I'm fortunate enough to have these internship offers for the summer, and I'm so worried I'll pick the wrong company. I'm still interviewing at Google, LinkedIn, and a few other companies. All numbers in USD. How would you rank these offers? I've listed them in my order of preference atm. Sift Science, San Francisco: $7.5k/mo + $5k relocation + flights (TC: ~$35k) Pros: Team full of smart people. Great compensation. Good tech stack too. Cons: Not many have heard of the company, not sure how it affects my future chances. A stealth startup, San Francisco: $7k/mo, $2k one-time relocation fee (TC: $24k) Pros: Extremely high ceiling for networking, decent tech stack, moderate TC. Cons: I guarantee no one has heard of this company. Also, average TC. Pivotal, Palo Alto: $40/hr + $1000/mo relocation (TC: $28k) Pros: The team, product, and tech stack I have an offer for are pretty good. Cons: Very enterprise-y, cultish about pair programming, and this: https://matt.sh/dumb-pivotal-2018 Okta, Toronto: $30/hr (TC: $20k) Pros: Nothing lol. Cons: Shitty pay, shitty tech stack in Java, boring enterprise product. A small startup, San Francisco: $4.5k/mo (TC: $16k) Pros: Solving a very ambitious problem, really smart founders, great tech stack. Cons: Really shitty compensation and it isn't negotiable. Come on, $4.5k/mo is unlivable in SF. I have debts to pay.
What's a good tech stack?
Modern languages and frameworks, good programming practices and clean code. 100% enterprise Java, Spring, Oracle DB = bad tech stack Go/Python/Rust/C++, React, PostgreSQL/use-specific DB = good tech stack at least in my eyes
It's a figure of how high you can stack up the same company issued laptop model. Everybody has a tech stack, but it takes a special team to have a good tech stack
I would go with Sift Science.
Lol as someone who works at Okta who worked at unicorns and had offers from FANG you couldn’t be more wrong
I will vote for sift science. Just out of curious, are you sure Okta Toronto only 30/hour?
You should have added a poll
I have tho