Hello, I have recently interviewed at Stripe and Bloomberg and received offers from both (YAY) As far as I am concerned, both companies are great to work at so I'm having trouble deciding as the two gave me different offers. Bloomberg - 191k base salary with 39k starting bonus - 230k Senior Software Engineer Stripe - 181k base salary with 127k equity - 308k Backend Engineer Current TC: 116k YOE: 3.5 I realize I'm getting lower than average offers so I have been leveraging each offer to get more. I also am a little hesitant to accept Stripe's offer with so much equity since I do not know if that equity will ever mean anything. What do you guys think? #stripe #bloomberg
Depends on what you want to do. Stripe will be good on resume if you want to stick the payments/fintech route. Bloomberg might push you more towards FI engineering which traditionally pays less than their big tech counterparts. Also depends how much cash flow you need. Bloomberg for sure safer option equity-wise but stripe has more career satisfaction, growth, and potential imo just higher risk too.
No brainer! Stripe it is
Stripes IPO is inevitable.
Congrats! I would ask Stripe to meet Bloomberg base salary + 30-40k sign on bonus and you will get the best of both world even when the equity does not mean anything (it will).
Ah, this is a good idea; thanks for the advice
Can you comment on what you prepared gor Stripe Interview?
I did leetcode for bloomberg but for my stripe interview it required a lot of my skills that i use on the job daily like debugging and googling lol
Thanks OP
Update: I told Stripe to match Bloomberg and once they did, I accepted their offer. TC 355K
Nice, congrats OP!
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Is stripe equity per year or vested over multiple year?
Hi OP, could you tell me what the onsites were like for Bloomberg? Would appreciate any info on questions asked. Thanks!
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I'm a little worried about the equity. Can you elaborate?
The equity is also overvalued