Walmart - Machine Learning Engineer 3
Got an offer from Walmart and speaking with some top companies. How to evaluate this offer? Tc - 182k Base - 140k Bonus - 20k RSU - 22k - vested over 4 years and starts from 2021 - which is crazy. Am I being lowballed? Fresh grad out of college with a masters degree in CS and prior industry experience of 2 years before masters + a ton of publication record (better than some PhDs) Location: MountainView CA Need advice...
Well definitely low balled considering mountain view, and if you have a great publication record try other companies where you will be able to get higher I think and a more researchy position.
Example? And how to approach these companies. I have been sending them messages on LinkedIn - but there is a very low turnaround rate for those messages sent. Looking to quickly get another offer from companies.
It wouldn't happen quickly for sure, you are definitely looking at a turn around for at least 3-4 weeks depending on the company.There are loads of good startups in bay area that work on more interesting stuff. And you probably want to be a data scientist rather than an MLE as at least in the case in Walmart you will get to do more interesting work
I didn't know one could get MLE 3 as new grad. How did you pull it off - publications?
Walmart hires Machine Learning engineers as Software Engineer 3 level
And machine learning engineers are generally hired as a new grad
This is their standard offer. Negotiate with other offers
How to get negotiate a better offer with others - suggestions and how to quickly get those companies to do onsite interviews?
Get competing offers. Tell them you are still interviewing or have other offers. If they like you. They usually will usually negotiate and match the highest one.
lol you have no experience and concerned you are low balled at $182k
Yes, given the structure of the RSUs, it is extremely bad amount. Only Base is good in this offer.
He does have experience though
It's a good offer for Walmart. Why not wait it out and get another offer?
Going to do that. How to increase the waiting time period for the offer. Any tips?
Tell HR that you're still interviewing.
OP here Thank you everyone for the advice
182 TC for a fresh grad is not a lowball. In fact it is at top tier for SE3. Having publications is great ( several folks including me have those). But that does not command a premium unless you join a research lab. Check out folks with PhD at WalmartLabs, you will get my point.
OP: Can you elaborate more on what is the point I am missing. I thought that this is the average offer. Paysa helped me to gain perspective of the average offer.
This is among the best offers for SE 3 fresh out of school. Having publications does not give you a enough premium at WalmartLabs. You can see people with several publications in top tier conferences with hundreds and thousands of citations at Labs. This is bit more than avg.
Can you tell us more about your interview process?
The interview was basically good. Tested on coding - level would be medium of Leetcode. Apart from that questions on background and in detail explanation required for machine learning concepts, how I solved a given task from my resume and was asked to explain it in detail. There were questions on fit and ML-based coding questions as well - all of which required a revision of basic ML textbook and practice of leetcode.
Thanks. Very helpful 😊 Did the interview involve writing the actual code that passes every test case or more of an algorithm discussion and writing pseudo code?
Location?
MountainView CA