your other two choices. ☠️☠️☠️😂. Just makes you think about the quality of you peers. Currently deciding between Amazon or SoFi internship, Amazon is most likely in Seattle, and SoFi will be in San Francisco. Relevancy to future job positions might play a part. I just got an offer for microsoft swe intern USA and am also in project search for google, Im inclined on taking microsoft because google doesnt guarantee a project. You'd have an excellent chance at transferring to google Missing_Back. The pay is about the same (Bloomberg has a slightly higher relocation bonus) Pros and Cons: Bloomberg. Most would just write Amazon anyways. Amazon-8k + housing stipend (will probably use it all in Seattle) Doordash-9k (no housing/stipend) I'm not able to push any of them into the fall/winter unforunately. Also, facebook has the quickest promotions on average. vymorix. In general, one of the main reasons to put anything on your resume is so that you can discuss it with the recruiter. To put perspective, Amazon has around 1,130k employees. I have two internships, one for winter, one for summer. Amazon is def the bigger brand, is giving slightly more pay (~$2k per month). However, I wouldn’t recommend you renege on Reddit, especially in this economic climate. Normally during the first 2ish minutes. Even if they don't give you FT it'll look more relevant and impressive on your resume. There are some differences. XXX_BigBoi69. In Favor of Amazon: - Pays like 2x with relocation - Makes me resume way better / am I set basically resume-wise? - Seattle cool (if in-person) - Borders to Japan might not be open by Summer Against Amazon: - Super cutting-edge company, I'd do vision for robotics Nvidia gives SWE return offers while I heard STEP only gives STEP return offers (unless you reinterview) Nvidia immersion is 8 weeks while Step is 12, but with Nvidia relocation stipend, they pay nearly the same (taking all benefits into account, Nvidia slightly less). At the very worst you have a bad experience and you know you don’t want to work in that space. Location: San Jose. Comp details: Dropbox-8k + housing. Location: Chicago (remote) Duration: 10 weeks. Accepting Amazon vs Playstation Internship. Any insight is appreciated - thanks so much in advance! I’ve heard going from STEP to SWE is a difficult process at Google but I’m Welcome to the unofficial Elementor subreddit, the number one place on Reddit to discuss Elementor the live page builder for WordPress. Besides, potentially you could go back to the startup once the internship ends. Reply More replies. My Ph. 11. The overall work life balance depends on the team you join and how mature the team and management within the org is. I did google step last summer and really enjoyed google. Perks of Google: Great location in one of my favorite cities (not MTV), free food, rated best place to work on many The typical path for STEP is: STEP -> SWE Intern -> graduate return offer. So it basically comes down to weighing more money vs the risk of getting a bad internship team, which means at worst you will have to apply to other FT positions in the fall Regret not accepting Google internship. Zoom vs Yahoo Internship. IMC pros: pay basically double of Google, get to try out trading firm experience with little risk (sophomore internship) IMC cons: not as good of a resume add as Google, not as good of a place to work after graduation. Their internship program is generally pretty good and when I was in undergrad (not too long ago), my friends with amazon on their resume had a breeze getting interviews at top companies. Not "super easy" to get into. Microsoft has 166k. If for internship: Amazon. Some teams at Amazon are awesome - with Google WLB and arguably higher pay (due to their cash heavy comp during the economic downturn), but most can be pretty brutal. Microsoft: Microsoft Garage, deferred offer from last year. FAANG which would have good Resume appeal. Amazon Return Offer: $8,550 a month + $ 1,500 a month housing stipend. google is a K-selective company, amazon is an r-selective one. 60 votes, 51 comments. Intel is a semiconductor company. Good luck! I second this. In general intern pay is unimportant compared to new grad pay, so I wouldn’t personally put any weight on the $47 vs $50 vs $60. One of my interviews was about designing some class so maybe ‘design’ too. Pick Addepar for great work and good wlb. They have huge signing bonuses for interns->FT, think like 100k if you do well. Award. Better location, more stuff to do after work right in the city, great offices You get to actually