- vote Does Apple or Microsoft pay more for new grads? Title. Have internship offers from both and factoring return offers into my decision. Assume everything is equal (skills, previous internships, etc). Microsoft's position would be in SV, not Redmond.
- Why do people say Amazon is worse than Apple? I’m relatively new to Blind, but as far as I know, doesn’t Apple pay a lot less for new grad compared to Amazon (150k in cupertino vs 130k in seattle, not including sign on)? After taxes plus an additional 12k/year in cupertino housing, doesn’t the amazon worker take home a lot more?
- Which companies allow you skip phone screen or try again if you failed phone screem? Can you list out the companies (other than Google) that allow you to skip the phone screen when you have a competing offer? Can you list out the companies where if you fail the phone screen for one SWE position, you are eligible to interview for SWE on another team (other than Apple and Msft)? Is
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and industry lounge. - Bloomberg Prestige I am a new grad who got an offer from Bloomberg. 148. base 25k sign on 20. bonus It sounds like a great offer but Im just curious how Bloomberg is viewed in the industry comapred to Apple (where i have an offer) Does one over the other make a difference on my resume? My main concern is Bloo
- FANG | 300 LC | 4 internships | Looking for referrals Hi everybody. I’m looking for new grad referrals. 😅 😅 😅 A little bit about me: -4 internships at Uber, Blend, 2 Big N (or companies similar to these :D) -Finished the recommended problems for EPI + grinded LC ~~ 300 LC lifetime -Did all the EPI DP problems and most of the variants (can help if
- vote Amazon vs Goldman Sachs: Entry Level Hi yall, heres yet another Amazon vs Goldman but this time, new-grad edition. I genuinely like the work more at GS because I would be on Apple Card there, but Amazon is big too. Team with Amazon is AWS Route 53, and team for GS is Marcus. I know both are going to be tough on WLB, but for being 21
- Folks who joined Apple as new grad PhDs What was your initial TC in [base/4-yr RSU/perf bonus] format? My initial TC: ~200k [155k/105k/13%] Edit: Thanks for the wonderful insights, blind. Y’all will get me fired one day.
- New Grad Roles in Austin, TX Hi, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin. I have previously interned at HPE, AMD, and Samsung. Would love to chat with anyone working at any of these companies- AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia
- Apple. Manager gave a verbal return offer but now recruiter is pointing to other issues. I interned at Apple this summer and my manager told me that I’ll be returning fulltime after my graduation. I was supposed to have an official offer by now. But my recruiter recently told me that they are having some issues and they are trying to connect me to managers from other teams. Has anyone b
- vote New Grad Offer Evaluation [High TC]: Big Tech or Startup? I’m very fortunate and thankful to receive all the great offers, but really not sure which one to go to. Would appreciate any input, especially from startup and Apple folks :) SWE @ Google: 125/270/55 Pro: Great culture and WLB; only PA match so I don’t know the team yet. Con: It would be kinda ha
- What's the deal with Amazon hiring? I've always heard how easy it is to get an interview at Amazon, also because of the fact that they're hiring hundreds of people all the time. Even then, I applied to like 15 positions (of which at least 5 very strong fit, including general New Grad role), got 3 referrals from repher.me (3!), never
- Apple offer evaluation Hi all I am a new grad phd. I got an offer from Apple in cupertino like this. Base/sign/rsu: 170/40/160 plus annual bonus and refresher. Is it good to take? I have not negotiated yet.
- Rant: Qualcomm offer? How? New grad here...I double majored in EE and CS...got the this offer from Qualcomm Bay Area for HW Engineer: base 95k, signon 20k, RSU 22.5k vested over 3 years Is this a joke?! This is the only HW offer I have. I got SWE offers from Google, Citadel, Apple, FB, and those offers after negotiations ha
- apple new grad swe positions does anyone know the best way to find new grad swe positions at apple. i’ve been going through various positions and bookmarking ones that say bs or ms required with no other experience requirements. is there a better way to do this ?
- Referral needed; opt expiring soon Can a kind soul give me referrals for Dropbox, Stripe, Apple, instacart, or Asana. 550 LC, 4.0 gpa, 2 internships and 3 publications, new grad. Thanks 🙏
- Apple new grad comp evaluation ICT2, SWE org, cupertino base: 115k sign on bonus: 15k RSUs: 50k My recruiter said this offer is negotiatable but i dont have any other offers besides passing hiring committee at google with no team matches so far. What should i asked the recruiter for because we will connect back later to negotia
- Apple New grad Hi, I have recently got the following numbers for a new grad IC3 role at Apple Cupertino. 165/200/75 YOE: 2 years RSU split over a period of 4 years. Recruiter suggested that these are not the final numbers and there is some room for flexibility. Any suggestions on what to quote? P.S. I was an
- Apple Exploding Offer v.s Google Return offer for New Grad I got an Apple new grad offer for a team under Siri. Recruiter is only giving me a week to consider b/c their HC is full & this is the last spot. I like the team & the interviewers but I'm also waiting on a Google return offer (just finished an internship with google), and have onsite scheduled with
- Harassment at Apple by eng manager, what to do? Don’t know where else to go so sharing here. Long story short, this individual was an external hire a few years ago, and since then has done nothing but continuously harass members on his team. Everyone constantly lives in the fear of being fired or given a PIP. He blackmails members on his team to
- Apple Return Offer So i interned at apple over the summer and got a return offer. before committing to the team i wanted to interview with other teams at apple to see what else is out there. since they have a one offer rule i had to choose a team before getting offer details. so anyways my internship ends and about 1.
