Currently at Salesforce bored and frustrated. Never been excited about my work since day one but always get high perf reviews. Been here for over a year and haven’t gotten a bonus or promo out of the reviews. Interviewed a bunch and got 2 offers I like. The first is from Zillow which is for machine learning (my passion from college). Other is for OCI and I’ve worked in infra before. Zillow Machine Learning Engineer Base: 145k Sign on: $40k/$25k Stocks: $115k OCI IC3 Base: same Sign on: $10k RSU: 7000 ($370k-$420k) I have absoluetly 0 passion/interest in infra but I need the money (I need to dig myself out of debt). ML is my passion and interest but I know that I’m selling myself short by taking the level and pay. I would keep interviewing but tbh its hard to get ML interviews when your title is SWE. Once I’m out of debt, I plan to go back to school to get a PhD in Robotics or ML so I can see relivancy with both. OCI gets me out of debt quickly so I can go back to school in 1-2 years but Zillow is more relivant to what I want to study but I’d have to work 3-4 years. Current TC: 175k
Zillow. Two reasons. 1) You don’t want to be bored to death or struggle to get your shits done if yoh don’t enjoy it. And you have done it so you know the struggle. You will get frustrated and sad. 2) test the water. See if you enjoy ML at a real company before going to PhD.
How did you calculate your OCI TC? It’s 241k.
I don't think he mentioned TC. That's the RSU worth
What’s your location?
Seattle
If ur end goal is phd in an ML field, then prior work ex may help ? Also, the qn was over for me when you u said u like ML and dont like infra, tbh.
Create a list of pros and cons for both positions and what will be be outcome for each option.
Why do you want phd in ML when you can do real ML at company? Seems kinda backwards
Research is more interesting to me than shipping production code
Zillow
OCI stock offer is for 4 years or 5 years? How's the vesting schedule?
Equally over 4 years
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Don't take a job in which you have no interest. You will lose your job before digging yourself out of debt.
Nah. I have no interest in my current job and I haven’t gotten fired.
OCI is not like Salesforce or non-OCI Oracle