3YOE, Current TC 180K
Seeking advice on which I should join, WLB + Career + Savings
Please comment on why if possible
Google L3 (Mountain View)
- 220K TC (avg), yearly refreshers
- Down-leveled
+ Great perks
+ Like the team, Good WLB
- Slow promotion culture??
- RTO soon
Dropbox IC2 (Seattle, Remote)
+ 315K first year, 280K subsequent years with refreshers
+ lower tax in seattle
+ Additional 7K employee reimbursement yearly for almost anything
+ Decent team, Good WLB, Great company culture
+ Fully remote, I enjoy remote work
- Company outlook isn't as positive, stocks isn't growing much
- Projects doesn't sound as interesting
Robinhood L2 (Menlo Park)
+ 320K first two years, 300K for the rest
- Refreshers not confirmed
+ Seems to have more impact and interesting projects
- Unsure which team I will be joining, known during bootcamp
- Heard WLB is bad
- Join after IPO, unsure how stocks will perform
- RTO 3 days per week next year
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It's just my thought anyway. I would have taken it if I were a Google fanboy or if I didn't have other better offers like what OP has.
At the end of the day, to each his own, everyone values different things.
Google isn't worth the downlevel. You won't be doing interesting work as L3 and it'll be difficult to get to L4. Pay is also substantially less.
Dropbox has lost a lot of its brand and talent. The work probably won't be interesting and career growth is slow. The company doesn't have a good outlook since growth has stalled and leadership hasn't been able to come up with a new strategy or products. The stock is undervalued relative to revenue but stock growth doesn't seem too likely either. There isn't much interest in investing in or acquiring the company.
Most of the covid layoff was sales and real estate management etc (not engineers). The sales folks got impacted because of strategy change (enterprise to SMB). Real estate got affected with remote policy.
Your concern about remote work holds true for any company which hires remote.. you could choose to work for Dropbox in a high cost tech hub if you are worried about job availability.