- New Grad Referrals wanted in Austin, TX Hey, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science. Got 3 offers in texas, just nothing in Austin (HPE(75k)/Jp morgan(90k)/ Capital One(100k)). Would be interested in AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia GM IBM Indeed Orac
- vote Sharing my master’s new grad offers (on the high-end ) & input needed Company/Location/Base/Equity/Sign-on Apple/Cupertino/135k/270k/50k Google/MTV/120k/250k/50k FB/Menlo Park/115k/150k/100k Palantir/Seattle/115k/60k shares of options/50k Citadel/Chicago/150k/No Stock, at least 60k/yr cash bonus/100k sign-on Microsoft/Bay Area/130k/150k/50k Uber/SF/110k/110k/20k The
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and industry lounge. - Facebook Intern return offer Just got an intern return offer for a E3 new grad position last week. I got EE ratings and thought I did really well on the internship despite the lowball. Recruiter said base and stock are non-negotiable but signing is. 110/150/65 and 10% target bonus What do you guys think? Also what are some co
- Austin Good Software Compaines Hi Blinders, I have 2 YOE and TC is 92k at a relatively small town in Texas. Have side project on Github with more than 800 stars(I know this is useless when it comes to finding a job). Been LC really hard also. I am looking for software companies in Austin which pay good. I have applied to: 1. Re
- Is it really this difficult to get a job? Hi all, I am a senior at a state university and have been struggling lately to find a job as I am graduating in May of 2019. The Plan was to go to grad school straight but again, I decided to work for a couple of years. I probably have applied to about 67 companies so far and have mostly received r
- Facebook, get your shit together! I feel like it is time for a jump and I would like to try other FAANG companies but: - Apple and Amazon can't compete on pay/benefits. - Netflix culture is fucking broken. You were my top option but all these threads about poor WLB made me postpone my plans. If you keep with this shit you will onl
- Rate Bloomberg offer Got an offer from Bloomberg for 131k salary, 13k first year bonus, 10k relocation. How is this for a new grad? I also have an offers from Apple in Austin at 105k salary, 50k RSU, and 10k relocation and Amazon at 106k salary, 25.5k first year signing bonus, 20.5k second year signing bonus, 65k RSU,
- Thinking of moving to us Recently thinking of relocating to USA (provided I get H1B). Currently: 1) Located in central Europe 2) ~7 years of exp, 1.5 at Intel (European office), rest startups working as regular, senior and lead dev 3) According to numbeo.com, in order to have my current quality of living I will need ~$18k
- Referrals for future 2020 MBA grad Hi everyone, I am new here and already have amazed by the places and interesting topics around. Would anyone can offer referral to Google, Facebook, Apple or anyone who knows company wants to hire new MBA grad? #NewGrad #Referral #Google#Facebook #Apple Introduce little bit about me: 5 years aft
- vote Apple New Grad Offer Base - $125k RSU - $100k (split over 4 years) Bonus - $15k Level: ICT3 Location: Cupertino Should I keep leetcode grinding or take this offer? Still in my senior year with a couple months to go before graduation so I have lots of free time
- Your opinion about working at a staffing agency. I recently got an offer to work full-time at a tech staffing agency. I'll be an in-house software developer. Them being a staffing agency, I will work on the projects that they're developing for other companies. I'm excited about the projects they're working on, I like the employees (my future co-wo
- Amazon Verbal Offer SDM L5... Interviewed at Amazon for SDM Role in san francisco bay area, onsite was two weeks ago. 5 business days after onsite, received a call from recruiter saying this was a “special” and “interesting” situation. From what I understood, the bar raiser and hiring panel liked my responses to the behavioral
- vote Apple vs FB for New Grad (master’s) Packages: FB: Base 115k, RSU 160k, Signon 100k, E3 Apple: Base 135k, RSU 180k, Signon 50k, ICT3 The figures are after negotiations and FB wouldn’t increase the base pay for new grads. Apple is in the iCloud org. Apple seems to have better TC and the org has good refreshers, but I wonder how would
- Apple new grad salary ill be a return intern for a team within the swe org. whats my expected tc so i dont get lowballed? i was thinking somwhere aeound 125/100/10 current tc: 0
- Canadian Moving To California Hi all I’m a Canadian finishing my senior year, and will be joining Apple as a new grad data scientist at their Cupertino offices. Will likely live in Cupertino to avoid a long commute. Curious what I should know about moving to the USA, whether tax, social or otherwise. I have some equities in a
