Got offers from Uber and Twitter for ML SWE2 roles. YoE: ~1.5 Uber : 148k/6200 RSUs @ 252k/13.5k target bonus Twitter: 145k/200k/15% target bonus These are initial offers. Have gotten verbal confirmation from Apple and should get numbers from them in a couple of days. I liked talking to both teams as they are working on exciting machine learning problems, although the team at Twitter is more ML heavy. How are both these places to work right now?
Financially I would take Twitter, Uber's valuation could easily drop before IPO, Twitter is more stable
Who else did you interview with?
Both offers are so similar. It boils down to who are you and what do you believe in? Only you can know that.
Twitter could get acquired in their stock price could skyrocket. Go with them
Pick Uber for more interesting work. And you'll have real impact on people's real lives.
If Twitter gets acquired, he will have a lot of money on his hands to do whatever interesting work he wants to do. The hell with Uber. And it’s not like Twitter is boring work.
Twitter is boring work.
At what valuation did you receive 252k rsu?
Is that stock number per year or over 4 years?
That's the dollar amount over 4 years.
Which team at Twitter?
Typically a (reasonable) company's employees have the tendency to recommend their company over another. So, OP, you should normalize the votes by number of employees at Twitter and at Uber. :)
Nice offers. How much LC did you solve and what was the difficulty of your interviews like?
Did around 100. I had more ML and design components than coding, but difficulty was easy to medium
Cool thanks for the reply. What did you do to prep for system design? Did you use grokking and if you did, was it helpful?