Accepted Uber, Google offered me 30% more 2 YoE at a unicorn Uber offer: Can't provide Google offer: 130/250/50 Both located at CA Will Uber blacklist me?
Uber's 409a price is undervalued right now. The offers are comparable. Why not just go back to the recruiter and tell them you got what you think is a better offer at Google? They won't have much room to budge, but honesty goes a long way with a recruiter who gets "outbid" a lot. It also helps Uber change their hiring bands, but it's already admitted internally that it thinks its own numbers are undervalued when considering future/IPO growth. So things will likely not get better until the public market valuation is settled after the IPO. Uber has always given lower base to ensure it gets people who believe in the mission. Sounds like maybe you don't. In that case, advertising, at Google, is for you.
Why should I accept this low pay from a private company? I have no problem with a low base high stock offer but this offer is low base low stock. Who cares about the mission? Ubers is a good mission but so is Google's I dont want to join because I'll resent the people who joined 1 year earlier than me with double my stock grant before Uber stopped negotiating. However, I also think the team is fun and maybe L3 downleveling is a bad move
It's more like 5-10x+ more, not 2x more, but all successful companies have lucky, rich, early joiners. That's just the game and you chose not to play it earlier (or even now -- why are you interviewing at later stage companies if you are jealous of builders that built?) As others point out below you must have gotten an L3 offer from Uber too unless you just got what you think is a terrible equity number and that's where the 30% comes from. Equity lowball is what I was assuming, that I didn't want to fully reveal. That's the basis for my comment -- you have to assume there's faster growth potential for Uber than Google and then you'll realize it is indeed a good offer. Since you don't, as I said, you should stick with Google. But if you're this dense, you probably won't last at either place. You could just stick to the startup you are at and try make it succeed. Then less jealousy.
Even If they do, you shouldn’t care, you are already at G :D BTW got an offer from G too, 5.5yoe, got less stocks, little less base too, so good job! BTW2: I also tried at Uber, but my feedback wasn’t good enough for them :)
No, you won't get blacklisted.
Don’t accept L3. Will hurt career in the long term and comp too!
Why? Is it hard to get to L4 in 1-1.5 tree years?
Well if you are willing to forego 1.5 years of growth I guess L3 doesn’t hurt. But you will be closer to 5A in uber in 1.5 years.
Uber L4 should be way higher than this.. you prob got lowballrd either from bad interview or it was L3 offer
Numbers are a bit fuzzed but google offered 30% more. Didn't have competing offers when negotiating with Uber
What’s the Uber L4 offer? It should be higher than what you wrote for google L3.
Something doesn’t seem right. For one, no way an Uber L4 is 30% lower than that. Also, 2 yoe generally slots as L3 so if you got L4 you must have been exceptional in the interview. And if your interview was good, you wouldn’t have gotten that comp offer anyway.
Super low offer for L4 at Uber. You should interview somewhere else, like LinkedIn. Also, I don't think it's that bad to accept the Google offer. If you are really L4, you can work at Google for 1 or 2 years and interview as L5 anywhere. And probably you will get promoted quickly at Google.
If you made this, you already want google. Take it.