Offer Eval: Quora v.s. Square
Tc from both companies are comparable: ~220 k, PhD + 2 yoe Quora: current valuation is 1.8B, there seems to be more upside potential? Square: company is doing great, stock is liquid.
Off topic, is it a position in ML?
Yes
Then quora. The scope of ML work at quora is much bigger: personalization, spam detection, NLP, CV, targeting etc. I don't know enough about Square product (edit: product roadmap) but I imagine the focus of ML is fraud detection (they're probably building something similar to Stripe radar).
You could consider other things such as 1) what size organization do you want to be in? 2) what direction do you want to take your career in terms of industry, 3) what’s the specifics of the role and what will give you more interesting problems. Also most importantly, 4) which offer do you think gives you a more talented team and manager to work with? Given your lower YOE, having a good manager and team to develop your skills is going to be really important. Not knowing anything else or specifics on the above, would probably bias a bit towards Square given that it’s a great brand name and still growing fast. But again, you need to think hard about what is you want and what you’ll be doing.
Square any day.
Negotiate with SQ. Should be able to get 250 TC. Is it a lvl4 or 5 offer?
250k for 2 yoe? No way.
Why not? OP is a PhD. Fresh PhD can get almost 200.
I would go with square
Which level?
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Square for sure. Quora doesn’t have clear monetization strategy.
Quora never going IPO
Sq of course