Hi Blind Community! I have got a job opportunity in San Jose with CISCO at Grade 10 and planning to stay in Fremont area. The work demands office visit twice a week and may increase in future. Would you be able to share the minimum cost of living for a month for a married couple renting a 2 bedroom apartment. I want to understand what a good base salary would be to stay comfortably. I am yet to receive an offer and want to negotiate on these factors. I checked couple of sites but numbers looks weirdly odd. Thanks! —————————— UPDATE: I got an offer yesterday. Do you have any thoughts. Accept or Decline or negotiate further? I am leaning towards declining since it will hit my savings if I move. I have interview lined up with google and lime next week. Failed Amazon. Walmart Ghosted. Prep: Problem solving 5/10. System Design 7/10. Behavioral 8/10 New base: 190K RSU: 195 K vested over 4 year Sign-on: 57K Bonus: 10% (paid half yearly) Current Base Salary: 165K Current RSU: 60K vested over 3 years (Not listed) Bonus: 12.5% (paid annually) Current location: LCOL(Midwest) YOE:12
Check in Craigslist and Zillow rentals to give you an idea
Thanks mate! I actually did but wanted to make sure if what I am seeing is actually what it is and if you have any suggestions to stay other than Fremont.
Lol! Welcome to Bay Area! Wait till you go to Cupertino to rent a studio
Haha, sounds like it is going to be an adventurous journey at the start. May be will get use to it later.
About $4000 rent for 2 bed in SJ. May wanna live little bit farther as you will be going to office twice a week.
Don’t come for less than 200.
Estimate rent to start at 3.5K if you factor in utilities, parking etc. groceries 2K, utilities $500 Nerd wallet has a decent COL calculator
Thanks Sir. Sounds like at least 6K Per month if in the city. Could come down to 5K if I stay outer but definitely not below that.
You save money but lose time commuting. Worth it to check if Cisco has shuttles you can use
Are you Indian?
Yes, I am. Do you have some suggestions?
Avoid Fremont
Oh I see. Any other location that you may suggest, please. I am looking for a rent around 3-3.5 K per month.
San Francisco
I have to go to office twice a week. Isn’t it too far from Milpitas.
Did you negotiate? How soon did they come back with a response?
I declined the offer. It was not adding anything to my income.
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what do you mean by "numbers looked weirdly odd"?
he can't believe 2 bed apartments cost $3500+/month lol
a newly built 1 bed costs that much these days. time to get over sticker shock lol