Got 2 Apple Offers. One for a really cool team at HQ and another for an alright team in Seattle. I like living in the city, so if I were to move to the Bay Area I would live in the city and take the 3 - 4 hour shuttle commute everyday. Which offer to take given the HQ one is only a 10K bump in Salary but Seattle has no state income tax?
Seattle > SF for total quality of life.
Apple Seattle is in the city, and a better city
Depends on what you value. Opportunities at HQ are generally better (exceptions of course)
Interested to hear what Apple employees think since none have commented here yet. Isn’t the Seattle office pretty small? So if the team is not great that could be an issue.
Jobs in Seattle, upward careers are at Cup.
First of all it’s hard to say without knowing the teams. I am going to guess this is in JGs org. If you are commuting for 4 hours a day you are doing it wrong; I don’t know anyone who does that long even from sf (from mission it’ll be about an hour each way). I would recommend if both teams were even to stay in Seattle if you like the city because your take home pay is significantly higher given taxes and lower cost of living. But again it depends on the team too.
Agreed it depends on the team. I’ll say this, I liked the people in both teams. The work I’d be doing at HQ is more interesting than the one in Seattle, but they’re both really interesting projects. So ultimately it’s a question of whether it’s worth it to work on a Satellite office for better WLB, cheaper cost of living versus being at HQ where everything happens but sacrificing on the former.
If that’s your concern I wouldn’t be worried. Seattle is very very important for us and there are opportunities to fly in. It’s up to you though.
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I tried commuting from SF to SBay and I got destroyed. Commuter shuttle is ok (they are doing the best they can) but it sucked my soul out. Recently moved close to the Cup
You are already in Seattle and used to the soul killing weather. 10k bump isn't worth moving to Bay area.
More data is needed: are you ok with 3-4h commute, at what stage you are in your career(new grad, seasoned pro), what role(pm, swe, etc), what are your priorities (learning, wlb, fun project, tc), weather preferences, etc?
Not really looking forward to the SF commute. Seasoned Engineer where learning, project scope, WLB and growth matters
It’s more 3 than 4 hours