Microsoft VS Reddit (intern)
Hi! I just got both offers yesterday xDD. Super excited but I’m so conflicted on what to pick. This will be my last internship, so I’m intending to join one of them full time. Microsoft will be on the ODSP org (no idea which team though) and Reddit will be in one of {Community Experiences, Anti Evil, Ads}. Hoping for insight into which one to join. I put my own pros/cons for each Reddit: Pros: - use product a lot - impact - still small company (200-300?) Cons: - engineering prestige? MSFT: Pros: - boost resume with brand name Cons: - don’t use OneDrive or Sharepoint - lesser chance at impact on ODSP(ex. Internal tool) Insight into Reddit especially would be great Thanks. TC: 0 YOE: 0
Reddit has over 800 employees now FYI
Thank you for that tidbit.
Large percentage in sales.
GME
Reddit is more exciting at the moment, if you walk around with an employee shirt on people will think you're a celebrity
Microsoft 👍
I chose Reddit over Microsoft last summer (intern) and had exact same pros and cons. Have no regrets whatsoever. Very exciting company & the intern projects were impactful. I also wouldn’t worry too much about prestige.
Hey! Neat to hear you had the same decision to make. Curious what you got to work on (please dm me, I ran out of DMs).
Upside at Reddit is way more. FYI not a small company and the trajectory is insane.
Reddit for sure, I’m biased. Ads org is the best
How about the other ones? Do you happen to know about Anti Evil, Community Experience, Search?
Depends on what you want out of your time here. I would suggest matching w/ a team that can help match your engineering interests. During your internship, you can set up mtgs with folks on all of these other teams to get a sense of what they do. If you do well, you'll probably get an offer. We do really well with internal transfers IMO, so you can get in the door and figure it out later.
go to reddit
If you have any insight as to why I would love to hear more
Can’t go wrong with either, IMO. Congrats! FYI OD/SP are definitely not internal tools, they has millions of customers. It’s a solid org.
Thank you! Glad you could provide that insight.
If you're planning on converting this to a full time and going back there, evaluate which will give you a better full time offer (including bonus, rsu and benefits).
I’m not too concerned with the full time pay. I have another new grad offer that’s $200k TC and I know Reddit and MSFT (160k TC) don’t reach that (but that offer is working with pretty boring tech)
Then go with which you think you'll enjoy working on more.