Will you join the rat race for additional $200k?
Caution: reading Blind posts impact your happiness and your life. I was happy with my remote job, and thought I was making decent money. I live in a suburb area with a 4000 sqft house on a 1.5 acre land, 3 young kids, 2 dogs, and 1 horse. 2 hours away from beach and 2.5 hours away from a nice skii spot. But I only make 270k a year. After knowing people can make half a million to a million on Blind, I started interviewing. I ended up with multiple offers, and the highest are Google and Facebook (G matched FB after negotiation). The TC is 470k (excluding sign-on). I told the recruiter I want to avoid Bay Area, and they are matching me to NewYork and Seattle teams. I will decide which company to join after knowing the teams. NY is probably not a good option for raising a big family.
TC should include quality of life. You’re chasing a salary to live more poorly at a higher cost of living.
Come to Seattle! Commute on the train is great, you can have all of that in the burbs here!
Live out in maple valley or Bonney lake area, lots of land and space there but close to the train and it’s a 30 minute train ride into downtown Seattle. Total commute will be around an hour but half or more will be sitting on a train doing work. Plus you get the beautiful Pacific Northwest, great skiing at snoqualmie and crystal, beaches in the summer (just not fun to swim in) amazing area to live! That kind of TC could set you up nice here in Seattle too.
Except you will spend 2+ hrs in commute each day which will come out of time with your kids
What the heck. With that life and 270K a year, I’d never embrace the rate race.
Don’t let the blind multiplier fool you.
Why do you think there’s a Blind multiplier?
Because there is
Is it common to make an offer to the candidate before team matching? And the matching team may be in a different geographic region? Most of all, a horse in the backyard?
You were living life till now
What location? Also factor in the opportunity cost of not working at a FANG if you are in the early part of your career. If you are close to retirement though, then it doesn't matter much.
Wow, I normally hardcore advocate for higher TC and FAANG, but in this case I’d say stay where you are. After taxes that 470k halves, and you’ll find it difficult to provide the same quality of life for yourself and your family. Plus, you work REMOTE dude, that means a lot less stress (no stupid ass open office environments). And FAANG would mean much higher pressure. I mean you’re living the life. Why would you change that? Congratulations on the offers. They won’t expire anytime soon — if you change your mind in a few years, the interview process will likely be minimal.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Appreciate it.
I'd trade my 300k job for a horse. You got the life dude.