First Job offer at Expedia London - how easy to move to FAANG in the medium term?
Hi
I am graduating in 2 months (June) in London.
I applied to over 100 positions over the past 6 months and the first offer I got was from Expedia. My offer/TC was significantly better than what I was hoping for so I’m happy about that, but keep reading negative things about Expedia engineering etc, not mention the travel industry currently doesn’t exist.
I never got an interview at #facebook, #apple or #google in my current round of applications, but then I didn’t come from an internationally known uni (eg I wasn’t in Oxford or Cambridge) so I’m not surprised. I was more surprised I got the offer from Expedia to be honest.
My question is, coming from a large quasi-tech company like Expedia, how hard would it be to break into FAANG in say 2-3 years?
Will a FAANG company look at work with Expedia with disdain? I know Expedia uses a lot of Java which I don’t think is used in the big #tech companies (not certain on that, feel free to educate me!)
TC $84K
Base: 71K
RSU (0,50,25,25): 40K
Sign on: 2.7K
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Also, in London I’m not sure Google is actually hiring right now (based on what I’ve seen on blind, and also as I haven’t seen a single SE grad position from Google in my 4-6 months of active job applications)
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