I am wondering how much I should expect for stock grant if I meet the target. The recruiter told me it will be 25% of my initial grant which is 75k (my RSU is $300k for 4 years). If so, this is considerably smaller than G and FB. I heard Apple is generous for annual grant. Is this the amount I shoul...Read more
Going to join Siri team as ICT3 in Cupertino. What is the expected stock refresher and annual bonus after review cycle? TC 225k
Got a verbal offer for ICT3 position, Siri AI/ML team. Base 185 Stock 175/4 years Sign-on 20 Lowball? YOE: 7 TC: 130
How much is an average stock refreshes for ICT3/T4 in Siri org? Cash Bonus? Base increment?
For software engineer, ICT4: Yoe: 4 + master's degree Org: Siri Base: 180k Stock: 350k Signing bonus: 80k Annual cash bonus: 10-20% of the base Annual stock refresher (for average performer): 100k (over 4 years) The numbers are after negotiation, and based on what the recruiter said. Could someone...Read more
Location Cupertino , Siri Team Position ICT3 Base 170k 1st year sign on bonus - 60k RSU 200k for 4 years I heard Annual Perf bonus and stock refreshers are decent but not sure what amount to expect for IC3 position Currently TC at Amazon Seattle ~235k at L5 7YOE
#offer #career #tech Got uber 5b v.s apple ICT5. Wonder which one to join. Similar package. Uber freight v.s. Siri. My feeling is that Uber is with better discount of stock price, while Apple is still at its high end of the stock price range. Also seems Uber is the one with better potential caree...Read more
I keep hearing that AI/ML is one of the best places to be in Apple. So I wonder whether Apple AI/ML is parent for AI/ML Siri understanding group or they are different things? And in both cases, do you have anything to share about AI/ML Siri in UK? Yoe: 8 as SWE and 3 as EM 4 of them all are in Met...Read more
Got an offer from Apple today. Base of $170k, Sign on - $75k and RSUs worth $300k. Currently SDE 2 at AWS in my third year, TC -> 220k (mostly due to stock appreciation) with a base of $135k. Moving to a SDE3 position in 5-6 months. Is it advisable to move to Apple (IC3 position)? The money they
I'm mulling an offer from Apple (software, Siri org), but they don't mention anything about annual stock refreshers or annual bonus ages%. In Google, although these are 'discretionary' one can comfortably expect a good (40-70% of base) stock refresh and a specified 'target bonus percentage' ~15-20%...Read more
Role is Software Engineer, ML/AI. Main things I care about: 1. learning 2. culture. Location in SEA Meta details: TC 320k (base + equity + target bonus + sign on/4) No team preallocation (would go through bootcamp) Apple details: Siri Search team in ML/AI TC 300k (base + equity + target bonus...Read more
Trying to evaluate two offers (FB, Apple) vs. staying at Uber. There's no clear best decision in my mind so curious for the community's thoughts. Caveat: I feel tremendously thankful to have any options at all given the current economy. I find myself in the fortunate position of evaluating multiple...Read more
I have just received an Apple offer in the Siri AI/ML org. Title: Machine learning engineer Location: Cupertino, CA Base: $140k Signon: $35k Stock/RSU: $240k/4years TC: $200k + $35k(signon) Yoe: 1 Previous role: Machine learning engineer at a startup Education: Master's in CS from top 30 univers...Read more
Signed up for premium Lose It! membership and it still sucks: 1. Doesn’t fully sync with my Apple Watch 2. The watch app is BS, doesn’t update itself, even though background refresh is on Is there anything out there that’s better? Something that fully sync with Apple Watch and also can log calori...Read more
Borrowing my friend's account to keep privacy. Series G, Netskope, Staff Engineer Base: 190k Stock Option: 19k share Corporate Bonus: 5% of the base after 1 year, 10% after 2 years, 15% after 3 years, 20% after 4 years sign-on, not given yet It is from the Data Platform team. I see very talented ...Read more
Hi guys, I'm writing this post hoping it'll help someone! Full disclosure, I didn't move to the onsite interview so i maybe I'm just sour grapes, but I had a not so great experience. I didn't think that these questions would be asked for a software engineer position? I am in my senior year graduatin...Read more
I am currently a Senior SWE at LinkedIn (Part of Data Infrastructure). I work on very interesting core distributed systems problems and I am very happy here. I have a PhD in CS from a top school. TC: 400K (due to stock appreciation) YOE 9 I got an offer from Apple: Siri Platform Software Engineer ...Read more
I have 3 years of work experience and make close to 120k a year in the Greater Seattle area with an 8% annual bonus. The stock grants at my current company are not really substantial. I got an offer from Amazon SDE1(L4) on the Amazon Global Expansion team. The details of that are: 1) Base pay:...Read more
1. Grammarly. Why use Grammarly when you can simply put the same damn thing in Chatgpt.. too obvious. 2. Voice to Text: Transcription Based Companies. Google's Speech To Text. Amazon Trascribe. Otter ai etc. OpenAI released Whisper which is just pure magic. Google's, Amazon's transcription serv...Read more
Doomsday Scenario: People start to use Bing with ChatGPT integrated, force people to download Edge. Google starts to lose the market share in both Search and Chrome. Google makes a comeback with Bard but 1. Data Microsoft has accumulated via first mover's advantage makes ChatGPT perform better 2. ...Read more