Snap L4 vs Google L4 - Seattle

Mar 30 3 Comments

Deciding between L4 SWE offers at Google and Snap.

Snap is paying like 40-55k more depending on how you look at it and has larger scope of work but they would be putting more senior responsibilities on me, a higher workload, and no real in-office experience for the near future.

In contrast, Google is gonna be on a fairly chill team from what I can tell, I'll have more time to do other stuff, and I'll be working from a new fun office with team. Downside is ofc smaller work scope and less sexy tech stack / open source.

I do value WLB for friends, hobbies, and travel while I'm young but also I could instead use these next 3 or 4 years to grind career before I have kids.

Any insights are welcome and very much appreciated!

Offer TCs: (assuming meets expectations rating)
Snap L4: $360k for each year (equity stays the same even after 3 year grant)
Google L4: (includes estimated refreshers for L4: $70k / 4 yr)
- First year: $310k
- Second year: $318k
- Third year: $298k
- Fourth year: $281k
- Fifth year: $257k
- Sixth+ year: $266k

Google also has better 401k match and better benefits (food, nice office, etc) but I haven't factored it in financially yet. I estimate it would be another $15k of value per year.

Current TC:
L60 at Microsoft - $193k TC at current stock valuation. $163k at grant price.
2 YOE Full time
2 YOE Internships

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