Hi Blind community, I’m pretty sure I’m going to dox myself by putting all the offers down here, but I need help deciding between the two: PLEASE DON’T BASE YOUR DECISION ON THE COMP AS BOTH ARE ALMOST EQUAL AND 10-20k won’t make a difference. 1. Robinhood: L3 220k base/10%bonus/800k RSU/100k sign on TC = 492k for first two years, 442 after (can negotiate further to match Netflix) Menlo Park, CA 2. Netflix: Senior TC=~520k base Los Gatos, CA 3. Stripe: 200k base/15% bonus/200k equity/66k sign on TC=496k first year, 430k after I got 4 more offers but comp is around 300-380 for all. So ignoring them. All of them are data engineering offers. I’m not leaning towards Stripe because their RSU policy is f*cked up. Confused between the RH and Netflix offers. Things to consider: - WLB: I’m expecting work life balance to be shit at both so doesn’t matter, I work hard anyway - comp: Netflix is all cash. RH stock is all time low and I am bullish so expect it to go double in 2-3 years. Huge upside - role: I liked both roles equally. Netflix role is very similar to what I do at Fb right now, and RH role is pretty interesting as well. - Growth: I believe Rh will have bigger scope for growth as DE team is only 12 member strong and they are expanding their team. With only 12 DEs, each engineer is focused on an entire product within RH so huge scope and impact. At the same time, Netflix should be easier impact considering it’s very similar to what I do at Fb. - Team: both teams are excellent and great people to work with and learn -Future: Netflix sets you up for future success, it’s more of a prestige element. Meanwhile, I’ll be working on pretty huge amount of data in RH so that sets me up for success too. All Data Engineer comrades, please comment on what you voted for, your thoughts, and what to you is most important aspect to Data Engineering. Location all Bay Area EDIT: Chose Robinhood! Blind Tax: 320k, IC5 YOE: 5 #dataengineer #dataengineering #netflixoffer #netflixdataengineer #robinhood #robinhooddataengineering #netflixcomp #robinhoodcomp
Those are amazing offers! What is YoE and how did you get into Data engineering? On the job experience or academic degrees/certificates? Reason I'm asking is that I need to change careers from a mobile dev to Data engineering and MIT xPRO is the only way I see.
Thanks! 5YOE. Used to be SWE earlier, joined Data eng out of passion for data but have the right degrees and education too. Do few courses in Data engineering to get basic pipelining skills, but also focus on leetcode, system architecture and design.
Why do you need to change? In general SE has better pay
How many Leetcode problems did you do? Or how much time you spent in prep ?
Entire interview process from prep to offers took 3 months. Interviewed with 18 companies, 10 onsites, 7 offers
RH for huge upside !! which location btw?
Bay Area
Not looking good, I would take Netflix instead
Location?
All Bay Area. Added to the post
Robinhood is riskier than Netflix since the stock price has been 💩. would base decision around risk tolerance, with 5 YoE ur early in career go for the risk play
Actually one would counter it being less of a risk based on where the stock is. Joining at the current price, what's more likely in the next few years, up or down?
Assuming Robinhood still exists in a few years, up. But will it still exist?
What is with Stripe equity thing ?
I agree that Stripe's yearly RSU is crap compared to a 4y package, but I don't see why you don't consider Netflix pay "crap" too. At least with Stripe you get 1 year of stock upside. (not bashing, just genuinely curious)
Netflix allows you to split between cash and options if I remember correctly
Stripe doesn’t give you upside, nor does it protect you against the downside. That’s why Blind hates Stripes RSU policy. If Stripes gives a choice between stock/cash breakdown like Netflix/Brex, it would be perfect
There’s a good chance that by the time RH 2x/3x in 2-3 years, netflix could also grow almost 2x if it can beat out other competitors. Or you can use Netflix cash to invest back into RH or diversify. Not to mention all cash comp is great for getting mortgage if you’re planning on buying a house soon.
Why do you believe Robinhood has that much upside?
You don’t? Can you tell us why?
On what basis did you assume “expect it to go double in 2-3 years. Huge upside”? Seems like a rather arbitrary number pulled out of nowhere.
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Wow, congrats OP! What’s your YOE?
Added. 5YOE