Hello, I got offers from TikTok and EBay for Summer Software Engineering Internship. I am confused to choose between both. Can anyone please suggest the pros and cons of each? I am also considering an option of continuing as as full time position after my graduation, work life balance and career growth. Compensation for internship TikTok: 40$ per hour+ 14$ per hour for housing and transportation eBay: 51$ per hour+ flight costs+ 1000$ housing Thanks for your time and consideration. #engineering #software #summerInternship #softwareengineerintern #sde #bytedance #ebay #worklifebalance #career #newgrad
TC is irrelevant for an internship, it's what you learn on the job. TikTok should be much better in this regard if your moral compass allows you to work for a CCP operation
Thank you so much for the advice
WLB shouldn't be an issue even on bad teams. We're legally obligated to only do 40 hours a week for interns so your interns manager pushes for more without HR approval. Also, intern projects are usually separate. You'll probably learn more here than at ebay
on paper, sure. almost all other interns i knew of worked more than 40 hours a week and didn’t get paid for it because managers don’t want interns working OT.
dude it’s only like 2-3 months, tiktok will look better even though wlb is shit for full time employees
I am mainly considering full time position after internship. So WLB is important for long term right?
Have you talked to your intern hosts at both companies? What's your impression?
No I haven’t did that. Thanks for the suggestion, I will do that.
ebay has very good internship program. You will definitely learn a lot and most likely end up with a FT offer
eBay is great for internship. Don't join full time.
Yeah eBay is actually great for interns. But don't join full time because the projects interns do are way ahead of what full time works on.
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This is blind. TC or GTFO. Same goes with offers. Without numbers how can we say which one is better?
TikTok: 40$ per hour+ 14$ per hour for housing and transportation eBay: 51$ per hour+ flight costs+ 1000$ housing
TikTok WLB is bad!! I’ve usually seen full time people complain about WLB, but I’ve heard interns having to work 12 hour days and in the end didn’t receive the return offer. That’s what a person I knew told me. So you’ll be risking bad WLB and even then no guarantee to get full time offer. Also, you may have a lot of Chinese bias although this is hear say. eBay is relatively chill. I don’t think you’ll get to work on anything cutting edge but you’ll have chill WLB. The starting salary is meh imo, whereas TikTok is in the 180k range. Also, TikTok gives you paper money when compared to eBay’s actual money since it’s stock is trading. Resume brand name wise I think TikTok is the clear cut winner. Imo, it might be worth biting the bullet with TikTok for internship. If you like your team and your manager, then yay!! Take the offer since that’s the better company off the two. If you hate it, you atleast got TikTok on your resume and it’s brand value is anyday better than eBay. Hope that clears things up. Good luck!