[nivenkos]

But in Europe they barely pay more than a lot of medium-sized companies.

[rockbruno]

The perks and benefits are usually considerably better, which IMO is a much bigger factor than the base salary.

[xen0]

That is not my experience in Germany. Maybe for base salaries; but not for total compensation.

[ju-st]

at levels.fyi Amazon Germany starts at 66.000€ total. L4 at 87000€ with 2/3years of experience. Imagine sending out 400 resumes, spending months on leetcode, multiple days for interviews and then getting an offer for 66.000€. Edit: it's probably still worth it for getting the compoany name in your resume.

[bellyfullofbac]

The author lives in Nowhere, Russia; the chance to move to Europe is probably added attractiveness, once he's there it's easier to move jobs.

[xen0]

Sure, for a graduate position, targeting someone out of Uni; there are not many of those in Germany for €66k outside of FAANG (although I'm sure they exist). And that is unlikely to be what the OP was offered from Amazon (they said "mid-level"; probably SDE-II).

And for what it's worth; my search led to an average of €76k ($90k) for SDE-I in Germany: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

[cvak]

Have you recently checked fb/google europe TCs? for L5 it's 250k£+

[nivenkos]

IIRC L5 in those companies is equivalent to L7 in Amazon though no? Like Staff Engineer basically.

[dom96]

Which medium sized companies? I haven’t seen any that get even close.

[nivenkos]

Schibsted, TypeForm, I'm sure there are many others too.