I have offers from Airbnb and Uber. Both in SF 2yoe Uber software engineer II 152k base 13.5k-27k annual cash bonus 52k-105k annual stock refresh 50k sign on bonus 9600 stock units / 4 years at 409a price (I think this equates ~390k over 4 years. Correct me if I am wrong) Airbnb L4 SWE: 180k base 57k sign on bonus 90-180k stock refresh 420k stock / 4 yrs at 31b valuation from July 2017 funding round Future yearly bonus situation is unknown with airbnb. The board approved a 15% cash bonus for 2019 which I included in my sign on above. I am assuming they will continue to offer similar types of cash incentives until they ipo. Airbnb also has 401k match up to 4% of my base salary, better food and nicer office. Wondering why you guys think? How are these offers? I am mainly interested in growth/prestige/resume value/impact/Eng quality/wlb/culture and obviously tc. Both teams sound very exciting.
Congrats, almost ~300k TC with 2 yoe !!!
Wondering what will G / FB offer in liquid money to counter these offers.
G would slot me at L3 with an offer maxing out at 250k tc
This again? Just see: Check out this post! "Uber vs Airbnb offer comparison (Compensation)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/jybiWFyH
This guy is on the management track and much more experienced than me
My comment there still applies. Copied here. Another area to evaluate on is the engineering challenge. At the end of the day, Airbnb is a traditional e-commerce marketplace. The engineering challenge does not seem that deep. Compare that to any of the FAANG: FB: social graph at global scale Amazon: logistics at global scale Apple: technology business Netflix: content distribution at global scale (15% of bandwidth is Netflix streaming) Google: obvious. Compare the engineering challenge at Airbnb vs what you’re doing at FB. Uber in the other hand has deep engineering challenges: * real time location of riders and partners * marketplace efficiency * real time pricing * routing efficiency * bandwidth and device limitations in developing countries. * real-time distributed systems.
Isn’t Airbnb just better ?
Uber seems pretty good from the inside. Also one is definitely IPOing, the other one, maybe.
Pick the work that is the most interesting
Wow, just wow. OP would really appreciate if you could post how did you prepare for the interviews ?
Did 460 LC problems multiple times each over about 6 months. Read grokking system design 5 or 6 times. Practiced/rehearsed system design questions in my head. Also read system design primer and checkcheckzz GitHub for system design. Did lots of interviews with many companies for practice. There were many Saturday and Sunday afternoons where I just wanted to quit and stop studying and prepping. It took a lot of discipline and hard work.
Great that all your hard work has payed off. Really awesome !!. This is the highest TC for 2 yoe I have seen on Blind. Keep up the good work and all the best in your new role. I hope you don’t have any immigration issues unlike some of us here.
I would go for AirBnb coz it’s still has much room to grow and their offer is solid. Easy choice unless u really like Uber.
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You can't go wrong with either, but easy choice for me - Airbnb. Congrats, they are really good offers !
You can - Uber is trash.
Because this guy’s a well known uber hater that has to post the same thing on every thread that mentions uber