Zillow vs Unicorn
I have an offer for P3 at Zillow or Senior Engineer at Attentive. Which would you choose? Zillow 165 base 165 stock 80 sign on Attentive 180 base 504 stock (pre-ipo) evaluation Zillow I think will be better name on my resume. Don’t really have big names mostly smaller companies . Attentive seems like a big upside and get to work on interesting issues at scale where as at Zillow might not be as exciting. Which would you take? Current TC 245 #tech
If you’re getting mixed vibes in the interview definitely don’t take the risk. Go with Zillow, increase the value of your resume, and go for a better startup later
Yea I’ve thought similar about taking the safe path but at same time the TC is very tempting. And unicorns usually do well no?
Zillow is indeed great for resume, but I’ve taken a peak at Attentive before. I think they have a promising future. Personally, I’d take Zillow to be safe and come back around to Attentive in the future.
I think Attentive has promise as well that’s why I guess I fear I’ll be missing a rocket ship 🚀. Also seems I’ll be working on cooler things when it comes to tech
I’d see if you could get a sign on bonus for Attentive if you do choose them. Pre-IPO value isn’t always meaningful especially if you dip before IPO (ie because they’re taking too long to go public). Are either of these jobs remote? That’s a big sell too IMO
YOE?
What level at attentive?
Senior 1. What’s it like over there? Is WLB good?
It’s great IMO. Some overwork themselves and I’m sure pressure varies from team to team though. My team / I have great WLB from what I can tell.
What team at Zillow?
Not sure. I think it’s relatively new team. Any teams I should be avoiding?
There tends to be more flux in ZO orgs(I've heard, I'm not in ZO) and that's also by far the fastest growing, fastest hiring part of Zillow. Flux can also mean opportunity though. I'd say there's no particularly bad teams/orgs, but there is a lot of variance between teams in terms of quality, standards, even how hiring works.
What per share value are they pricing the stock at? Assuming that’s 500k over 4 years? I wouldn’t worry about stack ranking, eng leadership does a really good job of calibration and are generally trusted across the org. Product and design less so which has caused problems occasionally… Work here can be hectic, changing priorities quickly, but it is 100% a rocket ship. Our growth / financial metrics are insanely good across the board
It was 45 a share I believe. Ok this sounds great! Good to hear about eng leadership. Why you say hectic how bad does it get? Or is it just crunch time?
Lol at blind’s shitty UI anyway I accidentally posted a repose to this below
Not really crunch time as much as company or team level goals changing significantly quarter to quarter or month to month. I think it effect you more the higher up in org you are — I’ve been frustrated at times where we invested in one part of product a bunch then drop it and move to something completely different. All result of overall focus on revenue, scaling which is why we’re growing so fast
Ah ok understood. So they pivot and then go new direction? Have you found new timelines reasonable?
Zillow work is very interesting. You are working one of the basic needs of housing.
Come through broh
What’s it like over there? Was kind of getting mixed vibes during interview
…And getting bro vibes during anonymous internet conversations