- Facebook swe intern looking for full time referrals Hi all. I am interning with Facebook this summer as a swe. I have strong interviewing skills and I am looking for referrals at companies for new grad roles. Please let me know if you would be willing to refer me. Specifically, I am looking for referrals at Google, Uber, Apple, LinkedIn, Square, Pint
- vote New Grad: Google vs FB vs Apple Got offers from all three, comparable pay (Apple’s offer is a bit lower on paper but it’s hourly so I get overtime). SWE in all, but HW org at Apple. All in Bay Area. Feel free to comment with any insights and comparisons. The feeling I get is that G/FB look a tad better on a resume. I wouldn’t kno
- Renege Microsoft? Currently interviewing for a cool team within Apple but already signed an offer for core services in MS. I’ve heard not great things about that team but I don’t want to burn bridges at a company such as microsoft. On the other hand, I’m a new grad and the team at Apple is a rotation program focusing
- Why are tech interns getting paid so much? Disclaimer: I am a current intern at NVIDIA, ex-intern at two other of { Facebook Apple Microsoft Amazon Google }. I understand how as a full time engineer, it makes sense for companies to pay lots of $$$ for the leverage provided... but as an intern, how does it make sense to make between $7000-$8
- vote Thoughts on Apple vs Amazon I am a new grad from top 30 cs schools in US. I currently have 2 offers from Amazon AWS and Apple. Would love to hear your insights. Apple- Role: Devops Tech: Python, Ruby, bash, CI CD pipelines mainly jenkins Pay: 140/110/20 - base/stockworth/joining in thousands Location: Cupertino Amazon AWS Ro
- Apple Offer Evaluation Can anyone evaluate this offer, please? I am a new grad with MS of a good university in the US. I just got an offer from Apple for SoC Physical Design role with base salary: 125k (plus overtime pay as needed during tape out period), RSU (over 4 years): 50k, Sign-on bonus: 50k. Can anyone help me ma
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and industry lounge. - Apple New Grad offer What’s a reasonably good offer package for new grad software engineer (ict2) at Apple?
- Expected compensation My TC is 145K. I was hired as new grad even though I had 3 years of experience in India. Is the experience outside USA not considered? What should I expect my compensation be when I make a move with total 5 years of experience (3 years in India + 2 years in US Apple) ?
- NV DL vs Apple CPU new grad, 3 intern at NV and graduating from master. NV is looking at ~140k base and slightly higher than 200k TC for the deep learning role (more SW). Apple is paying ~130k base and ~200k TC for the CPU perf role, but pay 1.5x for overtime (non-exempt). Which one should I go? To me Apple is safer
- TC and culture as hardware engineer in Google and Facebook, California PhD + 2.5 yoe in a semiconductor company as an analog integrated circuit design engineer. Thinking of transition to hardware engineer role in Google or Facebook for a better TC. What is the typical TC in Google or Facebook? Any other thought about hardware groups there? Got L3 offer from Apple as ne
- New grad looking for referrals @ Apple, FB, Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Jane Street, Two Sigma (Previous Google, MS) Interned at both MS and Google twice each. Always got stellar reviews (returning offer from Microsoft and got superb + strong hire rating at Google). I'm Graduating in 2019 and looking for SWE roles. Looking to see what other companies have to offer, also open to other companies not listed above. T
- I will help you get your referral bonus Quick background: Berkeley Data Science grad, internships at NASA and Quicken Loans, among others. This summer I have been Leetcoding hard after work. Last spring when I was applying to new grad positions I made it onsite for Apple, capital one, and Palantir. I've learned from my past interview exp
- vote FB, Apple, Uber New Grad Offers Hey everyone, I'm deciding between new grad offers for SWE from these three companies. For a little background -- I will be graduating in June with a BS and an MS, both in Computer Science (concentration in Artificial Intelligence), from Stanford University. I interned at large tech company for la
- On-site interview at Apple didn't go well I had an on-site interview at Apple which didn't go well. I'm in the bay area for 2 days. What should I do in the bay area to feel good about myself. Never been to bay area before. TC -0. New grad.
- Offer Comparison My brother (new PhD grad) got the following 2 offers for HWE positions at Apple and Qualcomm, both in Bay Area. TC comparison isn’t straightforward cuz Apple RSU is higher but Qualcomm bonus (sign on and retention) is pretty good. Apple: 155k base, 120k RSU / 4 yrs , 20k bonus Qualcomm : 140k base