Offer evaluation: Databricks, Roblox, Palantir, MSFT
Hi everyone! Graduating soon and need some advice. Which one should I pick? Also, if anybody knows the bands for these roles, is there room for negotiation (specifically Databricks)? How is career progression at these companies? Where could I hit senior the fastest? Edit: This post is getting a lot of replies with questions directed to me specifically, and I can't read them all, so please feel free to DM instead Microsoft (Level 59) Redmond, WA: Cash: $118,400 Stock: $30,000/yr Signing: $10,000 Total: $158,400 Roblox (IC1) San Mateo, CA: Cash: $152,500 Stock: $72,500/yr Bonus: $9,300 Total: $234,000 Palantir, Palo Alto, CA (might be able to negotiate location): Cash: $145,000 Stock: $45,000 Bonus: $45,000 Total: $235,000 Databricks (L3) Bellevue, WA: Cash: $133,000 Stock: ~$68906 based on last valuation Bonus: $25,000 Annual performance bonus: $13,300 Total: $240,206 --- TC: $0 #engineering #software #swe #career
some impressive new grad offers! congrats
How was Palantir decomp and learning interview?
I would be a returning intern, but it was easy for me. As long as you've built an app of your own before you should be fine.
Roblox does not have bonus
Databricks generally doesn’t negotiate new grad offers. It’s a very good offer though.
Not even a little bit?
You’re welcome to try, but I’m pretty sure they’re standardized. And at the moment, there are many many more talented new grads than positions available.
Stay away from palantir, it’s a shitshow
I interned there; why do you feel this way?
Eh, it's pretty good most places internally at Palantir. It all depends where you land. Sure there are some corners of the company that suck, but that's the same at most places in big tech. Especially if you're joining Product Development it's a good environment. Databricks being privately held is the real deal breaker for me. You do not want to be in the situation of holding equity in a private company you cannot sell for years/a decade before you get any value out of it. Been there and it was awful, even if luckily worked out for me at Palantir.
I wouldn't count on Roblox surviving before you become a senior.
Echo other people on Roblox. I think it sucks for upper ICs, but you can grab a lot of scope as a new grad and touch a lot of different fields. You’re coming it a good price too (I think Wallstreet finally settled on our price. I think in the earnings report they mentioned they’re dropping employee expenses, so surprised you still got that offer. Only join engine and Creator. Id only consider Databricks and Roblox. Although I heard Databricks is more of a grind, but potentially more growth. Although who knows if I’m recession businesses will still buy Databricks
Why does it suck for high level ICs?
For higher ICs, its much harder to promote since we most hire at hire-in levels. There's definitely a lot of interesting projects, but it's very top down from C-level downwards on what we can or can't do. They're very particular. Also our infra kinda sucks right now lol, so if you're an experienced engineer who worked at FAANG or any other decent tech focused company (Uber/Lyft/Airbnb etc)you'll probably hate that. Roblox is much older but hasn't invested in Infra until our IPO
Finally, an offer post
Happy for them but still makes me want to shoot myself as I can’t even get any interviews as a new grad.
"Meta" Ppl never gonna be happy
Hey what is the valuation of databricks you are talking about, based on which you have been offered? They are hell bent on not lowering their sky-high valuation from the pandemic time, whereas Instacart is currently valued at one-forth of what it was valued at in 2021.
Bullish on databricks, not sure about the promo process Since you’re just starting out, you’re in a position to take huge risks and hopefully it pays out really well in the future
Why bullish ? I personally like real money
Databricks will bring much more money to his pocket than SPOT or similar companies