#engineering #software #swe Posting for my friend. She is graduating bachelors in CS this year and got an offer for 120 base, 22.5 stock a year, no sign-on (SWE in San Diego). She tried negotiating for 200k or something and the recruiter got back a few days later saying 22.5k stock a year was the highest for new grad in this economy (basically meaning the team maxed it out originally). They said they could bump the base a bit and give a 15k sign-on though. Is this good? She likes the team but worried she is getting lowballed. No competing offers atm but should she try to get one? Does anyone have recent new grad offers to share and compare? Thanks :p
Seems fair for new grad @ apple.
Apple pays as little as Microsoft? 😭
Low but expected from Apple
200k for a fresh graduate? Wow, what a world we live in.
Lmfao trying to go from $144.4K to $200K is just funny. Clearly a massive gap between what the candidate thinks and the company. If they can get the $15K sign on then they’re at $160K. I’d see that as a win considering they have zero competing offers and comp expectations based on zero logic. Only way you’d hit $200K as a junior Eng at Apple is if you were massively down leveled, that’s why the pay band is wide (to account for experience, your friend has zero).
Tell your friend to get a hold of reality… 1) 0 yoe 2) no competing offer 3) SD is mcol 4) bad economy, lay-offs Unless your friend is able to find another company that’s willing to pay her more than Apple, she should lower her TC expectation, instead of worrying about being lowballed, celebrate the fact that she actually can have a job.
She will be living paycheck to paycheck with 3 roommates in SanDiego with that pay
As a new grad you are suppose to live that way!