Everyone always rates companies they've never been to. Or they rate their company super high or super low but there is no context as to what they're comparing to. In this thread, post all companies you've worked at and rate them relative to each other. I'll start: Google - 8.5/10 - good WLB, not very motivating, high prestige, highish pay. Good coworkers. Hybrid model (3 days per week) for majority. Remote for some people ~15%. Good equity growth with less risk than RH. Robinhood - 9/10 initially, 9.5 at peak, 6.5/10 now. Reasonable WLB. Originally highly motivating and highly paid (better than G). Controversial company. High prestige with some, bad prestige with others Now demotivated and underpaid due to stock loss. Good coworkers. Very remote friendly. Perks generally just a little bit worse than Google. Two Sigma - 9/10. Good WLB so far. Motivating. Smart and nice coworkers. Highly flexible hybrid model (1-3 days in office per week). All cash compensation (which has both pros and cons). Some perks are less than Google, some are a bit better. I imagine a 10 to be somewhere perfect. I imagine a 1 is somewhere driving you suicidal. A 5 to me is like a defense contractor. #tech #pay #salary
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Amazon 6.5. Google 9.
Which team at Amazon?
Amazon was 4/10, terrible manager/bad WLB. Apple was 7/10, smart people, good work, boring manager. Meta 8/10: great work/great boss, tons on work.
IBM 7/10 - if it wasnβt for the peanuts pay. All the rest was really good tbh. WLB was fantastic and I started 100% remote from 2011 on (way ahead of everyone else). Broadcom 4/10 - Part of the software division. WLB non existent, a lot of arrogant people, bad managers in general (6 managers in 2 years). The directors and vps were very good tho. The only thing good at Broadcom was the RSUs.
Microsoft 8/10. Great WLB, great team and support. Managers are great. Can retire here.
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Facebook 6/10. Good food and high comp. Other than that, unless you're working on whatever zuck thinks is currently important, kind of rough. Cut throat culture where everyone is trying to get promoted fast whatever the cost. Google 9/10. Great infra, wide variety of projects, good facilities, relatively laid back. Can be hard to stand out because it's gigantic and doing everything. Sometimes there are politics. Food, comp, etc is a bit on the stingy side. Great if you like chicken a lot. Twitter 8/10. (Before recent events). Honestly, for me, life at Twitter is easy - there are lots of weak or laid back engs there, so if you're even moderately good, you can fly. The comp is decent, as are other benefits. The actual work can be a bit boring, and their infra is a mess. Oracle 5/10. Slow and turgid. Not engineering driven. Comp is bad, offices are dismal, and you have to pay for food yourself. If you want good wlb, it might be ok.
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Why did you leave Google/Fb for Twitter?
Microsoft - 6/10. Great wlb and benefits. Did not have a great leadership chain. Poor pay AWS - 6/10. The usual bad wlb but compensation heavy on cash. Poor quality of colleagues Cisco - 8/10. Good pay and wlb. I was hired two levels up than what I interviewed for. Had lot of autonomy and peers were fine. Oracle - 3/10. Great pay but terrible wlb. Not engineering driven. No work culture.
AWS - 6/10. Awful WLB. Terrible pay(left as SDE 3 making 270k). Realized promos don't mean anything at Amazon unless you get TT two years in a row. Slow comp growth. Learned a lot of technical skills and how to multitask. Salesforce 7/10 - great pay/WLB/benefits. Super boring work. Took this gig to have more time with family
How long were you at amazon?
I was there for 3 years. I got promo'd April 2021 and handed in notice shortly after.
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No base line. No parameters explanation. What is a 10, what is a 1 what is a 5. Nothing. Check on glassdoor
Glassdoor is 1 rating on 1 company. This thread is for rating multiple companies in comparison to each other. If someone has only ever worked at Google they might rate Google a 7. Somebody who has only ever worked in an Amazon warehouse might rate it a 6. But an Amazon warehouse is not comparable to Google.