Had interviewed for eBay for Applied Researcher 2 role couple of months back. Did not get any feedback or hear back again till couple of weeks back. I read online that Applied Researcher 2 role was equivalent to MTS1 level at levels.fyi. But shameless recruiter tells me based on recommendation of jerk manager, he would like to offer me 129k base (~150k total) š¹. I am seriously amazed by the unflinching confidence and courage of the recruiter ššš Really appreciable. I mean even MS freshers make more. Ghosting recruiter currently and not responding to his emails. š¼ Have a PhD in ML/AI + ~3 years experience for Godās sake. Even my current company pays me $200k. So eBay was expecting me to take a $50k pay cut and join their esteemed organization. Only God knows how on Godās green earth did eBay came up with those figures and why they think they are so great that I will be dying to join them no matter what they offer. Since then LinkedIn happened (more than 2x of eBay offer) and currently waiting for H-1B premium processing to complete to join. Never interviewing with eBay again š Thank you eBay š
Ebay is one of the dinosaur companies that you shouldn't apply in the first place.
Says another stagnant co, which is going to feed EU and other govs due to antitrust š¤£
Yeah. former eBay here, eBay is well known to lowball. Although that base doesnāt look like for MTS1 (25), itās possible you got down leveled to 24 or 23
Didnāt know this earlier that eBay has a history of ā¦
Well itās not so much of a lowball but eBay just doesnāt pay well
Looks like they down leveled you. Mts1 gets around 275k on average.
Doesnāt matter. All good š š
Ebay lowballs many , I think HRs are responsible . Since team likes you and offered, setup 1-1 with team manager and discuss your expectations . Tell HR you want to connect before accepting offer . If manager likes you he has the budget to meet your expectations..
Thank you for your suggestions but I think I will pass on eBay. Much better offers in hand from much better places.
What are you gonna research in ebay.. how to sell second hand stuff? Cmon..
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OP, was your recruiterās name R Temple?
Do not want to get personal and shame people by taking names. Apologies. Not right. Anyway it doesnāt really matter who it exactly was.
You are stating base and bonus.. what about stock for a total comp comparison?
Would you have taken that offer (if you had a PhD in Al/ML + 3 years of experience) ? There was no discussion of stock offer. There might have been in the pipeline. That was the initial verbatim offer I was given over phone. Some folks suggested I should have negotiated but given how insulting this offer was, I was far too disgusted to even want to talk to the recruiter. Even hypothetically assuming I negotiated would they have realistically doubled their offer to match LinkedIn and other offers. I am not dying to work at eBay to be honest. Got much better offers from better places so didnāt even feel the necessity to want to negotiate.
Well, maybe you just did not interviewed with right team or the bar is too high. Give that how pissed you are, could be an attitude as well. Very few people want to work with brilliant jerks. Try Amazon, could be a good fit ā
Lol !! Here comes the eBay gatekeeperš¹ Thanks for your worthless suggestion. Actually you are wrong, I interviewed with the wrong company, not department. Without knowing what exactly transpired in the interviews or other communication, calling others jerks is a first. You sir definitely deserve to be in eBay (you know where the bar is so high !!) and not even Amazon !! Got other stuff to attend to āPeaceāļø
Good luck š Let all the best be with you.
Lol new grads are given 140k base + stock. I understand your saltyness
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