Evaluate multiple offers
Conflicted about what to do. Things to optimize for is TC, Career Progression, WLB YoE: 3.5 TC : 155k Offer info: Base, RSU over 4Y, Bonus %, Sign-on VMware - MTS-3 - Bay Area 175K, 250K, 10%, 60K/2Y TC: 288.5 Spotify - Senior engineer - NYC 230K, 200K, 0, 0 TC: 280 Indeed - L2 Senior Engineer - Seattle 183K, 148K, 13%, 38K/1.5Y TC: 269K Zillow - P3 - Irvine 175K, 186K, 0, 40K TC: 261K #evaluate #offer #tech #swe #backend #vmware #spotify #indeed #zillow
Congratulations on the offers! Any locations you prefer from the above? I think VMware would be the one I would personally choose
Congrats on the offers OP. Choose the city that you want to live in most.
How did you land a 230k base for VMware?
Isn't Spotify pretty chill? So good WLB, NYC plus 280k TC? I'm picking that
WLB at Indeed is top notch. Career progression is pretty much non existent after SWE 3. Work is mostly boring, but some teams have a bit of interesting work. Your TC will stagnate at Indeed for a few years, no one will tell you this and you’ll find out once you join and be disappointed. Choose indeed only for WLB. Everything else go somewhere else.
Is L2 = Senior SWE and L3 = Principal SWE? I'm asking because in levels.fyi, Indeed L2 maps to Amazon L5 and Indeed L3 to Amazon L6. Amazon L2 is SDE II and L3 is Senior SDE.
L2 is SWE 2 and L2.5 is senior at Indeed. L3 is staff and L4 is principal. The levels here are pretty inflated.
What was the interviews like? Lc heavy?
What was your decision OP ?
VMware only because the location is Bay Area which will open up a lot of future opportunities for you.