I’m an ex-Uber Intern with offers from Quora, Google and Lyft for next summer. Leaning towards Quora right now because I feel like I will maximise my growth/learning there. Lyft is a close second for the same reasons but at its current rate of growth I’m not sure if mentorship would be readily available. Only considering Google for the brand name. I’ve heard that hiring managers can often be biased towards ex-G/ex-FB. Is this something I should be worried about? Also what are arguments for Quora vs Lyft? TC: Quora: 8250k/mo Google: 7500k/mo Lyft: 8k/mo Housing provided at all 3 places
Just go wherever and go to the others later. You got like 30 years in this shit.
Quora is basically a forum + recommendations + ads. Lyft has at least some “realtime” problems, maps, routing, price predictions, payments. Google has excellent engineering practices, worth joining just to learn how engineering _should_ be done.
One of my concerns is that Google has the best tooling in place and you’re coding in a safe environment which isn’t representative of engineering work at most places outside of Google
That’s true but google on your resume will do wonders for your future career.
U didn’t get return offer from Uber? Don’t go to Lyft
I did but looking for more breadth of experience
^yup also true
Tc for internship should not even be in your decision matrix. Your interest in a particular team/tech/culture and fulltime offer should drive your decision. Brand wise, Google has the lead no doubt but of course that not the only thing.
Do what makes you happy, do Quora
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I’d go with Google for the name, Quora for the learning, tbh. From the outside, it seems like Quora is a dense cluster of ACM competition winners, whereas Google seems like a dense sparse cluster of people smart people who practiced LeetCode problems for three months and are making money as a result. The name of the latter, however, is way more recognizable.
Definitely felt like the hiring bar at Quora was the highest amongst the three. I guess it comes down to if the learning at Quora would be worth skipping out on the Google name brand
I mean, I’m sure you’d learn tons of Google. I just imagine Quora as the group of individuals in the industry who would be in a research lab if they weren’t working there. You’d probably work closely with hardcore algorithmists spanning the majority if the engineering org. Google’s an adtech company with massive engineering presence. I get the feeling you’d find a Quora within Google, working in pushing humanity to new heights—not that Quora is all like that I’m sure. IDK.