6 Offers, 2 FAANG, 2 Pre-IPO, 3.5 Months prep hu
I have been fortunate enough to receive multiple offers from FAANG and few of the Pre-IPO companies.
Yet to hear back exact comp numbers from all the companies. But everyone except Microsoft are offering 300k TC (avg over 4 years).
I will put a separate post going into details about my prep and exact offer details once I have them. Want to start a poll to see which company would be the best to join.
Things I care about = Learning > Growth (Manager) > Work-life Balance > Compensation > Peers.
Given most companies are offering 300-320k TC. I would like to know which would be the best one to pick from the mix of FAANG and Pre-ipo.
Remaining onsites - Google, Snap, Stripe, Instacart, Doordash. (I have approaching deadlines so might not be able to consider these)
Should I consider completing onsites of any remaining companies, if so which one? Also feel free to comment on reason behind your votes.
Current TC - 200k
Current YoE ~2.5 years
Offer location - Seattle
#offer #compensation #faang #apple #microsoft #bytedance #meta #rippling #tech
comments
I’m at 2YOE and making 94k
Fuck me sideways, why can’t I get offers like this?
Never worked at meta but i’ve heard that’s where you go to make “impact”
I didn’t realize this wasn’t industry standard until I left, and I regret not staying longer
I mean where does such motivation come from while knowing one is being exploited.
No wonder Amazon keeps paying low and downleveling so they can play the carrot and stick game.
Also very surprising that your TC is this low at L6.
For sure the work can't be so interesting...
Next year target comp is high but since I got promoted last year, this year only got base increase. 🤷🏽♂️ Hence, trying to gtfo.
Pre-IPO companies sound very scary with current market conditions. They should all be compensating you +50-100% in stock for you to consider them. Otherwise it’s just not realistic or worth the risk. And that is in the previous environment where you had pretty high confidence things would pan out well.
I would look at companies that are profitable, over near profitable, over public cash burning, over pre-IPO for some level of safety and growth in an inflationary market that could turn recessionary.
Of the pre-IPO you listed I’d consider Stripe that at least has a credible business model if they needed to turn a profit more quickly once public.
Of the ad based ones I think Meta is highest risk, followed by Snap, and Google being less risky with their ad model.
Apple is a great safe bet if comp matches and you like your team and manager.