Just finished up interviews with half a dozen companies, got offers from all, narrowed down to three that I’m looking for additional thoughts/opinions on, as it’s a super tough call. All offers remote from MCOL: - CB (IC6): $630k ($200k base, $30k bonus, $400k stock) - Trade Desk (Senior Staff): $525k ($275k base, $250k stock) - Netflix (Senior SWE): $500k (you know the drill) Interviews with all three were extremely pleasant, would even call them fun. The teams also all seem really strong and places where I would do well. CB seems like the most risk, but far and away highest annual comp overall, with room to go bigger with high performance. Also got the feeling it had the most opportunity to make an impact. Heard of lots of engineering chaos, but bringing order to chaos is kind of my MO. TTD has most upside based on comp structure, stock outlook/history, and everyone I spoke to working there seemed like they really loved their job a lot. Also a lot of MS stack so probably quicker ramp up. Offer surprised me in a good way, especially for remote, but shows me they’re very serious about me. Netflix is Netflix. Culture is a big fit for me, superstar colleagues, highly established brand, all cash comp. Manager sounded amazing. Trust and autonomy probably my two biggest needs in an employer. Realistically fewer career growth opportunities. Also lowest comp of the three, and refusing to budge given I’m remote. Having a really tough time making a call. Blind Tax: YOE: 10+ TC: A jar of Jif worth of 🥜 ($400k and plummeting this year)
Netflix offer seems extremely low. They should be beating all of the other offers with their “top of personal market”
depends on where the hiring manager felt the candidate landed in terms of expected impact eg, we’re not gonna pay principal level comp for someone the manager things operates at a staff level or senior level not meant to be a comment on OPs performance. just that personal is exactly that: to what netflix thinks someone can get for themselves i will say that the introduction of remote locations has thrown chaos into the process, and we are still calibrating how to accurately adjust personal top of market for various locations
Oh I missed that it’s a remote offer. That’s why then
TC or GTFO
if trust and autonomy are your two biggest needs, and assuming not being or working with assholes is a potential third, we would be lucky to have you as a new stunning colleague
Actually I think Microsoft is better than any of them
Congrats on the multiple offers. What level were you in Microsoft >65?
Yes, L66.
Congrats.
Please take Coinbase
In your opinion, what puts CB ahead?
Not only is it the top TC right now, but I believe coinbase stock has enormous upside in the next 4 years. If It is not 4 digits in 4 years I would be very surprised. I think the coinbase offer sets you up for a 5x on the RSUs and over 5 mil from the RSUs alone over the 4 years including appreciation. That’s assuming you hodl all RSU
OP, my vote is CB. Another post from Msft for offer eval, an L6 at CB came to 700k+.
Yeah, their comp is pretty stellar. They have standardized comp levels, non-negotiable, but can get sign-on, annual performance multipliers, and the amounts are high. My offer is with some base adjustment for my MCOL location, but I believe the “tier 1” cities now total $700k.
Do the CB and TradeDesk offers have cliffs once signon bonus is gone? Netflix is all cash so no cliff.
CB does one year grants vested quarterly, so no cliffs. What you get is what you get. TTD mentioned refreshers and that ranges are designed to make sure people don’t take a comp drop year over year after grant runs out, but also admitted they hadn’t really run against that yet because their stock growth every year has been crazy so everyone is just making hand over fist.
Congratulations! You are awesome. Netflix seems stable among three but no tolerance for a dip in performance.