I got to choose between two offers. Google offer is L4 in NYC, 260K TC (160K base, 15% bonus, 275K stock/4years, and 35K sign-on). Citadel offer is Quant Developer in Chicago, 340K TC (200K base, 130K bonus and 40K sign-on). Background is CS Ph.D with 3 yoe. Any suggestions?
Age? Family? What are your priorities in life right now? If not amazing wlb isn’t a big deal to you I’d go for Citadel to build your nest early unless you strongly prefer nyc. On a side note did you ask for a dev position in Citadel specifically?
30 female. I matched to the team after passing the interview.
I’d probably just ask myself if the social opportunities and QoL in NYC outweigh the ~100k comp difference. If you’re looking to retire early that comp diff will make a huuuge difference from compounding interest obviously. But I understand some people have no interest in early retirement. Otherwise the money doesn’t make a big difference in terms of immediately QoL imo. Your lifestyle won’t be dramatically different if at all whether you’re making 260k or 340k.
Wanting to forgo 80k a year that early in your career...
It’s bigger than that because of rent/tax differential. That being said, NYC is a lot more fun than Chicago, and working at Google will be a lot more fun than working at Citadel.
Different people have different priorities. I have a friend who turned down a 300k offer from Citadel for a startup.
Congrats on the offers. I’d choose Citadel in Chicago over Google in NYC for the reasons of lower COL/higher pay.
That Citadel TC is based on assumption you can survive there for 1 year. They fire a lot. Don’t move to Citadel if you have visa issues, also no career growth in Citadel for engineers.
Why wouldn’t she be able to survive 1 year?
Citadel fires people relentlessly. Far worse WLB than FB or Amazon.
Have you tried negotiating Google using Citadel offer? Seems like a lowball for L4 with a PhD. I’d still probably go with google nyc
What's your noncompete at Citadel? You can usually still collect it if you go to tech, it only applies to finance. It's a lot of free money, I would take it.
Definitely try to negotiate the Google offer up. Could probably get another $100k to $200k in stock even without the competing offer
Consider Google perks too
Google for the long term career growth.
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