Hi! I have offers from Lyft, Pinterest and Square for L5(senior engineer), 9 years of experience. The compensation is pretty even (around 180k cash and 10k bonus), though I plan to negotiate some raise. I’m trying to figure out what to choose and the choice is not obvious for me at all.
My main requirements are:
- good engineering culture
- a reputable company to look good on the resume
- good future to stay there for 2-3 years
- good tech and smart people to learn from
- Interesting and scalable problems to work on
- collaborative environment
- good work-life balance
If comparing how hard the interview was, the hardest was Pinterest, then Square and the easiest was Lyft.
Any comments are highly appreciated! Thanks!
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I summarized the answers in this thread:
- Lyft: good eng culture, some chance of IPO
- Square: liquidity and guaranteed money from RSUs, but nobody commented about eng culture or tech, so I assume it’s not as great
- Pinterest: international potential, large scale problems, better work life balance
Based on that, I more favor Pinterest or Lyft so far. Money wise, I prefer more base and Square base is the lowest by a big margin.
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Can anyone please tell something about how these companies compare in terms of eng culture, quality of talent and technology? Thanks!
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I don’t know the exact number but I know how advertising works. PInterest is picking up some experimental budgets but it is structurally not positioned to return ROI competitive with FB and Google. While Snapchat has a more unique audience, PInterest has a better surface but common audience and not enough frequency of use.
The visual search product would have to take off first before there is any opportunity for monetization and it is long way from that