pwnagesarus
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If there is another time to live in Seattle, it's during the summer. Crappy traffic and slow drivers aside, Bellevue would be an excellent choice.
Once again -
Take the job in Fernley! You'll be just 3.5hrs drive from San Francisco. Don't live in Fernley, live in Reno its a 30-minute drive down I-80 and live in downtown Reno. Reno is home to University of Nevada - Wolfpack - its a college town as well.
Reno is a weekend hub for a lot of Californians - great food, great events, minor league baseball, Truckee River, hiking & mtn biking, and boating, and if you get here early enough I'm guessing you'll be able to ski until mid to late June!
Nevada also is a Zero Income Tax state and the Casino's pay the majority of taxes in Nevada so the property taxes are low so rents are low as well.
Screw the entire midwest and the oppressive humidity!
How much does amazon pays their interns? btw, what is an operational engineer? What kind of duties are required?
Thanks for the info! That moves it up my list (although I still definitely want to be in Seattle).
My offer is like $2773/month, which I approximate as $17.33/hour. Which isn't nearly as great as their software development interns get (I've seen over $30/hr for them). I also have the choice of $800/month for relocation (probably taxed down to $650/month), or I can pay around $400/month to get put in corporate housing. So it's not as much as I made at GE ($18.75/hr with similar housing stipend, would probably make $22+/hr now) but more than NASA ($15/hr). I doubt I have any room to negotiate.
Yeah, totally different jobs. They require different skills sets, operate in different environments and have different outputs and require WIDELY different things from the applicants.I won't post numbers unless anybody really wants me to, but I got a different offer from Amazon for a software developer internship. Just wanted to say that the offers do vary quite a bit.
Yeah, totally different jobs. They require different skills sets, operate in different environments and have different outputs and require WIDELY different things from the applicants.
Also note: If you have an SDE internship, make sure you seek out some SDE I employees to talk to for perspective. Talking to the SDE III and TPM folks is great, but those are a small subsection of the original SDE I pool, and they are the ones that made it through the trial by fire.
Ehh, I'd go with WA, NH, or DE as I think they would be the least hot in the summer.
Haven't been to any, but, WA interests me as it's only 1 state away from Oregon, and Oregon has tons of great microbrews, and the tillamook county smoker.... Never been there though .... some day I will eventually go check out Oregon...
Seatown has many great microbreweries as well. Not sure the exact number, but I would guess it is roughly comparable to Portland. At least it was five or so years ago when I was heavily into the scene.
Lexington, KY isn't the largest city but it's definitely not the middle of nowhere.
As for Amazon here, I generally don't like that portion of town (Amazon, UPS and Fedex hubs basically on the same street -logistics). Lexington is a nice town though....other than traffic sucks (relatively speaking).