PayPal vs Bird New Grad SDE Offer
PayPal Offer: Base: 120k Joining: 15k Relocation: 8k Stocks: 30k/3 years Annual Bonus: 10% Bird Offer (E-scooter company in L.A.): Base: 125k Joining Bonus: 10k Stocks: 120k/4years (options) Both are New Grad offers not Negotiated yet! Since Bird has not IPO so stocks are options to buy at 3.2$ a share. With IPOs failing I am not sure which offer to accept. I feel work might be more interesting at Bird compared to PayPal since I was a summer intern at PayPal and found work to be less challenging. Any leads on Negotiation will help!
Role / department? 🙄
For New Grad, a startup environment and fast paced culture is really good for growth and development so I’d take Bird. I would try and leverage the PayPal offer to get them to sweeten the pot a little (mention COL in LA and the larger sign-on/relocation bonuses)
Bird is on precarious footing. Read up on Tech Crunch.
Bird is where you go if you want to learn bad engineering practices
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Done!