Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinhood, Palantir Tier 4: Salesforce, square, Twitter, nvidia, Opendoor, Box, Bloomberg Tier 5: Zillow, Yelp, Oracle, Quora, Reddit, Houzz, purestorage, Expedia Tier 💩: Cisco, Autodesk, IBM, HP, Vertivco, VMWare, Intel If you don’t like tiers to happen then GTFO, you agree or not but tiers help you to grow and succeed in your career, it’s a milestone! If you disagree, make your own list and comment. Tc:220k
Microsoft > Amazon, Palantir, Dropbox Palantir > Dropbox, Snap
Lmao
You must be living in some kind of alternate reality to rank Amazon above Dropbox and Snap
Yes, let's have another one of these tier threads, said nobody ever.
In Seattle my perspective is, T1: Facebook, Google, Allen Institute for AI (AI2) T2: Microsoft, Vulcan, Tableau, Amazon, Expedia, 5% of unknown startups T3: Groupon, Nvidia, Intel, Tesla, Unity, Apple, Uber, Zillow, Redfin, Dropbox, DocuSign, Getty, Axon, Valve, Airbnb, 30% of unknown startups T4: Concur, F5, Boeing, Twitter, Dell, EA, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Nintendo, Bungie, Nordstrom, Pop Cap, the banks, 35% of unknown startups T5: most other non-tech companies (eg; Starbucks), 20% of unknown startups T😥: consulting firms that compensate poorly (eg under 70k), 10% of unknown startups. Mostly based on local presence, how cool the offices are, and my observations of employee happiness. Edit: increased granularity between T2-T3 Edit2: changed the mid tiers
Where is Apple? I think they have good number of engineers out there
I guess they have an office downtown, but I think it's under 1k ppl and they don't feel like a major target for talent here. Every company above T3 holds massive influence within Seattle and it's tech scene - and their campuses have some of most interesting teams within their companies (eg; all the VR, AR, and ML stuff). I'm sure I missed a lot of other great companies, this is just knee jerk opinions off the top of my head. I'm pretty confident T1,2,3 are correct though. I grew up and went to college here; I know where people try to go and where they end up.
TC is king. I will move from Google to any of these companies if they can give me a 20% bump.
L5?
Try fb and Netflix
Looks about right, except that Amazon should be tier 4 or 5. Even if the tiers are 100% correct, I'd still prefer working at any of the tier 2 companies over FB and Netflix.
Stripe is Tier 1 or 2, at least for eng
I'd put stripe at least at 1.5 for their eng talent and outlook.
Looks very similar to the list I always post... 👀
Lol FB tier 1? Is it based on their stock return or based on loads of scandals.
FB and Netflix should be tier 2. Both have forced attrition policies and terrible WLB, so they aren't in the same category as Google. Square and Twitter should both be tier 2 or 3.
Square should be Tear 1 or 2.
Agreed. Tier 2. Definitely at least 1 tier higher than Amazon
Definitely better than a few in OP's tier 3.