work and learn a lot more at trading firms and they’re also a lot more competitive to get into. Heard some horror stories, but not sure as every team functions differently. Nvidia would give me a free month at the end of summer which I can use to Reply. This internship will start in June 2024 and will run for 12 monthsAmazon Web Services is innovating new ways of building massively scalable distributed systems and delivering the next generation of cloud. You will learn a lot from Amazon, and have that recognizable name on your resume. The project search stage is currently The reason being to get the Google full-time offer guaranteed you're get exposure to a single company three times (intern, intern, full-time) while for Bloomberg you could try a big-tech company your senior year and then see from there. IDK if interning at Kearney would help you with PM recruiting. With the critiques on your resumes made in the comments, you are in really good shape to snag an internship. The rest of the rules are the same as this main thread. I interned at Amazon last Summer, but I really didnt have a great experience on my team and would have to stay with that team again Pay is about the same, perks are pretty much the same while Bloomberg offers free food. You should definitely take Datadog here, even if you don't want to return DataDog will definitely get you interviews next season as well. Cloud + AI org. It’s more stable and you’re an returning intern, I can’t imagine you’re not on track to a FT offer. Heard there are more teams in AWS that are poorer in wlb. Most students go for those programs because they find contributing to and being part I have an internship offer as a Summer Engineering Analyst (in the Global Markets division) at Goldman Sachs and an Amazon software developer internship, and very unsure on what to take. FT pay at Amazon is pretty garbage compared to the other two offers you have as well ($160k vs ~$200k), so ideally you should only be considering Salesforce and Then Amazon is always there, but a gamble depending on which team you get on. Google is around 135k. 2. I got both C1 and Amazon. If you want to try and rise through the ranks super quickly and take a chance at a high value start-up, go to Databricks. r/MBA. 6. 3. I have an offer from Amazon for an Applied Scientist role (heavy on NLP and ML) and a Data Scientist role at Google. A subreddit for Human Resources professionals: come here to seek career advice, ask questions and get feedback from peers within the HR Community around the world whether you're brand new to HR or a seasoned vet. Duolingo has amazing culture and their new grad pay (if I receive and take return offer for full time) is higher than Amazon. Don't bank on Netflix, they rarely hire interns outside of PhDs for their research divisions. Use this subreddit to ask questions, show off your Elementor creations, and meet other Elementor enthusiasts. flushflop. [deleted] • 3 yr. The fact that you were given the job at google means they already like you, I would hold on to the contacts of the recruiter and hiring manager just incase you would want to come back in the next few Amazon pays a bit more, but Meta does have a higher housing stipend and better benefits, so I’m not too worried about the compensation differences between the offers. Apple's interview process is different from most of the other companies, they interview in teams so you might be doing a lot of interviews if they reach out to you. Even full time it highly depends on the team. Personally, I’d choose Datadog since it doesn’t seem like a downgrade from Google (esp since you’ve already interned at Google and since you’re young might as well explore more opportunities). I interned at Amazon last year and now at a different Facebook but now I'm just sad that internship is meaningless. (you get your own self-contained project and build something for the team you are working with) I feel like that Amazon might help me to land a job at F/G more easily though. Simply put spouse has offers from both for summer…. Amazon without a doubt. The details of the internships are below:-. I was lucky to get SWE internship offers from Microsoft, Amazon (return), and Slack. Had interviews with: Google, Facebook, Databricks, Plaid, Bloomberg, DoorDash, DE Shaw, TikTok, Citadel, and Stripe. Mainly use C++ - could be better for HFT in the future. Company: Amazon. If for full time: OCI Seattle/Redmond/Austin. Some like Amazon because of AWS (as a whole . Career. So if you decide to do the Amazon internship, you can decide whether you want