I got offers from uber, instacart, tinder, and tiktok. I wanted to do a quick break down of the interview, offer, and then explain why I'm leaning towards tiktok. All these roles are for ios development Instacart L4: 170k base 145k equiry Tc 316k Interview was Build an app and discuss Tinder IC3: 170k base 70k equity 17k bonus 30k sign on Tc 287k Interview was build an app and discuss Uber L4: 177k base 97k equity yearly average 23k bonus No sign on Tc 297k Mix of leetcode and ios system design Tiktok 2-1: 195k base 48k bonus 48k equity 70k sign on Tc 361k 4 rounds of leetcode and 1 round of system design TL;DR Some quick logic, instacart is just too much paper money and feels like a necessity in a recession, also if I were to quit I lose all equity vested and no buy back. Tinder I was honestly really excited about then after waiting two weeks since verbal offer I was told their hiring budget is cut and they can't take me on. Uber I've been approved for and feel good about however the tinder recruiter after telling me they couldn't take me on wanted to be nice and give me some advice and said avoid uber due to layoffs and freezes. I do feel with rising gas prices and again recession uber may be a bit of a necessity and their stock could really go any direction right now. Tiktok scares me due to Chinese 996 comments but I've heard a mix of things. Mainly I've heard it's really not as bad wlb as people say and it improves as more Americans join. Down side is 48k equity is paper however they claim to offer buy back when you leave tiktok. Also a down side is they'll be returning to office mid July. End of day, like it or not we are headed into a recession and 2 years with tiktok and receiving majority cash from a company that's funded outside of just u.s. Economy, is making sense to me. Would love to hear opinions. Tc: 150k Yoe: 3.5 #tech #uber #instacart #tiktok #tinder #offer Update: Uber verbal was 350k tc with sign on and then came back as 297k tc and they aren’t offering sign on, this feels like a bad sign if they can’t afford sign on right now.
Location?
Seattle!
For what it’s worth Uber CEO explicitly mentioned something about no need for layoffs in foreseeable future, etc. I took it with a grain of salt but thought it was quite an explicit statement so maybe he means it
Dang wish I could find what I read it was on LinkedIn. Sorry I’d share it if I could. Maybe google around
I saw that exact article actually, it's hard to tell 😅 it's a weird time
Interview in other companies
Hands down uber. And you're not supposed to add sign on to TC like this since it's a one off thing.
Oh thank you! Good point
Why not. Sign on over 4 years is totally valid. Especially Amazon front load sign ons and backload RSU. Most people have 4 year cliff from initial RSU anyway.
Ur Uber offer TC 350k is avg or front loaded with year 1 TC?
Ya year 1 tc cuz I added sign on to that, so subtract
Got it. Congrats.
Is tinder on a hiring freeze? Or what happened? Was this android or ios role?
For ios, every teams hiring budget got slashed. Probably due to the inflation reports
come to Uber!
U joined Uber? Wat level and TC :)
Just go with Uber
Update: Uber verbal was 350k tc with sign on and then came back as 297k tc and they aren’t offering sign on, this feels like a bad sign if they can’t afford sign on right now.
Yeah seems like a bad sign
When I negotiated the offer, Uber is willing to give more sign on than stock. Just one dp.
Get Microsoft to counter and stay there
There's no way Microsoft could counter these and my current manager has me stuck at L60
Lmao at "Microsoft counter"