Did the move internally. Got 20% bump and then promo to L6 (SDE). WLB is no different than Amazon Seattle. AWS and advertising (up and coming) have offices here. At 10,000 feet level I would advise stay away from Bay Area if you are comfortable with your life in Seattle/ Redmond. It is a rat race here and unless you are in the range of 600k TC you cannot afford or manage same lifestyle as you have in Washington. Also, the traffic is a shit show in Bay Area so commute is a big hassle unless you want to take Bart or some form of public transportation.
Did the move internally. Got 20% bump and then promo to L6 (SDE). WLB is no different than Amazon Seattle. AWS and advertising (up and coming) have offices here. At 10,000 feet level I would advise stay away from Bay Area if you are comfortable with your life in Seattle/ Redmond. It is a rat race here and unless you are in the range of 600k TC you cannot afford or manage same lifestyle as you have in Washington. Also, the traffic is a shit show in Bay Area so commute is a big hassle unless you want to take Bart or some form of public transportation.
@Maxter thnx! Yeah, I’m on the fence about the reloc. Did you move to the networking team? Heard on-call is batshit, legit?