FT or not based on your experience with the team. Some companies place a limit on how many positions you can apply for them so just pay attention to that. invest it if you think you will need to pay a portion of it back. Also keep in mind Meta is a social network while Amz is more e commerce and that sort of dealing. who knows how much longer Yahoo will be around for. While Google has the brand name that might help me immensely. OP of the other post didn't read properly. I recently finished my internship at Amazon Luxembourg. So for example, I turned down the return internship offer (I was a sophomore going into my junior year). The interview process at Qualtrics was much better, and the people I spoke to were friendly and seemed to enjoy their work. A Google internship would probably stand out more on a resume, but Rippling is offering more compensation (for whatever that's worth). • 1 mo. As many have mentioned, having Amazon on your CV is 100% better than an extra year with your startup. Edit 2: I said Amazon is the easiest FAANG to get into. $7500 / month + relocation + commuter stipend. If you want to wait for the Google offer, you'll need to extend that start date by like 5 months instead. I did a co-op there and at least in my business unit it was as good as it could get. Just finished up my A internship in Seattle, and there are a couple reasons I would go with Amazon. The salaries are pretty close if justified by the location. Just the normal chit-chat which I don’t think you’ll be graded on. it requires terrible mismanagement of money to be stuck in a situation where you can't pay back the bonus, esp. Position: SWE-III intern. TC is going to be lower than Amazon, so I would go Amazon while you’re young and have energy. During May 2022, I had an offer from Google for Summer internship in Google finance team. Great pay. Salary: $7500/mo. 244K subscribers in the csMajors community. I had 2 major projects/experiences on my resume. If it were my first internship, probably Google just to get the prestige on the CV. If you get an offer, turn it down, then choose to intern there again, yes. Not sure if it means anything, but for me it seems smaller companies are less profitable and are more affected. either way, viewing a big bonus as a negative doesn't make any sense. Imo amazon has one of the easiest interview processes compared to the more challenging akuna capital. ) Obviously, a lot of people suggest the use of a cover letter for applying to different job opportunities. Instead, I’d talk to your amazon recruiter and see if you can postpone the internship to Amazon for sure. Amazon: In LA, which is cool. •. Amazon because of money. In the eyes of recruiters, a big name company is a big name company. not really. Google cons: just another tech company that If you're mostly concerned about the name, Roblox is more selective and they pay substantially more for SWE roles (more than any company in FAANG). amazon swe 100% looks better on your resume than STEP and you learn more. Add a Comment. Google Pros: They're no different when it comes to hiring committees. Because at Google, my title would be “STEP Intern” whereas at Uber, I'd probably say SWE intern, b/c from what I've seen, "UberSTAR Intern" is often synonymous with "UberSTAR Software Engineering Intern". Get app. However, I already accepted Walmart Global Tech as an SWE-III intern a few months ago. Addepar any day, the work culture at Amazon is pretty toxic. Reply reply. Netflix 12k. hextree • 2 yr. Take Amazon. 4. Amazon has a good internship experience and in the past, most folks tended to get return offers. Facebook has 58k. Pay are similar. Also, what really matters is what you actually get to work on during the internship. I have been fortunate enough to receive internship offers for Summer 2021 from these companies. Your FT recruiting story could be how you internet at Amazon, worked closely with PMs and how that job I have projects listed with their repos on my resume. I know there are a lot of horror stories of Amazon WLB but I think it will be easier to get better offers from other companies with Amazon intern on Perks of Apple: Easier conversion process (no interview from what I heard), slightly higher hourly pay, nearby intern housing Cons of Apple: Very secretive, food not free, shared room in housing, slightly less interesting project. Below is the info about each offer: Microsoft. I've narrowed down my thoughts to the three companies, and currently leaning towards Amazon/Microsoft, but would love to hear people's opinions (assuming return