Got offers from those 4 companies. Advice needed. PhD 2.5 yoe with some ML background. Google L4, MTV, still matching the team. Potential teams Google ads infra, cloud data center supply chain optimization, still exploring more. Amazon Alexa AI, Boston, Applied Scientist L4 (interviewing for L5, but down leveled due to some negative interview feedbacks). TC: 206k (haven't negotiate). Uber Freight, SF, Backend SDE L4 (might go to ML direction when the timing comes). TC: 265k first year, 240k the rest 3 years. (Very unlikely to negotiate). Microsoft, Seattle, SDE 61, Microsoft Teams Skype for business data platform. TC: 192k + yearly bonus (negotiated once). Not sure whether it worth it to move from Boston to Bay Area considering the living cost. Wife has a job in Boston. Any advice is appreciated! Current TC: peanuts. Edited: For those vote for Google, I found it is really hard to find a match with ML/AI teams as an outsider. Was able to chat with a Google Medical Brain team, did very well answering their interviewish questions, and was told "good to go", but ended up them pursing other candidates due to my join date (I need Visa transfer). Any advice for Google team match is appreciated!
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If you want to settle down in the new company, pick Google. Else try Amazon or Uber for a couple of years and move to G.
Amazon. Once in you will be able to move up and easily overcome that interview downgrade
Can you elaborate how fast the promote gonna happen in Amazon? I was told that I am very close to L5, and they are expecting me to promote real quick, like several months. I personally don't want to rely on this "promise", and I am not sure whether I will burn out in the first several months to get promoted.
It’s risky though.
Google is the best choice
How was the interview for Applied scientist?
Lots of ML rounds with behavior questions. One coding round.
1. Was coding based on data structures and algo (LC based) or data manipulation (numpy pandas based)? 2. How did you study ML design?
If your wife is happy with her job in Boston - take Amazon’s job. You can always move to the Robotics team, which is probably bigger than Alexa there and work on very unique and difficult problems. Robotics is also very diverse in the roles and talents - and their VP is awesome.
This 👆
Can you give more details on Amazon robotics? What exciting projects happening there? Is internal transfer to robotics that easy, given that I don't have much experience in C++ and embedded systems. I do have control system background though.
Dude the people telling you to take amazon are doing you a disfavor. There’s no way in hell you should be an L4 with a PhD and 2.5 years of experience. Also, amazon benefits suck compared to every other company on your list.
Whats your G TC?
Haven't finished the team match, so no number yet.
Make sure the Amazon manager is a technical one who really knows the field. Otherwise you'll be only doing deployment, on call, dashboard reviews, region build, etc...
The manager is very technical, and even encourages publishing papers. Sounds quite reasonable and has clear plans in head.
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