Trying to decide between two offers for Software Engineer in Seattle/Redmond. Microsoft’s TC offer is higher of course at 230K while Google is at 209K. Google seems better long term compensation wise though and L4 “should” be easy to achieve. Thoughts on which company to choose? YOE: 4
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Wow. L3 = SDE1 AFAIK. 63 = SDE3. I won’t event think about taking Google
In the long run, Google will open more doors for you. Worth taking a 20k hit. Nobody cares what your internal level is.
No, being a senior engineer at Microsoft opens more door than being a new grad engineer at Google. Other companies definitely will care about levels when changing jobs.
My experience has been that having Google on your resume pretty much opens any door you knock on. Ymmv.
MSFT and then jump to L5 or equivalent at another company. L3 is new grad. You are doing yourself a disservice if you accept this downlevel!
Give more details on TC and its break down!