Hi Blind community! Could you please help me decide on which offer to take? TMO: Senior Eng Pre-sales FTE Base: 150K Commissions: Up to 100K RSU: 15K total/3yr Signing Bonus: 20K Hybrid remote/on-site Verizon: Senior IoT 5G Eng role Contractor W2 - 6 month renewable (up to 30 months) Possibility to convert to FTE based on performance and business needs Rate: 120/Hr (2080 hours per year) 100% Remote Bay Area YoE: 11 Single/No dependents/No debt Thanks! #telecom #offer #t-mobile #verizon
Verizon looks better on the resume IMO. But T-Mobile is a permanent role so it might be more beneficial.
Come to T Mobile. Don’t work on Verizon’s garbage 5g network. Come to the true leader in 5g and work for a company that cares about customers and communities. It’s kind of a special place. I left and came back. 10 years total.
T-mobile. Always take a permanent role over a contract one even if it is less pay. Make this a poll OP.
Permanent T-Mobile. No brained
T-Mobile is over staffed & lots of internal politics after Sprint acquisition. They will be shedding lot of staff once the COVID settles. Consider that too.
The branding is no concern in that domain because there are only few big players. People just jump from one to another one.
Make this a poll. I've heard only horrible things from T-Mobile. Personally didn't have a good experience interviewing there. Don't know about Verizon.
Verizon as it is 100% remote.
Some teams already returned to the office. Not me though.
I’m a bit of a risk taker myself, so I’d hedge with Verizon for the higher pay, and use the experience for that department for better negotiation if they don’t offer FTE. Also, I despise commission based jobs, so I’m a bit biased.
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T mo... no brainer. Perm role, 401k, health benefits. Chances are your at risk would be 70% at a minimum payout otherwise they would lose half their staff. Puts you at 220 plus value of benefits and signing bonus If VZ is so confident in their IoT growth prospects, why are they hiring a contractor? Make them put up or shut up. Fun fact.... vz and tmo own equal market shares with att being the leader.
Thanks for your input. What I like about VZ is that there are no sales quotas (thus paycheck does not vary), it's 100% remote (no driving back and forth to customer premises), and that it is a long term contract with a decent rate that pretty much compensates for all the other stuff I'm getting as FTE on TMO (no need to wait for RSU vesting). Plus they mentioned that there is a good probability of conversion after a few months with matching TMO benefits. As it stands, TMO makes more sense economically, especially on the first year (second and third is slightly less money than VZ but higher average all in all yet still dependent on that 70% sales target)
VZ almost always hires contractors to start and then decide whether they can convert to FTE. They also have ridiculous bureaucracy to put up with if you're in the wrong org. Idk about the IoT team but i would do Tmo