Google or Meta

Mar 15 31 Comments

L4 in Seattle. Have offers from Meta and Google:

Meta:
Base 175k
Average stock per year over 4 years - ~100k

Google:
Base 175k
Average stock per year over 4 years - 62.5k

I really like Google culture but don’t want to give up on so much money. Thoughts?

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  • Snap
    ZuckImpacc

    Go to company page Snap

    ZuckImpacc
    Ex-fb here:
    1. FB sea is a pretty bad office loaded with failed MS EMs and Amazombie IC causing super crazy peer pressure. WLB worst of all industry even compared with Amazon, so think about hourly pay :)
    2. FB’s engineering culture is horrible (i.e. PSC culture). I literally never heard anyone appraising its codebase’s quality or colleagues’ dedication to tech.
    3. Both Google SEA and FB SEA have very limited choice of teams, but tbh FB’s teams are under constant pressure of violent reorgs and your HM might be gone within a half onboarding. (My case)
    4. FB suffers way worse political risk and fierce competition from TikTok and Snap.
    Mar 15 5
    • Snap
      ZuckImpacc

      Go to company page Snap

      ZuckImpacc
      @hol3s that’s true but
      1. Google still has better WLB, even GCP
      2. Simply avoid GCP’s teams :)
      Mar 15
    • Google
      hol3s

      Go to company page Google

      hol3s
      There aren't many non gcp teams in Seattle, especially for L3, L4

      Wlb is definitely better even in gcp compared to Amazon (no clue on fb) but I would still go with fb for faster growth at junior levels
      Mar 15
  • Stripe
    Nsnj90

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    Nsnj90
    Google culture is overrated, but be careful with Meta culture.
    Mar 15 11
    • Yelp / Eng
      ovWt31

      Go to company page Yelp Eng

      PRE
      Yelp
      ovWt31
      @meemer Is Meta WLB horrible? I'm about to accept an E5 offer... getting cold feet reading Blind posts.
      Mar 18
    • Meta
      public2

      Go to company page Meta

      public2
      Take everything you read on blind with a grain of salt. These broad generalizations are pretty dumb, imo, since there are teams with good WLB and bad WLB at any large company. There are thousands of teams here, so I can’t answer that question specifically, but most teams **on average** are not exactly a “rest n vest” type situation like other companies such as Twitter, Dropbox, Google, etc. If you come in as unallocated you can pick your own team and optimize for growth/WLB/ or whatever you want, which is not really something you can do at pretty much every other company.

      Also, blind has a inherent negative bias and is more likely to attract unhappy people. Happy people usually aren’t posting their good experiences on an anonymous forum. look up the term “confirmation bias.”
      Mar 18
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    Mar 15 7
  • Meta
    я

    Go to company page Meta

    я
    keep in mind that promo to L5 will likely be faster at FB vs G

    if your priority is career growth / promo speed, Meta is an easy choice

    otherwise for WLB / eng quality, I’d take G
    Mar 15 0
  • Google / Eng
    BatChest 🤩

    Go to company page Google Eng

    BatChest 🤩
    grats on the offers! it’s great here. we’d love to have you!
    Mar 15 0