Google L4 or Twitter Senior

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Currently at Twitter, as senior making around £220k. I have been lucky when I was starting the stock price was really low and had good refreshers over the years.

Recently got L4 offer from Google. Pays £160k. I can retry in 6 months and push for L5 but don’t have much energy and 6 months later is not going to be good time for me due to personal reasons.

At Twitter, the pay is good, manager is good but the eng quality is quite low in the team, tooling is really ancient and there is the new Elon thingy which seems to be causing ambiguity for the next 6 months. Also I think Parag is the wrong Ceo. Due to dissatisfaction in current role I continuously find myself checking new roles in Linkedin but many London startup roles pays waaay less then what G offered for L4. Also I think day by day I believe in so called mission of the company less.

At Google, hopefully tooling is much better than Twitter, can potentially work on something at bigger scale. Also grow up with great eng stories of Google, so kinda have respect to eng at Google. But this would be a step backwards in career. Also promos in Google might be hard.

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  • Google
    ashKetchu

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    ashKetchu
    Not worth taking pay cut to come to google
    5d 5
    • Twitter
      mle-be-me

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      mle-be-me
      Agreed that once the interview is scheduled there is no advantage. And TBH I have no issues getting Meta and Google recruiters to talk to me. Never been approached by Apple, never been approached by Netflix but did get an interview with NFLX when I applied (didn’t get it).
      5d
    • New
      QntOrTech

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      QntOrTech
      Definitely don’t go just for the name - for example, I got interviews and senior offers at hedge funds and FAANG with 5 years at a no name company in London.
      4d
  • TikTok / Eng
    iuawmlM

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    iuawmlM
    Too low for 9yoe. Option 3: Apply to meta/tiktok/stripe and get £250k+
    5d 3
  • Meta
    Chris Rock

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    Chris Rock
    Pretty big pay cut tbh I wouldnt
    5d 0
  • Twitter
    topcoms

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    topcoms
    Ex google here. It's not worth it. A few projects at Google are awesome. But I think after the jump you'll realize it's a grass is greener on the other side thing. Plenty of not-awesome projects at Google and you'll feel terrible if you took a pay cut to end up on one of those
    5d 1
    • Twitter
      VqgD20

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      VqgD20
      OP
      Thx. Yeah, I experienced a few times the grass is definitely not greener on the other side, but somehow optimist me was like “if it’s not greener even at Google, then where?!!” But you are right.
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  • Google
    Qmpdb10n

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    Qmpdb10n
    Google is not all that anymore to take a pay cut AND a level cut.

    Sure, the tech is good, and it’s in general comfortable, but do not expect you will do more interesting things here, and getting back to senior will likely take 3+ years (anything faster depends on the team, project and luck much more than you).
    4d 1