How much can a brand-new engineering recruit earn at Amazon? That’s a vital question for hiring managers and recruiters trying to figure out how high to set their own companies’ starting salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s also a pressing question as we head into summer, when many graduating computer-science majors in the United States are hunting for their first jobs. For companies that regularly hire lots of fresh graduates, this is a crunch moment, and it’s good to know what one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms is doing, if only because it might be competing in certain geographies for the same pool of talent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While tech companies tend to keep quiet about their employment and salary data, candidates have a tendency to post their offers online\u2014such as this magnificent Reddit thread<\/a>. We recently posted a dissection of Google\u2019s entry-level salaries for software engineers, which made us wonder about other tech giants and how much they\u2019re offering their newest tech professionals. We decided to take a poke at Amazon, which is much in the news thanks to everything from its one-day shipping policy<\/a> to the travails at Amazon Game Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to arrive at compensation numbers for Amazon\u2019s wet-behind-the-ears software engineers, we relied primarily on the aforementioned Reddit thread. Here\u2019s a handy breakdown of its data for your perusal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n