Hi guys, Please help me in choosing one of them. I'm really confused! Google SRE: Pros - It's google - I'm from India and it's a nice opportunity to explore Europe Cons - No real feature work, being a SRE I will have to manage the internal tools and platform - Huge taxes in Dublin TC -66000 + 90000 RSU/4 years + 15% Bonus Uber - Nice learning curve - Food is good in Hyd office TC - 25 base + 30/4 years RSU + bonus Graviton India LLP - Awesome HFT firm - Very selective in who they are hiring - Small team so a lot of learning opportunities - Highest base pay in India almost as much as Tower Research TC - 40 base + Bonus(20-30%) Yoe: 3 years Please help guys, I'm really confused! Edit: Uber interview: Most difficult of 3. 2 System design rounds, 2 coding and 1 bar raiser and 1 hiring manager. The coding round was okayish and system design were a bit abstract. Also I didn't get good vibes from the hiring manager! Google: Standard algo ds 4 rounds. Questions were average. There was one NALSD(non abstract large scale system design) which was kind of unique. Graviton: OS, Networking, 3 algo ds round with focus on C++. Questions were new and had good time solving them.
Yes, how was the interview experience at each of them. A more expanded version, please.
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My background: I moved from an HFT firm to Google. My advice: Don't go for HFTs unless you're the one driving their profits and get a big cut out of it. In general, HF knowledge is useless outside the domain.
Second this. Don't go to an HFT unless you would like to stay in the domain.
I didn't work with an hft, but our work is similar. Also, have friends in different hft companies. Don't go unless that is exactly what you want to do. What you learn in first 1 year will be repeated for next several years.
Your cons in Google section are weird. - There are a lot opportunities after SRE-SWE, Dublin is a big IT HUB. I doubt you understand what is that position about - High taxes - yes, that is true. Some people are paying more than your base in taxes, so don't cry, lol!
Isn't uber on hiring freeze? Better double check with recruiter
Get a good idea about team in Uber. A couple of my friends got offers in an internal team called IT Engg and Prod. tools. It's basically building tools for employees like chat applications etc.
You are very confused about SWE-SRE.
That 66k in dublin is 33 after tax.. then 2k / month rent.. etc etc.. Dublin is not a good option anymore.
No, it is not 33k after tax - it is 45k. He can rent a room for 1-1.2k + free food. I haven’t even counted rsu and bonus.
Join Google, Dublin
Dont go to Dublin.. that salary is 30k after tax and an apartment will cost from 1500-2000 euro a month at least.. then cost of eating.. transport.. sales tax (vat) is very high.
Graviton- optimize for high growth + learning
Also, how were the interviews at each of them?