Splunk interview experience
They were lowballing me at 265 for P4 when they mentioned salary range before interview. My expectations were over 300k. I have 6 yrs experience in applied machine learning and PhD in applied maths. They interviewed me anyways and told me that although I rocked the interview, they need someone to do some daily work and not a forward thinking person for now. They even said that interviewers learned new things from talking with me. They can’t offer me because they can’t match my expectations. I liked everyone I spoke with, they were all nice. Interview questions were nothing difficult. This was a senior data scientist position in their security org. This data scientist position wasn’t an sql monkey role, but more focused on ML to build security products.
Did you tell them your salary expectations before interview?
what is your current TC?
They don’t need to know that. Didn’t disclose to them.
Current TC 210k. Had an offer at 280k when I went for this interview. Currently have another 290k+ offer. My current comp is low because of my own stupidity. I didn’t take an offer from Amazon paying way more than my current company. Don’t ask me why I did it.
Need someone to do daily work and not a forward thinker.... What? I thought Splunk had good engineering culture. Why would you join such company even if they match that TC? You can probably receive that TC elsewhere
They said this is their current situation but that may change in the future. I liked most of the people I spoke with though. Probably they don’t need someone in machine learning now, it is just a nice to have.
@5kt789 Are you talking about 265k base or TC? Also, ML team is growing like crazy and they do need people there.
TC not base.
It’s a little low, but not by far. Assuming you got about 1000 RSUs. I would negotiate
Take other offer. Your skill set is better off with companies with the data; not a platform provider.
@Op, any chance you can provide the mix of questions you got. I have a phone interview for applied ML (p4) position coming up.
Whats your point? Don't take the offer