I have 3 offers in hand, I would like some help in deciding the company to join. Google: Level - L4 Location - Sunnyvale Team - Google Cloud Data Storage Base - 170k Bonus - 15% Stock - 275k over 4 years Sign On - 25k TC - 270500 Uber: Level - L4 Location - Palo Alto (will be moved to Sunnyvale soon) Team - Hadoop/Yarn Base - 158900 Bonus - 23000 Stock - 360k Sign On - 25k TC - 278150 Citadel: Location - Chicago Base - 180k Annual Bonus - 120k Sign On - 35k TC - 308750 (They said they can increase till 350k, not sure if they would just increase sign on) Edit: The problem with Citadel is that most of the TC is bonus which is not guaranteed. YOE: 2.5
Awesome offers google or uber more inclined towards uber though because of team and tc. Avenues of stock growth higher at uber as well. In return can you guide me with your prep work? How you managed to achieve this? How long did you prepare for? And how much leetcode or other resources you did? Thanks in advance
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Yes, uber's stock rate can go very high or very low! These days it is getting heavy competition in other countries except US! Taking up uber has higher risk and higer reward too! But Google is a sweet spot.. Great work culture, guaranteed x% growth in it's stock! And can you please share your 2 cents about the preperation you did! It'll be much helpful!
Don't know much about Citadel but Chicago's lower CoL with that comp would be wild.
Yeah not sure why Google is winning this poll tbh
its like really cold in chicago. it snows. rn it’s 30 degrees there. grew up there and i’m happy i’m gone even with like 80k minus taxes, op will be spending half of that on a winter closet and heating bills
What's your yoe just curious
Chicago
LC?
Leetcode + Grokking the system design
How many Lc? I read Grokking the system design 2 times and still failed. Feedback is I did not approach sys design interviews properly.
Citadel has some amazing years where your bonus could be 10x that if you hit it out of the park, not sure if you will be a quant/front of the office, or just an engineer, but if you are front office then your bonus will only go higher as you perform
I will just be an engineer.
Hmmm then I would go with google and, citidel pays engineers well, but your better off transferring into citidel when your a higher level maybe L6 at google.
Are these offers for real for 2.5 YOE? What's your current TC OP? And how many Leetcode?
Citadel. Highest tc + lowest col = highest quality of life
The col is low for a reason... Chicago sucks
Take Citadel and if you choose to leave in 2 years, your TC will come in handy during negotiations to ensure that you aren't downleveled
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Go to google or Uber, whichever u think has better learning opportunity. At L4, G or U will be a good investment, plus TC is not bad for the level so best of both worlds. Unless Citadel doubles the pay... YMMV
Airbnb will be better, haha
how is airbnb better