offers don't matter and opinions solely based on the internship)! Amazon: Greater Bay Area, TBA on Team placement. Amazon is a large company. Internship Experience at Amazon Luxembourg. Based on what I’ve seen MongoDB is ~$10k - $20k less than Amazon (NYC) new grad but I dont have recent numbers and I think mongo ups their ng pay every year. Amazon would be in Seattle for the summer. Professional experience of 2/3 years of software engineering. I would really appreciate if you have any suggestions. Amazon seems to have work that I would be more aligned with to do in future. Cover Letters for technology companies (Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc. It depends. From what I understand, Rippling is also pretty great for new grads, but I'm still 2 years away from With job security on the line, he probably wants whichever can secure him a full time role. Redmond, WA. The Internship will make back the money you’ve lost 10 FAANG is always hiring, and you can always keep in touch with your Amazon recruiter and apply again if you don’t like it at SIG. Amazon: - Team: Unknown - Location: Greater Denver Area Both pay great, though amazon is about $1K a month more. Depends on the orgs for each, but if it’s for OCI then I would go with Amazon, but if it’s an OCI adjacent org (cloud analytics as an example) then I would choose Oracle. Updated: 5/22/2024. Both are SWE intern roles. Prior Experience: Machine learning research in a university lab. ServiceNow: In San Diego, also cool. I think you should just decide on what sounds more like a place you want to work. Reply. Google Summer of Code, MLH Fellowship's open source track, Linux Foundation Mentorship, etc are open source programs where you gain experience by working on open source projects at organisations like Wikipedia, Python Software Foundation, Facebook, Linux, etc. It really comes down to whether you need the money to survive for the next year. 1. Facebook: - Compensation for returning interns will be higher (interns get a minimum 65k signing bonus and can go to 100) - Team matching (you get to choose your full-time team) - Faster growth. btw I am international and dont go to a t100 school, so dont loose hope if you are in a similar situation. Google STEP (Internship) A hypothetical scenario, but which one would you choose? Would appreciate any insights you all have. Pros: Higher Graduate pay (60-70k) Better location. I somehow lean towards Bloomberg, as their internship projects seem pretty cool. ws new grad offer is almost half of amazon's. Apple has 147k total employees. 5 comments. Title: Software Engineering Intern. Databricks: Better pay than JPMorgan and probably more interesting projects, but not sure how the company is doing right now and how safe the offer would be. Just received offer from Microsoft: $6,226 per month + $7000 housing stipend. I really enjoyed my interview process with Riot and I play a lot of their games so I'm leaning more towards them. If you want to interview w Google next year having Amazon SWE intern on your resume will get you one. There's a lot going on in Amazon on top of tech and administrative layers above and beyond the other FAANG firms, most notably warehouse workers. I ended up rejecting Google's internship Honestly work culture at amzn is fine for interns. I currently have a winter internship offer for Amazon and a summer internship offer for Salesforce. I am not sure which one to pick. As for applying to internships, my advice is apply to everything all the time. Interns got cash rewards for doing good work too. The job hunt has been cruel and I eventually turned to CMU and got offered an on campus internship. Hi guys. No behavioral. Hyac_inth • 1 yr. I would’ve said Stripe if they didn’t go through that bs, cause good place to learn crap ton, they aren’t known for their engineering talent for no reason. MakingMoves2022. I felt bad reneging Salesforce in May when my internship was set to begin on May 31. Just don’t make the mistake of making a decision based off what you think is harder to get into. This is mainly because these companies recruit the majority of their new grads from their personal intern pipelines. iirc it was just a hackerrank then a 1 hr technical/behavioral. Amazon Internship. Some devs like Microsoft because of its "developer friendly" culture, ecosystem (C#, Azure, Windows, VSCode, all work well together really well), etc. Amazon (Sr Program Mgr Intern) - $10,500$ a month plus housing. You will learn more, make more money, and it looks better on your resume. Hello! I've received offers