Tech IndustryNov 15, 2018
NewNRX2

Need help choosing between internship offers

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.

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whatsuppp Nov 15, 2018

You should have added a poll

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NRX2 OP Nov 15, 2018

I have tho

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trollingg Nov 15, 2018

What's a good tech stack?

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NRX2 OP Nov 15, 2018

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

Intel UGeJ58 Nov 15, 2018

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

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@!!!! Nov 15, 2018

I would go with Sift Science.

Okta wRqL51 Dec 17, 2018

Lol as someone who works at Okta who worked at unicorns and had offers from FANG you couldn’t be more wrong

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hzfQ36 Dec 31, 2018

I will vote for sift science. Just out of curious, are you sure Okta Toronto only 30/hour?