FB TC - 440K (208K base salary 800k stocks over 4 yrs 15% bonus) + 60K sign on bonus Netflix TC - 480K #Netflix #interview #compensation #facebook
FB
What's your Yoe?
Netflix. Facebook is genuinely evil, if you have any morals/ethics, you won’t go work for them.
Question, for senior engs, isn't Netflix a dead end? Since Netflix is fairly flat, there is no chance of promo there. Yes, your comp is high for a senior eng. But at competing companies, you have chance to get promoted and get significantly higher comp because of it. What am I missing?
You prove your skills and they just bump up comp over time? Or, you grow your skills, get offer elsewhere for staff engineer positions, and tell Netflix about it so they bump up your comp?
The flatness of titles is unrelated to growth at Netflix. You can grow your impact in many dimensions and see your personal top of market grow in response, without needing a title or level externally attached. Managers and comp teams try to stay ahead of these things proactively, but also encourage open conversations about new data points, offers, etc. Side note, the flatness is actually designed to increase your impact at the company, because your opinion and inclusion aren’t limited by a title or level.
Congrats. YOE?
Fb, hands down.
Is java your primary language? If yes - go to Netflix
Why? FB code base is not in Java? What they prefer?
There are some java projects, but most of the code is in hack/c++/python. There are some good chances that there will be no hiring projects on java. My friend has 10 YoE in java but landed on a c++ project and now struggles to perform. Alternatively, you can ask for the team match before accepting the offer. They allow it for senior hires
Everyone knows that N is a little cutthroat and pays top of market in cash and that F has bad WLB and PSC twice a year but rewards high performance so I'm going to look at them from a different lens. F - is a tech company through and through. - super profitable whereas N may never find themselves in such a position, having to endlessly spend billions on new content every quarter. You have to imagine that eventually investors will want to see the money, which could result in austerity AKA less competitive TC in the future. - gearing heavily for the future - Zuck believes VR is the next big computing platform and F's investments in Oculus/FRL show. If he's right, F could leapfrog M/G. N - is increasingly a production company that spends much more on content than streaming tech and ML. They are even less of a tech company than Uber/Lyft imo and a lot of people consider Uber/Lyft transportation companies opposed to tech companies. - most of their execs seem to be from an entertainment background opposed to a tech BG and I imagine Reed will step down in the near future (dude's been CEO for 25 yrs already and was CEO of another company before that), leaving Ted Sarandos (current Co-CEO of Netflix who's in charge of content stuff) as the sole CEO.
OP, what are you choosing?
How is the split on 440?
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Is this for E5 or E6?