Indeed offer vs Zendesk for remote swe2
I just got offers from Indeed and Zendesk. My first big tech companies in my 5 YOE doing mainly front end. These are both fully remote roles and I'm wondering if they consider that with regards to compensation (I'm in the midwest) and if these offers are competitive for the market. Indeed L2: 138k base 105k RSU over 4 years 32k signing bonus + quarterly bonuses (which I'm told average about 10% of base). Zendesk Senior SWE 140k base 60k RSU over 4 years 5% annual bonus, no signing bonus I'm wondering if these are good offers or if I should negotiate a bit more. There's lots of data on levels.fyi but I don't even know how you calculate TC like with signing bonuses. And they structure all their data like "138k | 26k | x". What is the last number?? Signing bonus? Signing bonus plus average yearly bonuses? Trying to figure out if this is competitive or if I should negotiate a bit more. I already got Indeed to move the salary up a bit but don't want to be greedy. #indeed #zendesk #tech
Levels.fyi
Location? Indeed pay depends on it.
Updated offer from Zendesk in case anyone cares: $160k base and $80k rsu over 4 years.
This offer still isn’t as strong, is it? I would just think about the type of work you do... at least indeed has a try-hard, do-good mission. Zen desk is a miserably boring tool
I took the indeed offer! And I negotiated to get a little more RSUs.
Go to indeed
Indeed. Undoubtedly!
Final update: was able to get indeed to raise the RSU and I accepted the offer. Final comp with indeed: -138k base -130k rsu / 4 yr -32k signing
Congrats! Can you share how did you negotiate?
105k / 4 sounds low RSU allocation Is this typical?
Indeed lowballs on initial grants due to refreshes.
For the uninitiated, can you please explain how refreshers work at indeed