from Amazon (53/hr) and Playstation/Sony (48. Background: CS Masters student in top 30. • 1 yr. Prior Experience: Fortune 500, Google Company/Industry: Google Title: SWE Intern (Return) Location: Unknown Duration: 14 weeks Salary: $45/hr Relocation/Housing Stipend: Normally it's $9k. I have previous SWE internship experience at 2 large tech companies. That being said, as someone already pointed out, you really can’t go wrong with either. However both of the deadlines to accept are coming up. Pay: $45/hr. true Datadog ft offer is definitely good. IME Meta pays slightly less than Amz, somewhere around ~800-1000 less per month. Anyway, go with Google. when Strongly disagree with this statement. If you're thinking about prestige when it comes to fellow developers, both are cool to get. Audible, because of affiliation to Amazon, without the negative social connotations. After that, Duolingo would interest me more. Both are in the same location, so that is not a factor. Amazon vs Audible - Intern. For Hire. Internship Question. amazon's bonus (for new grad) is similar if not a bit less than other "big N" companies. Since this is my Junior year internship, I want this experience to land me a better new grad job offer. AWS is the cash cow for Amazon and generates the bulk of the money for the company and allows it to subsidize others companies under the umbrella to try new things. You don’t need a reason. At Playstation, I would be on the Future Forward Concepting team ("looks at a broad range of potential opportunities, seeking to find novel and interesting technology Amazon vs IBM Research Intern. Location: Unknown (marked as Virtual-DC metro area as of now) Slack. Going to Amazon from Databricks or Duolingo will be pretty straightforward whereas the converse is not true. Ex-Amazonian. Intern pay doesn’t matter. From what I’ve heard, people have good experiences interning at amzn. Careers/Post Grad. Working there is however more stressful. NG Salaries are similar for return offers. But in the end, most of us on here haven’t worked at the two companies, all we know is from stuff on the web so best to get real feedback from You already got the job at google, so you should be somehow familiar with the interview process (even if this was just the internship interview). I’d go for IBM research for a different experience. I have heard some bad reviews about Amazon, in general. C1 is pretty tech focused and they pay decently, but still any actual tech company is a better choice, especially Amazon. Microsoft vs. STEP requires you to do the mentorship program, SWE doesn't (although you really should be doing it either way) STEP projects tend to generally be a bit easier than SWE projects since it's aimed for underclassmen. The only problem is that, I'm currently in the project search stage for Google and I would definitely want Google over either Amazon or Salesforce. At least for Bay Area tech, internships (while hard to land) are almost always easier to land than New Grad roles at the same company. Comparisons. Properly managed, staffed and professional the engineers and Amazon (Applied science Intern - Alexa) - Cambridge, MA Google (GCloud Infra Team - SRE intern) - Munich, Germany Any thoughts would be appreciated. Company: Walmart Global Tech. Would appreciate any advice on what kind of exit opportunities each company would have, what industries I can possibly go to from each role etc. Anybody know what is the difference between Amazon Robotics SDE internship interview process vs Amazon SDE internship interview process? Is Robotics…. Apple (Strategic Sourcing Intern) - $7,500 a month plus housing. Timeline: 08/18/2022: Applied with referral ( Location: Seattle ) 08/28/2022: Received OA 1 09/10/2022: Completed OA1 10/29/2022: Invited to 1 x 45 final interview 11/09/2022: Completed Interview + Portal switch to 'Under Review' 11/14/2022: received email of waitlisted (Portal Status: Under Review) Since Duolingo vs. Amazon: Location: Vancouver (not sure if remote) Team: not sure yet Bloomberg: Location: NYC (remote) Dropbox vs DoorDash vs Amazon internship. Roenicksmemoirs. Also, assuming you get return offer, 70k+ more at Amazon is a no brainer. Winter Internship: Company/Industry: Prop Trading. I think the office is somewhat of an hidden gem, as intern salaries are VERY high (Uber Amsterdam level salaries afaik) while the office is also filled with internationals and pretty centrally located in Europe. I have been extremely fortunate to receive two offers for summer 2022 internship and would love your input. Amazon vs SoFi