Please help to choose an offer: Twitter-Uber-Confluent-[maybe Square]
So, I had an interview bootcamp :) and got 7 offers. The choice is boilled down to those 4 companies in Subject.
Twitter.
Staff Engineer. No comp yet, recruiter told might go to the high band since I have strong competing offers. Told the highest is about 525 total.
Vesting: 6-month cliff, then every 3 months.
+ Interesting distributed system project
+ clicked with the manager
+ Join a growing group that will grow to 3-team org. Good careers opportunity
+ Hybrid office policy
- Not sure about future stocks performance, but financials looks great.
Uber:
L5A, top comp for the band: 203/700/35. 50 sign-on.
+ vesting 3 month cliff, then every month
+ Manager and team look good.
+ Hybrid office policy
* Product team. Not sure it is + or -, but I was thinking more about expending my distributed systems experience.
- Stock performance looks bad. However, might be an opportunity to enter with the dip.
Confluent:
Senior SWE. In the process of negotiation. Comp around 420k, told they are ready to go higher. However, they are trying to sell '40% annual growth in stock price' and I have a big doubt about such aggressive growth.
+ Great Team, Great product
+ distributed system experience
* Fully remote. Not sure if it is a disadvantage after covid
- currently too many seniors
- not sure about the future growth
Square:
Don't have an offer yet, but the interview was very positive. levels.fyi max comp: 525.
+ Bullish on stocks long-term
+ Company have a great mission
* Fully remote, but the whole company is.
- No predefined refreshers and no bonus
I would appreciate ANY thought!
YOE: 17
TC: 0 (resigned for interview preparations)
Levels.fyi - Compare career levels across companies
comments
Here, you dropped this:🏅
Also, TC (and YOE) or GTFO
Could you clarify on refreshers? How they are structured? What can I expect for L6?