Meta London DE IC4 (E4) Offer
Hi, I cleared the interviews for Data Engineer IC4 at Meta, London office. I would like to hear some thoughts about the offer having no sign on bonus. Most of the offers I've seen posted online have a £15k sign on or so. Even some IC3 with £5k. Should I try to negotiate that? How do you even try to negotiate with Meta? Should I be straightforward and just ask the recruiter? Overall I think it is a good offer and I'm very grateful, of course. Base and bonus and stock is basically what you can see on glassdoor/levels. I'm going to take it for sure because I really like the job and the company. But I just wanted to check if anybody know if sign on bonuses are common or not. Thanks! TC £85k YOE 4 #tech #meta #offer #salary #london
Could you please us about the rounds you went through during the hiring process. Thanks :)
Can you share the offer breakdown please?
Op can I dm you ?
Is this your first time or second time going through a loop with meta?
First, and first with a FAANG or any top company in tech really, I've always been in startups. I was shitting my pants but I did put a lot of hours preparing.
Negotiate. Ask for something specific. I will say in my experience with the FAANGs lately, even when I got very good feedback in all my interviews at Google (strong hire across the board), the initial offer did not include a sign on bonus. I asked for $50k and they eventually gave me $10k. Times are different now and they know people are desperate, so salaries and offers are from what I’ve seen lower than pre-layoff times by a good margin. If you don’t have a competing offer you don’t have much leverage, but ask anyways.
Thanks for the comment, I think it's good advice. I think I'm just going to ask the recruiter if they could include a sign on bonus. I don't have leverage but it's worth asking I guess, plus I don't think they would rescind the offer just for asking (famous last words lmao)
+1 to the fact that if you don't have leverage, they most likely won't budge in this economy. But also, they won't rescind just because you're asking for more. It's your right to negotiate so just go ahead and ask for specific (and realistic) numbers. Check levels for recent offers, it's pretty much accurate.