Adobe Sr computer scientist, yoe 10 TC: 200k + 500 rsu in San Jose What do you think?? What is the typical rent around that area?
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500 RSUs per year or is that the initial grant? Either way it’s a good offer but you would do a little better at FAANG. Note: Google’s opening up a new office in the same area. 1 bedroom rent is around 2-2.5k. If you want to stay at those shwanky new places in downtown SJ, might be more. Key is to save up as much as possible to get a down payment. Something like 150k-ish. Definitely doable.
RSU is vested over 4 yrs. Will google get me 250k? Also what area should I look for buying a house?
Ah ok, by 500 RSUs you mean 500 ADBE shares over 4 years. Yes, Google will give you way more than 250k TC. My friend in Google Toronto has half as much experience as you and gets 250k. As for housing — well Willow Glen, Blossom Valley, Campbell are good areas. But honestly due to gentrification, pretty much every area will pretty soon be a “good” area in terms of safety and school quality. (I’m assuming you don’t have kids so don’t have this problem immediately.) So it really depends on your preference in houses and neighborhoods. Housing market is hot right now but starting to stabilize and go down slightly. But it’s hard for me to tell what’ll happen this year on that front. If you have enough cash for a down payment, I’d say buy now to mitigate risk.
Google doesn’t have eng in Toronto, do they? Have they started hiring there. Is your friend SWE? 250 is great for Toronto market, gotta he 95th+ percentile or something
Search adobe for a Sr swe offer eval a few weeks back in Seattle... this seems low for SJ
Whats the TC? A 1 BR is around 2500-3000$ , i.e in a good community.