Received several offers and don’t know which is the right choice. Apple ICT3 AIML I love what the team is doing and the stock goes very well. At here, maybe something focusing on device ML development? Heard their engineering culture is not good? Need to hear from your opinions! Uber L4 The team is great. Maintain many online ML services. Should help me succeed as a mixed backend and ml engineer. As far as I see, rocket speed promotion for this team members. Instacart L4 a lot of teams I can choose. A lot of impact can be easily achieved. Yoe 2 Current tc 277k Assume they all have 300k offers Instacart a little bit higher and apple has crazy refresh.
Uber is not in consideration. Apple or Instacart are in consideration. Both are good, Apple is of course FAANG which comes with a lot of its own benefits (Stability, real money, prestige, lots of prestige). Instacart is a startup which is product based so that could be of interest. It’s a tough choice
Do you actually want stability? After being in a few other faangs I actually wanted something different. Money wise - idk is another few tens of thousands going to matter that much? Re apple, I don’t know - I’ve interviewed there and did not have a good impression: 1) seems way too boomer lol 2) the interview process was the worst I’ve seen out of big tech. Easy but GRUELING interview questions, but at the end came down to how much the hiring manager “liked” you. (I have a few friends who are hiring managers and they told me this). I can go off about my terrible interview experience but will save that 3. The lack of transparency would drive me insane. Even in the company, a lot of teams won’t tell you what they’re doing to INTERNAL TRANSFERS.
Some other context is that I haven’t get lottery for H1b so that stability may matter for me. I agree Apple’s interview has some problem. I had around 20 interviews just for two groups.. But I would say for this team, the questions are challenging and interesting. Uber’s interview experience was also good. But I am a little worried about layoffs or policy when I can’t get lottery.
I was ex-Apple, its pretty cool. Like the other commentor said it's mostly older people and there's no transparency anywhere so make sure you like your team a lot. But it's so stable. And the stock goes up. Sadly I can't say the same for Uber, although if you join now you'll be getting quite a discount.
What crazy refresh does apple promise you?
From my friends’ word, can be as high as 100k each year. Crazy for LinkedIn
$100k/4yrs? Instacart is $150k/4yrs for L4