Please make the most important decision for the next few years for me. Level is same. Stripe L2 == Google L4. - Both are around 280k TC with 400k equity / 4 years - Equity upside and career growth at Stripe. - Safety at Google + possible uplevel on leaving to another faang? I used a third offer I’m not interested in to get Google to this range.
Yoe ?
Would rather not share but around 2-4 YOE
Wow very good offer. Congratulation. Please comment on how did you negotiate with google to give you 400 RSU
L2
No brainier. G.
Y?
No brainer. Run away from the big G
Which google team?
Smallish team in YouTube. They’re launching a new service though. Do you think there’s a lot of room for growth there?
Cool, yeah I would say so. I was in YouTube and had an awesome time there. Travelled, cool space, great talks and all hands. I think you should choose Stripe though. I need to sleep so can’t go into it. Google is awesome but, Stripe might be more exciting. You can always come back to Google, it will be relatively the same in a few years I would guess but Stripe is in a unique place rn. Actually, thinking back to time at YouTube I really enjoyed it and probably anyone would. Seems like you can’t make a bad decision.
Stripe. You can grow a lot faster with a growing company than struggle / navigate Google's promo bureaucracies.
You already have A in FAANG on your goddamn resume. That 400k would shoot up if Stipe goes IPO. So I’d say, get your s*** together and take Stripe, make some money, then move to other companies. Stripe is a good brand to have on resume. If you have passed Google now, you’d like be able to pass Google in future. That being said, if you want job stability and be one of those Googles then go to Google. I’d bet on Stripe for career growth over Google. You’d stagnate after L5 at Google. If you can’t see big picture then you deserve 🍌
Career growth: Stripe TC growth: Google No growth: Your current employer
Why TC growth at the big G? Both comps are similar.
Google, hands down.
Stay at Amazon, get TT and comp is the same in 2 years. From TC did you take refreshers into account? We're not used to them :(
Pick either. Both are magnitudes better than Bezos’ biotch.