Got offers from both. Sr. Swe, YOE: 13 Current level: 5b current TC: 450 Stripe offer (L3): 190k base, 1M RSU, 20% bonus Netflix offer: 575k Netflix is slightly higher than stripe, but stripe could be 100B company in the making (also the personal/career growth that comes along with it) In terms of work both doesn't seem interesting or complex compared to my current work (But I would like to leave Uber for stability) Slightly leaning towards stripe but Netflix cash is hard to ignore. Stripe involves commute to South SF and I live in south bay. Failed FB/google interview. Not interested in other tier 2 companies. #misc #netflix #stripe
I’d go with Netflix since you are looking for stability
easily? tell that to the thousands of uber/lyft/airbnb employees looking right now in a down job market. Several people from the uber layoffs from months ago are still looking
Haha lmao, down job market? Amz is hiring like crazy. Those uber friends, either they are incompetent or super picky.
How was the Netflix interview?
I am not a kickass leetcoder, but I am really good at system design. Netflix was design heavy. So it was mine to lose.
How did you find a team at netflix? Did recruiter reached out about specific position?
Congrats. Stripe might be good, but Netflix offer is too good to ignore in such market. It makes sense to go with Netflix.
I would go with Netflix. Strip valuation is blown up and their business model was shaken up recently by changes in visa interchange fees. I heard they are now trying to enter retail as Square.
Listen to the finance guy
Look up Amazon Register as a historic data point of Amazon trying to complete with Square
Stripe will be paper money no? In this market IPO will not likely to happen soon and also any high profile start up will have price drop issue after it go public. How much they value their $/RSU now?
so does this mean that you think no private company will have a successful IPO/be successful after they go public?
No I think company can def be successful after IPO but may not be “immediately” successful. E.g it took FB >1 year and snap many years and Uber don’t know when to be above the IPO price. Knowing that if I join a unicorn now, I may have to wait X years for IPO and then another y years for the stock price to go above my granted price.. investing in an already profitable big company might bring better and more secure return (e.g amazon has grown 5x in the past 5 years) — some exceptions like Zoom, but that’s because they got lucky in a once every 10 year special event lol
You could try hedge funds/HFT if you want the TC but more options than just those two. There are fewer opportunities in the Bay if you want to stay than there would be in Chicago or NYC. But with your YOE/skills (assumes by those two offers) you could probably find something. Especially since you said you’re good at system design I feel like most of the interviews focus on that for the field since they try to really separate top candidates from others If you’re between the two above though: Netflix has demonstrated it is somewhat recession proof and assuming you can perform* then you probably won’t have to worry about losing your job. However I’d imagine Stripe might have lower expectations or a more positive culture
Wondering whats the wlb look like in those companies?
I can’t speak much for other firms. Citadel has a bad rep but it seems to be mostly from people who haven’t worked here. I’d say team dependent. I know people that worked ridiculous hours but it was also their choice and the manager certainly didn’t tell them. Some people make it their life and want to promote ASAP. Others like me and most of my team/neighboring teams would work ~50 hours and occasionally need to login on the weekend to firefight any issues—but that’s just standard on-call. I’d say the best way to describe is that you won’t be micromanaged for sure, but expectations can vary. Regardless, hard to beat the pay aside from companies like well Netflix. I do believe other firms are still better on average. Jane Street seems to have the best rep, but also the hardest to get and I believe NYC only. Heard good things about HRT and Two Sigma as well, but not sure if there are opportunities in the Bay. Citadel has teams in SF, but given your much higher seniority I can’t refer you. Tons of others on Blind that you might be able to find if you are interested though.
Contrary to others going ga-ga over Stripe I’d say go with Netflix. Money in hand > waiting for Monopoly money to turn into disposable cash.
Yeah it would be pretty stupid to prefer paper money to hard cash
sure sure i see where you’re coming from but wb the people that joined Google, FB, Amazon, etc. back when they were offering paper money? were they stupid or....?
I would pick Netflix. Sky is the limit for Netflix in the post coronavirus world. I am actually surprised it’s stock is still hovering in 400s, won’t be too long.
I heard Netflix has this employee option plan that has made many people multi millionaires. Have you factored that in?
Buy call options, yes but wondering where can the stock price go from here, given it is already richly valued.
I feel like Netflix has just started expanding. I think there are 10 more times Netflix original series than 2 years ago. Due to constraints on crowd gathering, it is a matter of time Netflix gets into sports streaming.
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Congratulations! I would pick Stripe