I have an offer from lyft level-5 & Apple. Lyft 185/550/30 Apple 175/220/40 I am waiting on number from FB. I am debating between lyft and Facebook. I have 5 yoe in backend infra. I have heard bad things about wlb but coming from Tesla it shouldn’t be a huge problem. I am also not sure what to expect from FB in terms of comp. Recruiter mentioned that they can get close to lyft. People I spoke with at Lyft were one of the most nicest and smartest I have seen. But at Facebook I have the option to pick oculus or go to general bootcamp. What are your thoughts? What kind of comp I should ask from FB? Ps I haven’t negotiated with lyft yet.
Congrats OP
I can’t say I’m optimistic on the future of Lyft or Level 5, but Luc Vincent is one of the nicest and smartest people I’ve met in the valley. You could hope that trickles down.
I have the same impression about Luc, great guy!
Ok a bit about my prep. I did most of the mediums on leetcode and around 40 hards. I will create a separate post over the weekend about my journey. But yea for Facebook there were a few questions from tagged section and some I haven’t seen on leetcode. For design grokking and data intensive application was useful. Also read some papers/blogs on architectures.
Thanks! In your post could you give more details about how you prepared for system design?
Check out highscalability.com and system design primer. Think about how you would design Instagram, whatsapp, Ride sharing app, distributed cache. Lot of distributed system concepts are used in those designs.
For e5 you could double your stock grant at lyft. Keep negotiating, congrats.
What level for fb?
Glance over some of the numbers on http://levels.fyi for eval
Lyft pretty much looks like a L4 offer. You can push it more.
Lyft
I’d say stock is mediocre for both. Sign Lyft if they offer you 700k in stocks
Grats!! How much Leetcode have you done? FB interview mostly Leetcode?