Google, Lyft, Stripe, Robinhood Mid-Level SDE offers, which one?
Nov 5, 2021
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All offers are mid-level (Amazon L5 equivalent).
Google: 300 first year, 260 recurring
Lyft: 340 first year, 300 recurring
Stripe (Pre-IPO): 355 first year, 320 recurring
Robinhood: 340 first year, 290 recurring
Any data points on Lyft, Stripe, Robinhood work culture? I'm not excited about 50+ hour work weeks if I can avoid it.
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Culture is..covid. A lot of people will complain about the culture shift due to AWS folks coming in but I chalk it up to people not going into the office as often anymore. There are still monthly events at most hubs, and there are a lot of groups you can take part in if you want something fun to do with people you work with. I do wish there were more groups and activities though, especially in this remote age. We still don't have a wine slack channel, I would love that.
Team chillness is all over the place, some teams are very lax and will have team members taking leave for weeks or months only to return and everything is fine. Some have it harder, it is a gamble. Everyone here is kind and you can get help on almost anything, although it is a doc-heavy culture it is very difficult at first detangling the web of thousands of docs pages to find the info you need, and you can never be sure it is the most up to date info unless you ask around anyway. You will have on-call, how that goes depends on your team. Speaking of, the feeling is very "we're all in this together". Even though you might work on a project with someone making 250k more than you secretly you both put in the effort. The founders host all hands meeting every week, and the company is extremely transparent, to the point that your recruiter likely gave you more info about Stripe's equity plans than you can find in the docs once you join lol
So, I think it is still worth it to join Stripe. We are growing bigger and bigger every year, and we still have momentum. There are still many smart engineers here from the early days, and I guess we will see if the flood of hiring will yield any diamonds
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