I got offers from Uber and Google and i know it should be a no brainer but I am still leaning towards team in Uber.
My manager at Uber was great the team is okayish but I had such a great vibe with my manager that I am thinking of choosing it over google. Am i being stupid.
Other factors
Google is in Sunnyvale, Uber is in SF so Uber is preferrable
My team at Google has a lot of PhDs who I could learn a lot from but also wonder if I can make an impact when L6 engineers who have PhD and have been at google for 12 years will give me a chance for an impact
I got the vibe that the L7 manager at Google was a bit intense and promo is 2-2.5 years to L4 during that time I could easily be promoted once and close to second promo at Uber.
Uber is paying me less tol but I think in the future it would be easier to transfer at Uber and create systems that have impact where as at Google all great systems have already been done.
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VAPF84 go to google and build solid fundamentals. If you do well you can make it to L4 in 18 months. You can make it to L4 at Uber in 12 months and then still get L3 offers everywhere else. We have really young managers who are great at selling but are terrible managers who get insecure if you start doing too well. Plus you rarely build anything that’s not an MVP so there isn’t much engineering depth. PMs control every single product feature so you pretty much have no say in what gets built. On top of that we are guinea pigs who our hr head uses to experiment different appraisal methods that she comes up with every 6 months.
The positives are just speed (which help PMs and EMs but overworks ICs) and a hope of our stock quadrupling (but you will need a lot of shroom-aid to buy that story).