Offer Eval: Twilio vs PANW vs Nvidia vs Better

Jun 30, 2021 13 Comments

Currently a Principal Engineer at a Tier 3 company.

Current TC: $170k
Location: Bay Area
YoE: ~10

I have the following offers.

Palo Alto Networks: Principal Software Engineer (Big data)
Base - $210k
Annual Bonus - 15% (based on performance) + refreshers
RSU - $230k (for 4 years)
Sign on - $50k
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $350k
TC - 2nd year - $300k
Pros: Big data role, fairly open work, new team, hybrid WFH
Cons: Cisco folks, low salary.

Nvidia: Software Security (IC4)
Base - $225k
Annual Bonus - 0
RSU - $360k (for 4 years)
Sign on - $35k
Refreshers - 25-50% of initial grant/4
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $350k
TC - 2nd year - $315k
Pros: Great HM, good team, hybrid WFH
Cons: Security domain.

Twilio: Staff Software Engineer (API)
Base - $215k
RSU - $520k (for 4 years)
Annual Bonus - NIL
Refreshers - 25-50% of initial grant/4 (Seems too good to be true).
TC - 1st year - $345k
TC - 2nd year - $345k
Pros: Salary, Critical work
Cons: On-Call for 1 week every 5 weeks; No remote option (not sure why!)

Better.com: L6 (Remote from anywhere - same salary)
Base - $220k
Annual Bonus - 12.5% ($27500)
RSU - $400k (for 4 years)
Refreshers - Could not get a number but it does exist.
TC - 1st year (including bonus) - $347500
TC - 2nd year - $347500
Pros: Pre-IPO so RSU might 2x or 0.5x; Remote from anywhere and retain the pay
Cons: Stability. volatile.

Nvidia HR refused to bump me up to IC5 and he advocated for huge stock upside during the coming years. I need to convince myself of choosing the Security domain.
Everything about Twilio is good except that the HM insists to be onsite 5 days a week. I spoke to the former members of the team and the feedback reg. HM seems to be positive.

Which of these companies have a good stock upside in the coming years. Which one would you choose. ?

update: Better bumped up the offer.

#better.com #twilio #paloaltonetworks #nvidia

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