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Although Amazon has instituted a hiring freeze and layoffs are probably on their way, I went through the loop for a security engineer position at AWS. Before I attended the final interviews, Amazon placed the hiring freeze and called me to ask if I wanted to go ahead or cancel my application. I decided do go ahead Right now I'm waiting for their response and the position I applied to changed from "under consideration" to "no longer under consideration". Thoughts?
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My opinion would be the same it is a bit low. However, in the current job market if this was me I would take this job being fresh out of college and then I would continue to look for another job after a couple of months so this way you will gain some experience in the industry which will be valuable in your next job.
Take it and keep looking. It’s always easier to find a job if you have a job.
I actually think it depends on where you are working. $18 an hour in a giant city like New York or L.A., seems a bit low but if you are working in a smaller or medium city in the Midwest or something, an $18 an hour starting salary sounds pretty reasonable.
I’m making 90K base less than 1 year after graduating with a bachelors in cybersecurity
I made $14/hr at Geek Squad in San Jose 14 years ago. Even as a student assistant working part time in the IT department for the campus, I still made $12/hr in 2014. What they’re offering you is low.
Find a defense company to start out with. That’s what I did. With a security clearance, that can take you places in the defense/gov industry. Less competition too.
You can drive a school bus for more an hour. Think about that.
Depends on your location
If they won’t negotiate on pay - try to negotiate on other benefits like paid time off, schedule flexibility and WFH, bonuses or other benefits such as mobile phone reimbursement, student loan repayment, etc.
Look at their benefits package to see what it offers and go from there.
It really depends on your location. If the minimum wage is $12 or less in your area- that isn't too shabby. Take it either way so you can expand your resumé.
Let me ask you, do you have any certifications along with your degree? These pay dividends
In the tech industry.
With a minimum wage climbing to $16/hr you can do a lot better than that for an IT position, depending on location and company of course
Full transparency my first tech role after my company paid for me to go to a bootcamp for 12 weeks was about $56k… You DEFINITELY needed to be paid more.
I will agree with the others and say keep interviewing at other companies until you can find something that pays better. Hopefully they have just as good, if not better, benefits.
Back in my country (in Eu) i was in "godmode" with my expirience and knowledge, owning 2 companies and venture 8 projects i was making x20 times than average IT sallary. I just came in CA and here i'm nobody even i cant express corectly my "bussines english" and having accent like a Russian but for start you need ti be happy per se for the expirience. I have an offer from Samsung for 25$ hour for start + lot of benefits and that is way bellow than my sallary back at home, but the expirience at Samsung worth more than money ;)
You are young, try it if there is no contractand pararell search for better positions at other companies. If i'm staying in CA longer than 3yr i will open my own IT company, but first need to achive some goals and build expirience with US mentality. BR
I was paid $17 as an intern in 2017. That’s low
In 2015 my first IT gig paid out $15 bucks an hour and it was an entry level help desk job for retailer.
I looked it up 23 is around of about the National average for entry level help desk job.
To be fair that doesn't actually mean much because those numbers drastically change depending on your locality.
So that same job that paid me $15 an hour was located in Virginia Beach Virginia, I transferred from that location to another one that was still located in Virginia but a different part that was more expensive and my base salary was $22 an hour for the exact same job.