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by valbaca 1866 days ago
I'll share mine.

2011 - Graduated with double degree B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Texas Tech University

Software Engineer @ Raytheon II&S in Garland, TX

2011 $61k/year (all # values are in $k)

2012 $63

Software Development Engineer I (SDE1) @ Amazon in Seattle

2013 $90 salary + $20 signing bonus + $53 stock bonus (vested over the next 4 years)

2014 $117 Total Compensation (TC) = $92 base salary + $13 2nd year bonus + $11 stocks value

Promoted to SDE2

2015 $138 TC = $105 + $33 stocks

2016 $171 TC = $108 + $63 stocks

2017 $195 TC = $110 + $84 stocks

19% bump after switching teams within Amazon and getting a new manager

2018 $251 TC = $131 + $119 stocks

2019 $245 TC = $150 + $96

2020 $255 TC = $157 + $97

Promoted to SDE3 (Senior Software Engineer)

2021 $309 TC = $160 + 149

I'm currently a full-stack engineer, as in I've worked with or currently work with:

- Backend service development: Java, Scala, & C++

- Front-end development: CSS, JavaScript & Typescript

- Server-side rendering: Perl & Java

- App Development in Android (Java & Kotlin) & iOS (Objective-C & Swift)

- Script development in Java, Ruby, Python, & SQL

- System design, design reviews, AWS, etc.

- DevOps (Oncall, CD/CI, Integration testing, Chaos testing, Agile process improvements etc.)

- Interview candidates, mentor new hires & teammates, promotion recommendations & reviews