I was fortunate to receive new grad offers from Bloomberg NYC ($158K base, $8K bonus), Meta Seattle ($130K base, $20K stock, 30k sign on) and Amazon/AWS ($132K base, $45K sign on). I took AWS but I’m kinda regretting. Here’s my dilemma. I want a good career and TC but I also care for WLB. After struggling through school and tough Meta (really stressful) and AWS (also stressful) internships, I want to start enjoying life more. I neglected hobbies and relationships for school and work, but I don’t want to do that forever just to get paid. I want time to pursue creative work, travel, and just live outside work. I’ve also wanted to live in Manhattan for a really long time. I interned in Seattle and although the summer weather and nature were nice, it felt kinda boring. Also, Bloomberg is said to have nice new grad support , job stability, and salary increases For these reasons, Bloomberg seems really good as Meta and AWS are known for stress. At the same time, I want to set myself up for the future. I know starting at a tech giant would be great on my resume and learning. Bloomberg is nice but I’ve read about the Bloomberg Terminal a lot and some people make it sound like starting with its proprietary tech would be a bad idea. Also, with NY state income tax and HCOL, the Seattle offers leave me with much more money. I really want to be in NYC but not if it’ll be a really bad career move or spending all my money to live in a shoebox. I’m thinking of either taking Bloomberg or taking one of the others and trying to move to NYC in a year, possibly with a bigger offer. What do you guys think? Is it worth it to renege? And if you had all offers at once which would you pick? #newgrad #meta #bloomberg #aws #amazon #faang #wlb #software #swe #sde
I would go for Bloomberg. Worked in Bloomberg for 8 years priori to Meta. I worked on some really cool tech like Solr, Redis, Spark. Plus you get to stay in NY and enjoy NY life
100% Meta. Amazon is a sweat shop and non-big tech is straight up exploitation. You can always transfer to NYC after a year. Washington state income tax is like 0.6% too
Doesn’t matter how big your apartment is if you spend all your time at the office and never go home.
Avoid Bloomberg if you really care about your career, dm for details
Don't listen to this clown. Bbg is what you want if WLB is important
Nah, totally depends on the team. You can get absolutely fucked at Bloomberg. I feel so bad for many of the SDEs that come in, and then go work on bug riddled loosely typed Python/BAS services, constantly reacting to outages
You’re young, go to nyc
If you never want to get laid off and learn tons of things. Go with Bloomberg. If you want uncertainty in your job, pick other two.
Go with Bloomberg because of stability as well as NYC. Can eventually apply to Meta NYC.
Would you say it’s easy to get jobs in NYC? It seems like so many postings are in Seattle or the Bay Area
Bloomberg new grad offer definitely lower than it used to be in 2021
They didn’t offer me sign on although they offer it to some others
NYC would be fun as a single guy in early 20’s with a fat paycheck
You will regret Seattle