I have offers from Facebook, Google, Uber, Dropbox, and Amazon. The offers are very comparable, but the Uber one comes with extra equity since they are pre-IPO. I'm more into product rather than infrastructure, and so are the teams I'm being considered for. Opinions?
If you want product over infra then not Amazon, because if you wanted infra I would've suggested Amazon. For product I'd pick Dropbox or Uber.
Google is much slower moving. Google Cloud is a disaster, old enterprise folks from HP, IBM and VMWare — so it highly depends on your org, too.
Don't join Amazon if the offer is comparable and money is a factor. We don't do bonuses and barely give out any raise. The joining bonus is also a cover up for the slow vesting in the first 2 years. I'm not even getting into the culture here.
I was in a similar boat and chose Facebook. For a big company, it really does move fast. Really like it here, absolutely certain I chose the right company.
Do you mind sharing offer details?
Offer details pls
I think G is safe bet if you dont know what you want. If you want flexibility of moving to different teams FB will be easier.
You should not consider Amazon and DropBox at all, but just use them as counter-offers. For good WLB and job stability, Google is your best bet.
Why not dropbox? 🤔 curious
I saw some random article online saying that average tenure at DropBox is one of the lowest in the industry (yes, lower than Amazon!!). That can’t be a good thing.
People usually recommend G/F on such polls. Although it's very hard to have impact and grow at G while WLB at F sucks and I personally don't like their products. U is a great option if you are excited about problem space and potential that company has. Equity can also easily grow 2-3x over next 2-3 years. Note that bigger companies have more presence here and people often recommend their own one with exception of Amazon. That being said you have great options on hand and pretty much any decision should be okay. I wouldn't go to Amazon unless it's a high level offer, promo process there is a mess also it's bad at rewarding good performance so don't expect any more pay than what you see on your offer any time soon. Dropbox IMO has limited potential to grow so I'm not sure why would anyone go there in situation like yours.
Checkout chamaths statements on box at the sohn conference. Dropbox is in a similar position. Fundamentals are great. Remember the market cap is only 12b, they apparently pay well/perks, and its still growing fast. I have no horse in this race but I wouldn’t write off db.
Depends on your risk tolerance and your opinion of the various bets these companies have placed. Biggest risk and reward is probably Uber, but maybe you think Google SDCs will payoff big so you go there (disclaimer: just a hypothetical. I don’t have any inside information about Waymo).