Asking for spouse. 2 potential offers both should be > 300k and are as engineering manager. Which one is more prestigious and right one to get into tech companies? Hinge - 320k Angi - 330k Current TC - 230k Yoe - 13
I've been working at Angi for nearly most of the year. EM tends to be responsible for 1 engineering team (<10 people), stay close to the tech (although rarely coding), and get solid product input. Don't know anything about Hinge, but that's my 2 cents.
Is there any room for improvement on the TC or it’s the best they can do? How is the culture on data engineering team?
Unfortunately it's hard for me to comment on TC because 1. I'm an eng and don't make that much, and 2. They upped pay a lot over last 6 months, so not sure if they want to go even higher. But general negotiation wisdom would be to share you have the 320k offer and ask if they could make their offer more enticing. Or as for sign on if it isn't included. As for culture, I haven't interacted with data engineering at all yet. As far as I know it's a relatively small group though, so plenty of impact.
Hinge as the dating app?
Yup
Neither are prestigious. Maybe tier 2 or 3 for B2C companies. However, great comp and stepping stone to an even better spot in a few years.
I thought anything < 400k for EMs are’nt great.
330k is a strong offer from Angi. You can always negotiate but it won’t get a lot higher. Culture at Angi is improving and EMs can make a lot of impact. The data team is solid. Small but gets stuff done. I don’t know about Hinge but can recommend Angi. From my research very few companies will actually pay over 400k for first level EMs in NYC. Check levels.fyi.
DM me. I work on the team
Angi has the most incompetent leadership and their stock valuation reflects this. You can look back in time and see the exact moment this new leadership took over. If you're a decent EM you will find yourself looking elsewhere quickly. The average tenure for devs is around 1.5 years and when you take into consideration a company that is almost 30 years old that's absolutely horrendous. The tech stack is shit and the features are small and irrelevant. I've seen people leave within 6 months. Hope you didn't make the mistake of joining that sinking ship
Setting everything else aside, what makes the tech stack shit?
Zero standards or consistency of anything. Do you want to talk about the monolithic front end where many feature changes have to be tested in prod because they can't be recreated in staging? Or perhaps the ancient on prem Oracle dbs or MySQL DB from Handy? There are 40+ microservices that have overlapping functionality. What about the brilliant coherence cache that frequently brings down the site? The list goes on...
Prestige doesn't pay your bills. TC or GTFO
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