[greyskull]

Amazon tries to push Leadership Principles into every part of at least their corporate world. It's supposed to drive decision making for basically everyone, brand new engineers on up (I don't know if they push them lower down the stack). What I'm getting at is it's not solely for "leaders" as in high level folks.

> live a life never caring about money (> 200k a year)

I'm in my 3rd year as an engineer here (and of my career). Their target for me is 175k as a new SDE II, but I'm already well above that considering AMZN growth. If we're talking calendar year, as long as AMZN doesn't take a dive, next year I'm easily hitting 200k (yes, I realize how crappy the reliance on RSUs is). I'll probably hit 200k as an actual target next year. So, your number isn't difficult to reach, which is both great and ridiculous.

[brut]

Thanks for the data point. I'm looking at openings in Canada and the only numbers I've found during a cursory search were 'Salary Range: $80,000 to $140,000/yr, commensurate with experience' for a 'Research Scientist II' position.

[camtarn]

Pay varies a lot depending on the location, as well. It's meant to be competitive with local industry rates.

[greyskull]

Ah, my mistake for assuming that you're a software developer (or at least one that would fall into a typical SDE role). Bad habit.

I have confidence that we're nowhere near the ceiling for AMZN, if that says anything.

[ranman]

is SDE II an L6 position?

[andrewguenther]

No

EDIT: Whoops

[c141charlie]

No. An SDE II is an L5 position.