Got offers for both Google (Brazil) and Meta L4 (UK) What do you think? I know Meta has a reputation of having bad WLB balance, but Google is worsening in Blind’s opinion. Tax brackets are fairly different, Brazil has a maximum of 27.5% tax rate that only affects 92% of the income. While the Uk tax is close to 40% of the total income. #google #meta
Google is not in a good place right now. I’d probably stay away unless you’re joining deepmind or something good.
What's wrong with Google?
You should decide the country first, company later. The difference between living in Brazil vs living in UK is far greater than the difference between working at Google vs working at Meta. The question is where do you want to live ?
Have you lived in either of these countries?
Currently live in UK and have lived and worked in 4 different countries: India, US, Singapore, UK
Can you share what role? Not security, is it?
Not security, regular swe
What about security tho
This is an easy choice, Meta. That's not the max E4 offer but it's still the better one. I would only pick Google if you were Brazilian and/or really want to stay in Brazil.
Ok but I didn't get why would "you" pick Google if "op" were Brazilian. Please explain.
Because I assume with family and friends in Brazil one would be more likely to want to stay there.
If it was company, I'd say Google. But it's also Brazil vs UK. If you'd rather stay in Brazil, then you know what I'd suggest 😁
Your income will go farther in Brazil, but I would take the chance to live in the UK and go through this experience. Meta has much better growth (both career and company), you can always join google again later.
Could you please elaborate on the better growth path companywise? I’ve always seen Meta as flaky.
Meta has faced a massive existential threat with both Apple privacy changes and Tiktok, but it came out on top, stronger than before. It has made a massive rally after the market lost hope in it, proving everyone wrong. Never bet against Zuck On the other side of the spectrum, Google is right now going through their crysis due to GenAI threatening to take thejr lunch, and it's unknown how well they will respond.
Google Brazil Killer You can live king life
If you factor in COL, Google's TC is much higher (rent in London for instance, is 4x-5x more expensive than San Paulo)
If you try to get anything near the Google office in São Paulo, you would be looking at similar prices as London.
My friend, rent is between 2k-3k pounds for one-bedroom flat near london office. Are you seriously saying Sao Paulo rents are as high as this?
This is an easy one. Go to Google. 184k is not a lot in London but 110k in Brazil is like top 2%.
Congrats buddy! Where are you currently based in?
Brazil