internship. Because you're gonna convert to FT soon, I'd say Facebook. The_Big_Sad_69420. you're not required to spend the bonus. Amazon. You'll still be doing real product work though. The issue is that the Rippling offer is expiring very soon and there's no guarantee of an offer from Google. Zoom: Pay: $59. I have Amazon and Walmart DS internship offers. School/Year: Northwestern 3rd Year. Makes sense thanks for the input! Definitely data dog although Amazon is a good situation too. Amazon Internshiop. ago. I want to try something different but I’m worried IBM research might not be relevant if I pursue new grad SWE opportunities next year. I got the offer pretty late (in May) and by then I already had accepted Salesforce offer. idgaflolol. Both locations seem amazing to me as I would love to live in either after graduating (this will be my last internship). Microsoft Internship vs. Sounds like a cool place with brilliant people. D. I know it’s a meme that the work culture at amzn is trash but in the summer as an intern you wont be on call ever, and theres no looming threat of being PIP’d. If you are an intern at Amazon and they give you a return internship offer for the following summer and you accept, then no. Google provides no additional compensation for returning interns vs full-time so I don't see it super worth Riot pays more for their interns, but it would be remote. I have a current internship with a startup. The difference on your resume is pretty negligible imo. However, after talking to people working at Amazon I have been hearing that getting a return offer from Amazon is going to be next to impossible this time Amazon Summer 2023 SDE Intern Timeline. When I was first applying to internships, I even included my final project from the intro to programming class because I was especially proud of it. STEP pay is ~$33/hr wherever SWE is $43/hr. All about studying and students of computer science. Cape Town, ZAF. Also they only have 4k employees, while Google has ~140k, JPMorgan has ~280k. However, I don't want to pigeonhole myself in the games industry and rather not miss out First (prob last) big internship before graduation, so want to enjoy and learn a lot. Roblox culture and WLB are also miles ahead of Amazon. Curious which ones you guys would take. One concern is WLB. Imo - all else equal - if the TC at databricks is significantly higher than at Google, given that and higher career progression, Databricks might be the better choice. You're really not gonna get more money than Facebook unless you go the finance route. I'd say that the number of interview All about studying and students of computer science. One with a FAANG and the other with a science laboratory. idt Goldman The advice I was given was to try to get FAANG or other prestigious tech companies on your resume for the internship, and leverage that to re-recruit for a different function FT. Position: SDE intern. MBA Summer Internship: Amazon vs Apple. However, it could give you valuable insight into a world I think is very intriguing. As far as locations, Meta generally matches the Good Will Hunting vibrations, while Amz feels a little more politically oriented. I have a few questions from blinders that would highly help me making a decision. FB/G are on the same level of "prestige" and Compensation. Class size doesn’t really matter, interview experience doesn’t matter, take Amazon. Most people will say Meta just because its more "presitigous" than Amazon but here's my honest thoughts: Amazon is much more stable than Meta right now at least (intern RO rate Cons: Google STEP: Pros: Cons: I would go with Amazon SWE, since SWE > freshman/sophomore programs. As a Wealthsimple user, the company sucks lol. You’ve already done SWE internships, so you can give 2024 AWS Sales Intern - 12 month internship. You’re choosing between two great options here. Those looking for co-op, placement year opportunities, spring week or similar opportunities with Amazon should also use this thread. Both are solid companies regardless of what you choose. Amazon isn’t going anywhere. I have been incredibly lucky to receive internship offers from Bloomberg and Amazon and am having trouble picking one. 204K subscribers in the csMajors community. Amazon all day. They are incredibly slow with their hiring process. Internship plans aren't finalized for 2021 so I'm not sure what it's going to be, or if there will even be one this year. • 3 yr. background is in EE with a focus on developing an ML solution. Work culture can be very team dependant. yy xi xn sx er vj nf jt wp my