Does a good startup experience count the same as FAANG?
I have a offer from a startup which is paying me 30 percent more(real cash) than my current salary at MS for a leadership + engineering role (people there know my skills) . They have 5 million dollars in funding in their seed round and I am in India so that's a lot of cash to burn. I have 3 years of experience and if I join, I am planning to stay there for at least 2 3 years. How will FAANG take the start-up experience later while deciding level/comp? My idea of joining the start-up is to accelerate my learning and career.
No
Companies respect engineers from FAANG because they know for a fact that quality of engineering in those companies is very high. Unless your startup does really well and establishes a similar reputation for itself your experience there won't be considered to be the same.
Facebook and Google don't care. I had offers from both after working for a no name startup.
Most FANGs don’t care where you come from.. what matters most is what you do in their screens
aka leetcode rules
How much of it is real cash vs paper cash? Always value paper cash (aka stock options) at less than 25%.
All of it is real cash. I am also getting equity in low one digit numbers (pure equity, not options).
If you are in India, don’t take the risk. Getting back into Msft isn’t guaranteed.
30% is not worth it.
(people there know my skills)
I dont think so
Care to explain a bit?