1 year as a SWE

A lot of commenters don't believe this is real, I do, but I have a lot of words of caution and OP's post is potentially irresponsible in this community because the result is not reproducible at scale and broadcasting it to 33K people without any context doesn't help anyone figure anything out. 1. 1 year ago was Sept 2022, meaning you got he job before then and started then. Amazon was still hiring their last remaining hires in Sept 2022. The hardest time to get hired was the very end of 2022 and H1 of 2023. 2. "Total Compensation" needs clarification. What's the base, what's the signing bonus, what's the performance bonus, how are you valuing the stock, are you including relocation or other benefits in that? 3. Tell us more about the job. I know people who graduated Codesmith with $150K **contractor** role and that's much different than a full time role.... many of those people are not employed anymore in 8 to 14 months. 4. Tell us more about your background before the job. At Codesmith for example, from recent data posted to Reddit by a student, the median starting salary of people going in is in the $70Ks and 20%+ were making $90K+ BEFORE starting. So what was your increase in compensation?